#leo centric

Here's Part one! 💙💜🧡❤️

You see a familiar head of hair, and your hands are already going through the motions before you can think about it. An iced americano is handed to one of your regulars before they have the time to finish a sentence, and they leave the shop with a bright grin on their face, beaming at how you had it ready specifically for them.

Sitting in a booth next to the wall, a turtle in blue narrows his eyes at the interaction.

“What was that about?” Leo’s voice cuts you from your line of thought, startling you while you clean the espresso machine, his face twisted in a strained smirk. He’d been so quiet you didn’t even hear his footsteps as he neared your station.

“What was what?” You push the filter into place, Leo raises his hands to gesture in the air and comes in close, “That— that thing! Y’know, the whole… You had their drink made before they even asked for it, who was that??” He points over his shoulder, expression straining a little further.

“One of my regulars…” You raise a brow at his sudden closeness and he scrambles to fix his posture from leaning as close as he possibly can, coughing into his fist.

“I’m just saying, why don’t you do that for me? What’s so special about them, huh. Aren’t I your favorite?” His face drops into annoyance, crossing his arms like a child. He looks so worked up over something so small, near-pouting, his shoe tap-tap-tapping against the floor in a show of his great upset. “I come in all the time! I bet I’m a better patron than that person. How many times did they visit, huh?”

“I don't have a favorite, Leo, there's nothing ‘special’ about any of you—” He gasps in offense, a hand pressed to his chest, “Excuse you!” “—I just did it because I recognized them and felt like it. It’s not a competition.”

“Well you should start doing it for me! I’m the favorite.” Leo huffs, a light smile smoothing out the furrow in his brow as he completely disregards your words like you never said them. “Glad we had this talk, then. I win.” “Wait, Leo—” He pats your shoulder and walks away, grinning over his shoulder, “Hey, tell Mikey I’m your favorite later, ‘kay? He doesn’t believe me when I tell him for some reason!”

Book 2 of Life: The Ultimate Sacrifice, coming to ao3 July 23 (My wrist is hurting so I didn't render the cover art)

Summary:

Leo's face lit up, his eyes glazed over, and he was the first one to rush outside onto the deck, spreading his arms out wide with a humongous grin splitting his face in half when a clawed crimson dragon flew through the portal on leathery reptilian wings.

"Chonky!" Leo excitedly greeted. "You grew into your wings!"

The dragon opened wide its mouth full of razor sharp teeth and let out a deafening roar.

"Leo! What did you do!?" Chloe yelled. He couldn't tell if she was happy or upset with the way he used his crazy powerful ninpo to add a little excitement to her boring party. But that didn't matter at the moment, because he rubbed his chin in contemplation, uttering the chipper words: "Oh. Nope. That's not Chonky. That's his mother." he playfully elbowed his girlfriend, jokingly telling her: "Beeelieve me when I tell you, you do not want to get on her bad side!"

"Let me guess," Chloe moaned, watching as the disgruntled dragon turned her head to look straight at her and Leo. "You already got on her bad side."

Resting his hands on his hips, Leo smiled up at the angry dragon, replying whimsically as though this whole thing was a joke: "Ooooh yeah!"

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Ok, so I had this amongst my WIPs and I’ve been wondering if anyone finds it an interesting fic idea.

Summary:

When the Disaster twins were five there was a brutal winter. One night Donnie burst into Splinter’s room telling him that something is wrong with Leo. But since it was a cold winter day and all the symptoms matched with brumation, Splinter dismisses his son’s concerns and tells him that Leo is just brumating. But after Donnie leaves, something doesn’t sit right with Spinter.  By the time realisation hits it’s too late, Leo died for unknown reasons. And now Donnie is dead set on following his twin to the grave,  refusing to eat or do anything,  which essentially ends with the softshell being in critical condition still refusing to cooperate to get better. Splinter, desperate to not lose another son tries to do the impossible and bring the dead back to life.  He takes his son’s corpse and goes to the Hidden City to raid Draxum’s destroyed lab,  hoping to find something of use. While there, some debris sends Leo’s coffin flying and bumping into a shelf,  knocking over some jar that has this weird pink goo. The pink goo melts Leo’s body and when Splinter thinks it’s a lost cause the liquid takes Leo’s shape. The thing has Leo’s memories,  it talks and acts like his late son,  but the thing is painfully aware that it’s not the boy whose shape it assumed. Still knowing that his Purple will die without his twin and despite understanding that this is wrong Splinter convinces the thing to pretend he is Leo for a while. But with very little time  the line between Leo and the thing melts and becomes non-existent making the thing forget he’s not the real Leo. And leaving Splinter as the only one holding this terrifying secret.

Basically,  an AU where Leo is Krang but he’s always or at least since the age five have been Krang. The Leo the turtles spent most of their childhood growing up, not even their real brother,  but an artificial lifeform made out of the still alive tissues of the Krang corpse in the Crying Titan and merged with the dead red eared slider. Leo knows he’s different from his brothers, having no idea why or how but  he’s desperately trying to hide it. However  the walls he built  begin to crack as the Shredder is resurrected.

The plan would be a series consisting of three arcs.

1. The prequel explaining the exact way how Leo died and the thing ended up taking his place.

2. Leo struggles to keep it secret that he’s pretty much a pink goo while trying to figure out what he is exactly and his secret ends up being revealed before the fight with Shredder. ( Just the part of him not actually being the turtle's original brother and him not completely being a mutant turtle)

3. The Krang invades and now it is clear as day what Leo is.

For the past nine years, Leo has only known a few things for certain.

He was missing most of his memories from before he was sixteen

Somewhere in the world, he had brothers

His best friend Yuichi always had his back

He's really good at killing things.

  When Leo ends up in Prison Dimension, he manages to hold onto his katana. So he does his thing and portals out... except he arrives at the wrong place.

Song: Catch My Breath by Kelly Clarkson (Nightcore)