#rottmnt unity

Not for long. Unity surely is gonna take Anthonello with her and raised him as her own if it really needed!

Will also post my part here~ Two happy mothers and two confused fathers. I just wanted to draw some interactions too with them.

idk, I just wanted an excuse to draw these lovely characters 🫣

I've been quietly (and sometimes not so quietly) loving these OCs recently, so I just wanted to gift a New Years picture to each of these lovely artists.

Composition is baed loosely off of one of tadc endcards

Also, 🙏 forgive me if I didn't realize I follow you on both tumblr/tiktok and only tag you in one or the other.

Alt with no text, and credits below the cut

Quick sketch to keep the account active and give you something.

I did that, yep. And I hope it's good enough?

TW: Loss of a child / perinatal mourning

"She was alone. In the bathroom. She stared at a spell and a magical symbol drawn on the palm of her hand in complete silence. A quick glance at her reflection in the mirror in front of her was all she could manage before reciting an incantation.

After a minute, the symbols on her hand glowed for a moment, giving her a glimmer of hope before disappearing in front of her. And she understood immediately what it meant. Because it wasn't new. But this time was different. Because her body was telling her that she was indeed pregnant and that their first test with Draxum had been successful. They were excited, happy as never before. But it didn't last long because... Today, she had lost it. She had lost that little hope. Again.

And she was motionless. She couldn't move except stare at her reflection in the mirror. And the voice continued in her head, whispering:

Your fault

Your fault

Your fault

Your fault

Again...

And again...

And again...

Until someone opened the door and called her name in a calm voice.

Donatello.

Her pillar, her rock. If he weren't there, she would be gone.

And she could have hurt herself when her body lost its energy and fell to the ground. He caught her and sat them down together on the ground, calling her name softly even though he was so worried about her.

"Unity? Are you okay? Should I call Leo or Drax-

"...Lost..."

"What?"

"I lost him... Donnie, I lost him. I lost him. I lost our baby. I-I killed them! In m-my body! I did it!" I-"

she said as her breathing became too rapid and ragged.

"Stop! Shh... Stop, please... You're not at fault.

"Stop! Shh... Please stop... You're not at fault. "I-Without this body... You could have..."

"I don't want this without you. It's not 'me' without 'you'..."

He let a short silence pass. Before he had to say it.

"It's okay... Unity, it's okay. I don't blame you. I love you."

And those words broke his heart like a piece of ceramic tile falling from an already shaky building. Tears instantly flowed from his eyes and his body began to tremble violently. He hugged her tightly and whispered sweet nothings. The kind of words you say when you're helpless and want to try everything anyway. Because Donatello loves to fix things. But his wife's fragile body... He can't. He simply can't help her. It's "useless." And as the days go by, he can only look at her and hope she hasn't shattered into a thousand pieces... Like today.

"I'm trying..." Donnie, I assure you, I'm trying. Every potion, every magic trick... Every artifact. But it doesn't work. I'm defective. I'm...

He cut her off right after that.

"No. Please, no, never say you're defective again. It's not true. You're perfect. Just the way you are."

"But I-"

"You don't have to carry this burden alone, shooting star... You don't have to be perfect with me. You're not one of my tech projects." You are my partner."

As he speaks, listening to his beloved being so broken, so sad, tears begin to roll down his cheeks too. And he holds her tighter in his arms. As she continues to cry over her pain. Their loss.

Tonight, he will carry her until she falls asleep in their bed. He will watch her sleep and make sure she gets more than six hours of sleep. Because he knows she needs it. She needs rest. She needs peace. And maybe he does too."

~~~~~~~~~~~

It's a part of the story of them I never showed. Before having Stella and Vincent, they tried for 5-6 years. Unity's body is really weak next to Donatello's so most of the time she could be pregnant or it didn't end well. It was a sad moment of their life. And this one I just posted was one of the hardest. Because it was the first time she had a baby this long (almost a month). It just crushed her harder this time.

But after that and almost stop trying, they finally had Stella, and just before her birth, Vincent (remember he's adopted)