#supril

a post-finale/post-premiere reaction fic! wow did shredder do a number on the rise fam.

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They’ve collectively got just enough energy to drag themselves back to the lair. Everything hurts, they’re exhausted, and sorely tempted to just flop down in a tunnel and sleep for a week, cockroaches and sewage be damned.

But, no, Splinter pesters anyone who lists too badly, getting them upright and on their feet again. He’s visibly flagging, same as the rest of them, but he and Leo had a handful of moments to rest and refuel. And he’s the adult, anyway. He can’t collapse like he wants to until his children are safe at home.

April doesn’t even try to protest being swept up in his fussing. She left a text with her family on the first day of the battle; telling them that she’d hunker down with her friends until the freaky rampage terrorizing NYC settled down. Her phone has been dead since the morning of day two, and she’s struggling to find the willpower to charge it once they’re home, let alone call her human family with an update.

their level of comfort with each other!! the episode sunita was introduced in revolved around april feeling otherness from other teens on account of her odd best friends/family & her unique personality. sunita was similarly feeling otherness, due to her literally not being human, as well as trying to fit in with a new environment. they wanted the same thing though, and initially felt so badly that they couldn’t give their new friend a normal night out. but once everything was out in the open, they clicked! right away!! (anyone else out here reading the young closeted lgbtq+ coding to this?)

the cloak & swagger ep is proof of how far they’ve come from their first meeting. their first date hangout had the both of them putting up an act for the other; in C&S they’re wholly themselves. their physical interaction is so easy and freely given- part of me has been wondering if they’d play up the usual trope of friends thinking their slime buddy is a bit gross to touch, but nope, not rottmnt. head pats and elbow nudges and high fives all around. april even gives sunita her jacket with zero hesitation, and then lets her keep it for a fair while.