#swannie

Swannie will be missed (by me, i dont imagine the hamatos would like to go back to that lmao)

Was originally gonna be a full drawing but I gave up☠️☠️

here’s swannie from Swanatello by @tangledinink

i just love this comic sm, its amazing

(last seen at the tmnt au comp u _ u)

(Oh Stars my first au interaction! I hope you like it!!)

Jade leaned against a wall, keeping their back firmly pressed against the surface as she watched over the crowd.

There were so many. Turtles as far as they could see, with a few other strange creatures intermixed. Some looked familiar, covered in colorful stripes like the Mikey she knew and his family had, but others were…not as such. It was a sea of shades of green sprinkled with every other color like someone had dropped a bag of paint. Yet in their differences, they all fit together. They were all the same.

To say that the room was loud was an understatement. Hundreds of creatures huddled up and chatting amongst themselves, embracing each other saying how long it’s been, or completing introductions. While the ruckus was not in their mind but instead processed through her ears, it was simultaneously overwhelming and comforting. That was why she had retreated to the edge of the room.

“Oh wow, this is absolutely insane!” Mikey exclaimed by her side, the teen jumping as he smiled. Raph and Leo had disappeared into the crowd to search for Donnie who had vanished the moment he realized something called the ‘multiverse’.

“Are you excited, Jade?” Mikey asked, his scaly hands wrapped around their lower arm as he bounced. “There’s so many of us! And we get to hang out with them and talk to them and dance and sing with them?! This is so rad!”

Jade felt a pang of sadness. Mikey obviously wanted to melt into the swarm with his brothers but had chosen to stay with her. On the sidelines. Alone.

“You can go, Mikey,” They signed, finally. “Go have fun.” But the orange-masked turtle shook his head, frowning that they would suggest such a thing.

“I don’t wanna leave you. You just met my brothers yesterday and then we suddenly pop up here?” Mikey gestured to the throng. It appeared many turtles had begun pillaring atop one another’s shoulders and attempting to push the others off.

“This is a lot of action for ya and I wanna be here for you. It’ll probably calm down once the event actually starts, okay?” Jade only nodded in response, their top arms wrapping around her torso.

Is the noise the actual problem here? They thought.

But in the crowd, they spotted something.

A particularly noticeable turtle was wandering about, showing a piece of paper to those around with a frantic expression. The turtle observed her overlooking the colorful mass and began marching toward them. He looked eerily similar to Leo, but Jade’s eyes knew better. His wrappings were different, and his stripes were placed differently on his arms.

The turtle weaved through the crowd and stopped in front of the two of them, taking a moment to catch his breath. He was around the same height as the Leo they knew, but she still towered over him.

“Hey, excuse me,” The turtle said, lifting a piece of paper. “Have you seen this Donatello? Wears a tutu, has lil swan wings, extremely violent but like only 50% of the time?” The words streamed out of the turtle’s mouth in such a quick fashion that Jade was glad for her memory. But the words were all foreign to them.

“Hi!” Mikey chirped as he stared at the picture on the paper. “Are you another Leo? That’s so cool!” The Other Leo nodded and pointed to his sheet again.

“Yeah, welcome to the club, please have you seen my Donnie? He disappeared the moment we arrived!”

Mikey took a long look at the image of a pale-looking turtle, a strange collection of bunched fabric around his waist and his feet…pointing…? This planet was getting weirder the more they knew about it. Was Other Leo searching for this creature?

Mikey shook his head, the swooping tails of his mask fluttering.

“No, sorry. Can’t say I have. What about you, Jade?” He asked, looking up at her expectantly. Jade had no choice but to use the tried and true response.

“Confused.”

“Oh! Sorry, you don’t know a lot of those words yet. Have you seen them?” Mikey corrected as he pointed to the sheet of paper.

Other Leo raised the page higher up as Jade hunched over to get a better look. Even if she didn’t have the chip, there was no way they wouldn’t remember seeing such a strange being. Unfortunately, they hadn’t regardless.

Jade shook her head and signed their apologies, returning to her full height and careful to not have the points of her horns bonk into the wall.

Other Leo sighed and offered his thanks before fading into the colorful storm once again.

“I hope he finds his Donnie,” Mikey stated. “Though I doubt there’s many places he could’ve gone…”

Jade continued watching the swath and the sadness returned. Their tail curled around her leg.

Why was she feeling like this? They knew the rules, a mysterious voice kept repeating them that floated over the mass of green. They knew where the exit was thanks to the clear glowing sign above the doorway on the opposite end of the room. Raph and Leo had only left to find Donnie, and Mikey was right with them.

So why?

They were surrounded by individuals who were all weird and different like she was. There were hundreds of Mikeys, Donnies, Raphs, and Leos. A few Splinters, Shelldons, and some others they did not yet recognize.

Oh. That’s why.

This was just another reminder that there was only one of her.

Jade placed a hand on Mikey’s shoulder.

“Let’s go find that other Donnie.” She signed. “It’s not good to be alone.”

“That’s a great idea, Jade! The guys can find us later, let’s go find that Donnie!”

started to work on this when all I had was a picture I found on Pinterest and no internet lmao. Very happy to finally post it! Anyway this is fanart of @tangledinink’s Swanatello. He’s either resting or crying, it’s up to the viewer :)

But this was the script I wrote for it, so y'all can still enjoy what could have been!

CW: mentions of starvation/malnutrition, scars, and surgery/experimentation

Anyways how bout that sweet sweet angst, huh?