#turtleposting

10/10 expressions from the boys all throughout

LOOK!

I flip-flop between the two, but usually Leo. I know people hc Donnie as the older, but I just can't really see it, lol.

Which is why I switch it up in my aus, having Don or Leo be older or younger, or just have them flip it themselves depending on if they need it at the time (like Don comforting Leo or Leo hyping up Don)

Donnie and Leo as they appear in Birdie's universe!

Donnie's key features are his new natural eyebrows, the scars across his shell and those lil' spines on the upper edge of his shell that grew in as an adult and made it so his old battle shells stopped fitting. (No worries, he made new ones!) Donnie's leaner than his brothers and tends to skip out on the extra physical training Leo and Raph do.

Leo rocks a cracked shell, x-shaped stripes and a bad right knee. He's also beefier than Donnie, a result of excess training post-movie times. Leo's tail also only reaches to his knees, unlike Donnie's longer calf-length tail. He has a fainter burn scar on his neck from his time in the EPF's holding wing alongside Birdie.

Individual refs below the cut.

I saw a snapping turtle in the wild, and now I’m a big fan of them :3