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Leo:

Back when I was in the planning stages and drawing concept art for “The Brains and The Brawn” I ended up completing a couple of drawings to set the mood for what I was going for. One of them fits this word prompt. But I couldn’t show one without the other since they were made the same day and are sitting together nicely in my bnb file:

I’ll show the one for the prompt first. It’s nice, so you can scroll past the... not so nice one, if you want.

( commenting again cause i love it so much) now i’m imagining leo and donnie getting their hair permed at a salon or something

They did actually! ^^

HOLD THE PHONE CAUSE I GOT A THEORY

I know this may have been super obvious to everyone, but Krang was MUTATING everything. And at first I thought, “Yeah ok, so?” but then I thought about it again. We know at this point that the source of all Yokai was a decomposing Krang body at the Crying Titan. But then I wondered “yeah but if Krang is the source of mutation, why didn’t everyone mutate into animals? Lol'' and I simply thought it was a plot hole. But the way the ooze works in Rise and most variations is that you don’t change into random things, you change into what animal you were last in contact with.

And what were all the citizens in last contact with?

Krang

So my theory is that it's the Krang BLOOD that acts as ooze. With their biology acting as the foreign agent that triggers what they will mutate into. And because the Krang have such strong powers (mental and otherwise) that explains why it almost looks like a zombie hive mind.

But wait

If the EPF cured all the citizens does that mean they can cure the mutants-

No never, first of all it doesn’t seem that any of the mutants want to be human again (except Rupert Swagert but it wasn’ that he wanted to be human he wanted to be on tv again). And brings us to the main difference between the ooze and krang blood. The ooze at the crying titan has been there for thousands of years, the krang it comes from is just a husk of who it was and is incapable of giving a viable dna source. In this time it's not hard to think the blood, after mixing with the environment and all the animals all this time, evolved as the creatures it infected eventually evolved into what we know today as Yokai. Without the external factor of a Krang jerk to control them. Plus the Krang blood ,even though it seems to attach pretty quickly, also seems to take longer to fully integrate into the body. Which is also why there were so many krangs in the future.

Then I thought about the Crying Titan, the source of all Yokai power and Draxums’ relationship to it. One of the things I always liked about Draxum was his vine attack which is so cool and versatile. And i wasn’t surprised to see Krang using that same sort of attack. My first thought was “oh cool they just like vines’

but NO. Draxum ,like all yokai, is technically a descendent of the Krang. That combined with the fact he's an alchemist who made the ooze\squitos, spent so much time at the Crying titan collecting samples. If you don't know alchemy you know that it's based on chemistry. So it almost makes sense that a chemist who spent all his time studying the ooze would eventually learn how to use it in the same way the Krang did and how Krang didn’t know what RAph was cause mutants and yokai didn’t *exist* before they arrived

Not to mention the Titan has HORNS like someone else we know!

So it’s even possible that the Titan was about to be Krangified and sacrificed himself to stop the Krang in him. CAUSE LOOK AT HOW THE CRYING TITAN IS HOLDING HIS EYE

REMIND YOU OF ANYONE?

And now Draxum pays homage to the Titan by wearing his horned. And if he was descended from the Titan, theorized by Jade, then it also explains why he has the rank of Baron AND why he was so obsessed with protecting yokai. Cause how could he not after he’s descended from a TITAN

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