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In this AU they're all just normal highschoolers, no ninja bullshit, no Kraang, no foot, they get to be kids. These 4 were adopted by Hamato Yoshi after he lost his wife, and were raised alongside Miwa.

Design details:

- Donnie is 6"0, Leo is 5"7, Raph is 5"5(and mad about it) and Mikey is 5"3.

- Made it so Leo and Raph resemble each other more, like their og designs.

- All for are wasian but the white half hit Donnie and Mikey way harder.

Headcanons for each character:

Raph

- wears chunky boots to compensate for his height

- Takes the best care of his hair out of the 4, he's kinda vain abt it. I like the idea bc it contrasts his tough guy shit

- Gym rat, clearly

- Guns are ALWAYS out, unless he's wearing a leather jacket

- He's in a band, plays drums

- Tags and graffitis, does art for fun. His tag is Sai

- Member of the hockey team, its how he befriends Casey

- Everyone that isn't friends with him is scared of him.

Leo

- Handsome pretty boy, the girls and the gays love him.

- Ran for president of student council at Splinters suggestion, he won.

- 70% of his clothing is space heroes merch.

- Fairly popular and well known

- Silver medalist karate champion

Donnie

- Best student in their entire school, but MOST of his grade is carried by his contribution to their research department. His ass sucks at the social studies and humanities.

- Nobody knows who this man is, he's always doing labwork

- Paid internship at TCRI. TCRI is a shitty and corrupt company, but Donnie is a fantasti asset and they do EVERYTHING in their power to keep him off their ass and complacent.

- Bros got eyebags for days and is high on caffeine

Mikey

- Fairly popular and well liked just like Leo! Except he cant remember most ppls names, so he makes up nicknames

- Always invited to parties, he and Leo take Donnie and Raph as their plus one cuz ppl dont usually invite them

- Bros got adhd and it is uNMEDICATED, he does not do well at school

- No one bullies him, people knows he has ties to Raph and people are too scared of Raph.

General Headcanons:

- The four barely look like each other, so even though they have the same surname ppl dont think they're related. They assume its a freaky coincidence

- They all have their own friendgroups at school, but they always hang out outside of school. The other 3 have to drag Donnie with them

- They've got a bunch of pets at home. Namely 4 pet turtles named Sai, Bo, Chuck, and Tana, a rat named Splinter, and a snake called Karai. Raph is their main caretaker.

- They all did martial arts as kids but only Leo kept up with it untill Highschool.

- All 4 are fantastic swimmers and people are always surprised to see that Donnie has any physical prowess

- April has been friends with them since middleschool

hello. closeup

the og piece is soooo important to me, and for two reasons;

one, from an emotional standpoint, it was like the second painting i made of raph and casey and the one that solidified my obsession (and emotional dependency oops) with them for me

two, from a technical standpoint, i realized how much i enjoyed rendering this way in digital painting, and gave me a result i liked and was interesting to look at (i still use similar techniques today!!!)