"Can I adopt you as my houseplant?"

Basically this started as a joke that evolved the more I talked with my friends about it, like at first it was just a "wouldn't it be funny drawing Raph as a magical girl?" And while I was doing that I was watching the first season of 2012, and when finished I was like "if only 2012 was a little more mystical/spiritual inclined like 2003 that would be great" and then I realized that I can do that, with magical girls, just because I can and I think it would be funny

And that's how I ended up with this sort of au, my general idea is that the boys keep being ninjas, but with the plus of also being magical girls at the same time, because I don't want to replace one thing with the other, so the au would loosely follow the canon series but tweak a bit in some parts to balance this new addition

In general I have some lore already planned, but not much apart from that, just some general ideas that I want to maintain, like for example:

1- the boys grew up knowing that they are magical girls, they trained for it alongside their ninja training, just not so much and not as serious so they just know the basics, and they were only able to fully transform by themselves on their 15 birthday

2- splinter and saki were magical girls in their youth, that's how splinter is able to teach the turtles about it, just that in the present they're unable to transform again (because of reasons...)

3- Yk how it's basically established by everyone that Leo is the most talented/focused/centered in their ninja training and Mikey is said to be the one with the most potential? Well in their magical training Raph is the most talented/focused/centered, and Donnie is the one with the most potential

Just to finish I want to say that this is all made because it's fun and I'm having the time of my life with this "au" so if things doesn't really make sense don't pay much attention to that lmao

Doing the designs for the turtles was so damn fun, I loved it, but at the same time it was giving me such a headache, especially Raph lmao, he gave me the most problems

I think it was because he was the first that I drew and I had literally no idea of what I was doing other than "do random shit until I like it" lmao, Donnie also gave me a little of a problem but only on his color pallete, other than that it was fairly easy, Leo and Mikey practically designed themselves lmao

I also want to design their magical weapons, so far the only one I have done is Raph's, but I have an idea of what to do with the others

I'll try to finish it as soon as I can because I also want to put them in my artfight profile, because I saw that some people put their own designs of the turtles there and I want to do that

Having said that, if ur interested in artfight like I am (go team mystery!!!!!!!) I'll leave here my ID card for you guys to check it out