This is my Leoichi’s fanchild that I created loooong ago.
Just recently I drew a proper character sheet and fleshed out her backstory (mainly for Art Fight)
Speaking of Art Fight.. I’M THERE YAY! If anyone is interested to follow me there :b
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Ahah.. shameless plug out of the way..
I could talk more about Lavinia!
She’s actually NOT my first fanchild I made for Leo and Usagi. She has a sister matter of fact, but I haven’t drawn her yet (no, it’s not that rabbit lady featured in my AF ID card, that’s my samurai rabbit oc)
Just a quick description of her sister.. she’s a white rabbit with grey-ish brown spots and pretty blue eyes. Unlike Lavinia, she is adopted.
ENOUGH ABOUT HER!
Here’s a whole lore drop about Lavi (heads up, it’s long):
LAVINIA HAMATO (?)
The surname is NOT decided on yet.. I’m still struggling with Usagi’s name thing, how surnames work between clans and legacy.. and basically Japan’s law surrounded by surnames. I’m too sleep deprived for this.
Hamato is FOR NOW kept for simplicity's sake. Not 100% canon to the oc lore.
(Rest is copy pasted from my art fight account! Mildly edited)
This takes place in an alternative universe where the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012 series didn't end the way it did.
REASON:
Lavinia was created in Baxter Stockman's laboratory. When Shredder needed a mutant that was equally strong, if not stronger than the turtles, by training it like he trained Karai.
(Instead of mutant clones of himself. What if the Shredder recreated his own mutant turtle, but teaching it under the influence of the Foot)
HOW SHE WAS CREATED:
The plan was Baxter is supposed to use one of the turtle's DNA and mutate a turtle (he specifically edited its DNA before artificially fertilizing the egg).
Since Shredder is not a patient man he is, Baxter only has ONE try to get this right. To Baxter Stockman's disappointment, the hatchling had zero pigmentation, causing a couple disadvantages
(more prone to being sensitive to the sun, having vision impairment, and the inability to camouflage).
But Stockman didn't have time to edit another turtle's DNA and wait to incubate, so he mutated what he had. That's how Lavinia was created. The blood sample Stockman used was Leonardo's, making Lavinia his biological daughter.
LITTLE FUN FACT:
Lavinia is originally named "TF173780" (for short: T780) by Baxter Stockman, to easily identify his subject (Transformative Mutation, Female, Diamondback Terrapin (ITIS TSN))
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE CREATOR AND HIS CREATION:
Baxter Stockman had grown attached to Lavinia, considering her HIS daughter. Even growing obsessive once Lavinia was rescued by the turtles. Baxter's relationship with Lavinia is mildly similar to Shredder's and Karai's; he is quite possessive at times since she's his first semi-successful creation.
But I'd imagine that in time, he does let her go eventually, paralleling Shredder's INABILITY to let go of Karai. Maybe Mikey throws some sense to him in Mikey style???
END OF BACKSTORY
YEAH basically.. I made Baxter Stockman a bit more threatening and interesting, and not whatever they done in 2012. Still keeping his clumsy trait (messing up Lavinia’s DNA when editing. He’s the reason why she’s albino in the first place)
Extra thing about Baxter and Lavinia. I think at some point, he wouldn’t even want Lavi to be used as a weapon for Shredder (like he uses Karai as a weapon towards Splinter), the man he HATED to work for. If the turtles didn’t interfere, Baxter would’ve just disobey Shredder again and take her away.
(But honestly that outcome would’ve gotten them both killed or double mutated. Thankfully the turtles did rescue her instead and keeping her way safer.)
Honestly, I just love how we collectively agreed that Usagi and Leo are both undoubtedly girl dads ToT
And it pretty much checks out, given how Leo treats that girl he had tea party with and Usagi with Hana.
Despite the two are absolute sweet towards kids, there is a noticeable difference HOW they would raise them. Leo being more of a “mother hen” while Usagi is the cool dad “go crazy, have fun, then piss off the other more-responsible parent”
i'm struggling so bad to get some art out so i made a lil doodle page for fun lmao. i actually enjoyed drawing all of this, i'm hoping some creativity will start pumping through my brain again lmao
some more doodles/older unfinished sketches below the cut!
i actually have a couple drawings for doubt truth to be a liar; but never doubt i love that i believe i never uploaded! i've long since had the next chapter planned, but i really want to figure out some concrete idea for upcoming chapters too 😭 planning ahead has never been my strong suit...
ignore UGLY usagi in this one. i mostly wanted to experiment how i wanted kitsune to look. she's very stylized here/in this au in general i think lmao. she's never really been my strong suit, love her tho
another old sketch, i kinda like it tho! never bothered to finish it LOL
and you know what, here's a cute usagi from a bit ago that i never finished the whole sketch for, plus a sad usagi for an au i've been wanting to draw for MONTHS. to the person in my ask box that asked for that dead leo au months ago, i see you, i just can't get anything worthwhile out LOL
Fanart for “Ninjas Don’t Dance” by @paymeinpikachus (on AO3) - chapter 16
Oh my goodness, everything about this chapter had set so many GOOD alarms in my head. Got me stayed up for the next an hour or two.
Just.. The world building is so interesting. The cross dynamics there is making my Samurai Rabbit and TMNT hyperfixation SO HAPPY. Just hooooolyyyy characterization, my eyes have been blessed.
And this is only the tip of the iceberg of what I think of this fanfic! I’d gush more about it, but I already look crazy enough ^_^;
But yeah! Just wanted to draw stuff based off chapter 16 and getting out of summer’s art block (it’s still fighting with me)
I swear, I NEED more stuff about these two. Raphael and Usagi’s crossover dynamic could be explored more.
Anyway, kinda wished Samurai Rabbit gave us more about Usagi’s background and didn’t brush off his inner conflicts. But that’s just an opinion.. idk I could be asking too much.
Leo’s pretty confident in verbal flirting, but asking for a moment of true vulnerability? A bit more challenging for him the first time they started dating
Sometimes the one who holds others wants to be held too.
Which Usagi already provides plenty of, as he initiates it the most without a sweat, but to ask for it is a lot for Leo at first.
Never Have I Ever, season 2 episode 10: “…Been a Perfect Girl”
I saw this from an edit and I HAD TO draw this as Leo and Usagi!
It seems fitting that there is a fanfiction I’m actively following: Ninjas Don’t Dance by @paymeinpikachus (I highly recommend this fanfiction). It basically inspired me to make this!
You can imagine my excitement when I found out that the actor’s voice sounds reaaaally similar to a CERTAIN RABBIT CHARACTER, if you know what I mean…
Aaaand you guessed it! This is Yuichi Usagi’s VA! Darren Barnet playing as Paxton Hall-Yoshida in Never Have I Ever
Please DO NOT COME AT ME. I haven’t seen Never Have I Ever and this is made purely for fun!
Since I’ve seen a lot of people animate the voice actor’s other roles as different characters that they played as before - most commonly I’ve seen is ROTTMNT Leonardo (Ben Schwartz)
So why not I give Usagi the same treatment? QuQ
Anyway, don’t know if I’m ever planning to make a cleaner, colored and more polished version.. I’d really love to move on to my other art projects!! But I hope you guys liked it anyways ^u^
my art isn't even looking bad necessarily, it's just i have so many ideas and yet none at the same time and everytime i draw i have zero motivation to finish it, but i wanna draw SOO BAD.
GOING ON VACATION WAS THE WORST THING TO HAPPEN TO MY ART 😭
well, this is all you guys get. i drew it in pure agony. welp, see you guys in maybe... five-ish years? not really it's probably fine uuugghhh
okay fine take some doodles i made in desperation to free myself from this art block