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[mkthedingus]

Toddler Mutant Ninja Turtles (Part 40)

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Fun fact, the very first panel is based off of the first sketch I did for toddlermnt before I even knew it would be a long comic. I can't believe I've been doing this project for this long

[awzominator]

@tmnt-splinterweek day three: Privacy

struggled w this one tbh but landed on the ultimate helicopter parent wanting a little time to himself but needing to keep an eye on his babies at the same time…tree time for the win!

[secondlifep]

If you know, you know.

[cosmicbeyond]

more slop from farewell au

raph isn't very good at the leader thing, but he's trying his best. he's tired.

[cosmicbeyond]

messing with colors and concepts from my farewell au

mostly i just wanted to draw a hug

[imagionationstation]

Hey!

I've got some questions regarding the last asks you answered.

First the one about headcannons, you said you had one about Donnie being the best singer out of the brothers and having other headcannons branching on that one. Can you elaborate on that? I'm curious about those headcannons :3

And the second question was about the ask about the twin thing when you said you had a headcannon where Leo, Mikey and Raph were triplets and I can smell all the angst possibilities here, do you have anything more on that?

Anyway, love your work. Have a great day!

(I'm anonymised because otherwise it'll be my main blog and not the one about tmnt)

WHY ACTUALLY YES I CAN (Ask Link)

- Because of the way that his voice is pitched, Donnie sings better as a soprano (higher voice), and he finds it very, very embarrassing. He prefers rapping because he finds it more "masculine"

- Sometimes his brothers intentionally turn on catchy songs or start singing loudly near him to tempt him to sing with them. He's a lot more open to it if it's in a group setting where everyone is doing it. (They know he secretly enjoys it. He just can't get over that he thinks he sounds terrible. Literally he's the only one who thinks that)

- His brothers originally wanted Donnie to be the singer of the group, but he got so self-conscious that he quit until they agreed to let him play guitar. Mikey took over, but sometimes when they're struggling, they make Donnie help Mikey with lyrics because he has an instinctive knack for it. He gives in only so their songs don't "suck"

- After Splinter dies, Donnie will comfort them on hard nights by quietly singing some of his Japanese songs/lullabies/melodies. It's something that he starts up on his own, and none of them ever outright acknowledge that it happens. They just listen

- April is the only person alive who Donnie will allow to peer-pressure him into doing karaoke. (The first time that they did it, his brothers goaded her into convincing him to do a song with her. As soon as she heard him sing, she was unable to stop staring and completely butchered her lines. He was too in his own head about it to dare look up from the lyrics on his phone and didn't notice.) She takes pride in the fact that she can succeed where others have failed

- Donnie assumes that any of April's compliments stem from pity

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What part of "we don't talk about the triplets headcanon" did you- ohhhh I'm surrounded by a crowd of Donnie angst lovers. I should have seen this coming... I accept responsibility, my bad! (Ask Link)

I don't think that they'd consciously think of themselves as triplets, but I do think that other people would think of them that way.

This actually stems from one of the creators of the Dona AU: Like why is it that other three look exactly like each other (same build, height, headshapes) and then Donnie up and decided to skinny/tall himself.

You'd think with a tall father they'd all share the tall genes amongst each other. But NO. After childhood, he rebelled apparently.

Other INFERED reasons for this headcanon include:

- Due to how much time Donnie spends in his lab pursuing his interests, his brothers spend time bonding with each other over their own (shows, comics, inside jokes). Since they spend so much time around each other, they get each other more than Donnie gets them, which leads to them (unintentionally) leaving him out of things. When he tries to share his interests, he can tell they aren't as into them, which leaves him feeling self-conscious (which leads to more lab time, which leads to more seclusion with his hobbies, which leads to more distance between them, and it's a vicious circle)

- His brothers all have ties that make them get each other in ways that they don't with him. They all have ways of knowing what the other needs (Raph calming Mikey after Bradford, Mikey grabbing Raph after Splinter was thrown in the sewer pipe, Leo hugging Raph on the anger planet, Raph encouraging Leo at the Farmhouse, Mikey getting brainworms with a rebelling Leo, Leo being worried about Mikey in 'Meet Monda Gecko' despite everyone dismissing him) that lets them get along despite their differences, but they often have trouble getting Donnie (ex: he talks to a 'jar of goo' and nobody goes "uh you know you can talk to me right?") in the same way.

- His brothers can talk about girls, but after Donnie meets April, they get weird about the subject around him. So while Leo talks about girls (Karai probably wouldn't come up since first she's a secret and then he learns she's Splinter's daughter), Raph talks about girls and then Mona, and Mikey talks about girls and later Shini/Renet, Donnie is often excluded from those personal, intimate conversations that bring his brothers closer together.

- There are a couple of times that his brothers are on the same page on something (ex: kidnapping Bradford) while Donnie's either openly questioning it only to get scolded/told off, or in the background looking like he's still actively wondering why he's an accomplice.

Ignore Raph. He's encouraged this the whole time. He just wants to look cool.

[sooph-ee]

okok here's part twooo of the jjk manga panel redraw!! Now that I had a clear idea of ​​how I was going to arrange the brothers in the drawings, the only thing left was to think about which villain I was going to put the Team B against i know i didn't wanna draw the kraang or a space villian or something like that and i wanted to be someone close to Shredder, so Tiger claw was the ideal character and although at first i didn't think that i was going to be able to draw him right (i'm shit at drawing animals lmao) i think i nailed in the end, i'm really proud of him

here's both a version with the aura the color of their eyes and another in black and white, its honestly hard to decide which version i like more, like, once again the black and white one its soo good because it reminds me of a the actual manga panel, but the colored one looks so cool toooooo aaaaaahhhhhhhhh

as alwasy when my drawing process its not a mess, here's the speedpaint of the drawing lmao

[zivazivc]

The Starry Night

Couldn’t help myself with the title. Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night is one of the most beautiful paintings in my opinion. I was in ramona mood …again! I imagine Raph must really miss her. Just remember how upset he got when Donnie brought her up in the last episode!

[mkthedingus]

Toddler Mutant Ninja Turtles (Part 39)

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Liked showing Mikey being a good big brother here. He's getting the hang of it

[longlizard999]

turtles gotta get his tan on ☀️🕶️🐢👙

[longlizard999]

no we need to come back to this so you guys can appreciate my new lighting technique

[mkthedingus]

I was feeling indulgent so I drew this. April fools Mikey, you are universally beloved.

April fools post

[mkthedingus]

It was all a dreaaaam~ April Fools!! I know I promised a regular chapter today but I couldn't pass up on the opportunity to do a roll reversal on the prank holiday.

Masterpost

[awzominator]

Shes humoring him

[lyndon333]

conga line, UPA style 🐀🐢🐢🐢🐢

[lyndon333]

April O'neil

[puma-or-cougar]

O MY GOSH! I swear! I just wanted to draw them hugging! But it got out of hands! 😭😭

Don't kill me, I promise to bring happy drawings ;;;w;;;... Someday(? Yeah...

I'll definitely do a couple more sketches of this(? Because it's inspired by the beautiful fanfic "Split Second" by Ducky76 in fanfiction.net. Donnie is in danger and Raph has to go rescue him, but what would have happened if he arrived too late? :'( Well, turtle soup, duh

Originally I was only going to do an unpainted sketch, but the scene deserved color and some shading, so that took me longer than expected. I'll keep uploading stuff as long as I like TMNT (which is, forever), it's just that university is kicking my ass :'0

[handskiko]

For the angst enjoyers...

I have been wondering what would happen if the turtles grew up without a father figure? Who would take charge? Who would act out? How would they train with no guidance?

I wonderrrr

[handskiko]

Wait. Come back here please!

I need to hear this! I need to draw this!! Please!!!!

@imagionationstation

[imagionationstation]

@handskiko

LISTEN LISTEN LISTEN-

One of the things you pick up on when you watch the series is how many things that they have that subways don't have. That entire kitchen set-up? No way was that built into there!

In fact, in Lone Rat and Cubs, the place is basically sparse. So everything that's in there had to be manually brought in by Splinter for the sake of his sons (because they can't leave the lair, remember?). If this happens around the time that they're toddler/kids, like the fanart suggests, then the show says that they have (at least) a dojo put together. But it doesn't give the inclination that they have other things- like electricity, considering Splinter's lanterns need candles to glow and the lights over his shelf in the background don't glow. Popcorn isn't definitive either since Splinter could have snatched it from somewhere and Mikey is known for eating very, very old foods casually.

All that is to say that Donnie's either walking into a mostly furnished home that he needs to continue furnishing or a home that's furnished and will need consistent maintenance. Let's say they're anywhere between 5-9, for hypotheticals. Do you really think that any of his brothers are going to have ANY idea how to help him at 7 years old when they can barely understand his explanations at 15-18?

He's the genius of the family, so it's going to fall to him to make sure everything functions. There is a TON of headcanon that Donnie made Splinter let him help with things. If we go off that, he has some knowledge of how they're supposed to work already- but watching Daddy build something and building it yourself are two different things

Think of any home repair that needs doing, and who do you think is going to be the one who needs to figure it out- because he's the only one capable? They can't call anyone for stove issues or plumbing problems or repairing heaters that break down in the wintertime. That's going to be on him. EVERYTHING is going to be on him. His brothers continued survival will be on him because he has to pick up the slack for everything that they don't know.

With all the pressure that his brothers put on him when he's fifteen and has a dad, do you really think it's going to be any better when they're immature, ignorant children? Do you really think he's going to have time to be creative with his experiments or have any freedom to enjoy the parts of being a kid genius? They're going to expect him to know everything, and the dad who taught him isn't around to help anymore.

He lost his dad, his childhood, and his freedom all in one go.

[imagionationstation]

Someone please tell me what right the universe has to start playing No More Birthdays by Sophie May while I'M WRITING THIS POST