ohraphael:
leonardosfm:
donatellosfm·:
Ah, group hugs. Donnie never felt more restricted but he’d let his brothers have this. For a minute anyway before he was pulling himself out of the hold.
“We don’t know what that means but okay.” They’d never really used the brakes when they were on their adventures, it was, in fact, all gas. Donnie sighed before gently letting his bo staff fall in the middle. He’d taken to using the wooden one his Dad had given him as opposed to the the Tech one he’d made. “That’s because these were treated as heirlooms for years before we threw them in a circle. Anyways, what’s the deal here, Nardo?”
@leonardosfm·
🐢 ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ─────────── “ heirlooms shmeirlooms. ” leo singsonged. “ if we’re going to work on understanding each other better. we need to know how each other us tick. in general and on the battlefield. not only that, we can’t be one trick ponies. if we’re going to defeat shredder we have to push ourselves. we’ve gotta get uncomfortable, boys. each of us either have long range or short range attacks. our weapons heighten our strengths of speed, power, agility and so on. two of us have to actively think about not stabbing other people while the other two swing their weapons around without much thought of that. so, we’re going to train using each other’s weapons. ”
grabbing the weapons he handed them off each to his brothers. raph’s sais going to mikey, donnie’s bo staff to raph, mikey’s nunchucks for himself and his katanas to donnie. he stopped in front of his twin and eyed him before handing off his weapons. “ the amount of faith i’m putting in you is so astronomical. if you even think about stabbing someone i’m going to be very sad, so like don’t. ”
@ohraphael·
“If Dad could hear you…” But he dropped it, there was no point in arguing right now. He had to admit he was really impressed with Leo’s idea. He knew his brother was smart and had a good understanding of what they did but he hadn’t really shown it much. But here he was challenging them and proving that he not only knew how to use his own weapon but he understood how the weapons his brothers used worked too. “That’s a very good idea, Leo. A terrifying one but you’re not wrong about us having to broaden our horizons.”
Raph took the staff and looked over where Leo handed his sais to Mikey. Not that he didn’t trust his brother but they weren’t used to sharp weapons. “Mikey please don’t swing those.” He whispered to his younger brother.
@cowabungas
Mikey’s heart tightened a little at the mention of their dad. He knew they were doing everything they could to get him back but he knew his brothers felt as hopeless as he did. It’s why they’d argued a lot lately but he was grateful for this moment where they could just be brothers and a team. He missed it. “All new ideas are scary! But we’ve never let fear stop us. I probably wouldn’t have that many scares if we did.”
Mikey’s eyes were wide and his smile big as he took the sais from Leo. He looked over to Raph and had to stop himself from laughing. He’d never seen his big brother so concerned. “Relax, Raph. I’m not going to swing them. But no promises on throwing them.”
@donatellosfm