Hamato’s Forever is my ROTTMNT Separated AU, with all of the four bros each being raised by a separate person, and their two other siblings who never truly got to be in canon are here too!
Basically, Mikey was raised by Splinter; Donnie was raised by Baron Draxum; Leo was raised by the Foot Clan; Raph and Frida were both raised by Big Mama; and Penelope wasn’t really raised by anyone, she’s been on her own for most of her life. There is a lot of shenanigans and trauma packed within this AU, and I can’t wait to share it with y’all!
Ao3 Links:
Main Fic
The Whole Series (only the main fic is here rn, but other things will be added eventually)
Character Introductions:
Mikey Hamato
Irma Langinstein
April O’Niel
Enkō Draxum (Donnie)
Foot General (Leo)
Kiko Arachne (Raph)
Frida Arachne
Penelope
Short Scenes/Doodles:
Mikey and Irma’s First Meeting
Kiko and Frida at a human party
Also my asks are open, so feel free to ask me any questions about this AU, or you can also ask the characters listed in the introductions some questions!
This post will be edited as new information is provided/written, such as new character introductions or other fics
Why did you choose those roles for the twst x dc characters?
Oo, thank you for the ask! I love yapping about AU castings!
For Leona, I thought he fit Batman’s vibe. Depressed, super rich, has a soft spot for kids but won’t admit it. Also it’d be fun to explore how Leona not only helps Gotham as Batman, but also through his wealth, similar to Leona’s focus on urban development in canon. And it’s funny that the cat is dressing up as a bat.
Neji/Kifaji was just a given after Leona’s casting lol. His role translates quite well to being Leona’s butler and main guardian after Leona’s parents die.
I decided Jade as Falcone would be interesting, especially with the theory that the fandom has that the Leech family is actually just a part of the mafia. Jade taking the head of the mafia as an inheritance can also play a bit into displaying the corruption of Gotham. I might also make it so that Jade wasn’t the Leech that was in charge when Leona’s parents died so that Jade doesn’t end up being like twice Leona’s age in this AU.
Floyd fits the Joker’s unpredictability, and because Legacy of the Dark Knight has Joker being a previous work partner of Falcone, that also meant that Floyd and Jade’s casting would line up in some way which is nice.
Azul’s casting choice was made after Jade and Floyd’s were, so considering that the Penguin worked with Falcone, I thought I’d keep the Octotrio together in some way. Azul also fits the semi aquatic theme, just with an octopus instead of penguins, and I wouldn’t put it past Azul to run for mayor like the Penguin does.
Crowley I decided as Ra’s mainly because I couldn’t really think of many other mentor characters. But Crowley does also fit the mystery and (possible) underlying malice that Ra’s has. And on account of being fae, he fits the immortal aspect as well.
For a while, I was torn between Malleus or Idia as Talia. They both fit being the heir of some kind of family legacy, and they both have chemistry with Leona. In the end, I chose Malleus, mainly because I had Crowley as Ra’s, and there is the Crowley is Raverne theory soooo, yeah.
I struggled with who to put as Gordon for a bit. He’s supposed to be someone older, but I couldn’t think of anyone who would fit an older role like that plus have some kind of connection to Leona. Then I remembered the existence of Kate Kane, Batman’s cousin, and decided to kind of combine her role and Gordon’s to have Falena as Gordon. So now we get to have some fun with Falena and Leona fighting crime together and having an actually good familial relationship. Yay!
For Batgirl, I almost immediately thought of Ruggie for the role. Obviously Ruggie is Leona’s second in command, I thought of him for one of Batman’s sidekicks. And the main Batman show I grew up on was the 2004 The Batman series where Batgirl gets introduced before Robin, so in my head it’s always Batgirl that comes first (even though that show is literally the only one where she gets introduced before any of the Robin’s). Therefore, Ruggie is the “first” sidekick.
Vil got chosen as Catwoman on account of having great chemistry with Leona and being one of the most shipped characters with Leona. I also think it could be interesting for Vil to be an actor who has fallen from grace here, which is why he’s turned to thievery.
Riddle is The Riddler purely because of the name. No deep reasoning there lol.
Jamil got chosen when I still had someone else as Commissioner Gordon that connects a bit more to Jamil. But given Leona and Jamil’s talk in Book 6 and just their overall bond, I think it still fits. Here we have both Leona and Jamil recognizing injustice in the world and try to do something about it; Leona through vigilantism and Jamil through law. Except Jamil gets disillusioned with fighting corruption the “right” way and starts to believe he can never create change and it’s all up to random chance, similar to how canon Jamil decides to keep blaming everything on his upbringing under Kalim’s shadow even though that doesn’t excuse him from everything.
And finally Epel as Dick Grayson. I was gonna make a completely separate post explaining his casting, but guess I don’t gotta do that since this is being asked now lol. I chose Epel for this role because I was mainly thinking about the arc Dick typically goes through. While he’s usually thought of as the golden child of the Robin’s, he didn’t start that way. Batman originally took Dick under his wing because Dick was such a feisty child, and Bruce was extremely worried that’d he’d go down the path of revenge. Batman also saw a lot of himself in Dick, which also influenced the decision to make him Robin. I just think the arc of this feisty rebellious little child eventually learning from his mistakes and growing into a symbol even greater than Batman would be very fitting and interesting for Epel, considering his arc in TWST. So now our Batman-Batgirl-Robin trio is just the Spelldrive club! I also decided to not make Jack Dick Grayson because I thought there was more potential in casting him as Jason Todd, if Legacy of the Dark Knight ever covers him, because we’d be seeing Jack’s disillusionment with Leona in such a different light than in canon and the parallels that could be done there are just so interesting.
Also a little bonus, I am currently considering casting Idia as Mr. Freeze, with his motivation being to help Ortho. It’s also just funny to have the guy with fire for hair be the ice guy.
Ok, so I’ve seen a lot of time travel AU’s in this fandom, and that’s what inspired this idea. Imagine an AU where the seven overblot victims are all sent back in time to the very beginning of the school year.
They all figure out what’s happening pretty fast and vow to make sure that they’ll make this year better than the timeline they came from. No overblots this time, just a normal school year at NRC. Fix mistakes they’ve made previously but all of them still working towards their goals that they promised to make happen when they were confronting their pasts in Book 7.
Theoretically, this should be pretty simple. They’ve already had their character development and know not to do certain things, so they all should be able to avoid their overblots just fine, right? Well, if they did nothing that’s what would happen. But in fear of overblotting in this timeline as well, they all over correct, leading to someone else in their dorm overblotting instead.
I’m still thinking about how this would exactly go, but here’s some ideas for the alternate overblots:
In Heartslabyul, Riddle is being a lot more lenient on the rules. But while he had started to find a good balance between the rules and doing things differently in his original timeline, here Riddle is being just a tad too lenient in fear of pushing Ace to duel Riddle again and cause the uproar and emotional distress that caused Riddle to overblot. And this new Riddle scares Cater. It reminds him of how Heartslabyul use to be, the chaos that ensued because the previous housewarden got too lenient on the rules. Riddle hasn’t gotten that bad by any means, but the slip is enough to scare Cater, eventually leading him to break.
Meanwhile, Leona has to once again deal with his pack looking to him for guidance. He wants to do something, but he knows how that ended last time. So, he pulls the classic Leona strategy of sleep and do nothing. He starts ignoring his dormmates, even Ruggie. Maybe he’ll do something once the Spelldrive tournament has passed, but it’s simply too risky to do anything that could resemble the Spelldrive incident. This neglect starts to affect Ruggie, who feels like he’s being thrown away like a broken toy no one wants to play with anymore. Ruggie becomes determined to prove his usefulness to his king and starts plotting with the help of the other hyenas in the dorm. But he sets his sights to high, so high he cannot reach… not without breaking.
Azul is playing things extremely safe. He has an elaborate plan to ensure he does not trigger the events of his overblot; he makes sure his number of contracts stay at a certain number, never going over that number, and he only lets Octavinelle students run the Mostro Lounge, no outside help. However, this starts to get boring for Jade and Floyd. They started following him because he was fun, but now he wasn’t taking even a single risk and his influence was considerably weak. What are they to do without their favorite source of entertainment? (Just a note, I don’t know if I’m gonna have both Tweels overblot or just one of them. On one hand, it would be really cool to see two people overblot at once and it’d be a way to emphasize just how important Azul is to both of them. However, I also don’t want to do the twin stereotype of them doing literally everything together like they’re the same person just split in two or smth.)
(Low key I don’t have any ideas for Scarabia rn, so… feel free to share if you got any ideas!)
I also don’t have too many ideas yet for Pomefiore, but I imagine something that could be the foundation for an alternate overblot is Rook noticing something is different about Vil, but he can’t figure it out and Vil won’t open up to him about it, which begins to frustrate Rook. Perhaps his efforts to find out what’s happening with Vil will go too far and push him to overblot.
Idia is FREAKING OUT when the time comes around when he overblotted. Because, for some reason, there were still five overblot victims, so Styx is still going to come and collect them for studying, and he’ll still have to go to Styx himself. But it’s fine! He’ll just make sure Ortho stays close to him so that he isn’t influenced by Phantom Ortho, and everything will be fine! And even IF Ortho wanders down to the Underworld, it will still be fine, because Idia already knows that Phantom Ortho is down there so his existence won’t cause Idia to have a complete mental breakdown and overblot! It will all be FINE. Until, he DOES lose sight of Ortho and Ortho does get influenced by Phantom Ortho. Only this time, the influence causes a mechanical overload in Ortho, and his technomatic gears start to bond with the over abundance of blot in the Underworld, creating a horrifying mix of blot and machine, the combined soul of Phantom Ortho and Mechanical Ortho.
At first, it doesn’t seem like Malleus is behaving any different. He is getting involved with things at NRC more, both because he’s making more of an effort to engage in human activities and because the other overblottees who got time transported are remembering to include him more (except for Leona of course). On the outside, it seems like he’s making changes for the good. And he mostly is. However, still scared of how things will go when Lilia starts to lose his magical reserves, he decides to secretly “provide” magic. Similar to what he did for Vil in Book 6. At first, he only does this for Lilia. Then that starts to extend to Silver and Sebek. The problem is, Silver and Sebek are human. They can’t handle the extra magic they are receiving the way Lilia can. So when Lilia still ends up having to leave NRC due to his loss of magic, Silver’s build up of excess magic and emotional turmoil combine to create an overblot.
It’d also just be fun to see the original overblot victims in this AU occasionally work together or confide in each other about how to deal with this situation once they all realize they got stuck here together. (And also yell and argue with each other when overblots somehow still happen). Like, at a housewarden meeting Crowley just proposes an idea that the overblotees remember going horribly in the previous timeline, so they all very loudly voice their objections all at once, meanwhile Crowley and Kalim are standing there so confused as to why they’re all so vehemently against the idea.
Azul as the Penguin and Riddle as the Riddler??? Azurido Nygmobblepot???
Hehehe, maybeeeee, it is pride month after all 🤭
(In all seriousness, I would have to get farther into the game to see if I want to include that bit in the AU, I have like barely seen the Riddler at the point where I’m at-)
TWST x Batman AU because I’ve been obsessing over Legacy of the Dark Knight.
Cast List so far (I have not finished the game, so this is still subject to change and probably missing more than a few characters)
Bruce Wayne/Batman - Leona Kingscholar
Alfred - Neiji/Kifaji
Carmine Falcone - Jade Leech
The Joker - Floyd Leech
Oswald Cobblepot/The Penguin - Azul Ashengrotto
Ra’s Al Ghul - Dire Crowley
Talia Al Ghul - Malleus Draconia
Jim Gordon - Falena Kingscholar (Tho Falena and Leona are cousins in this AU instead of brothers)
Barbara Gordon/Batgirl - Ruggie Bucchi
Catwoman/Selina Kyle - Vil Schoenheit
Harvey Dent/Two Face - Jamil Viper
The Riddler/Edward Nygma - Riddle Rosehearts
Dick Grayson/Robin - Epel Felmier (I know people would probably put Jack in this role, but trust me, I have my reasons for this casting which I will elaborate on in the future)
Oh my god, these lines are so funny as a Leoide shipper. Cuz like, just imagine Ruggie finds out that Leona and Idia are dating and he’s just like: “Sweet! A two for one deal!”
The teeny mutant ninja turtles being thrown into other tmnt shows so they can experience the world-ending bullshit every mutant turtle is required to face while still being iPad kids:
Someone has probably thought of this before but like whatever-
You know those soulmate AU’s where you can feel any physical sensation/pain your soulmate feels? Imagine that with TWST… more specifically the overblotees…
Like Riddle, Leona, or Azul’s soulmate just suddenly feels all of the horrible pain associated with an overblot out of NOWHERE with seemingly no reason. And it’s early in the story so it’s not like overblots are considered as common at NRC sooo. Either that or their soulmate being one of the people to witness some of the first overblots and they make a horrible realization (like Trey or Ace witnessing Riddle’s OB, Jade or Floyd with Azul, etc.)
Or Jamil’s soulmates just chilling during winter break and suddenly BAM! Unimaginable pain. Or an even more heartbreaking option where Kalim is his soulmate, so not only does Kalim get betrayed by the one person he trusted, has to witness him overblot, but also EXPERIENCE ALL OF THE PAIN THAT JAMIL’S FEELING.
Or Vil’s soulmate just strolling through NRC’s campus, checking out all of the stalls and displays for the culture fair, and then suddenly starts screaming in pain and everyone thinks it’s a medical emergency, contributing even more to the fact that people don’t notice the actual overblot happening in the stadium. (Or the alternative of Rook being Vil’s soulmate which would be absolutely heartbreaking too)
Or Idia’s soulmate being another one of the overblotees, so during the panic in Book 6 when no one knows what’s happening, they suddenly get a sharp, familiar pain, and they know something is very very wrong.
Or Malleus’ soulmate’s dream being constantly disturbed by this constant ache and they can’t tell where it’s coming from. And it’s pain that Malleus can’t take away, no matter how powerful he may be now.
There is just so much angst potential and now I’ll probably be thinking about this all night aaaaaaa
