itās so special to me that so much of fan culture is textual analysis for the love of the game. like thank god there are people in my phone who are also thinking about this thing i love so much that they are writing transformative fiction as character studies and setting clips of the show to music with theme-relevant lyrics and writing long text posts analyzing every line of dialogue like!! yay!!!
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
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.
Or looked into it and instead of elation like Jevil, or Terror like Spamton, or even nihilism like Seam, he just,, was in denial. He seems to be stuck in the past/ignores the changes and things falling apart around him, it wouldnt surprise me in he just, decided to avoid dealing with/thinking about it at all, and decided not to use the shadow crystal.
Or even, thought he knew how to reconnect with Kris better than the knight, or knew he was dying so it didnt matter
Another random comic without any context? HELL YEAH
I know that a lot of people have already covered this topic with Future Leo beeing angry over Present Leo, but I wanted to show you my take on this one guys
ik this is primarily a ninja turtle blog but shhhh
"She doesnt even go here!" Shhhhh I donāt DR post bc my moot hasnāt finished ch 3 yet but God willing,,, the amount of rambs I plan to post as soon as she does,,, u donāt even know
