Mimjan’s AU Cosmos

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Some Pride stuff for the soul

I decided to render an older silly little sketch I made now in honor of Pride.

And for those keeping up with the AU, say hello to the prettiest gremlin terrorizing the fields of the post apocalypse, Wild.

Here he is in neutral lighting and without the face veil to show off some of his scars.

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More Chain Across Time, yay!

Much like with Sky and Twilight earlier, I don't really have the time nor brain capacity to really create something wholly original, so here's a slightly edited version of an earlier drawing I made of Legend and Worlds from around New Year's.

Both of them are actually so silly, I love them so much already. I really hope to get the main story going to get the chance to show that. This scene would actually be in the main story as well (again, much like Sky and Twilight earlier)!

The pose base is of course by the wonderfully skilled @albanenechi :D

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Second Links Meet post?????

And these are technically concepts for a storyline I plan to have. School is kicking my ass, so I'll just post some stuffs I have already drawn. This includes out of context doodles like these.

Here, introducing, the Heroes of the Sky and Twilight, the two oldest Links who are somehow no less stupid as their brethren. Well, Sky at least is. Twilight has at least one braincell more.

The purring dogs are an example of the immaculate writing of the original pass at this fic. @sammie-scribbles can vouch for that lmao

Bonus

You know I'm not above drawing shit like this, and I'm making you look at it now.

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First official Links Meet post, huh?

I felt this post by @smilesrobotlover in my spine. Not only do I have a ton to do for school this semester (including writing my bachelor's thesis 🫠) but I still have so much research I need to do for this AU alone. So I figured this silly little redraw could get the ball rolling so that I'll have posted at least something for this AU.

So... this is my first official Links Meet post, huh?

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Yes, hi, I'm not dead lol

I've kind of been thinking of our boy recently, and I figured a sort of "Ravioverse" could be fun. Although I might not draw Ravios for many of the other Links, I decided I'd at least draw one for this kid.

I decided Ocarina of Time doesn't exist in this AU. It's such a complicated story when you really try to think about how to apply it to anything other than itself, since it works mechanically and narratively in such a specific way. And I don't really know what a Ravio-led OoT would even feasibly look like. Majora's Mask I feel is much simpler in those respects.

I've seen others say this before, but I think a Ravio-led game would focus more on puzzles than combat. I kind of saw that firsthand while I was sketching the first-pass sketch of this; Majora's Mask is already quite low on items, as the masks already possess so many of the interesting item abilities. It was honestly kind of difficult to decide on which item and mask(s) to dress him in. I decided to be practical and gave him the two most useful non-transformation masks and the bow. The bow and arrows and bombs are items he does rent out/sell canonically, and his Hyrule Warriors moves are quite bomb-heavy, so I figured the Blast Mask makes the most sense. And I obviously cannot draw anything MM-related without my beloved Bunny Hood, so putting it on him was obviously a given.

I decided this version of him comes from an era where Lorule does have its Triforce, so I figure he's much braver than he canonically is. This project also made me reflect on Ravio more as a character in his own right. Is he less brave by his nature, or how much did the lack of Triforce impact not only his own but also Hilda's and Yuga's personalities? What is Ravio's actual core personality? And I decided that honorable defiance is what he probably would be/is at his core. In ALBW, the reason he defied Hilda was for a deeply honorable reason. And since he does have a Triforce of Courage in this AU, I imagine he would be somewhat more outwardly hostile to for instance the Happy Mask Salesman than his respective Link was.

Reposters and AI scrapers kindly

Fuck off~~ ✨✨

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Silly little Oz AU

I wanted to create something silly for Spooky Season, so I did.

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Leonardo is not Dorothy. The idea is that this would be like an actual episode of the show; he'd get Wizard of Oz'd into, well, Oz, and the episode would play out like an abridged and heavily toned down version of the The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900). Which in turn means that the others are not the other three Turtles, either. They are, however, styled after and voiced by the other three. So, instead of saying something like "Donatello", I'll either use "Donatello-as-the-Tin-Woodman" or simply "the Tin Woodman" (which of course also applies to the other two).

The idea of the Scarecrow, the most intelligent character in the main cast in the book, speaking like Michelangelo does in the show was too funny not to implement!

I imagine the dialogue in the scene where Leonardo and Kiki meet him would go something akin to:

“I'm going to the Emerald City to find the wizard to help me back to New York.” “You suppose that wizard dude could give me some brains?" "Yeah, I'm sure he can!" "Mondo tubuloso!”

Not sure if I want Leonardo to be outed as knowing the fact that the wizard is a fraud, though...

I put Leonardo in the silver shoes from the book, since I heavily doubt anyone would've cared for fighting MGM for the rights to use the ruby slippers. On Discord while sketching, we did joke that I could put him in silver Birkenstocks or ruby Crocs. Sadly, Crocs weren't invented until 2002 😔

I debated a lot who to cast who as. Leonardo in the role of Dorothy and Raphael as the Cowardly Lion were easy enough, but which one of the other two brothers to cast as the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman? Both Michelangelo and Donatello work for either, since the book characters' main traits are intelligence and empathy respectively, but I finally settled on the casting that I did. Like mentioned above, the Scarecrow with Michelangelo's speech pattern is absolutely hilarious, but I don't think that Donatello-as-the-Tin-Woodman's hilarity should be understated, either; especially since his canon name when he was human (turtle?) was Nick Chopper, which does fit Donatello's general strategy of repairing things in the TV show by hitting or kicking machines strangely well.

While sketching, I also joked that Raphael-as-the-Cowardly-Lion looks like Raphael just finished a Cats the musical rehearsal but hadn't told anyone and just got busted sneaking back into the Lair. I also accidentally coloured him piss yellow when I coloured the flats, which I suppose is fair. Yellow is actually a colour associated with cowardice (even though the Lion wasn't actually a coward at all, but we'll set that aside).

Speaking of colouring mishaps, when colouring the Tin Woodman's base colour, I decided to look up images of tin to find a good rough match. Well, it then hit me to double check whether tin actually does rust or not. And guess what, it doesn't. Thus, I got around the problem by making his bolts, screws and joints made of iron instead. He has to rust somehow; you cannot have a Wizard of Oz "adaptation" without [Dorothy] and the Scarecrow oiling him upon meeting him.

The Toto situation was a tricky one, since TMNT isn't really known for its prevalence of dogs. The only actual noteworthy canine characters I can think of in any iteration are Rahzar and Dogpound, and as funny as it would've been for me to cast Rahzar as Toto, truth be told I had honestly forgotten him and Tokka even existed in the cartoon. I briefly considered having April be Toto (somehow), but I refused to entertain that idea even more than I already had. Instead, I got around the Toto problem by just drawing a dog (here a Scottish terrier, like how I pictured Toto in my head) and then renaming it. And thus, Kiki! And I love her.

Also, fun fact, the Scarecrow actually wore blue in the book!

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Superquest doodles

I'm an ardent the-other-three-1987-turtles-would-just-laugh-at-Raphael-and-his-misfortunes-in-the-episode truther, which resulted in possibly one of my most fun and favourite doodle dumps.

These drawings are specifically how I imagine the 1987 turtles would've/could've been in that episode.

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First post on sideblog, let’s goooo!

Image ID 1.0: The uppermost image is an image dump of rendered sketches of a ROTTMNT: The Movie AU version of Renet. She’s a young black girl, about the same age as April in the film, and she shares a striking resemblance to her, short for Renet’s hair being bleached blond. The drawings included in pictures described later, and in the bottom left corner is a photograph of the pencil sketches from a notebook. The text in the image reads:

Renet (ROTTMNT MOVIE AU)

- F!April’s daughter

- Master Michela[n]gelo’s protégé

- Got sent back before Casey but got stuck in limbo; emerged after events of the movie.

- Possibly a clone of April

(End ID)

I was rather disappointed we got another Casey as the MC in the movie instead of her, so it got me wondering if she could fill the same role as him. In my opinion she can, and that birthed this AU idea. Her being Future April’s daughter and Mikey’s protégé fit too perfectly, so I would actually have her be Jr.’s old childhood friend who was missing for many years (in limbo), so both of them are happy to see each other again in the present new timeline.

Regarding the “possible clone” comment: Many headcanon Casey Sr. either finding Jr. in a dumpster somewhere and adopting him, or that she asked Draxum to clone her. I’ve never really subscribed to either, since he does look very similar to her (which makes me think they are biologically related), but his temperament is basically the complete opposite of hers (which refutes the clone theory in my head). I always just assumed Cassandra had a boyfriend too irrelevant to mention in the show, even long before the movie released. I figure he’s her biological son, but he inherited his father’s temperament (and his mother’s looks). That being said, I’m willing to apply the cloning idea to Renet. I cannot picture April with a man, ever, so I can see her demanding Draxum clone her to give her a daughter. Maybe the kinder side of April’s personality is stronger in Renet since she grew up in an environment where kindness and hope are the only things keeping a community together and its members sane. Maybe she even adopted some of her other mom’s (Sunita’s) traits, who knows?

Image ID 2.1: A 3/4 view of Renet’s head, drawn in a style very close to the show’s/movie’s. She’s looking forward, away from the viewer, smiling slightly with a little of her teeth showing. She wears her blond hair in a ponytail like April did in the show’s finale arc, and she has a blue headband and a decorative silver tiara resembling a clock (10, 11, 12, 1 and 2), which bears a slight resemblance to the Statue of Liberty’s crown. Her cape is the same shade of indigo as her headband, and the cloak’s collar is majorly oversized, revealing her neck. She has an earring in the shape of an hourglass. (End ID)

Image ID 2.2: A fully rendered illustration (not in the style of the show/movie) of Renet and a teenage April from the end of the movie in front of a sunset. They are standing in profile towards each other, with Renet on the right, holding April’s hand in her left and her time sceptre in her right. April’s expression is slightly confused whereas Renet’s is tender and happy. A small speech bubble reads “Hi mom.” Renet’s chest plate/plastron is brown/dark orange to mirror Casey Jr.’s teal, showing her connection to Michelangelo, much like Casey’s shows his connection to Leonardo. (End ID)

I’m not entirely sure on her cloak’s exact design yet. If you look closely at the pencil sketch of her body, you can slightly see Donnie’s Genius-Built Apparel ‘D’ logo on her sleeves. I left it out of the illustration with April by accident, but I’m not sure whether I necessarily want his logo in those spots on her cloak. Maybe it’s at the bottom of the tail? I’m also not sure whether I want it to have those glitter-esque particle effects from the bust drawing; it’s not really a design element in-canon. Although, I do find it very pretty.