[{fluff request this time!!}]
after the krang fight and everyone loves them, they're heroes, bla, bla, bla....
can you please write a drabble about reader being their biggest fan?
like a whole anonymous online fan club and almost obsessed...(perchance some dere type of stuff, that's up to you!)...and Donnie being a techwhiz finds it and slowly starts revealing to reader that they're all coming to their senses and figuring out she's been their cheerleader!
Okay I won't lie, I was a tad lost on what to do buttt I gave it my best shot and I hope you like it.
The first clue was the username.
Donnie wouldn't have looked twice if the account hadn't somehow beaten every major news outlet to posting updates about the turtles.
A blurry photo of Leo helping an old woman cross the street?
A witness report from a rescued subway passenger?
A twenty-three-page document titled:
"The Definitive Ranking Of Raphael's Heroic Moments (Objectively Correct)."
Three hours later he was sitting in front of six monitors with red string diagrams open on his screens.
Someone had cataloged every public appearance the turtles had made since the Krang invasion.
Every newspaper clipping.
There was even a section dedicated to analyzing their combat styles.
Donnie wasn't sure whether to be impressed or terrified.
The others wandered over.
Mikey looked at the monitor.
"Why is there a section called 'Raphael Appreciation Archives?'"
Because there were six hundred entries.
Raph immediately stood taller.
The deeper Donnie dug, the stranger it got.
The fan club wasn't huge.
Maybe a few hundred members.
But the anonymous founder?
Correcting misinformation.
Defending the turtles with the determination of a medieval knight.
"Maybe the turtles aren't actually that heroic."
The founder had replied with a seventeen-paragraph essay.
Mikey was crying laughing by the time Donnie showed them.
"They used MLA formatting."
Then Donnie found the photos.
Leo helping kids at a community center.
Mikey giving someone a high-five.
Raph carrying a rescued dog.
Donnie fixing a broken traffic signal.
Moments nobody else would've noticed.
Moments that weren't in the news.
Like whoever took them genuinely cared.
Donnie stared at one image for a long moment.
A picture of him crouched beside a little girl, repairing her toy robot.
"He stayed almost forty minutes after everyone else left to fix it."
"Donatello always acts like he doesn't care what people think, but he literally spent half an hour explaining robotics to a kid because she asked."
"He deserves more credit."
Something weird settled in Donnie's chest.
The breakthrough came completely by accident.
You'd dropped your phone.
Donnie glanced up from his workbench.
You were scrambling to grab the device before the screen timed out.
For a split second he saw it.
A familiar green turtle shell.
You immediately looked suspicious.
Which made him more suspicious.
Donnie started testing theories.
One day he casually mentioned a ridiculous fake story.
"Yeah, Leo actually cried during that movie."
The next morning the fan forum had a post.
"CONFIRMED: Leonardo cried during animated dog movie."
Attached was a hundred-comment debate.
Donnie nearly fell out of his chair.
A week later he cornered you.
You were sitting on the couch.
You immediately got nervous.
"...Why are you looking at me like that?"
"...What- what fan club?"
The kind of smile that meant he already knew.
"The one you've been running for two years."
Your soul left your body.
The silence lasted ten full seconds.
"You weren't supposed to find that."
Donnie looked genuinely offended.
"You left digital footprints."
"You deleted most of them."
The others found out within an hour.
"You made appreciation posts about us?"
Leo was scrolling through pages.
"You wrote a twelve-page essay about my leadership."
Raph discovered the archives.
There were hundreds of entries.
You watched his ears slowly turn red.
"These are all about me."
"They're literally titled 'Raphael Appreciation Archives.'"
"They're not all about you."
Because once they realized how long you'd been cheering for them—
How long you'd defended them—
How many hours you'd spent making sure people knew they were good people—
The teasing became something softer.
A few nights later Donnie found you sitting alone.
Embarrassment still lingering.
"You know," he said quietly, sitting beside you.
"I wasn't joking when I said your forum helped."
"A lot of people were afraid of us after the invasion."
"But your posts gave them something else to look at."
You buried your face in your hands.
Then gently pulled your hands away.
For once there wasn't a trace of teasing in his expression.
"We became heroes because of what we did."
"But having someone believe in us before everyone else did?"
The smile he gave you was small.
"That mattered more than you think."
And somewhere in the lair, Mikey was already trying to get access to the fan club account.
I'm not super happy with how this turned out but I hope you like it anon ૮( つ╥﹏╥)つ