so sorry i havent been posting!! i’ve fallen into a bit of a depression pit and work burnout :(
but i have this for yall!!!! (ps if you have a request, i see you and i am slowly working on all of them, couldnt leave yall hanging <33)
enjoy some turtle love language HCs <33
Pronouns: none
pairings: reader (techincally) x rise and 2012 boys (separate lol)
genre: fluff
Warnings: none? not proofread, wrote this at 2am bc i felt guilty of not getting anything out in a couple of weeks
Rise boys <33
Raph:
PHYSICAL TOUCH!!
- I without a doubt believe Raphs love language is physical touch!
- I mean have you seen the way he lets his brothers climb all over him like a jungle gym???
- He doesnt do it much with you compared to his brothers, his reasoning?
- His brothers know how to navigate his spikes and he’s not scared he’ll crush them in a hug :((
- With you though,,, youre so fragile
- But!! Once he learns how to navigate his strength and all that around you
- Best believe you wont go a second without his skin touching yours
- Whether it be hugging, arm around you, holding hands or hell even his pinky holding yours <33
- He’s a snuggle fiend for sure!!! Loves loves loves it!! If you guys are hanging out or watching a movie, you’ll most likely be snuggling <33
Leo
WORDS OF AFFIRMATION!
- Do i believe this man claims his love language is pt? Absolutely, do i know for a fact it’s words of affirmation and he’s just not wanting to be vulnerable? Yes, of course
- Melts when you say good job after him doing something small
- MELTS WHEN YOU SAY YOU MISSED HIM OR THAT HIM BEING SOMEWHERE MADE IT BETTER!!
-Tries to impress you just to hear praise coming from your cute lips
- (definitly doesnt end up hurting himself in the process)
- Pretends to know how great he is when you say how thankful he’s in your life or something along those lines, but secretly cries about it later
- Doesnt understand quite why he feels loved more when you say how much you appreciate him
- Dont get me wrong, he loves physical touch but not as much as words of affirm <33
Donnie
GIFT GIVING!!!
- Just like me<33
- Will for sure build you little robots and trinkets, learns how to certain things just for you
- (ie, making friendship bracelets with his colors <33)
- Literally lights up when you get excited about his gifts
- Loves seeing them displayed in your living quarters <333
- Definitely makes you gadgets to like fight with ? like your own bo staff or knives, stuff like that
- Loves when you ask him to make specific stuff as well <33
- Whats that babe? You want a mini S.H.E.L.D.O.N.? on it
- You want another bracelet? Without hesitation
- He loves making stuff for you and will do it without a second thought <333
- Gives you gifts without it having to be a special day just to see you happy <33
Mikey
QUALITY TIME
- This young man loves it when you accompany him for anything
- Skateboarding? Wants you there!
- Painting? Absolutely
- Same thing with cooking and running errands
- Yall dont even have to do soemthing together!! Just wants you in the room or near him <33
- if he’s baking/cooking and you’re just sitting at the island doing your own thing, thats perfect!!
- Just really wants you near him <33
- Loves that yall can both be content in each others presence
2012 BOYS!!
Leo:
QUALITY TIME!
- Idk WHY but i have a gut feeling he loves quality time
- Wants you there when he’s training or meditating, even if you dont fight
- Loves being able to take a break from being a leader when he’s around you <33
-LOVES WHEN YOU WATCH SPACE HEROES WITH HIM!!!!
- Would do anything for you if you came out on a quiet patrol with him <33
- Loves spending time with you no matter what yall are doin
Donnie:
PHYISCAL TOUCH!!!
- This version of my favorite purple turtle undeniably loves physical touch.
- I will not take any other answers for this one
- He NEEDS to be touching you, just like rise!raph he needs some kind of skin to skin at all times
- Will either get a bigger chair for his lab so the both of you can sit in it or he’ll get another chair so you can sit next to him
- Needs to be the one sitting next to you on the couch, at all times
-You will be on the end with him on the opposite side so that his brothers cant sit next to you
- I feel he’s the ‘arm over the shoulder’ type guy
- I dont care about canon heights, this boy is TALL
- So of course thats gonna be the most comfortable
Raph:
WORDS OF AFFIRMATION!
- This was a hard toss between him and mikey but decided it suited him better
- I think because of how hes treated and not really respected this makes the most sense
- (yes his brothers love him but they cant relate to him and they dont really respect him? He seems like an outcast in a way thats different to the others and i stand by this)
- So to hear you’re appreciative of him or that you enjoy spending time with him or that you love him and he’s doing a great job, that would straight up make this boy melt!!
-He loves you and he needs this type of support in his life!!!
- Wouldn’t know how to take it at first, since it’s different for him
- He would reject a majority of it at first, stating he didnt need these ‘pep talks’
- He slowly learns to love them though <33
Mikey:
GIFT GIVING!!
- i know this mikey is artistic too but i full heartedly believe this version just gifts you things he finds topside LMAO
- He sees a rock or a news paper, flyer, whatever and thinks “i am going to give this to my s/o”
- And he genuinely means well,,,,, just not everyone wants wet trash sweetheart
- But on a real note, he figures out how to make jewelry, using his colors of course
- You eventually are decked out in mikey’s colors
- When he gets better at cooking and baking he sends you home with a lot of food hehe
- Loves giving you stuff randomly, it’s the best part
- He just loves you and shows it through garbage <33
I love how the entire 2012 tmnt fandom either hates April for leading Donnie on but also saying she doesn't like him like that, hates Donnie for acting super creepy--borderline stalker-like towards April, or love both but seriously think they both needed some counseling and to just STAY FRIENDS. I'm in the latter of the 3.
Y'all they really missed a chance to have a really cute relationship with Capritello. I'm watching season 2 episode 22 and Donnie and Casey hugging April at the same time is the cutest shit I've ever seen.
So,,, ive been working on this for a little bit!! im really proud of it lol, i also listened to lady gaga the entire time(hence the name)
Pairings: 2012! donnie x gn Reader
genre: fluff?
pronouns: gn
word count: 2.8k
warnings: assault, attempt at kidnapping, slight stalking from Donatello, nightmares from the attempt, i think thats it?
Walking down New York City was,,, interesting to say the least. In the daytime, it was mostly okay, but at night that was a totally different thing, especially when it was cold and snowy. You can never be too careful and wary, looking around constantly to make sure you weren't being followed.
Even though no one was behind you, you could still feel a pair of eyes locked on you. You couldn't find where it was coming from at all, you wrapped your purple scarf around your neck and lower part of your face tighter. Hoping it's just your paranoia and not someone actually following you, you wished your job wasnt so far from your apartment building. You were only a block away from the building, speeding up when you felt the gaze intensify.
This wasn't the first time you were watched while you were walking home, sometimes when it got to be too much you'd call your roommate or record and talk to yourself. You can absolutely never be careful enough. What was weird about it was that this had been going on for weeks but only started after you had been nearly kidnapped on the way home.
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You didn't have a car or any other transportation so walking was your only way home, you had your pocket knife in your hand but you stupidly had both earbuds in blasting Lady Gaga's song loveGame. You had just needed the song to fix your already bad day, that's when you felt someone tug your shoulder back. It got tugged back hard making you fall backwards and into a random man's chest, your earbuds popping out and going in different directions.
You started screaming but a hand quickly covered your mouth, preventing you from screaming or biting the assaulter. You stomped your feet, trying to hit something on this man, eventually your squirming helped you out and you hit his foot, hard. He clearly wasn't aware that you weren't going down without a fight, crying and cussing out of pain he loosened his grip. That gave you the perfect chance to break free from him and bolt, he chased after you only a couple seconds later you didn't hear his footsteps.
Curiosity got the best of you and you looked behind you, only to see what looked like,,,,, a turtle? The attacker on the ground out cold, the turtle (?) Turned to meet your eyes with their white eyes.
"Huh? " their eyes widened in surprise that you acknowledged that they were there, you were just surprised a turtle grew this big. Not questioning the fact the turtle knew how to do anything human like.
This turtle was tall, with a purple bandana wrapped around their face, holding a Bo staff, the end currently pressed to the man's chest.
You decided that that was enough interesting things for you for the night and made a run for your apartment, not stopping till you were in your kitchen.
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Even after that encounter, you were oblivious to the fact it was most likely the turtle who saved you that was making sure you got home safe. Being easily distracted was just a part of you, and the best thing to distract you with? The stars, even though you lived in New York City, you got to see the stars every now and again. Not often, so it made this moment of the night sky being lit up so special, forgetting that this was the exact spot you got attacked at.
Shivering hard brought you back to the current time, Realizing you definitely shouldn't be lingering at night. You could always go onto your fire escape and watch the stars there, setting off again quickening your pace. Your apartment building was right around the corner, seeing the glass doors to the lobby made you feel warmer already.
Making your way to your room, hangin up your scarf and heavy winter jacket. You made sure your shoes were all nice and neat on the shoe rack, lest your roommate come after you while you're asleep again.
Finally in your room, you stripped and went to take a hot shower. Washing away all the dirt and paranoia of the day felt nice, knowing you were safe in your apartment made this shower all the better. Stepping out and drying off, you threw on some warm and soft clothes, it was nice getting out of your job uniform.
Stepping out onto your fire escape, you sat down and watched the sky for a good thirty minutes. All of sudden you felt it, that same intense gaze that you could never tell if it was dangerous or not. Trying to ignore it in favor of the night sky was hard, looking around you did nothing, you saw absolutely nothing. Mostly other people's fire escapes, the dark windows, that purple clad turtle, the rooftops of other apartment buildings, clothes line- wait?
Slowly moving your gaze back over to where you saw the turtle, only to see nothing. Great, now you just felt plain crazy, your roommate had ignored your pleas of her believing you on being saved by a purple turtle. Simply saying you were seeing things, there's no mutant turtles around New York City. Sure there were giant rats and crazy scientists, but definitely no giant mutant turtles.
You felt a shadow loom over you for a quick second, snapping your head to above you, seeing nothing again.
Thump.
You shifted your gaze to where you heard the noise, again seeing nothing. You got up, dusting your ass off, you walked up the fire escapes. Hearing thumps as you go, seeing nothing there to go with the noises. realizing that you no longer felt safe outside you made your way down the steps, looking back every time you felt that same stupid gaze.
As soon as you made your way to your fire escape and into your room, the gazes stopped. Leaving you in your room thinking about how stupid it was to follow the noises.
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Waking up drenched in sweat was not how you wanted to start your morning, looking over at your clock only to realize it read out 3am and not 6am. "Great, if I go back to sleep now I won't wake up for my alarm" mumbling out to no one in particular, "well, might as well get up."
Staying as quiet as you could, you made yourself some breakfast which included scrambled eggs and potatoes. of course you couldn't start your morning out with no coffee, so you made your cup and had some leftovers to come back to. Deciding to be spontaneous you sat out on your fire escape, which wasn't a good idea with how cold it was but as soon as you got a blanket and a jacket it was fine.
Finishing your breakfast, you sat there looking at the city already bustling around you, and staring at what little stars you could see. You decided today was going to be your adventurous day, as you bagan your way up the fire escapes to the roof. You had left your dishes, knowing you'd be back for them. You wrapped yourself tightly into your blanket, you had already worn warm pj's to bed but it wasn't enough against the New York winter weather.
Stopping to step over the lip of the roof onto the stable part, you walked around admiring everything you could see from your spot. Never being able to find time to come up the roof, the view left you in awe. That awe was cut short when you felt that familiar gaze, shooting around to see where it was coming from. You couldn't spot anyone or thing, you gave up and went about your morning night?
You laid down on the roof, still wrapped tightly in your nice, warm blanket admiring the clear skies for once. Stars were surprisingly bright out, even seeing a shooting star. You shot a quick gaze to your right, seeing a flash of that same green and purple you'd seen weeks ago.
"Hey!" You didn't know what came over you in order for you to yell out to the person, but you did, and that didn't stop them from running away. You laid back down, as you had gotten up to yell at them, not feeling the gaze on you anymore. You stayed like that for a good hour, making the time 4:30am, you groaned at the time. You still had a while before you were supposed to even be up.
"why did I have to have that stupid nightmare" you said to an empty roof, not particularly wanting anyone to respond. You'd been having these debilitating night Terrors about when you were almost kidnapped, your hero nowhere to be seen in these dreams. Shamefully you'd tried all those 'sleep hacks' but you usually downed a couple melatonin, hoping it was enough to knock you out. It almost never was.
You spent a couple more minutes on the roof just thinking about life, getting up to head back down to your apartment and clean up your mess. As you're almost to your apartment you feel the gaze, you look around, again nothing. At this point why do you even try, this person doesn't want to be found, until you look ahead of you to see the green and purple clad,, turtle! So you were right, there are in fact mutants, or at least turtles.
You stared at each other before they scampered off, leaving you alone once again.
"Hey!! Hey wait!!" That did shit, if anything that made them run away faster. Sighing, you decided to just head to your apartment and get ready for work.
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Weird things were starting to happen since that night of meeting face to face, things such as having notes (horribly written and unintelligible) left at your window, tiny trinkets, shiny things and sometimes tiny robots appearing on your fire escape. Most of the notes you could decipher after a little bit of studying them, others you just,,, couldn't figure it out.
The shiny things would be rings or coins, or even sometimes metal shards shaped into a turtle or pizza slice. Regardless of the items that had been appearing at your window, you've yet to see the turtle again since that night. You've felt the gaze, just not the eyes that stare at you.
You've still yet to figure out why, why this turtle ? Has taken a liking to you. You've done nothing besides been almost kidnapped, to attract them. You weren't complaining, it was nice to walk home and feel safe. It wasn't every night that you got to slow down and take a minute to look up at the stars.
So, you decided the moment you got a shiny bracelet and warm red beans and rice, you would leave out gifts of your own. You started baking like crazy, leaving out loaves of bread and cookies, finding them gone the next morning and a thank you note in its place. The handwriting on said notes was getting better each time, it left you wondering whether or not the gift giver was practicing.
This went on for months, only getting glimpses here and there of the purple-clad hero, the notes that were left were getting longer becoming more like letters to each other. Every day or so you’d turn on the news to see if the turtle took a spotlight, but nothing came up from the news station. Now, research forums were a different thing, there were hundreds of posts of not only the purple-clad hero but also three other turtle heroes.
At this point, you weren't shocked to see that there were more than your turtle friends, but it did seem that there were only four of them. You thought it was cute that they all had different colors associated with them, even though you knew nothing about them it felt like their colors really matched.
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Like every other night, you sat out on your fire escape waiting to see if you'd catch a glimpse of your hero. It had already been five hours since you first came out here, you had a day off the next day so it wasn't any trouble to spend the night out here.
You already expected to see nothing, to wake up from a power nap to your gift gone, a pretty note, and a blanket covering you. So it was surprising to wake up from yet another power nap to a turtle sitting across from you, they were just as surprised as you were.
You sat still in fear of scaring them, a giant smile stretched across your face, making the turtle blush heavily. "So,,,, you're the one who's been keeping me safe?" You had sat up fully, no longer slumped but still making slow movements.
They looked like they wanted to say something, opening and closing their mouth. "It's okay if you don't want to say anything, but I really appreciate being able to walk in the dark without getting kidnapped again" you held out your hand for them, showing it's okay for them to move closer to you.
"It's uh,, no problem" they said shuffling closer to you, they weren't making any eye contact but you could tell the blush was still there. "I didn't know what I would uhm, do with myself if I hadn't made an effort to continue to make sure you were safe," finally grasping your hand, you noticed their hands were cold.
“What’s your name? If you don’t mind me asking,” you had moved closer and fully grasped their hand, but they still look incredibly nervous sitting near you. Staying quiet to let them know to take their time.
“My name is Donatello, Donnie for short.” rubbing the back of their neck, they showed the cutest smile you’ve ever seen. Gasping at how cute Donnie was, the tooth gap included, his smile was absolutely adorable. You gave Donnie a big smile back, taking in his beauty, he looked anywhere but directly at you.
Giving him your name back, you leaned in super close to his face, almost trying to take in every detail. “Your tooth gap is so fucking cute,” saying that made him nervously smile again, showing the aforementioned tooth gap. “Oh Uhm, uh hehe thank you” Donnie stumbled a bit trying to accept the compliment, eventually getting out a ‘thank you,’ gosh, you just met this turtle for real and you already feel yourself falling in love.
A vibration startled the both of you, Donnie groaned as he pulled out what looked like a tiny shell. He started ferociously typing on it, it dawned on you that it was a phone, he paused every now and again while looking at you. You quirked an eyebrow to show your confusion only to get a quick wave of his hand in response.
“My brothers, are Uhm, well-” he was interrupted by someone calling out his full name, both of you looked up, you noticed that it was the three other turtles that those articles had talked about. They all looked much taller in person, you all of a sudden felt very very small.
“We’ve been looking for you everywhere, Donnie! You didnt even tell us you were going out and now we find you here, with a, a uh-” “A GIRL!” the blue one had started lecturing Donnie only for the orange one to interrupt. Donnie just groaned, putting his head in both of his hands.
“Why are you guys here,” Donnie really didnt want you to meet his brothers this soon, or at all but here you were, looking scared and nervous.
“Because we were worried, didnt expect to find you on a date” The red one smirked, purposely teasing Donnie.
“Oh sorry, you must be confused” the blue one had turned to face you, his gaze softening “im Leonardo, this ones Mikey” he wrapped his arm around the orange turtle next to him “and that ones Raph” pointing to the one that was in the red bandana.
“Oh! It’s all very nice to meet you guys,” you waved to them, not knowing what else to do. You turned towards Donnie after hearing him let out a huge sigh, he started to stand up “well, i guess ive got to get going.”
“We should do this again,” he stuck his hand out to help you up, you of course graciously took the help. You noticed his hands were calloused, most likely from fighting if you had to guess, “of course, im out here every night, usually waiting to see if i can get a glance of you” you winked at the end.
Donnie lifted your hand up to give it a kiss, the boys let out a chorus of groans, Donnie softly let go of you. He jumped up to the other rooftop, only turning back to wink at you when his brothers were ahead of him.
In that moment you felt lucky to have met your purple-clad hero.
