Some Dragonfruit AU Headcanons and ideas, there was a whole 2 hour discussion in the Shellcord server brainstorming this AU and i collected a bunch of really neat notes for it!
Raph:
Hes biggest, the scaliest, the spikey guy, hes like a eastern semiaquatic dragon-shaped dog <3 He has massive mystic wings that he 100% uses as shields for his brothers, i gave him 4 wings just to make that happen. Hes the toughest out of all the brothers, and because of that his scales have seen some rough times
Like Leo hes eventually very capable of flying, but it took him many years before he gained those wings to join Leo up in the air.
Hes the BEST as swimming and can dive deeper than any of his brothers, hes also slightly faster than Donnie underwater, but has greater endurance.
Raph is a warm blooded dragon, but runs on the colder end of the spectrum. He often yoinks his brothers (most likely Mikey) to warm himself up on a cold day.
Donnie:
Hes a warm-blooded lung dragon, semi-aquatic, and extremely flexible and long. His skin, eyesight and ears are the most sensitive out of the brothers.
He is extremely good at swimming, kind of like hes just a giant otter. He's capable of holding his breath for over an hour.
He cant fly and has no wings but that doesnt stop him!! He was quick to draft up concepts for mechanical wings that would let him take to the skies aswell. He was extremely jealous of Leo and his bragging when it came to flying, and didnt want to be left behind when Raph eventually began flying too.
It took years of trial and error but he eventually created his own mechanical wings, inspired by birds (He will never admit to Leo that the true inspiration for the mech wings was actually Leos own wings)
With his flexible dragon noodliness, hes almost immune to fall damage (but there are limits).
Leo:
Like Donnie, hes a warm-blooded noodle of a dragon. Very lithe and long, he is also the only dragon out of them all with FEATHERS! The crest of feathers down his spine is very expressive and often gives away his emotions (whether its intentional or not we shall never know...) it also adds to his dramatic body language.
He was the first to fly, his feathered wings grew in exceptionally fast and because of his hollow bones and light weight it was pretty easy for him to get started.
He absolutely hates his baby photos, that growing period when his feathers were just beginning to come in was not a good time for his looks...
Despite being a bird-like dragon, he is very fond of water (think of cormorants and kingfishers) His feathers are water resistant and he is surprisingly great at swimming!
Hes the best at singing (second to April though) Leo is also freakily talented at mimicking various sounds (with lots of practice ofc), he pranks Donnie when he mimics the sound of his alarms/notifications (Donnie has had to change those SO many times xD)
Leos eyesight is the sharpest, he can see the furthest out of the brothers.
Mikey:
Very similar to a cat, hes a cold-blooded western dragon with a fluffy mane and a long prehensile tail.
He is also small but mighty!
Mikey is the only dragon capable of breathing fire (or having any sort of breath weapon at all) and because of that, his body temperature runs fairly high.
His fire breath isnt that strong (no one would be safe if it WAS-) but he uses it for cooking or as a light source when exploring somewhere dark. He also shoots sparks when he sneezes or coughs.
Despite Donnie and Leo being warm-blooded dragons and not needing external sources of heat as much like Raph, they still love borrowing him as their dragon shaped hot water bottle <3
He doesnt have strong wings and cannot fly as much (YET!) so he rides on his brothers. His brothers often fight over who gets to carry him (usually Raph or Donnie win), his prehensile tail makes it easier for him have a good grip to stay on their shoulders.
Eventually (in the kinda distant future) his mystic powers surface and hes able to harness those to float, and eventually fly.
They each smell like a different fruit: Mikey is citric, Raph is cherry/berries, Donnie is bananas, Leo is mangos/pineapples (April loves to pet them, and then sniff her hand xD)
Mikey and Leo mess with everyones tails, especially the tuft of fur at the end of Donnies, they struggle to resist the urge to pounce on it
They all purr and love scritches
They got taught to pretend to be/act like cats or dogs when they were younger if theyre ever spotted on the surface by humans (it doesnt work so much when they got older, too big)
They call their finishing group attack/move the 'fruit punch!'
April mistook Mikey and Donnie for 'exotic weird looking cats' when she first stumbled across them
She names Donnie Fluffy and the only reason she figures out theyre not actually weird cats but talking sentient DRAGONS... is because when she meets Donnie and names him, he gets so offended that he has to correct it
Whenever theyre arguing over who gets to carry Mikey, Donnie often says: "i will carry him because unlike yours, my wings wont tire out" (tech wings for the win)
Mikey and Leo keep Leos shed feathers, Mikey loves asking for them and keeping them for art projects
When Leo is asked why they shed he loves to say “i forgot to cherish them”
Mikey loves to paint/dye everyones scales and fur/feathers
Leo and Donnie have venomous spit. The family quickly built up immunity to it because the twins were massive biters when they were younger, and still are BUT- unlike Leo very weak venom, Donnies venomous spit is far more lethal
Everyone but Leo has great night vision
Mikey is the only one who doesnt like water
(Close to the time they meet April) Mikey, when their closer with April, gives her a little charm she puts on her jacket, and it's a fruit of course (a dragonfruit) Leo suggests the fruit name as a joke because he thinks its so funny that theyre dragons and that theres a fruit that exists named after them <- Leo says "a dragon fruit" and in his mind hes imagining a pear with wings, cue his shock when he sees an actual dragonfruit (he laughs at it for weeks)
