YES YES YES HE ZHEZ YE S ANON YOU ARE DEF HEARD WITH THIS ONG I LOVE YOU SM FOR THIS SUGGESTION!! AND THE SONG IS ALSO ABOUT PERFECTIONISM SO IT SO REFLECTS GINA BEING A MODEL STUDENT
"I know exactly what I want and who I want to be."
This literally shows how Gina is devoted to what her goal is for the present (being top student) and the future (whatever she wants to be idk).
"One track mind, one track heart / If I fail, I’ll fall apart"
These two quotes vro....Gina would definitely think that if she passes and gets high in life, she'll live, but one slip-up or failure, then she'll die (which is NOT TRUE GINA you deserve a break too sweetie ❤️🩹)
LITERALLY I LOVE THIS sONG SM AND JT DEF FITS HER!! THX FOR YHE SUGGESTION
If you have a nonhuman f/o of any type who is unfamiliar with Earth, imagine telling them all the cool little facts about bugs and fish and plants and the weather and whatever other topics you were fascinated by as a child and were excited to learn about from books and educational tv programmes. Imagine their eyes lighting up with the same excitement you remember feeling when you were young (yes, even if they’re usually the more stoic, serious type!) and finding yourself grinning as well as you realize the world you’ve known all your life is new, beautiful and fascinating to them, as you both gain a new type of appreciation of the world around you through your differences…
(This also works in reverse if your s/i is unfamiliar with your f/o’s world!)
"Of course," Donatello doesn't even look up from his tablet, ", this time we got it."
This time. Leo feels like he has heard that an hundred times already. Mournfully, he doesn't have the energy to point that out. They have been in this Hunt for hours now, without any trace of their price. They should have stayed in the Hidden City and Hunt Down the real thing: pizza. Leo almost had it in his hands: warm, cheese pouring at the edges, the smell. Looking like pure sin and smelling like the sweetest of blessings, Leo could almost taste it... And then Don's alarm went off.
Not like any other that Leo had hear before, but even with all their questions his twin refused to say what the alarm was even for, he just dragged them out of Hidden City into a chase for a ghost.
And truly, they have been at this for hours without sight or sound of the thing that has Donald on edge.
And Donald is... being very intense, even for them.
Full of maniatic energy and looking from his tablet to his surroundings, a glint in his eyes that means he will not let this down and is actually enjoying this challenge. Challenge against what? Leo has no idea.
A ghost? A leaked gas? An invisible threat? WHAT? Some yokai? A mystic unknown force? Some type of genious vs genious contest?
"Dee," Mikey whines from his place in Raph's back, "We've run all of New York by now."
"No, we didn't."
"But we will?" Raph asks cautiously, and the silence of their bother is enough answer. "Don!"
"I'm hungry!" Leo shouts, raising his arms and trying to make his twin look at him. "And we promised Casey we would bring him pizza!"
He has no victory, even with bringing Casey into the mix. Shame.
Don keeps walking, eyes going from his tablet to the sides, searching for something Leo is sure is not there.
"D, maybe we need to start considering that your thingy is..." Don's eyes pierce trought his own so fast and hard that Leo's words die in his tongue.
"What? My 'thingy' is what , dear brother of mine?"
Leo stops, sparing a glance to his other two brothers. Mikey, bless his soul, gives him thumbs up, but Raph grimaces, clearly not wanting to go that route. Leo inhales, irritation in his nerves when a drop of water lands on his head. Great. Rain.
"We're hungry, hermano mío, hungry and cold and bored." Leo doesn't whines, he a grown turtle and a bad ass warrior and none of those things whines but he is close. "And it's starting to Rain!"
Don doesn't seem impressed, raising one of his fake ass eyebrows and Leo feels attacked.
"It's not raining. You done?" He asks, and Leo is so offended. Le gasp.
Raph choses that moment to talk, taking a few steps closer and raises his hands in a pacific gesture. Another drop.
"Now, now, what if Don tells us what we are looking for? Uh?" He asks, "And if we know, we can help better. If we can help, we can go home faster."
Leo watches the brows in D's forehead furrow in doubt, looking from to the screen and back.
"A person. I think. Let's call it a living being."
Drop.
"Okey..."
"And why are we looking for them?" Mikey asks, resting his chin in the top of Raph's head.
Don looks back at his tablet, doing a grimace, and puts it down. Thanks pizza supreme.
Drop.
"It's a tear in quantum space," he begins, ", something similar happened a couple of months ago, big one, but i couldn't find a trace." His frown deepens, looking at the ground for a second, "Now it happened again, but much smaller. It leaves a trace, something not from this... dimension."
Drop.
"Dimension? Dimension?" Leo repeats, his eyes big, "You telling me we could be chasing a giant monster with eight eyes and twelve tentacles? Or something like—"
"Not like them." Don shakes his head, and something in Leo's chest lightens with that.
Good. Good, good, good.
"And it's not a giant," Don mockes, deciding to ignore that, and crossing his arms, ",we would have already seen it if it were."
"Can we go back to the fact that it happened before and you didn't told us?" Raph says, imitating Don's posture. Leo does the same. "And that first time whatever came from the tear was bigger than whatever we are chasing now?"
Drop.
"Maybe we are chasing a baby monster and it is looking for it's giant momma!" Mikey exclaims, a big smile plastered in his face at the mere idea.
And that would be amazing. A little baby monster! Leo would be a great surrogate mother until they found it's mamma. Maybe it even has laser vision!
Another drop of water lands on his head, but he pays it no mind this time, there is a baby monster on the run and Leo will be the one to catch it!
"What are we waiting for then?" He asks, jumping up and down, "Where is it now?"
"Thought you were scared of the non-existent rain."
"Who cares?" Leo whines, throwing his arms around.
"Where is it now?" Raph asks curiously, more soft now, worry clear in his eyes.
Don comes closer where Leo is standing, and Raph does so too, until they are all in a close circle, and Don raises his tablet so they all can see.
Drop.
There is a map of the area where they are, and Leo can see colorful spots all close together. That must be the dark and dirty alley they are now.
"Where is it?" Mikey asks cheerfully, hanging from Raph's shoulders to see better.
Don doesn't talk, very, very still, just looking at the spots.
"Donald?" Leo asks, frowning.
He looks back at the screen, at the spots: purple, blue, Orange and Red— and pink.
"It is here." He whispers, realization hitting him like a train.
Suddenly, the idea of encountering a baby monster lost and probably afraid looking for it's mother is not so great.
It is with them.
"It brought us here." Don whispers, and Leo feels his heart pound hard on his chest.
"What?" His voice comes cracked and sharp, his hand flying to one of his swords.
"We've been chasing it around all New York," Don mutters, eyes piercing the screen. ", a game of cat and mouse."
"Yes..." Raph says, cautiously, and Leo can feel him moving on his feet, nervous.
"But we didn't chased it." Don looks up at them, frowning, ", it lead us there, an abandoned, dark, empty place."
"Alone." Leo breathes.
Oh God, oh god, oh god, oh god–
"WE ARE IT'S DINNER!" Mikey screeches, horrified.
"MIKEY!"
Leo's heart is pounding in his chest, something like fear crawling his spine, and he looks around.
The alley is empty and dark, long and disgusting, the type of alley that show up in horror movies or police dramas.
Where people end up dead!
He can see nothing. Just like all night long, he can't see or hear absolutely nothing, like there is nothing other than them in the alley. But Don's toys rarely are wrong.
"Hey, hermano mío," he starts, drawing his swords, ", do you think baby monster can be invisible?"
"It's not out of the realm of possibilities." His twin says, wich is not what Leo wanted to hear.
He can hear his brothers drawing their weapons as well, alert and at the ready.
Drop.
"It's okay baby," he calls out, smiling sightly, trying very hard to not look as nervous as he feels. He thinks he nails it down. "We are the good guys here, we can help you to find your momma!"
"Yes," Raph gets in, far more calm and soothing than Leo, ", sure you do miss her, uh? We can find her and take you two back home, that would be very nice, yes?"
Leo nods hard and serious.
"No need to be scared, Don may look ugly but I'm charming enough for the two of us. He won't do nothing to you." He promises solemnly.
"Doubtful, it is a great opportunity to test..."
"DON!"
"Right..."
A giggle.
He almost doesn't hear it, it's silent and childish and muffled, but there.
Leo looks around, far less fearful and very encouraged. He smiles while looking around, sharing a quick and victorious look with his brothers.
Got it.
"You won't eat us, right baby?" He calls out, "I'm far too handsome for the world to lose me and Don's far too ugly. Bet he tastes bad."
Another giggle.
Drop.
Leo frowns, lowering his swords.
It's not raining.
Just one drop after another. In the same place in his head.
He looks up.
At first he doesn't see nothing, just darkness and the forms of the buildings, he can't see and his heart is doing bumb bumb bumb far too hard and...
Drop.
This time in his forehead.
He puts one of his swords down, and touches his forehead very slowly.
It's not water.
He puts his hand away, right in his line of visión, and a tiny yelp comes out of his throat wen he sees his finger tinted with red.
Blood.
Oh shit is blood oh shi–
Mikey's scream cuts his line of messy and frankly terrified thoughts and makes him look up again.
A pair of white eyes are looking down at them, shinning in the dark, and Leo feels suddenly and very much like prey.
They have been the prey all night and they didn't even knew.
He moves closer to his siblings, picking his sword again and raising it towards the pair of eyes, a scream trapped in his throat.
"Leo!" Raph sounds scandalized, trying to put Leo's sword down. "It's probably a baby!"
"And it has lead us there to be it's dinner!" Don points out, his hand falling in Leo's shoulder.
Leo nods vigorously.
"We were the mouse all along!" He exclaims.
"Well, probably not in the beginning..."
"And it's been dropping blood over me all this time!" Leo adds, raising his voice to be heard over Mikey's.
"It probably eated someone." Donald mutters darkly and somewhat interested and Leo won't look into that.
"Or is hurt." Mikey says vehemently, wich could be true, but Leo's senses are screaming danger and he won't risk it.
"Maybe we should calm down." Raph says camly, and Leo is about to look at him until he sees the pair of eyes move. "Little buddy, maybe you could come out of the shadows for us?" He calls out.
Moving like... like it is tilding it's head.
"Oh Pizza suprime it's looking for our throats!" He shouts, his heart going fast and loud.
"LEO!" Both Mikey and Raph scream, not happy with him.
And what. They have experience with multidimensional monsters, don't they? Don't they? Who says this thing is any different to...?
The thing falls.
It almost doesn't make any sound, and Leo probably just imagined what he heard, but he knows it is now in the ground, far too close to them, to him, to his brothers—
When the two eyes open again, white and dangerous and close to the ground, He draws his sword right to were the Thing is.
His blade is meet with another, the sound piercing his ears, his breath catching in his chest.
The two white eyes look up at him, unblinking.
His arms tremble, and he can feel D's hand retreat from his shoulder and can hear him draw his own weapon.
Leo looks at the other blade.
It's old, scratched and obviously has meet many battles.
Well cared for, too.
A katana's blade.
Slowly, the eyes and the blade rise, slow and careful until they are eye to eye.
Leo's breath rises.
"Ca-careful now." He says, and the thing tilds his head again.
When he notices it moving, Leo does too, his mind screaming so loud he can't hear anything else. He moves, and so does the thing.
It's fast, too fast, and Leo's mind is twirling as well as his body, and in a swift movement both his swords are out of his grasp and he is far from his brothers and—
And he isn't in the ground.
He isn't in the ground, nothing hurts at all, and instead two big and warm hands are on his shoulders, keeping him up in his shaky legs and Leo is looking up not to white dangerous eyes but to warm and amused baby blue ones.
"Sup, little dude," they say, sounding young and carefree and nothing dangerous at all, ", you good there?"
Leo's jaw hangs wide open, looking up and down to the 'baby monster'.
