#rottmnt headcanons

[escalaro]

Raph would clench his jaw and fists as he sleeps and Mikey would be the one to notice it first.

[dysfunctional-doodle]

Physically a Leo, spiritually a Mikey.

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I want to reiterate the fact I think that Rise Leo and 2003 Mikey are eerily similar in a lot of ways. To those who write Leo as all silent and a shell of himself after krang- I respect you but here me out: he still is a flamboyant king with Issues ™️ and very much in denial/uses humor as a coping mechanism…kind of like 2003 Mikey, right?

(Sorry for the sketch lines and untidiness overall! I don’t have much time rn to do proper art 😓)

[microsofttothemax]

my hcs on the boys and their sleep schedules

[turtleblogatlast]

Little Leo watching telenovelas with his dad

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[swampedyeva]

Happy Pride Folks!!

No matter what shape and size and color you come in you are all beautiful<3

Here is some of my (updated) headcanons on the cast's queerness uvu

+ a little bit of Neurodivergent hcs too

A bit of elaboration (I had a post about them earlier, but I changed some opinions):

First of all, I don't see any gender variations in them because I don't think turtles perceive gender the same way as we do. (Not because they're turtles but because they grew up in isolation most of their lives). So none of them ever felt the need to question their gender much. Same with April, while Casey never had the time to question that.

So, yeah, stone me, but they're all cis in my head.

Leo displays a lot of aversion to romance in the show, and although I still think it's mostly because he's a teenager, I admit he will probably need a strong bond with a person before he starts feeling anything romantic for them, so Demi it is. He's VERY in denial about it, though. Also, he can fall for a person any gender.

Donnie is the only one who canonically displays attraction to others, and I don't think he cares about gender much so bi/pan it is (theyre interchangeable for me).

For Raph, it would be more accurate to say that he is attracted to fem-presenting people, but there is no flag for that, so I gave him a straight ally one. I can't really envision him dating a guy, unfortunately (maybe because I'm so deep in Ramona trenches).

I may be babying Mikey a bit, but I don't see him dating anyone at all. He seems like the type to have his mind think about other things like family or art or mastering his mystic powers. That said, I think he would be open for options, just not actively looking.

April's the same way as Donnie. She loves people and not genders, so I don't think she would care about who a person identifies as long as she enjoys being with them.

Casey's flag is undecided one (theres several different ones, but I liked this one the most) because I think he's only discovering the world of dating being raised in the eternal war zone. I don't know who he would prefer and he doesn't know either.

Friendly reminder that those r just my headcanons, and if u think otherwise, it's totally your right uvu

[teasriel]

some headcanons that were spoken ages ago and i didnt forget to post them (cuz i never polished them,, ever)

raph one (second one) was by @lepepeetesechh

and the mikey one was inspired by @mooncasper

i was gonna add the messages but i ran out of image place welp

[aliaspseudo]

I find Big Mama fascinating. And part of that is because I see her as a character who tries to give people what they want. Now, 'want' is a very important word here. She doesn't make people better, provide things that they need, she is deeply an enabler. A monkey's paws. Her design is based on a jorōgumo from Japanese folklore. A spider woman, who takes the guise of a beautiful woman to fool men, mostly to their doom. She ensnares or presents something and lets her prey walk into the web of their own volition. In the show, she is a crime boss that makes her money on gambling, auctions, and generally through the indulgence of the vices of others.

And I think this holds true in the dynamics of the show. Her romance with Lou Jitsu is classic bait and switch, but taking him to the Battle Nexus, making him her Champion? Despite the fact that we know he resented it, considered it kidnapping, that it was not good for him, we still see in flashbacks how much he loved the glory and attention of it. How much he still craves it. The siren song of 'glory' is tied to the Nexus, not to his film career. Actually fighting for his life, with real stakes and real applause is what he romanticizes.

Likewise with the Boys when they meet her. They are clearly young, alone, and in over their heads. So, Big Mama comes in soft, matronly, and with honest answers. Overloading them with information and praise, being 'vulnerable' by showing them her true form, and offering them help. An act that all, but the little manipulator himself Leo, fall for. But they still get the oozesquitoes. Because she's offering them what they want - guidance. No one had explained a single thing to them before Bug Busters. They didn't know the term Yokai, their solo plans to catch the oozesquitoes failed, their contact with yokai culture had been largely hostile and unwelcoming. Big Mama was the first Yokai to be nice and helpful. And even when she turned on them, as is her nature, she wasn't going to hurt them, just put them to work. (I have thoughts about why, but that's more fanfic territory)

And this is this mechanism which Leo uses to out play her in Many Unhappy Returns. She is so accustomed to dealing with overconfident men, to trapping them with their own hubris by simply saying 'yes' and indulging their desires that she doesn't see the trap being built around her. She doesn't see how petty this teenager is, how focused he is on need over want. His siblings are fighting for their lives, after all. And suddenly, Big Mama is in the position of wanting something. She is saying 'yes' not just to their wants, but to her own and it's just enough room for Leo to get what he needs. A way to stop the Dark Armor. But of course, Big Mama wouldn't be Big Mama if she didn't offer them an irresistable want she could then twist to her advantage, disposing of it.

Battle Nexus New York is purely a spiteful cartering to the worst kind of personal desires. I am sad this episode felt so rushed, but what we got is still telling. Raph and Mikey paired with their villain foils/personal idols. Customized challenges to play into each character's vanity. A chance for them to prove they are the funny/smart/strong/creative one. A chance at Glory, like their father, and heroism in saving New York. I tend to think Raph's clever move with The Hibernator changed her plans, whatever they may have been, forcing an escalation that was likely inevitable. At this point in the series, our dear boys are pretty aware of her tricks and that there is always a web waiting to ensnare when Big Mama is involved. Better to play your own game than hers. And it all comes unraveled.

I find Big Mama so interesting because she is alone among the Big Villains - Draxum, Shredder, and the Krang. (Sure, Sister Krang(or Krang 2) exists, but Krang is Krang.) Despite her truncated storyline. I could assume there was some tragedy planned for her story, based on the other villains we were given, but that was not really in the text. Unless you read her affection/obession with Lou Jitsu as genuine. But she is a powerhouse of a woman. A manipulator. A schemer in a way the other Rise Villains really could never or would never pull off. In a show full of city destroying monsters, she is terrifyingly civilized. And I realize that is a space normally reserved for Shredder in other iterations - the schemer and shadowy cabal leader - but I think there is something particularly great about Big Mama. She gets to live in this grey space, not quite on anyone's side, but her own. She can have fun, throw parties, go about her business, be confident, loud, and weird. Rarely, if ever raise her voice. Have loyal people that she clearly treats well, because all their wants are freely fulfilled. And still be scary.

Because a monkey's paw is always scary. The temptation to use it will always be there. You will always WANT something. And she will always be happy to provide.

[mapleleavesart]

I need to yap about my dyslexic Leo headcanon because I FINALLY REMEMBERED IT WHEN I WASN'T ABOUT TO FALL ASLEEP

Bc literally. Two days ago I was falling asleep and it came to me like an angel descending and I was like "I'll remember in the morning" and then I did it. And then the same thing happened last night. And then I was just taking a shower and remembered it again so now I CAN YAP

Okay so it's not like super bad dyslexia, and Leo doesn't actually know he has it, but reading has always been a little harder for him than his brothers (well... Maybe except for Raph —) so he just avoids reading anything longer than text messages. Which is why he likes comics so much.

It's the only story type thing he can read without fighting for his life, the fonts tend to be more dyslexia friendly, and all the text is in small bubbles that separate sentences/paragraphs/etc from each other.

It's why he's so good at strategy and chess and things too, because he physically thinks differently than everyone else, he thinks more in 3D and probably learned to read people better than text because he spent less time reading type and more time looking at people to figure out what they wanted

Also it's really funny to imagine him describing reading as "the words are wiggling" lmao