This week's theme in @weeklymagmas’s magma jam was Fanworks Fanart.
I did some drawings of Life Mission: Save My Brothers AU by @daedelweiss. First up is the wholesome Disaster Twins stuff. I really love how it turned out in the end.
Next is Mikey as Dr. Feelings giving his three older brothers from three different AUs a mandatory therapy session to deal with their mommy issues with Big Mama (all three of them have the exact same mom).
Big Mama's Child!Leo belongs to @hitokshellart (or Hitok_Art on Twitter where I mostly read the comic), The Little Prince!Donnie belongs to @beannary, and of course Life Mission!Raph belongs to @daedelweiss
One of the three Life Mission drawings was actually a part of a mini collab hosted by @calebscornerofart starring Kaiju Donnie from the Kaiju Turtles AU by @voidwitchboots where I drew Life Mission Mikey... and I broke a rule and added Donapatra into the mix because I didn't follow the assignment properly. Sorry about that.
Next is a silly little comic dedicated to the TMNT 2012 fanfic "Hey Sunshine" by @leadenn on Ao3 based on an image I found somewhere on the Internet before involving BtAS incarnation. You can REALLY tell this is my first time drawing 2012 Shredder. Let's just say I didn't do him justice in the end, but I still like how this silly little comic turned out.
A small drawing of Green from "Like Father, Like Son" by @eternalglitch on Ao3. I had to make at least ONE fanart of LFLS for this specific jam somehow.
A drawing dedicated to the fanfic "Science Vs Magic" by Themasterofvideos on Ao3. I probably went a little crazy with the rendering here, and I can't believe this is like the third time I've drawn Hypno. I like how it turned out in the end.
And by pure luck while trying to look for some more AUs or fanfics to draw, I stumbled upon @west-brooke's Cipher AU on Tumblr.
Overall, this week was really fun and can't wait for next week's magma jam. ^^
chat can you tell i kinda locked in (can i even call these doodles anymore with the more comic-y nature of them?? only time will tell.)
also drawing angst is so weird like. you’re telling me I’M causing all the pain and chaos? so much power, but boy do i feel bad for putting leo through all of this. 🥲
more plot stuff down below! ⬇️ 👇
but i like to think for this story, despite needing to wait out the effects of the truth serum (draxum’s orders), leo’s still trying to act like everything’s normal and okay. and his “normal and okay” is throwing himself into missions with his brothers despite their worries and protests (he honestly hasn’t been normal and okay for a while, but that’s not something he’s ready to confront quite yet).
hypno makes a return after a long hiatus away from villainy (maybe to finally go from roommates to husbands with warren? idk, mikey probably knows, he keeps up to date with them even if they’re enemies), and it’s accidentally revealed in the middle of battle that leo currently has the inability to tell lies (aside from leo accidentally screwing it up in the beginning, it’s hard to pinpoint which brother brought it to hypno’s attention— mikey made some sort of exclamation about it somewhere down the line, but raph also kept mothering leo in the middle of the fight about it… and donnie… well, he was piggybacking and parroting off one of the brothers). this, unfortunately, hand delivers the perfect advantage wrapped in a nice bow right on hypo’s lap.
it’s kinda hard to keep things “normal and okay” when your enemy is purposefully rapid firing questions at you, questions about awful, stupid things like the krang and poorly thought-out self sacrifices in the prison dimension. leo has to bite the inside of his cheek — hard — to not let anything slip, though it doesn’t help much with the cold sweat and nausea that keeps washing over him every time he fights against telling the truth.
post-fight, raph expresses his concerns about leo coming along on missions in his condition, coming from a place of “i can’t stand to see my brother go through more pain than he’s actually going through” rather than “man, this is such a hindrance”. leo, absolutely terrified of the idea of being kept inside against his will (home is a place of comfort, but him, alone, with his thoughts? with his memories? no thank you), musters up enough face-man confidence to sell the lie to raph that everything’s going to be okay (and everything will be okay if they just keep letting him go on missions, keep him distracted—)
besides, late in the night, when everyone’s asleep, he’s able to get all those truths out to prepare for the next day. even if he can only whisper those truths brokenly and uncontrollably. even if speaking those truths hurt. even if he gets little to no sleep in fear that he’ll end up spouting something he’s not ready for others to know about.
he hates to admit it, but the dog toy does help; at least his teeth won’t suffer much damage at the end of this.
but what about him at the end of this? what about him, who already bears enough trauma and suffering to make the strongest of men shiver in horror? what’s to be of him at the end of this whole truth serum nonsense?
it’s a question leo is grateful he’s not asked — he’s sure not even the truth serum can produce an honest answer for that.
As you may or may not have heard, I’m working on a rise project that I’d consider a sort of hybrid of an animated show and a visual novel called: When Worlds Collide. A continuation of rise on what we could have had. Made by fans, for fans!
These next designs that I will be posting (and my oc Apollo) will be featured in the novel will also be available in the WWC server, where anyone is welcome to join to either cheer the project on or volunteer to bring us one step closer to making this a reality by working with us as a: Music composer, Developer, Artist (marketing, character design, etc), Writer and VA!
Thank you for reading and I hope to see you there!
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