Hewoo Friendo's! Been a bit, but wanted to get in the writing mindset again and share some turtle thunks as I do.
Just some silly little HC's about fun domesticated things to do with your turtle once starting to officially share a space. Check it out:
Rating: Cookies and Cream Milk (16+ please!)
Leo: Meal Prep Planning
No ok listen. It's common knowledge across the fandom, in most iterations, Leo can't cook right? Practically banished from the kitchen with caution tape and daily threats + taunts from his oh so delightful brethren on the rEgUlAr. (He gets it ok? he's a hazard)
This is a VERY difficult piece of humble pie for our dear Fearless to swallow, as he is not perfect in every aspect (surprise surprise) even though he desperately tries to emulate nonetheless.
ESPECIALLY in the aspect of trying to seriously take care of you. How on earth is he supposed to properly provide, preside, and protect if he is not allowed within 5 ft of a toaster?!
Well, Leo would be the most determined partner to say the least. If he can't help provide your daily required intake of consumed nutrients, than he will just have to help you PREPARE them at the very least.
And prepare this turtle do. Man stays up LATE scouring over every single recipe website he can get his hands on. Mom Blogs, Pinterest Boards, Nana's Facebook Pages, University Databases, you name it, he's probably seen it.
Look, he just wants to make sure he can view all his options alright? He is the team strategist for a REASON, thank you very much.
Speaking of strategy, Mr. Helpful Himself will write for you (in his stinkingly perfect calligraphy) a detailed shopping list for each and every of the poor recipes that caught his eye for you this week. (They were screened to make sure you are getting your basic food groups because Leo is a "secret" health nerd. More like Disappointed Dad Biased, but that's besides the point)
This grocery list also includes where to find said item in the store (no he did NOT scout the perimeter beforehand to make sure you had the quickest and safest route what are you talking about?) Not to mention, he also peeked at your budget and highlighted which brands have the best price.
When it actually comes to cooking time, this turtle is your most dedicated sue chef. I'm talking perfectly sharpened knifes ("A dull knife is more dangerous you know"), preset little bowls with all ingredients diced, minced and measured, ready and waiting for you to kick him out, so you can do your thing.
His favorite thing about all of this (besides legit "cooking" up a kitchen battle strategy for you) is putting all the leftovers in little straight containers, for you to use for the rest of the week. I see this OCD turtle loving Snapware (In HIS designated blue of course) and little BentoBoxes. The little click click of the lid just does something for him.
Overall, Leo just likes to be included and knowing that something he did would be beneficial to you💙
Donnie: Painting Walls
Donnie for all of his brains and mastery with tech, I think would be the most darling little painter friend when wanting to help you with a color project.
Turtle wants to be helpful to you so bad, it legitimately causes his brain to crash if he lets him sit with his feels for too long. Which is...why he NEVER lets himself sit with the feels and rather just becomes ANXIOUSLY engaged in trying to help you with all of your projects.
And engaged he becomes! You want to repaint a wall in your living room? Maybe add some cute new decorations or shelving? This Turtle has got his two money making skills at YOUR service (AKA being observant and having a good steady hand)
That delightful attention to detail becomes your greatest boone and bore when Mr. Donatello puts his eye to do something. I'm talking about him pulling out nearly all of his tools to make sure that this project of yours is done most effectively. Measuring tape, painting tape, filling putty, painting mats, paint brushes of every shape and size, paint rollers, paint roller extenders, sanders, screws, bolts, levers, screwdrivers, hammers. Basically you blink, and your living room is suddenly a small Home Depot.
You blink again, and suddenly everything is already off the wall, or out of the box, placed with the utmost precision in perfectly little placed groups (for the moment, just wait for this turtle to get going and get in the zone. The Tinker Zone! OW!)
It might actually take bit to get to said project because Donnie is going to get lost in his head making sure he has everything, and is going about this in the best way. AKA spends a solid 15 minutes trying to figure out the best way to tape off the outlets. Whether or not he should use the filler putty to make the wall level or just sand off the original paint to make sure the new paint sticks well enough, etc etc
And he really is a good helper once both of y'all stop bickering like an old married couple about which of the 5 shades of the one color you requested is going to look best in this lighting.
He's got that steady hand which makes cutting around the edges a breeze (Mikey wishes he had that much control of a brush) and that delightful height which can reach all the high corners you can't get with a ladder.
Speaking of ladders, they are no longer allowed in your household anymore because Donnie once got so distracted looking up and seeing your bum in those tight paint smeared jeans that he accidentally flung paint into his open mouth.
Which resulted in this tree of a turtle startling himself that he all but felled himself backwards. And in doing so...accidentally painted the ceiling as well. It was...bad to say the least. How do you call poison control for a turtle AND tell his medic brother that he may or may not have a concussion due to perceiving thiccness firsthand?
Bottomline (heh pun intended) all that is done with love is done well. And Donnie loves you, and he puts that love into his hands. And puts those hands to work for you. So everything is done well. Even if there is a single infuriating corner on the ceiling that you didn't let him paint over, to stand as a witness of this most infamous painting day.💜
Raph: Bed Shenanigans
Don't look at me like that. It's not what you think or probably what you want I swear.
Listen. It's like this. Raph. Is big. A mountain of a man. A tank of a turtle. Large and in charge in almost every way. And if y'all are at the point of mutual domestication, all that Grande is gonna be coming your way.
And one of those ways is discovering that as delightful as your couch is for movie time cuddles and daily wrestling occurrences, it's not the best place to conk out for the night.
Let's be honest here too. Raph deals with...a LOT. Literal weight of the world on those shoulders. The brunt of it all. You of all people would know that this turtle deserves some softness after it all.
Hence the adventure of bed shopping and decorating begins!
Unfortunately because of the whole "turtle situation" you can't exactly bring Raph with you to the store (as mush as he would NEVER admit loving to do something just normal and mundane with you) but you CAN always bring your findings to Raph.
Cue long nights of you two huddled close while looking at the screen of your phone or computer as y'all playfully bicker about what kind of sheets and pillows and styles Raph would prefer, you excitedly pulling out your samples of the day and letting Raph test the textures of the plethora of fabrics to see if they feel comfy.
Raph has never felt more overwhelmed with all the options and in hopes of trying to appease you said he didn't really think much about that stuff and said whatever made you happy would work just fine. So as a joke for the first time, you brought back bright pink satin sheets with little embroidered flowers. It uno reversed on you because he ended up liking the sheets because they were soft against his scales and kept y'all both cool enough during....the other bedtime activities.
Unfortunately (fortunately?) those sheets didn't last through a single season which led to y'all doing some more intense research on things having durability and LONG lifetime use. Or at the very least. Multiple spares of the same brand.
Turns out y'all both can agree on soft green coloring, plaid if you can believe it (it strokes his man card and you like teasing him for being a lumberjack the way he cuts logs in his sleep) and y'all both enjoy the bamboo cooling sheets. Raph handles your decorative throw pillows as long as he gets to have his massive maroon Minky weighted blanket as the accent piece. It's heavy enough that he uses it as a cuddle net when he's in that mood to never let you go.
And Raph being Raph is almost ALWAYS in a mood. So another fun thing y'all get to "experiment" with is finding which laundry detergent/ fabric softener's work well enough with Raph's scales and shell while not simultaneously murdering his poor oversensitive turtle sznoze. (He'll never admit it, but he likes the simple floral scented soaps. Because it feels clean and fresh in a way that's not tainted by the city. Something still good and alive in this world. Kinda like how he sees you)❤️
Mikey: Dishes Collector
The funny thing about Mikey is that for as much as he eats, he actually doesn't ever really use a lot of dishes. Most of his food has been prepackaged and ready to go because everybody knows this turtle can't still still to save his life. He likes to put the T-O G-O in Hot To Go.
So when the time comes that he actually slows down to settle down enough that you introduce him to the joys of personalizing y'alls kitchen together, Turtle has a BLAST.
He had no idea that there were so many utensils or types of plates! All the brands for all the dishes! Oh and the cups? Mugs? Bottles? TANKARDS? Yeah, hon, might be best to keep him away from the thrift stores because you KNOW he's about to bring back the most horrendous looking thing that barely counts as a cup and fall absolutely in love with it. He uses it for everything and you even though you can't STAND it, it makes him happy so you guess it stays.
Also be warned that because Mikey is not used to having all these cool new dishes, the curious ADHD orange cat in him will want to use all the cool new toys - er- utensils right away to try and figure them out. Even if it means doing so in a rather...unorthodox kind of way.
So don't be TOO alarmed when you catch Mikey trying to sneak away with your new flour pin because he thinks it would make a sick new kind of heavy weight nunchucks if he attached a strong enough chain to it. Or enthusiastically putting in WAY too much flower into your breadmaker because watching it all swirl together is just too fascinating of a siren call to resist.
You probably have a slightly bit more tamed taste, and introduce Mikey into the joys of having matching sets with cute little patterns or designs and learning how to use new dishes CORRECTLY. The artist in him appreciates how it all comes together when you show him how to properly set up a dinner place set and he really gets into setting the table because of it I could see him really getting into duck/chicken themed things or brightly fiesta colored vibes for whatever reason.
Be warned though, once man has picked a theme with you, he is DEDICATED. It literally becomes a game for him to try and find something, ANYTHING that matches your theme in the weirdest and most wholesome of ways.
You end up having to ask Donnie to help install more shelves, to show off you and Mikey's growing assortment of strange kitchen collectables. By the end of the year, it looks more like a strange museum than a kitchen(Don't ask Mikey where he found them. Trust me. You don't wanna know. Just make you you wash it clearly beforehand)
Mikey loves this about you. And despite all of his totally turtley tubular finds, his favorite pride and joy are the two poorly hand-shaped ceramic mugs that y'all made and fired together as a couples date night one time.
Because Mikey has discovered that the best dishes, both literal and the ones you eat, are always then one that you create and share together. 🧡
Tag List (lemme know if I got you all or you'd like to be included) @thelaundrybitch @the-cauldron-witch @raphsmuneca @avery73 @anobodyinabog @definitely-canon @milykins
Look how animated and excited he is to see how the kids (his) projects did with his supervision!😭🙌🏼❤️🔥❤️🩹🩺📈
Like this is a full bodied half curved CrOuCh! Full blown optics, hands gestulicating in full swing, leaving his core WIDE open, with a (gasp) A FULL SMILE?!! Ratchet’s THAT excited.
Somebody get this medic some students pronto! He needs to be let loose to do drugs enrichment (if you know you know. We don’t talk about it🙈)
And by that he needs to teach to be happy!
Also had this revelation with my friend @deathdove the other day about Ratchet’s personality:
call out to @imagine-darksiders if you ever needed any further evidence that you nailed his character in your last story with him 🫡😆🧡
Did you know that I’m still listening to that Rottmnt playlist you sent me a long time ago? Yeah… I’m still not over it. I never know what I’m gonna get if I shuffle it, and it’s made me laugh more times than I can count. Just wanted to let you know how much I appreciate you sending it to me!😂❤️
OMIGOSH! Hello my friend!
What a joy to see you here in my inbox! And such a compliment as well! I’m beyond honored that not only you downloaded my playlist, but that it made you laugh as well!
Any songs in particular that struck your funny bone? Or emotional impact? I’m curious if you’re up for sharing 👀🙏🏼🧡
Also also if you’re interested, completely different vibe but same universe, here’s a playlist dedicated to Future Leo if you need something more angsty.
Again, such a delight to chat with you and see your wonderful comments in the passing through! I hope you have a wonderful evening and please know how absolutely loved you are! 🙌🏼🧡🫂
