#splinter tmnt

[redkehlchen]

Rewatched The Big Brawl with a friend and did some doodles! :)

[ruija]

Fur inspectors <3

[jinx295]

New rottmnt comic update among many other iterations for the 40th anniversary comic coming out next week!

It’s been trending pretty recently…

[chronically-obsessed-w-turtles]

Crochet Master Splinter

Mostly based on tmnt 2003, but he kinda has the pink paws (hands?) and ears of rottmnt splinter too?

Crochet pattern I used for regular rat can be found here:

[atalante241]

Imagine 2003 Splinter in 2012. I don’t mean replace Yoshi but have both him and Splinter present.

Like Splinter is Yoshi’s (and Tang Shen’s) pet rat that somehow survived the house fire, and then made his way to Yoshi. Yoshi takes him to America with him and when he goes to adopt the turtles. Everything happens the same except the alley is now filled with 4 baby mutant turtles, 1 human turned rat mutant & 1 mutant rat.

(Or maybe Splinter is the pet of some random that’s killed by the Kraang. Maybe he as a rat gouged Kraang SubPrime’s eye out like he scratched Hun’s cheek in 2k3, and was then thrown out of a window and eventually ended up in the same alley as Yoshi.)

Either way they’re now a family unit of six. But here comes the fun part. Splinter canonically in 2k3 views Yoshi as his father, and so would this one. But the thing about Splinter is that he’s old. He looks old and sounds old and moves old. What I’m trying to say is that Yoshi has to now navigate being a father of 5 while his oldest is older than he himself is.

Imagine having to worry about your son dying of old age while also teaching him about the world.

This also opens up the possibilities of added angst to the Rat King episodes. And I don’t just mean 2 mind controlled people, I mean the differences the two have and how they affect how the control works on them. Because like. Splinter was not a normal rat. The guy was somehow able to learn ninjutsu WHILE a rat, and later with a completely new mutant body was able to teach it to others. Mind you, well enough that they’re able to go against professionally trained people like Shredder and Karai. So like. How would he fare against the Rat King’s control? Because despite all that he still was an actual rat before mutating, unlike Yoshi.

Also the image of the Hamato’s having to explain that Splinter is their brother and Yoshi’s son to every new person they meet is hysterical to me. Poor Karai learns that she has brothers AND that Yoshi’s her real father AND also that she’s apparently not the oldest AND her older brother is an elderly rat older than their father, all in the same night.

[imagionationstation]

I think something that should be noted in The Mutation Situation because it never made much sense to me is Splinter looking at all of his sons and going, “You four have become lazy and overconfident” because Donnie has not exhibited one sign of either thing.

In the opening scene, he’s 1) celebrating a difficult task that he did accomplish and therefore should be celebrated 2) suggesting to see April whom Leo suggests they have hardly seen since he lightly accuses her of “avoiding them”.

In April’s scene, he has a goofy introduction and then that’s it. There’s no bragging or false claims or any similar energy.

In the next scene, he’s 1) actively doing tests on Timothy to find a cure 2) putting a stop to his brothers who are playing dodgeball with rare alien tech and 3) spending the entire scene where his brothers are arguing that the threat is gone looking disgruntled.

The only thing that he did that might be viewed as ‘in compliance or agreement’ is the fact that he walked away with them but ??? At worst he’s just letting his brothers believe what they believe. In no way has he condoned anything that they’ve said.

Do not ‘you four’ me narrative. You have given me no proof of your claims. In fact, directly after this, you reveal that Donnie has created inventions that are just in time to assist his brothers. This child has been preparing (not overconfident) and working diligently (not lazy) so this episode can happen despite his other brothers chilling.

If you wanna ‘you four me’ then you gotta bring more to the table, narrative, ‘cause I ain’t buying it.

[hyynn]

Dad duties right there...

[sequestered-jester]

It’s baffling to me that there’s like… not ONE piece of splinter x reader fanfic out there— you’re telling me NOBODY is writing it?? C’mon, think of the potential. ENDLESS POTENTIAL.