#tmnt headcanons

[tmntverse]

Headcanon for an au idea. You know how like Lita has like a clan or something? And a popular character (not sure if she is real or not) Artemisia, is in it? What if we make a lot of the characters named the real artemisia’s paintings?

Anyway yea 👍

[the-fierce-one]

Headcanon:

Shinigami is straight outta Japan. Born into a family of hermit sorceresses from Kyoto. Her mom taught her to read fortunes in water flows but also to read the soul of the world through cracks in stones and ripples on the surface. Plus she could weave illusions that could fool even demons. That’s how their family style got its name — “Moon Shadow Magic” (Geika-jutsu). At 11 her mom sent her off to a ninjutsu master living in a temple on a cliff. Dude was deaf and strict as hell but she learned to turn her magical flexibility into deadly skill with a kusarigama.

At 17 she’s coming back from a mission when she runs into some cocky dark-haired chick with a sword — Karai. One thing leads to another: Shinigami calls Karai’s fighting style “clumsy hacking” and Karai fires back that Shinigami’s magic is “cheap carnival tricks”. So they throw down a little. But their scuffle gets spotted by Foot Clan trackers who are loyal to Shredder — the ones who’ve been hunting Karai for a while. The girls get ambushed and have to call off their fight. Right then they gotta team up to survive and break through the Foot goons. They manage to take down the ninjas and get out.

In that moment they both realize their little beef was pointless. Karai admits that Shinigami’s magic and fighting style are actually intriguing as hell. So they start vibing and get closer. For weeks they roam around Japan together looking for allies to take down Shredder.

[missingaflower]

Love a headcanon of one of the turtles having a redhead partner (not specifically April 2012) and always joking they're a little bit a mutant too

I really think it would be super sweet and kinda helping them fit in (⁠｡⁠・⁠/⁠/⁠ε⁠/⁠/⁠・⁠｡⁠)

[bards-tale]

So been thinking of TMNT and how they work through daily survival.

I live in the western part of the US so I was digging through New York culture

This is a bit of hear me out from my research for this head canon

We know they do supply runs, whether they just steal food or leave money behind. They live in Manhattan so very urban resources. However, they go all over New York City which would include things like Long Island, Queens, Staten Island, Jamaica Bay, and coastal Brooklyn. They are reptiles whether red earred sliders, generic turtles, or different species.

I think all four of them would 100% know how to get clams, blue crabs, and mussels. Heck even just basic fishing.

Then you can dig deeper into it where they could forage wild mushrooms, edible greens, berries, cat tails, wild onions, etc all while still in New York City.

I don’t think they do it a lot because it takes time and they still have to be careful to not get caught. But honestly it feels like something that would fit in.

Then you could add ideas of Leonardo having knowledge of New York medicinal plants, and taking forging days.

It is very common where I live that lower income and homeless fish out of our canals and then people of all economic backgrounds fish out of stocked city ponds, so I feel like these kind of aspects weave in well with their life style and needs.

It couldn’t be year round because some times of the year are too cold, but during warmer months supplementing their supplies this way works for me.

I would love to hear your thoughts and feed back on these thoughts!

[darkcrowprincess]

controversial opinion:

@christmasturtles @slady-ao3 @brightlotusmoon @mikubobba

Dont know where the headcanon of where Leo can't cook comes from. At least what I remember from watching tmnt and I'm still doing my rewatches. For me if anyone was bad at cooking it be Raph and Donnie, with Donnie being the worst at it because he gets easily distracted by tech and his experiments, and Raph because he is impatient. Mikey obviously being the best at it. Leo being ok, but he's more good at doing simple cooking. And plus ninja and survival training he'd need to know how to hunt and fish and start a fire. So yeah it would be in character for Leo to know the basics of cooking for basic survival. Because he's ahead of his brothers in ninja training. Just one scene where a toaster messed up does not scream he's bad at cooking too. Seems like they where all chaotic in that scene. So for me the order of being good at cooking in the turtles 🐢 family for me with Mikey being the best, Leo being ok and better when its in the wild, Raph constantly burning shit but it's at least edible and Donnie being the worst because he gets distracted and is more of a tech person.

[sw33tlemon-poists]

OH @misslunarblue

I JUST REMEMBERED SOMETHING

this isn't necessarily a f/o hc or anything BUT it is related to all the turtles

I've always wanted to know exactly how old they could live up to be, so I did some maths. and by maths I mean to get how old the turtles would be before they died (naturally), you take the max turtle species age of death and the max human age of death and you subtract them. and then you have the age they would die :3

[eolhclikescaseyjones]

there’s got to be at least a few episodes where casey is absent from a mission because he was at a party and was too drunk when they called to even consider asking him to come.

[eolhclikescaseyjones]

april going to ask casey something at school and finding him just in the biggest swarm of boys she’s ever seen. immediately backs away because no, no thanks. casey’s friendgroup is an absolute mob of boys, mostly from the hockey team, some from the football team, who’s idea of fun is slamming each other into walls and making teachers want to end their careers.

casey asks her in the lair why she didn’t come find him at school like she said she would, and she admits it’s because his friends are scary.

“what?! they’re fine, i swear!”

“one of them in your group, i don’t know who, knocked sean p into my classroom and he fell through the entire front row of desks and broke them all!”

“oh yeah, that was me, i pushed him in there. apologies!”

april will sometimes get notified that a boy who’s name she doesn’t know (always different) tagged casey in a story, and when she looks, he’s genuinely on some bullshit like forcefeeding his friend a shoe or three of them hiding in the toilet stalls from a teacher that’s searching for them. even better, casey’s story is always some bullshit, everytime he goes to school, so maybe two or three times a week.

there’s an explosive incident that closed off a hallway? it’s on casey’s story, his friend did it. the turtles get told DO NOT come on casey’s fire escape that night?it’s on his friends story, they’ll all in his room making a mess. they even learn what nick looks like because casey’s friends film a video of them dropping yogurt on his head from the third story then running.

i don’t know, i guess i disagreed with the seemingly agreed-upon verdict in the fandom that casey doesn’t have friends or even gets bullied at school. i never understood where it came from when he’s confident, pretty cool, your average annoying boy, and a really good athlete on a hockey team. in fact, he’s canonically the one knocking people over in the hallways and assaulting them with stray pucks.