Just because I’ve never seen anyone mention that Bayverse Raphael has scarification on his right shoulder, here’s a post.
In 2016 he has a half sleeve tattoo over the scar. It’s still there.
I do see people mention their 2016 tattoos a lot but for those who didn’t know, you’re not the only one. Leo and Mike have matching tattoos on opposite arms, but all of their character designs are so complex and the lighting throughout tends to be so dark that some people don’t even notice.
Leo has a band on his left upper arm, something on his outer right forearm with a lower cuff, and a turtle motif on his upper right arm. Mike has the same turtle motif on his left. Thanks to indiblueninja on reddit for the pic.
It is, yes, a bit insane to me that their shells and plastron are shown as being bullet proof but their skin is soft enough to be penetrated by tattoo needles. The hard scars I get, blades to the face and all, but tattoo needles can get all bent just from touching the bottom of an ink cup and they blunt as they’re used. Raph’s artist (and I suspect that’s Donatello, who has no tattoos, potentially because he’s the only one who knows how to do it, right? Weird hc but here we are.) probably went through like six mags to get that done hahaha. [footnote that in repost it was noted that they pretty obviously had them done with the tebori method. Thanks tumblr braintrust]
