Congratulations! You have unlocked the character designs!
As some of y'all know I have been writing a (currently unreleased) fic called Congratulations! You have unlocked more family!
In the small things I have released about the fic I said that I used the scrapped markings from the Anatawa Hitorijanai and Rise storyboards in their character design
I have been sitting on this art for months, but here it is! The (current) official designs for Congrats!
It did start off as just a piece for the scrapped markings, but over the months it became the designs I wanted to use for Congrats!
There is so much potential for post-movie angst, and one thing I've been intentionally doing in my own writing is avoiding the usual self blame and hiding things “to protect” everyone else trope. It's a little overdone, and I think there are other interesting ways to explore how they deal with everything they've been through.
I'll be going through my ideas for each of the brothers, Splinter, April, and CJ too.
Reminder, these are just my thoughts and what I think could happen
(Also some of these head canons are taken from @octolingkiera @pepfnaartupstart @revanagade and @bobbypeach)
Putting everything under the cut since its such a long post
Donnie
Wounds
Donnie takes an incredible amount of torment throughout the movie.
His first major injury comes from the subway scene, when an entire train car slams onto his back.
A single subway car weighs roughly 90,000 pounds, so even accounting for his mutant biology/strength, that's an unbelievable amount of force concentrated directly onto his spine, arms and legs (from when he was on his hands and knees over Mikey)
The train crushes him and destroys his battleshell, so I imagine severe bruising, fractures, spinal trauma, and fragments of metal becoming embedded in his shell.
Adrenaline and mutant physiology could be the only reason why he keeps fighting.
Then comes the Technodrome where the tentacles puncture through his shell to access his spine and nervous system, this would create deep wounds across his back and potentially his neck and back of arms/legs, maybe even a couple on his face.
The smaller punctures from his initial attempt to connect would likely extend up his arms as well. Those wounds aren't torn open like the others, but they'd still bleed.
When he's ripped out of the console, the tendrils are violently torn from him, leaving deep wounds, significant blood loss, and additional neurological trauma.
During the fight with Krang Prime, Donnie is thrown before he can fully raise one of his ninpo shields.
I imagine the impact cracking his plastron and causing severe blunt chest trauma: cracked ribs, bruised lungs, possible heart contusion, and other internal injuries that aren't immediately obvious.
A forceful blow to the chest can injure the muscles, cartilage, ribs, lungs, heart, and blood vessels, with breathing, coughing, sneezing, and movement becoming painful afterward. (Think of it like someone being hit head on by a truck)
Finally, opening the portal to the prison dimension burns and cracks his arm from his hand toward the side of his face.
I imagine the scars remaining unstable. Whenever Donnie, Mikey, or Raph push their mystic abilities too far, they begin glowing again for all three of them.
Mental
I don't think Donnie entered the movie in a healthy place mentally.
(A little math for this is that the invasion happened in 2020, Donnie and Leo were 16 in the movie, born in 2004)
Before the invasion, he was already working constantly on the subway lair. If the invasion happened only months to a year after Shredder's defeat, he had very little time to recover before everything changed again.
He was dealing with the loss of their original home, learning a new power, losing Shelldon, and losing most of his technology while continuing to build and repair everything around him.
He also seems to act as a middle man between his brothers.
He's particularly protective of Mikey in the movie, and I imagine he's spent a long time stepping between Raph and Leo's arguments before they escalate. Even in the opening, Donnie and Mikey watch Raph and Leo fighting from outside the train car, which makes me think they're accustomed to monitoring their brothers in case they need to intervene.
The Technodrome is especially horrifying because he's trapped inside a sensory nightmare while another consciousness tears through his mind.
After that, he has to watch his big brother nearly kill his twin while being completely unable to intervene.
I think this would make him much clingier afterward.
Contrary to some fandom interpretations, Donnie seems to genuinely enjoy physical affection. He's constantly putting an arm around someone in the show, and throughout the movie he's often touching Mikey's back.
After nearly losing his entire family, physical reassurance would probably become even more important to him.
He'd likely become increasingly protective of his brothers, sometimes to an unhealthy degree.
He could develop nightmares about being trapped inside the Technodrome, intrusive flashbacks, and even phantom sensations of tentacles digging into his shell.
Sounds like metal scraping, machinery, something squishy or alarms could trigger panic responses.
Crowded or overwhelming environments might become difficult, while textures resembling the Technodrome's vines could become especially uncomfortable.
I also think he'd be left with chronic pain, and honestly, that might hurt Donnie more than almost anything else.
As someone who lives with chronic illness and focal aware seizures myself, that's one of the reasons this headcanon resonates so strongly with me, one of the hardest parts isn't necessarily the pain itself, it's grieving the things you used to do without thinking, it's mourning the version of yourself that existed before your body changed, mourning who I could’ve been if I wasn’t sick.
He's constantly moving, building, inventing, dancing, climbing, welding, repairing, experimenting, and throwing himself into projects. His identity is deeply tied to what he creates and what he's capable of doing.
Chronic pain would force him to confront limits.
Long hours bent over a workbench might become unbearable. Cold weather could make his back and shell ache. Some projects might become impossible without assistance, and machinery could become dangerous if his neurological injuries cause seizures or impaired motor function.
For someone who values intelligence and independence so strongly, needing help would be emotionally devastating.
Strong emotions, exhaustion, overstimulation, lack of sleep, pain, and overusing his mystic abilities could all potentially increase his seizure risk. His recovery would affect almost every part of his life, forcing him to grieve the version of himself who could once do everything without thinking about it.
Immediate Aftermath
I think Donnie was just as critically injured as Leo by the end of the movie, even if his injuries weren't as immediately obvious.
Between the train, the Technodrome, the fight with Krang, and expending nearly all his mystic energy to open the portal, his body has been pushed far beyond its limits. Whether immediately after closing the portal or during the trip home, I imagine his body finally gives out.
He's suffered catastrophic physical injuries, massive blood loss, neurological trauma, and extreme exhaustion. He would likely remain unconscious for days or even weeks while his body healed.
The Technodrome's vines would leave deep puncture wounds across his shell, shoulders, upper arms, neck, back, and thighs, eventually becoming thick scar tissue that aches in cold weather or after heavy activity.
His cracked plastron could take months to heal. During recovery, deep breaths, coughing, laughing, sneezing, or twisting his torso would hurt, while heavy lifting and extended combat would be completely off the table for quite some time.
Leo
Leo's injuries are probably the most discussed in the fandom because of the torture he's subjected to in the prison dimension, the movie makes it clear that he nearly dies, and I remember reading somewhere that they were originally writing it to have Leo perish.
Wounds
By the end of the movie, Leo's body is shattered.
His shell and plastron are likely cracked in multiple places from the repeated impacts he takes throughout the film.
Even before the prison dimension, he appears injured during the train station fight when him and CJ are alone in the rubble, he’s stumbling as he gets back up and grabbing his side as though checking for damage.
His fight with Raph on the Technodrome probably leaves him with bruising, strained muscles, and lingering neck pain after being lifted by the throat, although I don't think that causes serious injuries.
Everything truly catastrophic happens in the prison dimension.
When Prime plants his foot on Leo's shell, you can actually hear it crack. Given Prime's strength, that could cause multiple shell fractures and severe damage to the tissue underneath.
The strike to Leo's head could result in a fractured skull and severe traumatic brain injury. Hearing loss would also be plausible, although being turtles may make this impact him less because they can sense vibrations as well as airborne sound.
His ribs are almost certainly fractured from the repeated impacts. At least one broken rib puncturing and causing a collapsed lung, internal bleeding, and extensive chest trauma.
Mentally
One of my favourite things about Leo is that he's always been capable of being a leader, and the show proves that repeatedly.
The problem is that Leo isn't confident enough in himself to believe he can be one. His plans are often questioned or dismissed, and he regularly has to prove himself before anyone takes him seriously.
So when Splinter names him leader at the end of the show, I think it's overwhelming. He's suddenly responsible for the lives of everyone he loves immediately after their biggest battle yet.
I think Leo would initially blame himself for what happened with the key.
After watching his family get injured and nearly die repeatedly, it would be easy for him to believe he caused the invasion.
His family, however, would shut that down immediately. None of them knew what the key actually was or what would happen if it was lost. The Foot Clan chose to open the portal, bring the Krang to Earth, and make every decision that followed.
Blaming a sixteen year old for failing to grab something he didn't understand would be completely unfair.
I can absolutely imagine his brothers arguing this into the ground if Leo ever tried to take responsibility.
The moment that probably haunts him most is Raph throwing himself in front of him to protect him while they recover the key.
The Krang were trying to kill Leo, they were aiming for his head, and if Raph hadn't intervened, that attack could have killed him instantly.
Then Leo has no idea whether Raph is even alive when his brother sacrifices his own escape pod to get Leo away.
He then has to lead the rest of his family, save the world, and eventually fight a Raph who is actively trying to kill him.
The entire invasion leaves him carrying an enormous amount of guilt and responsibility. Donnie and Mikey are separated from him in the train station, Raph is krangified, and then they get onto the technodrome and all have to separate again, Donnie and Mikey are at the console while Raph is with Prime, and Splinter, April and CJ are on the ground.
Watching all his brothers be captured/under control of the krang would haunt him for a long time.
The last thing he sees before sacrificing himself is Donnie and Mikey being knocked unconscious while Raph goes after them. From Leo's perspective, there is every reason to believe Donnie and Mikey are down since he doesn't hear from them over the com.
Then he enters the prison dimension expecting to die.
He's isolated, severely injured, trapped with something capable of killing him, and has no idea whether his family is alive or whether he'll ever see them again.
Aftermath
Even after waking from his coma, I don't think Leo ever completely returns to who he was before the invasion.
Physically, he'd likely deal with chronic pain, fatigue, and permanent scars. His shell could heal unevenly, leaving weak spots and areas that ache with cold weather or overexertion.
A brain injury could leave lasting effects such as migraines, dizziness, memory problems, difficulty concentrating, sensitivity to light or sound, and periods of extreme fatigue. For someone as active and driven as Leo, those limitations would be incredibly frustrating.
He'd likely have nightmares about the prison dimension and the Krang, become hypervigilant whenever his family is in danger, and panic when one of his brothers disappears from sight for too long.
If one of his brothers is late coming home, his mind might immediately jump to the worst possible outcome.
I also think he'd become noticeably more protective. Before the invasion, Leo already cared deeply about his family, but afterward he would be terrified to spend the rest of his life alone.
Raph
Wounds
Raph isn't as critically injured as Donnie or Leo, but he absolutely doesn't walk away unscathed.
His most obvious injuries are his right eye, both arms, and his shell.
His right eye is almost certainly gone.
When he was Krangified, it could have been mutilated or removed before being replaced by Krang tissue, or it could have been torn out when Raph forcibly removed the Krang.
Either way, the surrounding tissue would be badly damaged. The torn mask around his eye suggests deep lacerations, swelling, and extensive scarring, with possible permanent damage to the bone and tissue around the socket.
Since the Krang tentacle essentially replaced or grew out from his arm during the transformation, I imagine the arm itself was severely damaged in the process. It may have been broken first to make up for the flexibility of the tentacle. Once the Krang was removed, there would be extensive damage left behind, fractured bones, torn muscle, damaged nerves, and deep wounds.
His left arm would carry the same mystic burns as Donnie and Mikey.
Then there's his shell. Krang Prime stabbed directly through it, the impact could cause fractures radiating through both the carapace and plastron, with heavy scarring around the shoulder.
These injuries would have lasting consequences. Raph could have reduced strength or sensation in his right arm, stiffness from the burns on his left, and chronic pain or sensitivity around his shell.
He may not be the most severely injured turtle, but losing an eye, having an arm forcibly transformed, suffering severe burns, and being stabbed through the shell would permanently change his body.
Mentally
Raph would be completely wrecked by what happened.
His main goal in the show is protecting his family. He's the biggest and strongest brother, and his instinct has always been to put himself between his family and danger.
So everything about the invasion would hit him especially hard.
Even before the Krang, moving from the sewer to the subway would have been stressful. Their home is gone, everything familiar had changed, and Leo becoming leader created another source of tension.
Raph loves Leo, but he's spent his entire life feeling responsible for his brothers. A lot of his anger toward Leo could come from fear that he will make a decision that gets someone hurt, and fear that Raph himself is failing to protect them.
The moment Leo is threatened, Raph does exactly what he's always done. He puts himself between Leo and danger and sacrifices himself so his brother can escape.
And then the Krang takes that instinct and turns it against him.
He wasn’t tortured in the same way Leo was, but the Krang still went through his mind looking for information about his family.
I really like the idea that the scrapped storyboard of Raph running back to the lair and finding his family already Krangified actually happened from his perspective.
They use Raph to find his family, meaning the sacrifice he made to protect them ultimately leads the Krang back to them, and now he’s not there to protect them.
Then the Krang turn him into a weapon against the people he's spent his entire life protecting.
The angstiest option is that he remembers everything.
He remembers attacking his brothers, Leo looking at him before going limp. He knows that it wasn't his fault, but emotionally, there would still be a part of him that can't separate himself from what his body did.
And everything happens so quickly once he’s free that he barely has time to process it. Donnie and Mikey are knocked unconscious, and Leo sacrifices himself.
Getting Leo back would be a huge relief, then Raph actually looks at everyone.
Donnie and Leo are critically injured, Mikey's arms are bleeding and he’s barely conscious from using so much power, and everyone is exhausted.
Theyre on Staten Island, the rest of his family somewhere else and he has to figure out how to get them all home without passing out himself
He'd have to rely on Mikey, Splinter, CJ, and April to help while Donnie and Leo are too injured to contribute.
Once they're home, his protective instincts would go completely into overdrive.
While CJ and Draxum treat Leo and Donnie, Raph would hover constantly, checking whether their condition has changed, and trying to find anything he can do.
He'd become clingier and more overbearing, his brain has learned that letting his family out of his sight gets them hurt, so he compensates by trying to keep everyone within arm's reach.
The same would happen with April, she's family too, and Raph would constantly check where she's going, when she'll be back, etc.
When Leo and Donnie finally wake up, Raph would be even worse. He'd constantly fetch things, check on them, and offer help without realizing how overbearing he's become.
But he is injured too.
His eye is gone, his arms are badly damaged, his shell has been stabbed through, and he's carrying enormous psychological trauma. But Raph wouldn't care yet because his family comes first.
He'd keep himself busy because stopping means thinking, and thinking means remembering what the Krang made him do.
He'd probably make himself the last person to receive medical attention because, in his mind, everyone else is more important.
He does take care of himself once everyone else is taken care of because he knows he needs to be in good condition to help.
Mikey
Mikey would probably be the least physically injured of the four turtles, mostly because his three older brothers constantly put themselves between him and danger. That doesn't mean he gets through the invasion unharmed, though.
Wounds
His two biggest injuries would probably be his arms and a concussion.
Like Donnie and Raph, both of Mikey's arms are badly burned from opening the portal, but his would likely be the most severe because he was the primary source of power. The burns could extend toward his shoulders, neck, and jaw, with deeper areas damaging muscle and nerves. He could be left with stiffness, weakness, reduced sensation, and difficulty gripping or moving his wrists and elbows.
Because Mikey uses his arms for practically everything, this would make everything especially frustrating.
His other major injury would likely be a concussion. When the turtles are thrown from the Technodrome, Mikey could have slammed his head against Donnie's battleshell without having time to brace himself, also knocking him unconscious.
Mentally
Honestly, I think the invasion would affect Mikey mentally more than any of the other turtles.
He spends so much of the invasion being forced to watch things happen.
Even before the invasion, he was dealing with the fighting between his brothers, the move to the subway, Leo becoming leader, and Donnie working himself to exhaustion to build the new lair
And after losing his ninpo during the movie there are so many moments where Mikey is simply powerless.
He can't stop the train from crushing him and Donnie, he can't protect them both when the Turtle Tank is being crushed, he can't stop Raph from being Krangified, he can't help Donnie when he enters the Technodrome.
In fact, Donnie protects him even while he’s inside the console.
And when Raph attacks Leo, Mikey and Donnie are trapped in the vines, watching their brothers fight without being able to reach either of them.
That helplessness would stay with him.
When his ninpo returns, Mikey can finally do something. He can fight, protect people, and contribute.
And then Leo sacrifices himself.
This time, Mikey refuses to simply watch, he's the one who goes after Leo. He's the one who saves him.
For once, he isn't the little brother waiting to be rescued, he's the brother doing the saving.
Once the battle ends, his first thought probably wouldn't be guilt that he didn’t get as injured as his brothers, I think he would be grateful that he can actually help them.
He'd do anything that makes him feel useful to help his family.
Except his arms are still injured.
He can't carry things, open containers, help someone sit up, cook properly, or even hug someone without potentially hurting himself.
That could bring the helplessness right back.
He'd probably have moments of frustration, anger, and guilt, especially because he knows his injuries aren't as severe as Raphs, Leo's or Donnie's. He might feel like he doesn't have the right to complain.
There would be countless triggers: the sound of trains, seeing Donnie's shell, looking at Raph's injuries, or remembering Leo disappearing into the prison dimension.
Mikey might have the least catastrophic physical injuries of the four, but mentally?
He's going to be processing this for a very, very long time, he’ll remember the helplessness, and become even more clingy, and making sure his whole family know’s he loves them so much
April
Wounds
Her biggest injuries would likely be chemical burns from the vials she stole from her school, affecting her hands and arms. They're nowhere near as severe as Mikey's mystic burns, but they'd still be painful and slow to heal.
She could also have a broken or badly sprained arm, a sprained ankle, and plenty of smaller injuries from being thrown into walls and debris, scrapes, bruises, cuts, and abrasions.
Once the adrenaline wears off, everything hurts.
April is human, she doesn't have a shell or mutant resilience, so injuries that seem minor next to what the turtles endured would still seriously affect her. Her ankle would throb, her burns would sting, and she'd probably struggle to move comfortably.
Aftermath
April is the bridge between the human and mutant worlds, which makes her position after the invasion uniquely difficult.
The EPF would be everywhere, the city is damaged, civilians would be frightened, and supplies would be disappearing quickly.
Meanwhile, the turtles can't exactly walk into a store with their whole situation.
So April becomes the person going out into the human world to get whatever her family needs.
She has to lie, improvise, and make excuses because she can't exactly tell someone she's shopping for four injured mutant turtles who just saved the world.
And emotionally, April would be a wreck.
She's worrying about finding her parents, she watched her brothers nearly die, helping CJ adjust to a completely changed world, avoiding the EPF, and trying to keep everyone fed and safe.
There is almost no time for her to actually process what happened.
She'd probably feel responsible for CJ in particular, he has to learn how to live in the past, April would have to teach him how to exist in the world without war.
And because her injuries are comparatively minor, she'd probably minimize them.
Her arm hurts? Leo almost died. Her ankle is throbbing? Donnie will have seizures for the rest of his life. Her burns hurt? Mikeys entire arms are burnt.
So she keeps pushing herself until she crashes.
And eventually someone asks her if she's okay and that might be what finally breaks her.
She's terrified her parents are dead. Terrified her brothers are going to die. Terrified something else will happen. Terrified the EPF will find them. Exhausted from constantly pretending everything is fine.
She's grateful she wasn't hurt as badly as them, she is important for them to live to get supplies and be human.
Her family absolutely takes care of her when they can, making sure she knows that they love her and that they appreciate her.
CJ
CJ would probably be the only member of the group without major physical injuries.
He comes from a world where danger is constant, what he doesn't know how to do is live outside of an apocalypse.
CJ has no idea what to do with that, he would still expect the next attack, he'd wake at every noise, look for exits automatically, and struggle to relax at all.
The hardest part is CJ has returned to a past where his family is alive, but they're younger and they don't know him.
And CJ has to stand in front of four people who are simultaneously strangers and the most important people in his world.
He knows Raph and Donnie as the uncles he already mourned. He knows the older versions of Leo and Mikey who sacrificed themselves so he could reach the past.
Now he's looking at their younger selves.
CJ watches these younger versions of his family get hurt, and every injury would terrify him because he already knows how their story ends.
When Donnie falls unconscious, CJ might panic because he already knows what losing Donnie feels like.
When Leo is badly injured, it's even worse, he had to watch future Leo die not even a few days before, and now he’s watching the younger version on his death bed.
Mikey's burns would send him into a panic thinking about master Michelangelo.
CJ is seeing people he has already buried come dangerously close to dying again.
Once the immediate crisis ends, everything he's been suppressing would catch up with him.
He'd mourn people who are technically standing right in front of him. He'd cry for Raph while Raph has no idea why. He'd think about Donnie dying, Leo and Mikey sacrificing themselves, and the family he left behind.
He would hate being around them all, and as they heal he would isolate himself more, until they drag him back and make sure he knows he has a place with them.
Splinter
Splinter would probably be one of the least physically affected by the invasion. A few cuts, bruises, and general wear would heal within a few days thanks to his mutation.
His children, however, are another story.
The twins are unconscious and critically injured, Mikey can barely move his burned arms, and Raph has badly damaged arms, missing an eye and a shell that's been broken through. All four came terrifyingly close to dying, and Splinter would be constantly afraid that one of them could suddenly get worse
The hardest part is that he can't fix this himself.
So despite his distrust, Splinter immediately calls Draxum. Draxum created the turtles and knows more about their biology and medicine than almost anyone, so Splinter would swallow his pride and accept whatever help he can offer. Mystic medicine, healing artifacts, herbs, anything that could improve his children's chances of recovering.
He'd become extremely protective of his family, using his ninja abilities to check their breathing, pulses, bandages, and temperatures whenever he thinks they're asleep. He'd constantly ask CJ and Draxum for updates, while fussing over Mikey, Raph, April, and CJ.
Leo and Donnie would be especially difficult for him. They're normally the most chaotic, constantly moving and getting into trouble, so seeing both twins lying completely still and silent would be deeply unsettling. There's nothing Splinter can do except sit beside them and wait.
And while caring for them, Splinter would realize just how much his family has changed.
They're not little boys anymore. They've saved the world twice, and experienced things he can no longer simply protect them from. He can fight with them, teach them, and care for their wounds, but he can't undo what happened or guarantee they'll never be hurt again.
His own injuries may heal within days while his children's may take months, and even then they won't fully heal.
So all Splinter can do is help where he can, comfort them, and help them learn how to live a life that’s changed.
General Headcanons
One idea I have is that, after everything they've been through, they go to Run of the Mill for a completely normal meal. Hueso brings out their usual order of the Super Creepy Supreme without thinking, and the second they see it, all of them are mentally back in the Krang invasion.
Jupiter Jim movies are also completely off the table for a while. Anything involving aliens, outer space, or the void is just too close to what they experienced.
My biggest headcanon is that Donnie develops epilepsy after integrating with the Technodrome, and I end up weaving that into a lot of my fics.
One idea I keep coming back to is Leo being in a coma for several days, meaning someone has to stay with him at all times. During one of the periods when he wakes, Donnie is the one keeping watch, strong emotions, including happiness and excitement. (Which he feels at that moment) can trigger seizures for Donnie, so Leo wakes up just in time to see his twin collapse and begin seizing. Leo doesn't know Donnie has epilepsy yet, so he has absolutely no idea what is happening. He can't even get out of bed to help him, so all he can do is panic and scream for someone to come.
Once Leo starts recovering, Donnie would make him a protective shell cover to keep his damaged shell from taking unnecessary impacts. Leo's knee would remain injured too, occasionally flaring up or giving him a painful twinge.
The blows to Leo's head during the prison dimension would also leave him hard of hearing on the left side after badly damaging his eardrum. Donnie builds him a hearing aid small enough to hide beneath his mask.
The brothers would also develop a habit of checking on each other at night. Leo might quietly visit the others' rooms to make sure everyone is there, while Donnie is doing exactly the same thing through the security cameras.
CJ would constantly rewatch videos stored on his mask just to see his old family again.
Once Donnie is awake and physically capable of doing things again, he immediately starts upgrading everything. He'll ignore his exhaustion until someone physically makes him go to bed. Unfortunately, pushing himself like that only worsens his neurological symptoms.
Donnie, Leo, and Raph would also struggle with migraines after the invasion, meaning screens, bright lights, and overstimulation become things they have to be careful around.
Leo develops a particular sensitivity to darkness combined with red lighting, especially when the room is cold. That combination can bring back too many memories of the prison dimension.
Raph, meanwhile, becomes terrified of ever becoming Savage Raph again. The memory of being controlled and hurting his brothers without being able to stop himself feeds directly into his separation anxiety.
New York takes decades to fully rebuild.
One of the things Donnie does before passing out is hit the Turtle Tank's self destruct. He knows the vehicle is trapped under the rubble and that if a human finds it, it means that there’s evidence of the turtles. Destroying it is his last attempt to make sure no humans discover their existence.
When Donnie eventually builds a new Turtle Tank, he purposely makes it look nothing like the old one, he doesn't want a vehicle that resembles the thing he and Mikey were trapped inside when it was crushed, the new design is almost a rejection of the old one.
Warren and Hypno also give up their lives of crime afterwards, they find April to figure out what happened to the turtles. They tell her directly that they want to help, and rather than expecting anyone to trust them immediately, they spend months proving it.
Eventually, once they've genuinely earned that trust, Donnie helps them leave New York. He uses his hacking skills to set them up with a nice home on the outskirts where they can live quietly and stay out of trouble.
CJ, meanwhile, becomes increasingly anxious after discovering that Sister Krang is still alive and with the EPF. She had already been inside the lair, so he's terrified that she could reveal their location, the problem is that the family is in absolutely no condition to relocate.
So those are my after movie headcanons that I could think of over the last monthish, and remember once again that these are my ideas of what could've happened and nobody has to take them if they don't want to, or they could take them if they do want to.
Im calling this collection, Wire takes old family photos and puts the turtles into them.
I wish I could show the whole photo's themselves, but uh... me and my family are in them, and as much as I love y'all, I ain't revealing my IRL self...
Not much to say about this AU so far except designs and that I want to go with a mix of Arrietty, the borrowers and Tinkerbell for a story.
They're all based off of bugs and plants that fit them
Mikey is a Hummingbird Moth because of their fun flying style that's still very graceful
Donnie and Leo are both Slaty Skimmer Dragonflies because dragonflies are the fastest flying bug, plus they hang out around water which fits the two fast aquatic turtles
Raph is a Rhinoceros Beetle because of their strong shell, and that they're one of the stronger bugs, plus they are a larger insect with spikes.
