I Cant Risk It

I can’t risk it

another really fantastic detail from the s2 finale regarding Leo's powers... I've always loved the hell out of what they did cinematically with it, it looks and feels incredible and kicks total ass. initially I was under the impression that he was replacing his portals with his swords; that he was "traveling through" them per-say. but here --

...we can actually see Leo materializing SEPARATELY from his sword! you can see in the following frame he actually dissipates again and his sword continues flying along the same path untouched, inertia unaffected.

...and then he materializes again to properly align with it and catch it!

he's entirely not in contact with it but is implied to have already crossed spacetime. which means Leo can just... Do That. he's rapidly bending space to transmit his goddamn subatomic particles to a new location. the purpose of the swords isn't to do the portaling; it's to work as a landing pad. it's a vector point by which he re-solidifies the mass he's transporting. a familiar homing beacon he can align himself with on the fly.

There are so many fun Disaster Twins parallels I caught the last time I binged Rise

I’m mainly going to start with lines before I get into some deeper stuff in part two, but as far as I’ve seen this pair seems to have the most parallels and I love it

Both the sillies have a line about sounding naturally sarcastic: “And I know everything I say sounds sarcastic, but I’m being completely genuine… This time.”

“Oh sure, let me just load my Tap Into Every Security Camera in New York app! I’m sorry if that sounded like sarcasm it wasn’t I am in.”

They both land on Warren in his first episode 😂

These sillies in Bug Busters:

Also LOOK at these guys in their matching cutesy pajamas

Donnie teasing his brothers and hitting them with the tennis balls all smug in Smart Lair feels very Leo of him

Leo being the naysayer of the group in The Gumbus and constantly insisting there has to be some kind of logical/scientific explanation is very Donnie of him

“There has to be a simple answer. Earthquake, magnets, giant prankster mice. There’s no such thing as ghosts!” “A model train. Simple answer.” “Aha! Right? The simple answer!”

Donnie has a funny line about Dragons (and their teeth) not existing, both these moments being ironic since discovering yokai, the Hidden City and the whole mystics world makes dragons and ghosts not just possible, but proven real

Their iconic weird showing-off-clothes poses in Purple Jacket and Late Fee

These lines:

“Can’t we get new brothers?!”

“We have to go back for our brothers! Or are you gonna replace them, too?!”

“Guh-ee…”

They are also the only two characters with lines mentioning they think Splinter would’ve been cooler specifically as a tiger 😂 While I love the Eric Bauza/Tigerclaw references to ‘12, otherwise the comments are rather random other than saying tigers are cooler than rats. It made me realize how much they really do think alike. “You’re just a rat, we need a tiger.” “Yeah sure you’re a rat and it probably would’ve been cooler if you were like a tiger or something.”

More similar lines when they both break the fourth wall: “One season later and I still have fully battery!” “If this isn’t the poster shot, someone’s getting fired.”

Leo’s chosen last words: “With my last breath I told you sooooo!”

Donnie’s chosen last words: “At least I shall perish knowing I was the better brother.” (a lie)

I believe they’re also the only ones to call Splinter Papa whereas Raph and Mikey use ‘Pops’ more

And last but not least, their shared aversion to Staten Island

Bottom line, the rottmnt writers practically made their twinship canon without realizing it sooo it’s pretty much undeniable now 😊

Introducing.. the Hololeo AU!

I’ve sketched it before, just never really spoken abt it outside friends- essentially it’s inspired by the idea of the robo future raph concept and an old amphibia au of mine!

Basically, Leo ends up dying the day after the kraang invasion finishes. Donnie, struggling the most out of his siblings to process this, builds a personality-accurate chatbot to talk to, just until he can properly process he’s actually gone. However due to reasons not even Donnie himself understands, the bot becomes sentient. Not just running on code, but actually learning and understanding, aswell as demanding to leave the lab so he can talk to the others. Donnie considers shutting him off, but ends up building a body for Hololeo.

Problem is, Hololeo’s vision and memories are altered so in his vision he looks like the old leo, and the actual ending of the rise movie is how he thinks the invasion ended! So when mikey and then raph and april accidentally discover Hololeo, they decide to just.. keep him around.

They couldn’t just deactivate him.

Hololeo resumes the leadership role that April took over temporarily, assuming the weird looks he gets from Raph and Mikey sometimes are because of him sacrificing himself to the kraang, but hey, he came back, right?

Well, after a mission goes wrong, Hololeo’s hologram vision breaks (and his arm, because it is a legal requirement for leo to lose an arm in every au /hj) all is revealed to him. Leading to the newly crisis-ing robot turtle to run off into the hidden city to process.

Though, unbeknownst to his siblings or even he himself, Hololeo might be more Leo than he thinks.

And that’s the basic au premise hfjshfhs

Please ask questions if you have any ^^

i love the idea of splinter waking up one morning and donnies just looming over him and says ‘hello father’ and scares the shit out of him.

or splinters rounding up the boys for breakfast and theyre all chirping happily, then donnie waddles in and says something only donnie would say as his first words

A very small (haha small..) self indulgent comic thingy I did.