Our Family Has Suffered Enough. Let Our Legacy Of Sacrifice Come To An End.

“Our family has suffered enough. Let our legacy of sacrifice come to an end.”

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“Promise me that none of you will ever sacrifice yourselves by using a mystical sword to trap yourselves in an inescapable prison realm in order to seal away a great evil like I did.”

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“Boys? What is it? Boys?”

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AKA a very specific family tradition featuring Leo’s boba tea, a ghost, and these facial expressions:

I love it when i write 2012 angst it's always:

Placing Raph in situations where he's responsible for his brothers

Mikey pushing his emotions down to help others even if he's slowly cracking

Donnie's trauma being ignored by himself since he should be better than this and so he explodes in the end.

Leo, all of the above, in that order.

2003 Splinter: We are are staging an intervention to get someone to take a break.

2012 Splinter: Oh, which of our sons-

Rise Splinter: *puts a bunch of snacks on dvds on the table* It’s you tall me, now come on, we’re watching movies.

It's a much needed intervention and when 12 Splinter tries to get the other Splinter's to help him out they pull a Brutus and make him have a break.

So it's basically 87 Splinter, 03 Splinter, 07 Splinter, Bayverse Splinter and Rise Splinter forcing their fellow rat dad to relax and 12 Splinter's got no choice in the matter sgsgsfsfsfsf.

But since TMNT is hyped again, there's one more thing i would like to share with you.

Rise Leo and MM Leo would follow 2012 Leo around like ducklings.

I AM GOING TO THROW UP FROM FEELINGS, Dick finding a young kid hiding after their parents were murdered and the kid running to him to desperately cling to him for comfort, immediately reminding Dick of when he did the same thing to Bruce after his own parents’ murder, the way Bruce wrapped his arms around this hurting kid, one hand gently cradling his head, sharing his pain. That this moment stays with Dick, is what drives him to help others, what drives him to share the pain of this kid, what drives him to embrace hope every single day of his life, because Bruce saved him with that hug, with that shared grief and loss. WHATEVER MISTAKES BRUCE MADE, HE LOVED THAT KID SO MUCH AND UNDERSTOOD THAT PAIN AND THAT SAVED DICK GRAYSON, AND I AM EMOTIONAL ABOUT IT.

Leo can never catch a break yall