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Cass please cass wait cass CASS I’m DYING AHH GOD the idea of Leo having been the last to die, to have died thinking (knowing) he was directly responsible for at the very least Raph and Mikeys deaths, and that he KNEW he'd be dying with essentially no ninpo, no spiritual connection and thus no real hope of joining his family in any sort of afterlife, that all those goodbyes were forever — the idea of him waking up and just ...everyones home, home and healthy and whole UGH CASS IM CRYING 

(would he even believe it? would he think its a krang trick? god how do you heal from that kind of end? he ran towards it, he got his kid out and then turned back to continue a fight he already lost. everyone was dead, Donnie and Raph and April and Mikey, everyone else had given up everything— Mikey burned away for the slightest hope and Raph gave the resistance his heart and Donnie wore himself down to nothing, not even a ghost left— and Leo wanted to go that way too i think, giving everything, fighting for time like he wasn’t the last one standing, like there was anything left to fight for. Because to do anything less would be to discredit his brother’s sacrifices. How do you wake up from that? How can anything ever be okay again? How do you believe that you can wake up to a happy ending, hug your brothers, hold your son, see your father? A krang trick? It must be. Which means he was captured. Which mean did not die. Which means he failed. The world is dead, the krang have won, and Hamato Leonardo was not even able to match his brothers in death. He asked his baby brother to burn, and he has failed. How do you move on from that. How do you believe anything except the echoing certainty that there is quite literally nothing left to lose, and your own wretched, wailing anger?

Well. If he cannot honor the price he made his family pay, maybe he can at least make the memory of Donnie (not a spirit, there is no spirit, you cost him his soul) smile by finding the nearest Krang and unleashing Hell upon the sorry bastard. Yeah. i just. Cass i am STRESSED.)

I..uh..fuck I can't talk about this because of spoilers kvdkbf

But in general

Mikey and Leo went through the same hell, but at the end, when all they could hope for was gone, Casey showed up. And he said he could help them. Save them.

The difference between Mikey and Leo is that Mikey heard and understood him. So Mikey has a strange time too, realizing that everything is okay again. But he knew it would get better.

While Leo remained in a state of lostness and fear

alright so, heres my current working scientific hypothesis:

tmnt brainrot --particularly rottmnt brainrot-- is so goddamn Powerful, that even bitches who left the internet years ago & hate posting will become infected with an insatiable need to draw, revive themselves on tumblr dot com, and start spamming turtle arts

supporting evidence:

👋🏻 hello

was only able to hang out for a quick minute, but had an absolute blast!!!

Hey, uh….maybe you guys want to hang out?

Untitled Drawing | Magma

Untitled Drawing | Magma

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"why does uncle tello's new body have scars?" this "will Sensei's new body still be missing his arm?" that, listen listen guys listen it has already been established that becoming a Vessel for a Hamato grants you a new character design sheet. sometimes you wake up with sweet new genius-trademarked digs, sometimes you just get to be healthy again but with reminders your souls survived some Shit* (....and sometimes ur arm falls off. /j)

*wait wait but theres like the start of an idea there: like when a Hamato spirit possesses/shares a body with someone, they obviously do not change the person, but they can share knowledge, share power, share /themselves/, and this energy can be expressed through alterations in designs, alterations to reflect the additional presence within. 'you are not alone,' but like literally -- meanwhile, when a Hamato spirit is given an 'empty' body, the form is theirs entirely, it reflects them in the full way they understand themselves, not as a brand or a style or an influence, but as a full individual. So like, while the body already looked like Donnie prior to his spirit entering it due to the fact it was created w his DNA, when his spirit entered it it became really and truly an embodiment of /him/, all the life and experience that makes up the way he understands himself, scars included. (Not in an angsty way. Personally id imagine none of the future boys view their scars/injuries very negatively, at least not like their younger counterparts might. i feel like they were too busy with bigger issues and just staying alive to worry about being self-conscious or getting caught up in near-misses.) idk if thats necessarily made much sense or was what you were thinking, but its a fun concept to dig into :D

YOU.

Are absolutely right💜

Had a spontaneous idea... hehehehehe