2012 April - Tumblr Posts
I made another tmntsona, shhh I love 2012 April sm…
Anyways ummm ummm Alien April.. she likes conspiracy theories
I love how casey’s reaction to the events of the super shredder fight is just
April: Splinters gone Casey. He fell down the thousand foot pit.
Casey: woah,,, thats deep,,,
I love their dynamic <3
Was just thinking about how legitimately devastated 2012 April gets in the face of loss and stuff. She adds a level of depth to the story sometimes with her emotional responses, where the other characters kind of just go on with their day until the situation resolves itself. Then I remembered she’s the only female main(ish) character and it’s probably a result of sexism rather than weirdly isolated good writing.
Ngl I didn’t expect 2012 April to have so much character and agency. She’s legitimately just cool and initially well written. But well, she’s Donnie’s love interest. (Which is a whole other problem this show has; it’s female characters might be actual characters, but they’re still accessories in the sense they were written into the story to be love interests first, no matter how much other shit they have going on…) That is to say the narrative is trying to drive her character into the ground by forcing romantic tension in near every scene Casey’s in with her, and making her lead on Donnie on with the will they won’t they bs. 2012 April isn’t bad; the writing’s bad to her. And it makes me quite peeved to see because they were doing so well.
Was just thinking about how legitimately devastated 2012 April gets in the face of loss and stuff. She adds a level of depth to the story sometimes with her emotional responses, where the other characters kind of just go on with their day until the situation resolves itself. Then I remembered she’s the only female main(ish) character and it’s probably a result of sexism rather than weirdly isolated good writing.
I know the writers didn’t think much of this, obviously, but two characters just got ran over and didn’t even just brush it off; it didn’t even register. Fuck you, I’m entirely going to take this too seriously. I like how much more thought provoking this is when you realize neither of said characters are human. Does April not think much of stuff like this, because she’s never hurt by it? Thinking back to how immediately she dismissed the deadly chemical brew thing that Mikey spilled on her. Like, wow it’s weird that I didn’t die but I have things to do so- I love that. Her standards for danger and injury and stuff are different to most. Explains why she immediately has no issue handling aliens and shit with no training. She just threw herself into this mess to save her dad. Also that time she bit a Krang bot guy. Love that. But I feel like it’s indicative of a larger pattern of behavior, brought on by the fact she doesn’t recognize the level of danger she’s supposedly in. Her only friends are Casey and Irma. Casey is Casey, and Irma is a Krang in a robot. She surrounds herself with mutants. I think she just doesn’t recognize the amount of damage a fully human person is able to sustain. Getting hit by a motorbike is nothing, and that’s reinforced when Irma is fine too.
*appears covered in blood and holding a kitchen knife* i wrote something 😁
Adding on to this
“Oh, You're hated on by 60% of your fandom for stupid reasons too?”
omg me fr
can anyone else relate
TmayNT Day 2: Favorite April!
Look, I know everyone hates her…..BUT I grew up with this girlie and I love her. Tbh it’s not her fault she’s like that in the show…. I gave her a little redesign btw bc she’s so ugly 😭 look….
No thoughts.
(Note: this took 2 hours 😗)
@tmaynt for the chart!
