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RISE HEADCANON

Science bros

Science bros

Since Draxum has a Lab He gave the Lab to the Twins. For me Leo likes Biology and is A chemist why because I said so I hc leo to read science stuff as a Kid so Donnie wouldn't get lonely when reading. He was really Good about it don't really show it. Leo is Dumb at math and Tech though.

Since Leo and Donnie are twins they must do twins thing they are both smart-ass in their own way.

Also Leo would Call the periodic table Different names like (Ca,Calcium Leo would Pronounced it as Caw-Caw) Ne,Neon Nae-Nae.) For legal reasons this is a joke-

Leo's character in rise is just really interesting to me, so I'ma ramble about it.

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First off his skill/role, each turtle has a role right? Donnie's the brain Mikey's the heart raphs the protector and useally Leo's the leader, but he wasn't in this one he's the face guy.

Now let's think about how Shakey that role is right? We see Leo talk his way into and out of situations with relative ease, sometimes it doesn't work but more often then not he can get info locations etc out of people with minimal effort, he convinces his brothers that going after paper thieves is going to be glorious and epic with just a quick speech, he's got senior hueso going for a solid "no" to "fine" with a sentence, some things he needs more effort for, the lair games room switch comes to mind, every outcome in that one he would have won, the big momma trick of course where he fools even his dad into thinking he's incompetent.

He's very aware of how he's seen (over confident, cocky, impulsive) and uses that to make people vastly underestimate him. He's able to figure out how people act and their reactions to what he does after meeting them a couple times.

He's not just charismatic, he's a grade A manipulator (I say that as a good thing), he's not just clever, he's sneaky too.

That's one of the reasons I like the disaster twins idea, Donnie who's a book smart genius and Leo who's a street/people smart genius.

Basically he's good at his role yes, but rarely is it exsplisit that his role is needed/helpful enough to balance out his screw ups, because of how sneaky he has to be for his role to work. Raph showing his role is as easy as a hug, Mikey just needs to start showing off, Donnie can present his newest tech, and their roles are confirmed and locked in. Leo? He can't show how he's a social manipulator on the regular, his role is unsteady, easy to forget.

It's kind of hard to get a solid read on his actual feelings seeing as he almost always has some sort of persona thrown up, but his feelings of inadequatecy are the most prominent, he's never good enough to make up for his mess ups, sure he hides it all behind a grin but it's there. We hear it our selves.

"I'm nothing without them"

He needs them, but he thinks they don't need him.

Which brings me to the movie.

First of, the scene with Raph in the train car. He listens fully to what his brother is saying but he doesn't want to deal with it so he

First:makes a joke he definitely knew would piss off his older brother, causing him to lash out

Two: dodge the attack he knew was coming and taunt raph, causing the other to become distracted from the topic and leave it.

Three: I would bet money on the fact he knew it would make their dad annoyed enough to tell them to knock it off, forcing raph to drop the issue or upset their father even further.

Again just a quick show of how he's very good at predicting and manipulating social situations to his advantage, but then Casey says the line.

"your the greatest ninja in the whole world"

Suddenly he's important, suddenly his family needs him, he doesn't just need them now they need him too. Suddenly his worth is clear. I'm not surprised it went to his head, he heard they needed him and clung to the first outside confirmation that he was important.

When raph gets taken it probably makes it even worse, he needs his brothers and he thought it was clear he was important, that he had something to give, but then he messed up again, his worth and his need to be wanted is threatened.

It makes me wonder if that self sacrifice wasn't just his desperate attempt at being needed again at being important. Maybe it wasn't a conscious thing, but maybe he knew on some level a self sacrifice would ensure his place in the family well also makeing sure he never messed up again.

I don't know, but it makes you think dosent it?