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It's hard being a silly scientist sometimes. Somebody get this turtle some uranium

posting my turtle designs so i'll hopefully draw them consistently pt. 1

the title pretty much sums up what's going on with these goobers. the designs are about 5-6 months post-invasion (with the invasion happening in late March) + include personal headcanons like scars, birthdays, heights, etc. y'know, normal ref stuff

so, uh, enjoy? 👍🏾

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[Raph | Leo | Mikey | Height Chart]

There's not really any story or concept associated with why I drew this. Just got the image in my head and said, "Ooo, that might be fun." So, tada!

Day 12 of @zee-rambles ‘s Rise April Art Challenge: Family

Family is more than blood.

MerMay 2023 Days 3 and 4: Vanity + Dream

Mikey will eat those words as Raph unexpectedly becomes every girl’s dream guy.

 Hey, @nickelodeon. A lot of people here still love Rise TMNT and would like a season 3 of it in the future.  

!!!𝑩𝑶𝑵𝑼𝑺!!!

Rise Donnie dressed in Queen Narissa’s gown because that basically screams, “That’s a Donnie dress!” 

 Also, have 2012 Donnie wearing the wedding gown in the background.

Rise August Day 1: Mad Dogs

So... let's just pretend that I finished this on time and I'm TOTALLY not a day late on even my own art challenge, shall we?😅

Wait I got a another Idea while drawing this one!!!!

Anyways... I still don't know why leo is the nurse in most comics and fanarts, but I thought it would be cute if every time Donnie gets hurt Leo come and treat him

Never thought about it but the purple game episode was actually incredibly traumatizing for Donnie cause he legit attacked his brothers if it weren’t for the fact that he himself wasn’t the mech and the fact that they have the strongest regeneration skills I’ve ever seen he could’ve killed them so easily like some ptsd had to come from that

or what actually would have happened:

if I may

You know what gets me though about Donnie in the movie considering he didn’t have his mystic guns from the get go? When they all get their powers taken, why didn’t Donnie grab his tech bō or any of the tech that he had been solely relying on for most of the series? Like dang maybe it wouldn’t have defeated the Kraang but I imagine it would have helped 😭.

I just find it a little wack that Donnie, who used to fight exclusively with his tech would just be equally nerfed and out of his element after getting his mysticism removed compared to his brothers that almost solely relied on mystic powers.

But, I assume the reason is that they didn’t want Donnie to be advantaged like compared to his brothers in the movie, plus, they wanted the movie to be accessible to non-fans and so maybe the series-exclusive tech bō would have confused them. Also, I know Donnies tech bō (and his other tech) broke during the Shredder attack so it’s possible he never made a new one. I mean he didn’t remake Sheldon either as shown in the movie so I’m curious to what capacity he works on new tech at all after acquiring mystic powers.

In the movie, we see that he can materialize permanent objects, specifically battle shells, that are different to his temporary weapons, which glow a transparent purple compared to the solid objects.

So it’s possible that after the series, he focused his efforts on advancing his mystic abilities to catch up with his brothers, causing him to have less time to build tech. This heightened mysticism plus limited time to make tech traditionally could have made him more inclined to just will tech into existence using his powers when the situation required it. If he had been making tech using his powers and never got the chance to rebuild his old stuff, it’s possible he didn’t use traditional tech against the Kraang because he just didn’t have any available and couldn’t make more without his powers. Or at least this is what I’m gonna tell myself as a cope

Anyways I realize now that this is kind of detached from the original post, but I just keep thinking about how different the movie would be if Donnie just used his old tech.

The movie also only canonically two months after the Shredder. Their entire home was destroyed and they moved to the abandoned subway. Donnie's entire lab and (almost) every single one of his inventions were destroyed.

He probably didn't have enough time to rebuild his arsenal. What time he had to create more tech was probably spent making the subways livable and well fortified.

Also, Donnie wouldn't really need to create new tech for himself because of his mystic powers.

Dang yeah I forgot that it would be almost entirely on Donnie’s shoulders to build a new, safe lair to replace their home. I wonder if that’s why it seems like Donnie and Mikey are kind of closer in the movie, because Mikey seemed capable of using power tools and assisting Donnie with construction projects as seen in the Todd episode. So I wonder if it was mostly Mikey and Donnie spending time together as Mikey helped him to rebuilt everything.

Also I remembered that Donnie did actually invent one new thing: the escape pods. So I feel like despite not having an explicit view into how the events of season 2 impacted Donnie, these little details kind of paint a picture. Especially since both the escape pods and the focus on building a new, safer home both relate to Donnie’s ability to protect his family from future dangers and his utility to the team.