Firstly! I Am Really Sorry, It Was Just A Thought In My Head And I Wanted To Get It Out Somehow. I Won’t

Firstly! I am really sorry, it was just a thought in my head and I wanted to get it out somehow. I won’t talk about anything like that with you again, thank you for telling me this. Second! Love your art! Third, have an adorable Donnie for your troubles!

Ok, I know Donnie is an amazing bean right now but hear me out... DARK ARMOR!Donnie? I canNOT be the only one thinking, “What if one of the turtles got pushed into the dark armor instead?”

im gonna preface this with a statement that i dont mean anything i say in a rude or mean way. i get stuff like this more often than i like and i kind of want to explain how i feel about these topics so they preferably stop being brought up with me. it’s nothing against anyone’s interest in creating aus/working with different fictional themes (so long as they are appropriate in relation to the author’s age/the characters’ ages) but rather just me saying why this makes me deeply uncomfortable and that i’d really rather you discuss it with people who are comfortable with it instead of myself.

i want it to be clear that i would literally rather think of ANYTHING else than any harm befalling donnie. i dont know what previous tmnt incarnations did but i have literally no interest in watching children suffer and im very happy rise has largely stayed away from that. i dont even want to see people in the show talk down to donnie. he’s only 14, he’s so young and like ik some of yall are closer to his age so it’s not so outrageous within your current perspective of the world to imagine these things. when i was his age, i watched and read soul eater and at the time, none of the horribly disturbing stuff that happened in the manga really phased me or seemed innappropriate despite the fact the main characters are 14-15 as well. now, however, it does greatly disturb me that a 15 year old had to witness like. a women be sliced in half or something like that.

please keep in mind im nearly a decade older than donnie now, and i simply cannot look at him the way i used to soul eater characters because i am no longer that age. now i want nothing more than for him to be happy, okay and loved and if the whole show was literally just slice of life comedy with the turtles going to school and doing dumb teen stuff with no serious villains i would probably love it even more because it makes me anxious to think bout dangerous situations befalling a literal child.

on another note, im also really sick and tired of “what if donnie was evil” aus. donnie is a character who many neurodivergent people, including myself, identify with for a number of reasons. his behaviour has always made sense to me, from the very beginning and even through the time where people would ceaselessly say mean shit about his character because they thought he was cold, careless and selfish. he really does love his family and friends a lot, he just has his own way of showing it. it’s been pretty clearly shown that he’s fairly insecure and acts a certain way to try and hide that/compensate for his insecurities. he’s not feelingless and he’s not bad. i hate hate hate to think of characters like him as evil in any way. ESPECIALLY because he’s a child.

sorry this wasn’t the response you were hoping for, but i really wanted to say this so people get why i hate the very idea of donnie being in danger and evil donnie aus so it finally stops getting brought up with me. you didn’t hurt my feelings by sending this to me, nor did anyone who’s commented stuff before. i just would really prefer not to talk about it. i’m all ears for donnie bonding with his brothers/dad/april stuff though!