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!TW! Talk of Grief and Loss !TW!
Casey Jones doesn’t remember his mother well. He doesn’t mind too much; he’s lost so many people over his short life. Everyone in the future had, and he's still trying to get used to the idea that isn't normal here. So, he's kind of grateful that he only has vague and blurry memories of her. It means that he doesn’t have much to grieve for.
He knows that’s shitty to say, but he thinks in his circumstances it’s fair. He’s lost so many people, he’s lost everyone, his whole world. Yeah, it was shitty, coated in blood, grime, and krang flesh. But it was his. He was born into it, it helped make him, and it held everything he had ever loved.
Master Michelangelo, with his flowing movements and soft sparking magic lifting him high enough to see the world bathed in unworldly light and color that only the two of them could see.
Commander O’Neil, hugging him with scared arms with a quite “Try to keep up, Jr.” Diving into battle, smiling with bloody teeth as she tore apart burning metal machine.
The quiet and lonely shrine with a huge, spiked shell that hung on the wall with a pair of cracked purple goggles with red and blue lenses on the table below. Where his family always gathered before a mission, just sitting and holding each other, with hushed ‘I love you’s and ‘be safe’s on their tongues.
And of course, Master Leonardo. Who had tried so hard to be a father to him, even though he was fighting a war that he knew he was losing, even as he held the lives of everyone on his shoulders. He had tried so hard to be a father that he always said Casey deserved.
He had lost all of them.
So... yeah. Casey was grateful that he didn’t have another person to morn.
But... his mom was here. Alive. And he had to keep himself from panicking because he had time to figure out what to say when you're meeting a version of a mother you had never really known. He thought he had time. He didn’t.
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Casey Jr sits ramrod straight on his spot on the couch, across from the intimating woman across from him. His mom (mom, mom, MOM!) Stares across from her with sharp eyes and narrowed in what looks like anger, and Casey's mind is very split on this.
One half of his brain is just screaming that she’s here and alive and real! Not just a story, or a memory that he isn’t totally sure he didn’t just make up. She’s really sitting across from him, and he can see his eyes and hair on her face. And somehow this is the most earth-shattering thing that has happened to him. Or at least the only part of this disaster that he can process.
The other half of him is trying to decide what should happen now, what he should do or say. He isn’t given the chance to figure out because she speaks first and Casey Jones the Second hears the first words he ever heard his mother say.
“Do I need to start a collage fund?”
It’s... it’s absurd, and out of nowhere, and said with such seriousness that it makes Casey break down into laughter that shakes his whole body. He bows over trying to get enough air into his lungs because this is so stupid and chaotic and that probably (is) the best thing you could say in a situation like this. What is his life?
“No-No!” He says between laughs. “I don’t think-” He breaks into more laughter. “I don’t think I need that.”
He continues to laugh as she stands, hesitates and then marches to the seat next to him, sits down just as straight as Jr had a moment ago, and stiffly hugs him to her side. He wheezes through his laughter.
“What-what are you doing?” Casey manages to hiss out.
“I have been told that mothers are meant to comfort their children when they are crying.”
Crying? Was he- Oh... yes, he was. At some point his laughs had begun to turn into sobs, and tears had leaked down his face. Everything had just hit him all at once, and he just... couldn’t anymore. He leans down and wipes his nose and eyes, and just breathes.
“Sorry,” he says. “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to.”
“It’s alright.” Cassandra (Mom? Casey Sr?) responds, still holding his shoulder.
It takes a miniate before either of them can do anything other than look over each other, looking over every similarity and difference. Then Mom (Cassandra?) meets his eyes and with a stone face asks what Casey thinks she’s been wanting to since she saw him.
“Can you tell me how I die?” The time traveler looks away.
“What makes you think you did?” He doesn’t think he can look at her right now.
“Because I would not be so foolish or weak as to let my son travel through time!” She says it like he just insulted her, and he wants to argue but...
“Infection.” He answers. “Which is impressive considering that when you were found you had one arm missing and had been impaled at least 5 times. You lasted about a week after that.” It’s easier to say than he likes. There is silence. Then:
“I am... happy that I did not abandon you.” He turns to his mom, and she doesn’t look at him, staring past him and he makes a realization. That this whole conversation is as hard and awkward for her as it is for him, and he doesn’t know why it took him so long to realize that. Hell, they're almost the same age! He smiles and faces her completely, pulling on the quiet patience of Master Leonardo.
“I know that this is insane, and neither of us had time to really think about it. But if it helps, I don’t think we need to decide what or how we feel right now.” She pulls a face at the talk of “feelings,” but does relax slightly.
“Very well. Until we become comfortable with the reality of this situation. Would you be amenable to the title of my brother? I... am uncertain of being refired to as a mother.” Brother? That could work. Casey grips Cassandra’s hand. Yes, it's Cassandra for now. Maybe for forever, but that would be ok too.
“Sounds good.”
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Reblogging because it is a beautiful screenshot.
Artists, can you redraw this?
Pretty please? 🥺
Posting a random screenshot until we get season 3, there’s a chance I’m going to do it forever, day 173
You can't bury your gays if their already dead!
And yes, it is worth watching.
can someone spoil DBD for me? is it sad? do they bury the gays? it is worth watching anyway?
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!TW! Talk of Self Sacrifice/Death Of Loved Ones. No Actual Death/Sacrifice !TW!
Mikey whoops as he leaps straight up, the air rushing past him. There’s one glorious moment when he can’t go any higher, but before gravity pulls him back down, where he just hovers. Then he falls back to the ground. The turtle curls into a ball and leans forward into a rolling tumble in the air.
Wait.
Not yet.
NOW!
Mikey stretches out his arms and catches a rung of a fire escape, swinging all the way around before letting go and flinging himself to the next building.
“COWABUNGA!”
He tucked into another roll and leapt to his feet to keep running.
This was a perfect night! The moon was full, the city was alive, and Mikey was razzing his tazz! Nothing was going to spoil tonight!
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Raph was completely ruining his night! When Mikey had snuck back into his room, the runners high and excitement making him feel bubbly and buzzy, he hadn’t even glanced at the dark shadows in the corner.
“Hamato Michelangelo!” Mikey yelped, jumped, and curled into his shell in surprise. Dang it!
Before he could uncurl and relax, the box turtle felt his shell be picked up and turned over so he could peer out into one very angry snapper’s eyes. Yeah.... He’s going to stay in here for a minute.
“Hey, Raph.” He called trying for his most innocent smile, even his older brother couldn’t see it.
“Where were you?” Raph asked with narrowed eyes. Oh no, not good.
“With April?” He tried.
“I called her already.” Double dang it. That was his only hope. Mikey popped his head out.
“Can you put me down first?” The snapper did so, and Mikey let his legs pop out so he could stand as tall as he could to appear confident. Not that it helped with the older brother.
“I wasn’t doing anything bad.” The box turtle started.
“Then why didn’t you take anyone with you?” Raph crossed his arms.
“Because I wanted to be by myself for a little!”
“You should have at least told someone.”
“Then you would have made someone go with me!”
“I would not!”
“YES! YOU WOULD!” Mike threw up his arms in frustration. He knew this would happen. He tried to slow his breathing and lower his voice. He did not want the twins to take part in this.
“Well, I would have been better than you going topside alone! I was worried sick! What if something happened?”
“I had my phone.”
“Really? Cause you didn’t pick up my calls.” Mikey winced at that. He had put his phone on silent for that very reason, he just didn’t want to be dealing with a call from Raph every 20 minutes. But... yeah, that wasn’t the best move.
“Ok, I’m sorry. I’ll be better next time.”
“NEXT TIME? No, Mikey, there is no ‘next time!’ You can’t just disappear like that! Do you not realize how much stress you put me under when I don’t know where you are? How can you be so reckless?”
“Quit being such a hypocrite!” Mikey shot back. Because, ok, no. That is where Mikey draws the line. Because, yeah, he snuck out, turned his phone off, and worried Raph. And he will say that he’s wrong for doing that. But Raph does not get to talk to him about being reckless. “You wanna talk about being reckless, how about that time tackled Meatsweats, even though I would have been fine and we had a plan?”
“You were going to get hit! I had to-”
“Or when you dropped off a cliff so that the rest of us could unlock our Ninpō?”
“You guys-
“Or what about with the Shredder, when you covered Donnie with your own body?”
“His shell-”
“Or when you almost killed yourself to save Leo from the Krang?!”
“HE WAS GOING TO DIE!”
“YOU WERE TOO!”
Both of the brothers froze at the words. Triple dang it, Mikey shouldn’t have said that.
The younger tried to take a deep breath and calm down. He knows that it wasn’t the same. That Raph did that to save them, not to go do parkour, and the idea of any of the others dying made him feel sick. But he couldn’t hear his brother talk about taking risks without having his mind go white with images of him running to save someone’s life at the cost of his own. But still...
Great now he felt guilty.
“Mikey...”
“I’m sorry. I should have said that. You’re right, I won’t do that again. I mean it.” Mikey looked down and wrapped his arms around himself.
It wasn’t too surprising when Raph hugged him. They both clearly need it. Mikey just hugged back.
“Thanks for apologizing.” Raph said after a moment. “I forgive you, and I’m sorry too. I shouldn’t have been so mad. You should be able to be alone sometimes. We can talk about that later, and I promise that I’ll try to be less overprotective.”
“Thanks,” Mikey said, tightening the hug.
He wasn’t going to ask for Raph to be less reckless. If any of them were in danger, Raph would do anything to save them. I wasn’t fair to have him make a promise that he could never keep. But they could talk about that later, when they were less tired and more reasonable. For right now they just hugged.
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Beautifully drawn!
I love this game, and you should go play it.
my take on the fellas
i imagine voice of the hero and narrator appearing like shadows, while other voices like or shadows or spirits bc they may be ghosts of previous mcs
and additionally voice of the meek bc i completely forgot about him
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Sparing had never been fun for Donnie. It was tiring, and he would much rather be in his lab being a genius than in the dojo being a punching bag. It didn’t help that Donnie could never pull his punches correctly. He was never sure how much force to use, so he would either just barely tap his brothers or leave them with bad bruises that would last weeks. It was frustrating.
So, when Mikey had asked him to spar with him, Donnie had tried to redirect him to Leo or Raph. It wasn’t working.
“Come on, Dee!”
“Mikey, I don’t want to!”
“Just one round, please.”
“No. It’s never just one round!”
“It is this time! I promise!” Mikey’s wide eyes and puffed out lip were wearing down Donnie’s defenses, and the soft shell did not want to have to deal with a grumpy Mikey.
“Fine!” He groaned and walked towards the dojo. Mikey yelped in victory and followed behind.
Donnie picked up a wooden bo and swung it around, trying to adjust his mind into the right patterns for fighting his brother. He turned to face Mikey, only to find him kneeled down and fiddling with a boombox.
“Mikey, what are you doing?” His younger brother turned to him and smiled.
“I know you don’t like sparing, so I thought I could help make more fun.” He hit the play button on the box, and a fast electric song filled the room.
Mikey turned up the volume till it was blasting and nodded to the beat, picking up his nunchakus and lengthening the chain.
Donnie knew this song. It was heavy on the base, so deep he could feel it in his bones. He felt spikes run up and down his arms, and his legs were tensing and relaxing to the swings of sound that the music used. He could feel the desire to move well up inside of him as the rhythmic, electric spikes pounded into the room.
“Did you go through my playlist?” He asked, but Mikey just swung his hips to the music.
Right.
Left.
Mike slid his way onto the mat and took a fighting stance. Donnie slowly followed suit.
The music spiked for a moment and Mikey struck. His chain whipped out, and Don brought up his bo to block it. But the move was different than normal.
Mike had swung with his whole body, spinning completely around causing his weapon to be drawn back. It was an ineffective move, revealing too many openings that Donnie could take advantage of if he wasn’t so confused. The music spiked again then fell, Mikey then swung his nunchakus one way, then the other.
Right
Left
Another spike. His brother charged Donnie, moving to ensnare his chain around the soft shell's arm. He dogged (Spike) and Mikey swung for the other arm.
Right
Left
Donnie finally attacked back, knocking away his brother's second swing and going stab to the chest. Mike leaned back, (Spike) then leaned forward and spun his weapon. Donnie ducked before he even saw Mike go for his head, and before he even had time to question how he knew, he dropped to ground.
Spike. He swung for the legs.
Mikey jump back into a handstand and (Spike) flipped forward trying to land on Donnie back. Don rolled away and leapt to his feet and struck for Mikey’s shoulders.
Strike, Right
Strike, Left
He was doing it now.
There was a lull in the music and the two looked at each other. Mikey had a smug and happy smile on his face. While Donnie just looked shocked.
“Why?” He asked, and Mikey shrugged.
“You like dancing. Fighting’s like dancing, all we needed was a beat.”
Donnie smiled and they both fell back in their fighting stances as the music picked up again.
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“Come on, Dee! I wanna eat!”
“Just one more round, Mikey!”
“Uuuuhhhh. Worst idea ever!”
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WAIT! SO I CAN REBLOG OTHER PEOPLES AMAZING WORK, AND IT WON’T BE THEFT?! I CAN SHARE WHAT MAKES ME HAPPY WITH OTHERS WITHOUT RUINING IT FOR THE ORIGINAL POSTER?!!! YES!!!!!
I’ll be back in a few hours, I HAVE SO MUCH TO SHARE!
Is it just me or are the new tumblr users convinced there's a penalty of some kind for using this site like it's meant to be used?
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Casey is very clearly nervous as he follows Leo around the dark shopping mall. Leo feels a good amount of sympathy for the kid, as he did come from an ending world full of danger. The kid defiantly has a strong case of PTSD, so the slidder doesn’t mention the way he’s gripping his chainsaw like a lifeline, or how his head has not stopped swiveling around looking for something coming to attack him.
“Do we really need to do this?” Leo rolled his eyes.
“Dude, you’ve been wearing mine and Donnie’s clothes for months now. You need some of your own.”
“Yeah, but..” Casey’s eyes roamed over the clothing racks and mannequins that Leo would admit did look spooky in the dark shadows cast by their flashlights.
Leo finally stopped and began to ruffle through some shirts. What would look good on the kid? Black looks good on almost anyone, but he kind of wanted to put him in brighter colors too. Light blues and reds could work if paired with some more grounded colors.
“Anything specific you want kid?” He called out.
“Um...” The kid's eyes wandered helplessly over the rows of clothes.
“Guess we'll have to try all of them then.” Leo smirked
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“Hmm... not bad. Give us a twirl.
“It’s a little tight in the back.”
“All the better to show off what you’ve got to the ladies. Or dudes if they’re your thing.”
“...What am I showing off?”
“Never mind.”
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“...”
“What?”
“...”
“What?!”
“That’s not where your head goes.”
“It’s not my fault this thing has so many holes!”
“It’s also backwards.”
“IT’S CONFUSING!”
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“Oh yes! You’ll be turning head’s left and right, king!”
“I don’t know what that means but thank you?”
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“No, absolutely not.”
“But Master Leonardo-”
“I’m not getting you a lime green shirt!”
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Leo got him the lime green shirt.
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Raph gripped the pillow under his head and tried not to shake with the force of his shivers. He hated being sick. Leo just smiled from his seat on the bed, looking down as he counted out pills from a bottle.
“Alright, big buy. Open up.” Raph thought about saying no, but the sooner this was over with the better. He reached out and popped the pills in his mouth, accepting the straw from the cup Leo was holding. The cold drink felt very nice on his sore throat, and he grabbed the cup and drained it. Leo just smiled and patted Raph’s arm.
“So, how long do I need to stay in bed?” Raph asked, voice nasial and horse. Leo just shrugged.
“Till you feel better.” Raph groaned and buried his head in the pillow. “Oh, don't be like that, you big baby. You'll be in fighting shape in no time, if you don't get out of bed.”
Raph lifted his head and looked at Leo, ignoring the pounding in his skull.
“Are you guys gonna be okay?”
“Hermano, were not tots.” Raph wanted to say that they could have fooled him, but he was too tired to try. He just snuggled deeper into his blankets and closed his eyes.
“I’m gonna take a nap now...” He slurred and felt his brother’s hand rub on his head.
“Night, bro. Call if you need me.”
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Raph woke up to the sounds of crashing and screaming.
He was out of bed and halfway out the door before his eyes were fully open, bed sheet tangled around his legs.
“Guys! What’s happening?! What’s wrong?!”
He stopped his frantic rush as his eyes landed on the mess that was the floor of the skate ramp. Paint cans, action figures, bundles of wires, books, and socks were scattered between water bottles, plastic balls, and what looked to be a curtain rood. In the middle of the disaster of random items was Mikey, lying on his back. Raph rushed over and bent over his brother.
“Mikey! Mikey! What happened? Are you ok?!”
Mikey moaned and blinked at him.
“Raph? What are you doing up?”
“Nevermind that, are you hurt?”
“Naw, I just fell.” Raph relaxed at that and let out a sigh.
“You got to be more careful, Mike.”
“Indeed, you do.” Said a voice from across the room, and the two looked over to see Donnie and Leo coming out of Don’s lab.
“Yeah, yeah,” Mikey dismissed standing up and looked around at the clutter on the floor.
“Alright,” Leo clapped his hands together. “No one's hurt and everything is fine. So, vamos hermano mayor, you’re on bed rest.”
Raph just blinked dumbly for a moment, the adrenaline wearing off, and the feeling of stiff joints and aching muscles reminding him that he wasn’t in the best shape.
But should he just leave his brothers to whatever they were doing? ...What were they doing actually?
He didn’t get a chance to ask before he had been shuffled back to bed by Leo and tucked in.
...Raph guessed it was nothing to worry about.
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Raph was worried. Leo had woken him up to take more meds and the younger was covered in what looked stripes of paint, ash, and... feathers?
“What happened?” He asked. Leo just shrugged.
“Nothing important.”
Raph narrowed his eyes in suspicion, but the effect was ruined by a coughing fit, which Leo soothed with more cold water.
“It’s all good, Raph. I promise. You just sleep, I’ll wake you up when it’s lunch.”
“You better not be lying.” Raph said, and accepted the meds Leo gave.
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Raph had woken up about half an hour ago, and he was getting tired of just playing on his phone. Plus, he was starting to get really hungry. He was feeling well enough to get himself some soup or something, and if Leo was going to throw a fit about Raph getting out of bed, he could always point out how often Leo was out and about when he was meant to be on bedrest.
Raph put the ramen in the microwave and poured himself a cup a juice while he waited. He pulled the comforter he brought with him closer around him and sniffed loudly, he really hated being sick.
Just then, Donnie bolted around the corner and slid into the kitchen, throwing open the cabinets and frantically digging around inside. He likely didn’t find what he needed, because he whipped around to try another and froze when he saw Raph blinking at him.
The two just stared at each other till the microwave beeped loudly and broke the silence. Raph turned and opened the door, taking the bowl.
“You good, Don?” He asked. His words seem to snap the softshell out of whatever was going on his head. He stood up straight and cleared his throat.
“Yes, I am perfectly alright. What are you doing out of bed?” Raph lifted the bowl of ramen his hand, confused.
Donnie didn’t ask obvious questions like that.
Donnie rocked on his heels and smiled stiffly.
“Wonderful,” the genius said. “In that case we should get you to bed right away. Chop, chop.” He was already trying to herd his big brother towards his room. Raph tried to protest, he may be tired, sick, and maybe a little slow on the uptake, but he wasn't stupid.
“Don, what’s going on? Why is everyone-”
“LOOK OUT!”
The brothers turned and saw Mikey flying towards them, riding on the back of...
What the heck was that?
Raph didn’t have much time to try and figure that out because he was being tackled out of the way by Donnie. The bowl of hot ramen flying out of his hand, while Mikey and his ride brailed screaming into the kitchen.
Oh, that did not feel good. The snapper leaned against the wall and tried to keep his head from spinning. He then squinted his eyes open to see the chaos unfolding in the room.
Donnie was tearing through the cabinets and shouting for Mikey to: “Hold it still! Watch the tail! THE TAIL, MIKE!” While Mikey tried to follow the instructions and yelled right back. “I SEE THE TAIL! WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO ABOUT IT, DONALD?! AHHHHH!”
The “it” that they were talking about was some cross between a chicken, a salamander and... a toaster? Yep, a shiny medal body with feathered wings flapping manically, and the toggle to start the toasting on its side jumping up and down, making that clicking-shinking noise. Its eyes were going in two different directions and jumping around. It had two tails too, one a roster’s plumage, all puffed out, and an electric cord that was trying to wrap around Mikey to throw him off.
…
Was Raph dreaming?
Donnie yelled and whipped around with something in his hand.
“CATCH!” He yelled and threw a canister at Mikey. Mikey caught it, ripped off the lid and dumped whatever was inside over the monster's head. Raph just stared as a pile of breadcrumbs fell on the thing's eyes and it just... stopped. It settled down, and just stood still.
Mikey and Donne relaxed and the youngest slid off the chicken-toaster thing, and then locked eyes with Raph and froze in the same way Donnie had earlier.
“Hey, Raph~” He drawled out.
Raph just pinched his stuffed nose, his headache worsening, and his body still shaking with chills. Dammit, he was too sick for this mess.
“Has it hurt anyone?” He asked, not opening his eyes to look at the scene in front of him.
“No.”
“Are you going to be dealing with it?”
“Yes.”
“Do you need me for that?”
“No.”
“Is it dangerous?”
“Not anymore.” Not ideal, but good enough.
“Great.” Raph turned and walked to his room. “Have Leo bring me some food when he can.”
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“Why didn’t you tell me?” Raph asked when Leo came in with a bowl of soup and crackers. Leo just shuffled awkwardly.
“You were sick, and nothing you did could have helped. You would have been worried over nothing.” Raph looked up and prayed to whatever was up there for strength.
“Alright, fine. I won’t give you all a lecture, even if you clearly deserve one, so long as we never have to talk or think about whatever the heck that was ever again.”
Leo smiled and handed over the food.
“Deal.”
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Voice Acting is so good!!!!
every comic weaver drops is a gift, go to twitter/com/tg_weaver for more of this stupid ass shit.
My first was the Moment of Clarity, (which was a trip,) then Damsel, Wraith, Razor, and Tower, and finally chose to repeat the cycle.
Out of curiosity, what paths did everyone finish with on their first runs? I got Prisoner, Damsel, Stranger, Razor, and Tower in that order, and decided to repeat the cycle
You Can Call Me Glad She/He, Bisexual, Bigender, Autistic, I write Fanfiction.
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