Now you’re working with portals! Anyways, have some future Leo Ninpo magic!
While we won’t see this specific scene in the holiday special I wanted to share it just the same. It helped me figure out how I want their abilities to look in the comic. Sorry the holiday special is still trucking along slowly, I may have bit off more than I can chew but that just means it will be going for longer than the holidays, haha oh well! I have come to terms with this.
@kathaynesart I couldn’t help but color this shot! Your line work is SO IMPRESSIVE! As line art is something I struggle with a lot, I love to find chances to practice coloring when trying to think of a piece to draw. NOT MY ART! Line art by Kat Haynes.
Don’s Ninpo is summoning any tech he can conceptualise right??
Good thing the Technodrome isn’t a weapon of war of anything oh wait I lied it is
Everyone and their mother out here doing Krang infection AUs, but what if Donnie just steals their tech and uses it for himself (I’m kidding that’s not what happens it is very angsty but I enjoy watching the light out of ROTTMNT fans eyes wither away and die slowly (cause then I’m not alone))
I’ve seen around theories about ninpo being connected with emotions, but I found something I haven’t seen lots of people talk about!
(It’s fairly long so continue after cut lol)
So Mikey is a staple to this argument, since he’s the most connected to his emotions from his brothers and he’s the one who figures out his mystical weapon first. Also he becomes something short of a god in the apocalypse
This connection has also been seen how Ralph tends to use his powers to protect his brothers and how Donnie, a logic driven character, uses ninpo to create the entirety of the U.S arsenal
But I haven’t seen much of Leo?
And yet he has a specific scene that just ENHANCES this whole thing!
Remember in the movie when he’s trying to explain to Casey that he messed up?
His marks are glowing
Just as they glow when using ninpo or other mystic abilities
Also notice how no other character is glowing
He’s also VERY distressed, in a way we haven’t seen much of until now, AND lots- I mean LOTS- of character analysis reference the movie as one of the biggest evidences of Leo’s insecurities
A commonly made point is his rapid change from face-man-as-a-joke to ignorant-even-when-in-a-HUGE-argument-with-Ralph
In this scene we also see his facade crack, as his facial expression alternates LOTS
So if we’re merging the ideas of ninpo with Leo’s struggle with his emotions, it helps explain why it is his marks glow. It’s becoming harder to hide his true feelings, and one of the ways they’re showing is through ninpo. And as his feelings are a mess, his ninpo in battle can be a bit uncoordinated, which can ALSO explain lots of his blunders in the movie (lack of plan and insecurity of ability to execute it directly affecting his ninpo use)
☆Suppressed emotions>sudden realizations>burst or just fail to continue to cover emotions☆
Even though in the series we don’t get him blatantly admitting to all of this, I feel it’s more so because of the show being cut off rather than disproving this point
I’m not sure if I’m REALLY onto something or if someone already covered it, but I just thought it was really cool and wanted to put it out there!
P.S. all of the Leo-centric ideas (AND THE SCREENSHOTS) I got from THIS wonderful video I think EVERYONE should watch just bc it’s so in depth and one of the most thoughtful ROTTMNT analysis I’ve seen in a hot sec
How comfortable are Leo’s brother’s him using his Ninpo on them? Would Leo care if they exhibited any real distress about being controlled like that, or what they were made to do?
this depends. before she #Got Better they were super uncomfortable with it, it was often painful and scary and humiliating to just like. HAVE your BODY be controlled. something something metaphor for leo displacing his own lack of bodily autonomy onto others.
anyway they do exhibit real distress about it, all the time. he laughed at them tho and said it didnt matter cuz controlling them saved their lives :P
when it happened to raph he'd kind of internally freeze up and/or panic, and donnie would kind of internally go limp, but mikey would actively fight it, which made things way worse sometimes haha but that's what you get for body snatching ur bros :/
anyway point it: Leo DID NOT CARE for a while, but then later on she DID care :) and she had trouble doing it cuz she didnt wanna hurt them. but then one of them (idk who, prolly raph?) was like "It's ok u can control me" and then the chains turned into silk and/or ropes (i forget) and it didnt hurt anymore :D so that's cool
see the thing is that you need CONSENT for it to not hurt. you need to be in agreement with the person you're controlling. i think i've talked about this before but it's fun so whatever.
I think this will go down - not one Turtle can be seen. But I'm working on the biography of my OC and once I have the pictures, you'll get them too - whether you like it or not.