Crystal
Wow lmao very straight forward lol okay
I might ramble a bit here so bear with me
Okay so!!
There are are about 7 mystic crystals, some rare than others. They're all found all throughout the Hidden city, there have been businesses that capitalizes in mining these crystals. It is unknown where or how it is created, but the crystals seem to grow on their own and not go through the natural process of the rock cycle, so there's always some available if you know where to look.
I'll explain each crystal's functions from common to rare.
Blue
One of the most common crystals.
It makes portals basically.
The entrances to the hidden city often times have them embedded into it. Yokais have easy access to this as it is the reason why they can get in and out of the Hidden City
The turtles briefly owned one, it's in the compass they used to get into the hidden city in the first episode.
It's widely used.
There are some sellers that sell it as jewelry that you can easily break or shatters, once it does, a portal opens to the last location you think about. Yokais usually use it as accessories or a quick escape if they're not near any of the Hidden City entrances.
Leo's sword is imbued with this crystal's ability
Orange
It's quite common but not everyone can have easy access
It's for illusions
It's one of the key ingredients in cloaking brooches
A small piece of it is enough to maintain a convincing enough human illusion.
While inside the cloaking brooch, it is controlled to cloack yokais as humans and nothing else
If you just use it as is, in its raw state, you can change your appearance at will and in powdered form with the right chemicals mixed in, it can be a very powerful hallucinagen
Mining for it can be tough as the cave its commonly found it loves to play tricks
Yellow
Found in large clusters
It's related to energy
The Hidden City uses it to power their city
It functions the same way as the tree crystals/power cell in tmnt 2012
It's one of the most dangerous crystals as it's very volatile. You need to deal with it delicately
Because of how dangerous it is, the miners would carefully mine around the large cluster of crystals and build a power plant around it to avoid having to transport it
It's hard to extract a small piece, but if you do end up getting just a small shard, it's capable of powering the entirety of New York for months
Pretty brittle
Green
It's more commonly seen around witches and are a little rare outside their circle since they refuse to share the location of where it's found
It's related to health
These crystals are often used in health potions, turning into powder and mixing it in with specific ingredients can help heal specific injuries or sickness
Witches can also use it as is, bending the energy from within the crystal and onto sick or injured people, turning the crystal gray, which it becomes unusable
Sometimes used as jewelry as well
Purple
Not quite as common and commercially used by yokai kind
It's related to mystic magic
Most commonly used by weapon smiths and sometimes witches
It has concentrated mystic magic within and is used to imbued weapons with magic
In its natural state, it is not that useful
But used in weapons or magic, it shows its many talents
The mystic abilities it imbues into a weapon is unpredictable, only experienced weapon smiths can manipulate it into doing what they want
It can also act as a magical powersource as well as help track mystical objects like itself
Donnie's goggles have this.
The reason why Aoi looks like a swirl of blues from his goggles' perspective is because Aoi is somewhat maintained because of mystic magic
Pink
Same as purple, not that commonly used, mostly its used for superstitious beliefs or jewelry
It's of course, ghost related
It can help people see ghosts, so it's usually used as mirrors in front of houses like a superstitious belief that ghosts would get scared of their own appearances that they would not enter your home
It actually just doesn't allow them through, like how people believe salt stops demons and ghosts from entering
If used and manipulated the right way, it can allow people to interact with ghosts
An example of this is Rouge's taser, which is powered by the pink crystal, which can hurt Aoi
Rouge's helmet also contains a shard of the pink crystal, so she's able to see Aoi.
Aoi however, only looks like a shadow or a silhouette, she still doesn't know what he looks like becasue he's not from this world and he's made of mystic magic
Leo sees Aoi's corpse through the pink mirrors in Ring Around the Rosie because he can see him normally
If any of the others were to look, Aoi would look the same as what Rouge sees
Red
Only two known to have ever existed and one of them is artificially made
Finding one naturally is tough
It's involves the mind
The first appearance of this type of crystal appearing is in Ring Around The Rosie, which is the stone everyone butchers the name of: The Kirikaemasu Stone
It's exact use is unknown and there's little written about it to know how it functions
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Finally have an actual name and logo for my au eyyyy
Decided to name it Mystic Shards because of the connection they have with those magical little crystals
(New Logo!! Old logo underneath!)
I will also share shredders backstory and splinters backstory when i finally write it
(As well as the story of where the mystic shards came from!)
- Links to all the post of the arts and other stuff of the au 🫶 -
• the boys designs
• their species
• April and the CJ Twins
• Splinters design
• Shredders backstory (coming soon!)
• mystery girl (coming soon!)
Mini Comics!
• April introduces CJ twins to Splinter
• Comforts (part 1) (part 2) Mikey Comic
• Kid meets mutant kids
• Mikey gets a new friend!
• Stranger (part 1) (part 2) (part 3) (part 4) Leonardo Comic
Arts!
• April and CJ Twins Hanging out
• Donnie's birthday!
• CJ Twins dressed up [WIP]
• MS! Doodles
• Height chart
• Over the years
• Possible intro
• Protective Donnie
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