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What if we did something super fucked up

Its been a while since we added a major painful twist, and the four years Shredder had Splinter for is right there.....

The torture had to have affected Splinter's mind somehow right?

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Guys we're getting MikeSagi zoomies again, hope you're ready for more of these two assholes, we love them so much

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Little hint at something that's just started cooking in our brain. Elemental yokai! Though "yokai" would be the wrong term for them, as yokai are natural. Elementals come from both failed magical contracts and curses, and anyone; human, yokai, witch, or alien, can become an Elemental. It has a permanent effect, and it will always be passed onto any children the Elemental has. Only for the first generation though. Born Elementals are infertile, with only a small handful of incredibly rare cases across all of history spawning a second (third?) generation, and those children only ever came from two Born Elementals of the same element (these third generation kids are super creepy, they feel like the element itself given life. Super powerful too.)

Still got some work to do, this concept didn't exist half an hour ago before we whipped up these quick drafts, a large portion of our worldbuilding happens while drawing and writing the posts so we'll see what we come up with later from this foundation

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Making sure nobody misses our girl!

And here's a list of assorted fun facts that we've shared before!

Her name comes from Victor Frankenstein and Mary Shelley. Yes Donnie is a big nerd.

When she's around 3 years old she receives the nickname Vivi from her big sister Olivia (Livi)

Having four parents, she cycled through a lot of names for them. Donnie ended up with "doddy", Kay got "papa", Tim got "dad/dadda", and April got "ren"

Her eyesight isn't great, worse than her doddy's actually because her eyes are so small, so she wears very thick lensed goggles that make her eyes look HUGE

Donnie made a few genetic modifications so her life as a pink fairy armadillo (+ turtle + human) mutant wouldn't be too difficult, but xey couldn't do anything about her thermoregulation, so she actually has worse tempurature regulation than the reptiles in her family who got lucky and mutated slightly more human-like thermoregulation abilities. She gets cold very easily, and its not safe for her to be in cold water (her fur just soaks in the chill). Luckily, human modifications or no, her family is a bunch of reptiles, so the accommodations they need for her are mostly already there.

Vivi is a very quiet child, her first word came over a year and a half late, but it also came with her knowing more complex words, showing that she had been learning the whole time, just choosing not to speak. Still, even after proving she could talk, she rarely actually chose to use the ability.

She is, however, an incredibly mobile child. Quick to learn how to crawl, to walk, to climb, she always wanted to follow people and watch what they were doing. "WHERE'S VICTORIA???" was a common thing heard shouted across the house in her early years. They eventually got used to the tiny armadillo mutant following them, but only after they realised there was no stopping this kid if she wanted to escape

Introducing Victoria Shelley Hamato! Donnie's little poorly timed but much loved whoopsie baby!

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Newborn Victoria Shelley was absolutely tiny

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Introducing Victoria Shelley Hamato! Donnie's little poorly timed but much loved whoopsie baby!

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We really need to put together some prologue Tang Shen + Turtles shenanigans. At first shes just this super suspicious and quirky faceless figure to them, giving them weird messages and sending them on confusing missions. Its a more episodic type of humour than the main story, we really wanna get the hilarity of that time across because the "YOURE OUR MOTHER???" reveal isn't just hard for them to grasp because its a foreign concept to them. Tang Shen really is that weird.

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Of all our memes, this is still our favourite. You do not go through being forced to hide your entire family (including 5 newborns and your husband) and having a battle of wits with the Shredder for 20 years without getting a little kooky

Okay okay, last one for today

#she just wants to know her family man

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Oh btw. Mona is 6'11 to Raph's 5'4. Very important information.

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Thinking about Raph and Mona again because we love them

Mona's race, the Salamanderians, are all inherently psychic, and they form permanent Connections with their partners that, socially, they consider the biggest indicator of a serious relationship. Even marriages are nothing compared to it. The Connections happen on their own, and there is no one timeline for them, so some form days after meeting, some form years later, and some never form even when all parties involved want them to. That's why they don't consider marriage (binding contracts to share assets, not too different from Earth Western marriage, just with no inherent requirement for romance or exclusivity) a big deal, the courting period is very short, only long enough for all parties to try things out and agree that they get along and would want to share their lives, and then they get married and if a Connection forms it will and if it doesn't then it doesn't. If a Connection forms before even the courting period starts then that immediately becomes a fully fledged life bond

So how does this affect Raph? Well, she meets Mona while both of them are traveling through the astral plane. They hit it off pretty quickly, and spend a lot of time together projected simply because its safer, even after having met in the physical world. Because of this, the lines that separate them as individuals are already a little blurred. They're used to sensing each other, its not odd to have lingering effects even when not projecting, and Mona wasn't exactly expecting to Connect with a non-Salamanderian (its been known to happen, but its not common), so neither of them even realise they'd Connected until Mona leaves the range of the Connection (which isn't something that can happen easily. If both parties were on opposite sides of the same planet they wouldn't be anywhere close to the limit)

The sudden emptiness that fills Raph terrifies him, all she can tell is its related to Mona somehow, and frantic texting ensues, which is a problem because it takes time for the signals to arrive (the freakout starts when there is a 20 minute delay, and Mona is traveling fast so that delay gets longer and longer), and Raph spends the next 36 hours or so freaking out as they sloooowly figure out what's going on, and then freaking out even more when Mona finally realises what happened and explains, because while he's not against it at all (like. At all. No opposition whatsoever. Excitement comes later.) she would have liked to know that they were bonded for life/alien married to their gf! That would have been very nice information to know thank you!

And you know what doesn't help Raph's stress? Two comatose big sisters! This timing is very inconvenient! (And, unknown to everyone but Donnie, a certain Victoria Shelley Hamato is a little bundle of cells forming in a tube rn)

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Yeets some meemees into the void

(looking at that last one has made us realise.....do we even have a character in this au who wouldn't knowingly commit a crime?)

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sometimes i just like drawing silly babies on silly playdates... gemini!donnie's babies ft. @abbeyofcyn and @cupcakeslushie's babies

#we really need to finish victoria shelley's character sheet #really wanna draw her with her interdimensional siblings #especially these two because the personalities are so different #they seem pretty loud and rambunctious - hard to say if they'd take well to vivi's silence #then again they might find her following them around fun - she'd be fine with a game of chase #aaaaah need to draw the babies

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Designing Lee's first crush and her type is very obvious and easily summarised as:

Tall

Quiet

Buff

Lady

(This crush goes nowhere because she's a bit old for Lee and honestly doesn't really have any interest in dating at all even if they were closer in age, its more of a gay little celebrity crush on Lee's end. Girlie can fawn over the pro-wrestler, as a treat)

(Raph also feels pretty queer about this lady but by this point she had already met Mona and that is where all of his pining is going)

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Splinter at some point after season 2: in the end all I care about is that you are all happy, but...

Spliner: will the Hamatos ever see a son in the family again? [Referring to the main 4 all transing their genders and having daughters]

Donnie, probably: that can be arranged-

Literally everyone:

DONT

They wouldn't actually be against it fr, they just want xem to think things through before impulse-making another child

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39, 52, 62 and 75 (Leo) for ask game :)

39. Is there a Karai/Miwa?

Yes! She grew up with the name Karai, but when her real name, Hamato Miwa, and everything that came with, was revealed to her when she was 10 she was quick to start training and eventually join her mother! She still largely goes by Karai, because names (especially Hamato names) are fiercely guarded in the Foot Clan. Its why Splinter went by Splinter long before his mutation.

We've talked about Miwa a bit before, but lets drop a new fact! She didn't take the reveal of her younger siblings well at first. She understood that she couldn't be with her father, and that Shredder is the reason their family is separated the way it is, but she kinda hated her little siblings for having the opportunity to grow up with at least one of their parents. She hadn't even known Tang Shen was her mother until her name was revealed to her, she was raised by a family friend. And yet, here her little siblings were, knowing their names and one of their parents their whole life!

When Splinter was kidnapped and communications with the other Hamatos had to start happening through her instead of her mother's contacts, she was not happy about it. Of course, she still helped, she made sure Shinigami gave them everything they needed and she kept them safe because despite everything, they're her family, and family is so so important to her. It took a while for them to grow on her, and for her to fully internalise the fact that they didn't really have a choice either. They might have known their names and their father, but they didn't know their family's history, and they'd been forced to stay isolated their whole lives. In the end, that anger did finally, rightfully, become entirely directed at the Shredder. For better or for worse.

52. Is Donnie only knowledgeable with technology? If not, what else are they interested in?

Actually, xey have zero interest in technology! Tech (and mechanics) has always been Angie's thing. Donnie's field of interest and expertise is biology and chemistry! Our very own doctor Frankenstein likes to reassemble and reanimate, often resulting in whatever roadkill project xey've gotten their hands on wreaking havoc across their lair. Their creations are xeir babies, and they care a lot about them and their wellbeing, even if most of them have to be let free eventually (for the family's sanity. They can't keep that many pets.)

62. What is Casey and Raph's relationship?

We have two Caseys! The twins, Kay, and Cee. We'll go over both because why not?

Kay is the twin they meet first, he beat up come guys who was messing with one of Donnie's creations and Donnie, who uses his animals for surveillance and information gathering, was grateful and wanted to thank him. From there, Kay met the rest of the family, and is the closest to Raph and Donnie.

Kay often drags the two youngest turtles out of the house for stuff, most of the time its chaos like brawls or street racing. The friend group consists of Raph, Donnie, Kay, April, and Tim. Kay and Raph don't often get out on their own without the others, but when they do its usually because Raph is having a hard time dealing with her siblings, getting riled up from the close proximity and Angie's....everything. These outings for just the two of them usually end up being a lot calmer than when its the whole squad, less running from the cops and more just finding a place to get away and breathe.

As for Cee, she comes into things later. It takes a while for Raph especially to meet her, because Kay is avoiding her and she ends up staying with Draxum, who owns the apartment complex Angie runs off to, and Raph is suuuuper avoiding Angie at that point.

But when they do meet they have a bit of a rough start, Raph takes Kay's side and isn't a big fan of her. There's a lot of scowling and avoidance, and attempts at talking always end in a fight.

But, April ends up befriending her, and so Raph and Cee end up seeing each other a lot. It takes some time, and Raph stays pissed at her for what she did, but they eventually become friends, and Raph ends up being the one to push through both twin's stubbornness and make Cee own up for her bullshit by actually facing Kay and apologise

75. Tell us a fun fact about Leo's species?

By species you mean her being a spotted turtle? Well, they're a small semiaquatic species of turtle, the only (extant but even when including extinct species they might be alone) species in their genus, Clemmys. Also, despite spending most of their time in the water, they're actually not very strong swimmers

If we're including what Lee is now though? The turtles are very unique

A long time ago, all humans could use magic just like the yokai, but then the witch hunts happened and generations of magic users were lost, and no one was being taught magic anymore so humans started to lose access to their magic altogether. The Hamatos are the only human magic users left. And then the turtles mutated, and genetically they are Hamatos and part human, but not really. They're also nothing like yokai, as yokai are born the way they are. So they're not human, not witch, not yokai. They're mutants, and other mutants do exist because of the Krang's lack of care about what happens to their mutagen, but the other mutants can't use magic, being former humans (or animals). The turtles are something different, which is pretty cool too

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6, 12, 30, 31, 49, 50 and 79 for the ask game?

6. Is there a battle nexus? Is it a respected facility or operated by criminals?

Yes there is a battle nexus! In terms of respectability and the legality its a little iffy. The battle nexus is an underground yokai fighting ring, run by Big Mama and connected to her hotel chain. The issue is that its a yokai owned, run, and visited business, and yokai societies that are so closely connected to human society, like those in New York, aren't able to be closely organized enough to have things like "laws", only "rules", and there's no one to enforce those rules really, people only follow them for the sake of self preservation (exposing the yokai world to humans would royally fuck them over)

But back to the facility itself. Mama does technically do things "ethically", as long as you thoroughly read your contract with her before signing. There is no way to get out of the contract once its signed though (poor Hueso, he'a a prime example of this. He isn't involved in the fighting ring but still, he knows better than most how much a Big Mama contract can ruin your life). The fighting itself is brutal, the only limitation is that you can't kill (Mama would lose so many fighters and potential signees if she allowed that), its an absolute bloodbath in there. Aside from the terrifying fighting, painful and potentially permanently disabling injuries, and the inescapable contract though, the life of a battle nexus fighter is pretty great, Big Mama knows how to make her show ponies want to prance, y'know? They all get private rooms in her hotel chain (unless they try to escape), and a large amount of luxuries (unless they try to hurt staff or guests), and they can live pretty good lives (unless you hurt one of her children. That is the only way you'll escape a contract early. Some have purposefully chosen to go this way though.)

12. What is the main villain's motivation?

The Krang want to enslave the planet and use its residents and its resources to make more bodies for themselves! They're a hivemind (just one mind, last hivemind of the species, entirely by choice on their part) who are practically immortal as long as they keep getting new bodies, and having a lot of them makes enslaving planets much easier (they don't like to keep the bodies of those they've enslaved, too cramped, and its been proven that some species can escape and cause problems). They've learned in the past that a loud hostile takeover (especially without adequate numbers) can cause annoyances like "rebellions", and one species in particular, the Salamanderians, even managed to build a resistance to their control and force them off the planet, so yeah, slow and subtle. And the easiest way to do that is find the planets most compatible mind, one that could work as a conduit, if they can get into this mind and spread through the population through them, takeover is a piece of cake.

It just so happens that the Hamato family line are the last yokai-human compatible link, even witches (yokai-human hybrids, not at all uncommon) aren't good enough, it has to be a Hamato. And unknown to anyone who isn't from the Bad End timeline, the perfect Hamato is Angie (Michelangelo)

30. Is there a Venus?/31. Is there a Jennika?

Yes! Two of a trio! Venus, Jennika, and Lita, are the only survivors of the Bad End timeline, and they're the kids of Lee (and our OC Julie), Raph (and Mona Lisa), and Angie! They, along with Usagi, are at the core of the chaos in season 2, where the present Hamato family have to prove to the Time Court that they will properly take in the future children and bind them to their timeline (not an easy thing for Angie, as zeir daughter is.....well there's a few major ethical dilemmas with her creation)

49. Are the turtles the same species?/50. Are the turtles the same age?

Nope and nope!

Lee is the oldest, 15 in the prologue and 23 in season 2, and she's a spotted turtle.

Angie and Donnie, the twins, are next, 14 in the prologue and 22 in season 2, Angie being the older twin and Donnie being the younger twin, they're pink bellied sideneck turtles!

And Raph is the baby, 13 in the prologue and 21 in season 2, they're a white morph Mississippi map turtle!

78. Tell us something you want to share about your au/iteration!

Hard to think of one specific thing, but we really wanna emphasize the farmhouse arc! Sooooo many big things happen in this arc, including the mutation of one character, the introduction of a certain baby girl, the end of the coma arc + recovery from said comas, and the introduction of the yokai ocean cave village! So many events to talk about, it makes it hard to talk about the events themselves!

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Jabber's TMNT AU/iteration ask game!

Send an ask with a number corresponding to a question you want to ask about someone's AU or iteration

SETTING:

Where is your au/iteration set?

Do the turtles live in the sewers?

What is the lair like?

Do the turtles have money? If so, how do they get it?

What is the origin of the mutagen?

Is there a battle nexus? Is it a respected facility or operated by criminals?

Are there aliens?

Are there yokai/magical beings?

Are there other dimensions?

Are there utrom/kraang? PLOT:

Who is the main villain?

What is the main villain’s motivation?

Who are some villains that are less of a threat?

What is going on with the foot clan?

Is the Hamato clan history relevant? How did the clan originate?

Were the turtles and Splinter mutated intentionally?

Do any characters get mutated during the story?

Do any characters die during the story?

Do any characters get disabled during the story?

Do the turtles go to space?

Do the turtles time travel?

If there is a battle nexus, who fights in it? CHARACTERS:

Are there any OCs?

Is there a Bebop and Rocksteady?

Is there a Baxter Stockman?

Is there a Bishop?

Is there a Rat King? If yes, can he control Splinter?

Is there a Mona lisa?

Is there a Renet?

Is there a Venus?

Is there a Jennika?

Is there a Slash?

Is there a Metalhead?

Is there a Mondo Gecko?

Is there an Angel?

Is there an Alopex?

Is there a Leatherhead?

Is there a Tang Shen?

Is there a Karai/Miwa?

Is Saki the shredder?

Is Karai/Miwa Saki’s daughter?

Is Karai/Miwa loyal to Saki?

How old is April?

Is April a scientist?

Is April a journalist or reporter?

How old is Casey?

Is Casey a vigilante?

Does Casey play hockey? If so, what position?

Are the turtles the same species?

Are the turtles the same age?

Was Splinter born a rat or a human?

Is Donnie only knowledgeable with technology? If not, what else are they interested in?

Who is the leader of the group? How did they become the leader?

Who is the team medic?

Who is the best cook?

Who is the best fighter?

Are any characters disabled?

Are any characters neurodivergent?

Are any characters queer? CHARACTER RELATIONSHIPS:

Do Raph and Leo fight often?

What is Bebop and Rocksteady’s relationship?

What is Casey and Raph’s relationship?

Is Splinter the turtles’ dad, sensei or both?

How did Splinter meet the turtles?

Is April considered a sibling?

Does April consider Splinter a parent?

How did the turtles meet April?

How did the turtles meet Casey?

Is there a romance? If so, between which characters? SPECIFY A CHARACTER:

What hobbies does — have?

Who is —‘s favourite sibling?

What is —’s favourite kind of pizza

What interests does — have?

What weapon does — specialise in?

Tell us a fun fact about —’s species! EXTRA:

Who is your favourite character?

What character do you relate to the most?

Tell us something you want to share about your au/iteration!

I had help making this, so shoutout to @genderfluid-envy, I had a lot of fun deciding on questions with you! And thanks to everyone else in our discord server who helped out :D

#we reeeeeeaaaaaally wanna answer some of these #please ask