#I’m so sorry Dilf Leo simps I still can’t figure out how to draw him

[fowlaroundtown]

He went out with a bang.

More detailed headcannons under the cut because I know this is confusing for literally everybody but me.

Sometime, late into the apocalypse, the base the resistance had been using gets completely over-run.

I’m talking half the Krang army over-run.

Retreat is called, and everybody’s evacuating and they really aren’t going to make it very long.

Even the people getting out are going to be run down and slaughtered if something doesn’t change quickly.

That’s when the great granddaddy of all ‘just in case’ scenarios comes in.

Through a series of slight overthinking spirals, Donnie has a plan for this and it’s about to be everybody else’s problem.

The entire base is rigged with explosives. The kill switch is in his lab.

Everybody’s evacuating. By the time he gets there, everybody (alive) on their side should be out, while a large portion of Krang monsters will still be inside.

He meets Casey Sr. halfway there (the only reason she’s evacuating is because she has Casey Jr. with her and she just can’t make herself put him at risk like that) and foots off some important items to her (mask, a few pieces of technology, etc.)

And then he tells her get the survivors together, and get them as far away as possible.

She really doesn’t want to listen to him (she knows what a goodbye looks like) but again. Casey Jr. And everybody’s going to die if she doesn’t get moving, so she does in the end.

Anyway that’s where the comic above starts.

Kill switch is activated, entire base blows up.

Donnie doesn’t make it out.

During ALL of this, Leo, Mikey, and April are on a scouting mission.

Everybody in the resistance has their own little distress signals, and all of them are flaring so these guys just KNOW something went really wrong.

They’re packing up to go home when… yeah.

With the central hub of all their devices being destroyed, all at once, every single distress call goes silent. Nobody can communicate either. It’s just radio silence.

As soon as the Tech Bō lands, Leo starts running.

The trip out took 3 days. They make it home in a day and a half.

They come back to a crater.

Luckily, about half of the resistance is still alive. And half of the Krang army is not.

So it’s technically a victory.

(Nobody feels like it’s a victory)

Anyway. After that, they never really have a full base again. It’s more of nomadic situation- they live where they can, when they can, and never for too long.

There’s some other stuff but this is getting long and I might make some more doodles.

But yeah those are my Donnie death headcannons

#not dead set on these future designs so they might change #everybody’s in their late 20s-early 30s here #I’m so sorry Dilf Leo simps I still can’t figure out how to draw him #this was originally going to be part of a series where I drew all of their death scenes but. #Raph’s made me cry to think about so I knew I couldn’t emotionally go through drawinf out how he died #just know he was at peace and surrounded by people he loved #he got to say goodbye. #anyway #before I make myself cry again #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt #donnie rottmnt #future Donnie #future Leo #future Mikey #future April #my art #tw explosives #tw blood #tw death #tw major character death #tw bombs #I THINK that’s everything lemme know if I missed anything #oh yeah #bad future