#Leo the maintenance guy

[stinkrascal]

random vaughn fact: he was on the bowling team in high school and he was actually pretty good too

#hes very competitive (leo sun/aries moon king) he probably would've done great at sports too if he tried out for them #but those are too high maintenance compared to bowling #but dont worry he still slacked off regardless. but at least he was good at it so the coach just aggravatedly gave him a pass #yeah you never show up to practice but you roll a near perfect game every time so........ side eye #hugs my little idiot guy love u vaughn my best oc truly #this is very canon #imHAVING oc thoughts today #rubs my fingers on my temples BRAIN BLAST

[well-what-did-you-expect]

fluff alphabet A, F, N, X for the tmnt 2012 turtles please? :D

absolutely! i hope you enjoy :)

notes: headcanon style, implied gn!reader, pronouns used: you/your and they/them

*don’t mention how this was requested months ago and i fell off the grid*

Fluff Alphabet with the Turtles: A, F, N, and X

Leonardo "Leo" Hamato

A - Attraction (What they look for in a partner, their type)

Leo would love a partner who’s independent. Someone who can take care of themselves, but also someone who wouldn’t hesitate to ask him if they need help. Leo strikes me as a man who loves curves, no matter how you identify. Thick thighs, bit of a booty, bit of a tummy, he’s head over heels.

F - Family (If they want children and how many if so)

Leo strikes me as a guy who would love to have a family one day. Maybe a little rugrat or 2, a boy and a girl.

N - No (Dealbreakers, what can and will break the relationship apart)

Leo’s a leader, he’s already got enough on his plate watching out for his team/brothers. If you’re too dependent on him, it’s a dealbreaker.

X - X-Ray (How well they can read you)

Leo isn’t the best at reading you, he’s just above Donnie. If you don’t hint or tell him, he will almost never figure out how you’re feeling.

Raphael "Raph" Hamato

A - Attraction (What they look for in a partner, their type)

Raph is into those who are tough, not just physically, but mentally too. He likes when his partner can hold their own, and boy, oh boy, does he love when he can spar with his partner and not have to go too easy on them.

F - Family (If they want children and how many if so)

As we’ve seen, Raph is big on pets. He wouldn’t really want kids, 1, maybe 2, but mostly expect a pet or 2 or 3.

N - No (Dealbreakers, what can and will break the relationship apart)

Like Leo, being dependent on him is a dealbreaker. He needs his space at times and if you’re constantly coming to him for whatever reason that he doesn’t classify as a good reason, he’ll lose interest fast.

X - X-Ray (How well they can read you)

Raph isn’t the best at reading you but out of his brothers, he’s second best, just under Mikey. It may take him a bit to understand when you’re upset or something’s bothering you, but he will eventually understand and treat you accordingly.

Donatello "Donnie" Hamato

A - Attraction (What they look for in a partner, their type)

Like Leo, Donnie strikes me as a guy who’s into independence. Yes, he likes being needed, but he also likes that you can take care of yourself. He doesn’t really have a physical type, he’s more a personality guy than a looks guy, although he does appreciate the beauty in his partner.

F - Family (If they want children and how many if so)

Donnie doesn't strike me as a family man. I don't think he would want a big family, if he would want one at all. He’d be okay with a small pet, like a goldfish or maybe a bird, but not anything bigger or higher maintenance. If you manage to convince him to start a family, he would most likely want to stop after 1.

N - No (Dealbreakers, what can and will break the relationship apart)

If there is no support in the relationship. Donnie works for hours on end on projects and experiments, so if he's excited to show you his latest robot and you aren't in the slightest bit interested, then it's not gonna work for him.

X - X-Ray (How well they can read you)

Donnie isn't the best at reading you, he's usually unaware that you're upset until you make him aware by straight up telling him.

Michaelangelo "Mikey" Hamato

A - Attraction (What they look for in a partner, their type)

Mikey isn't one to focus on the physical aspects of their partner. Mikey's ideal type would be someone who they can laugh and joke around with, someone they can have fun with (pranking people together, gaming together, skating together).

F - Family (If they want children and how many if so)

Mikey would love to have a family, and a big one at that. He would want a lot of kiddos and animals running around. I feel like he would want more daughters than sons. 3 daughters and 2 sons.

N - No (Dealbreakers, what can and will break the relationship apart)

If the relationship is too serious, there's barely any laughs or goofing off, is a dealbreaker for Dr. Prankenstein. Mikey's a big goofball and loves when they can joke around with their partner.

X - X-Ray (How well they can read you)

Mikey is the best at reading you. He can tell when you're upset because you don't laugh at his jokes or want to play games with him (both of which is an often occurrence in your relationship).

#tmnt x reader #tmnt 2012 x reader #tmnt #tmnt 2012 #leo x reader #raph x reader #donnie x reader #mikey x reader

[aealzx]

Their course, guided by Mom April, had taken them through another set of soldiers. But they had been easy to deal with since there was no mechanoid with them this time. And then a few more rooms on their route took them to a more open room, where one more mechanoid and ground soldier group greeted them. Before they had reached the room Mom April had told them it was designated for maintenance for the huge machines, so they rushed in with weapons drawn. Both groups of enemies had had more of the toxic gas, and mystic nullifiers. And by this point after the most recent group was taken out to unconsciousness it was easy to tell that Lil Mikey was starting to get worn out from everything. Both Raph and Don had been hovering over him, making sure he stayed between them while they traveled. So when he started coughing hard enough to pause in progression, hands raising to his mouth to pull the gas mask off to try and get more air, Raphael was there to place a supporting hand on his back.

“After this next corner you’ll reach the dead zone. I won’t be able to keep track of you through the cameras,” Mom April cautioned through their headsets while they took a breather.

“It’s alright April. You said Leo was just a few rooms back from us. Is the other Donatello close by too? The dead zones are progressing towards us, aren't they?” Don asked, partially watching their surroundings while partially monitoring Raphael addressing Lil Mikey.

“Yeah, Leo should reach you in the next few minutes. But the most recent deadzone is on the other side of the wall with no door. You’ll have to loop around to reach it,” Mom April answered. “...Is everything alright?”

The emotion from Mom April was palpable through the speaker, and Don pursed his lips for a moment. Maybe it was just because Raphael and Mikey were also radiating concern for their new charge. “...We just need to either hurry up, or pull Lil Mikey out early,” Don responded eventually.

“Hey big guy, you doing okay?” Raphael asked, crouched with one hand resting on his knee and the other hand rubbing Lil Mikey’s back while he forced down deep breaths. He could only manage to give a few nods, and that wasn’t reassuring at all. “Maybe one of us should escort you out while the other two collect our brother and your’s…”

“N’no-,” Lil Mikey protested, shaking his head emphatically, and giving one more cough.

“You’re breathing like an asthmatic running a marathon,” Raphael stressed, brow furrowing as he could hear wheezing without leaning any closer.

Lil Mikey just shook his head again. “D’Dee doesn’t do well with strangers-,” he continued to protest.

Don was half a breath away from offering to carry the smaller lad since the final stretch seemed close. But the words were never able to leave his mind before they had another enemy to deal with. A series of gunshots snapping through the air caused them to scatter before they could see where they had come from. Raphael herded Lil Mikey along with a careful hand, noting him stumbling slightly but not stopping, and therefore Raphael continued to guide them both to cover. Lil Mikey had kept moving along Raphael’s guidance, allowing himself to be directed behind the large console tables while Raphael twisted to catch sight of the lone soldier behind them. He’d thought they had both avoided the gunfire easily enough, darting behind a console desk and resting a hand on Lil Mikey’s head while keeping an eye on the soldier, and catching sight of his own brothers diving behind the other console desk. Lil Mikey giving a few, softer, shakier coughs was concerning, but at least it wasn’t as bad as before.

“You doing alright kid? Take a sec to catch your breath, okay?” Raphael asked, keeping his gaze on the soldier that had slipped in behind them. When he didn’t get a verbal response back, and the coughs from Lil Mikey became mixed with anxious whimpers under a shaking frame, Raphael’s eyes snapped down to him. Where he expected to see an increasingly familiar sight of green, orange and black, his gaze ended up locking onto a steadily growing stream of red down Lil Mikey’s arm, his small hand gingerly hovering near it.

“Aw shell!” Raphael cussed, both hands moving, one reaching around to pull Lil Mikey close while the other clamped a vice grip around the back of Lil Mikey’s upper arm. He felt bad for the barely smothered cry that escaped from the small teen at the contact, but knew that he had to get some sort of pressure on the wound before worrying about anything else.

“Raph? Bro? My dude. You can’t just curse and not elaborate when we can’t see you.” his own Mikey’s voice came from the other barricade he and Don had scrambled behind, the not quite actual swear alerting him that something was worse than before.

Instead of answering Mikey, Raphael called out to his other brother. The one that would be way more useful in this situation. “Don, get over here! Lil Mikey got hit! He’s bleeding, bad!” Raphael shouted back, shifting his weight so he could pull Little Mikey to sag over his thigh for support. He couldn’t blame the kid for panicking, despite doing an amazing job at not completely breaking down. Gunshot wounds were always alarming, the floor was already getting a small puddle of blood where Lil Mikey’s hand was resting.

“Oh, shell!” Don repeated, reflexively moving to run towards them, but having to halt his action when another gunshot crashed into the table near his head. “Get pressure on it!” Don called back, shrinking far behind the barricade he was behind and wordlessly looking to Mikey.

“I know, I know!” Raphael spat, looking around frantically for anything to help. Rule number one was always stop the bleeding. But after that he couldn’t remember anything else. He wasn’t the medic, that was Don’s job. He just broke things. Lil Mikey’s breathless whimpers as he tried to shove Raphael’s hand away from causing more pain caused Raphael to lock his attention on him again. “I know, kid, I know. It hurts, but I have to do this. Trust me. You’re gonna be alright,” he assured, partly for Lil Mikey and partly to excuse his own actions causing the child more pain. Thankfully Lil Mikey tried to be obedient to his semi request to stop by gripping Raphael’s knee instead. Lifting his head to shout to Don again, Raphael’s voice never made it out since a series of different sounds distracted his thoughts. Someone getting punched, kicked, or otherwise beaten. Several times. He felt a flutter of anxiety for his brothers before Mikey’s voice came from behind him instead of to the right.

“That’s for shooting a child you asshole!”

Raphael couldn’t help the slight grin he got, hearing Mikey cuss worse than either he or Don had, and giving the soldier another kick despite them already being disarmed and down. And with the immediate threat taken care of Don was already crowding into the space next to them, swinging the backpack off his shoulders. “Sssss, okay, keep him supported,” Don directed, digging through his bag for an emergency tourniquet. “Is there an exit wound?”

Raphael thought for a moment, twisting to see the other side of Lil Mikey’s arm where his fingers were. “No,” he answered. No wonder the kid hated him pushing on his arm.

Don pressed his lips together, but seemed to be a bit less tense while he looped the tourniquet around Lil Mikey’s shoulder. “Try to focus on taking slow, deep breaths Lil Mike,” Don directed, threading the tourniquet strap through the clasp. His softer voice was hopefully more soothing to Lil Mikey than the other two shouting. The poor kid’s gaze was largely unfocused, but he at least started to consciously slow his breathing down.

“You or me?” Raphael asked as Don cinched the band to an uncomfortable tightness. He could hear something big, and metal clomping its way towards them. Which meant they couldn’t stay where they were much longer. Even with Mikey keeping a tense guard.

“We have incoming…” Mikey warned around the whir of his nunchucks. Small guards he could handle. Big automated machines were a little more difficult.

Don’s eyes just flicked to Raphael for a moment before going back to his medical supplies. “For what?”

“Getting the kid out. I’m not keeping him around here any longer. Is he stable enough for me to watch over him while you and Mikey deal with his brother?” Raphael explained.

As Don opened his mouth to respond, Lil Mikey snapped out of his daze enough to beat him to it, shoving away from Raphael slightly. “N-no,” he protested with a slight cough. “You can’t-... Donnie doesn’t… do good with… strangers…” he repeated.

Raphael felt his expression soften a little, and he just firmly but carefully held Lil Mikey close. “That’s why I want to send Mr Softie here to talk to him. He’s got a lot more patience than I do, and is way less annoying than Mikey. But not at your expense.”

Raphael’s reasoning made sense, but Lil Mikey was reluctant to leave before Donnie was safe. Before he’d even laid eyes on his brother. So he shook his head again in conscious belligerence.

As Don was peeling open a gauze pack, Raphael opened his mouth to respond, but an abrupt, shuddering shatter of screeching metal peeling away from impact further in the room caused him to cut off before he started. “What was THAT?” Raphael voiced their collective thoughts as he and Don looked over the barrier once more. The wall next to the deadzone Mom April had pointed out was no longer without a connecting entrance. An ugly hole had been smashed through the metal, gasping in an ugly gape near the ceiling and spewing a mixture of gas and smoke as another, smaller figure stepped onto the ridge.

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I wanted to do this one 2 days ago, but ended up getting super chatty with buddies, and then the next day I got a sudden surge of attention that freaked me out a bit and made it hard to focus. X'D hooray for being an anxious introvert.

Also it didn't help that this part was a fight to get out |D Emil's Karma variant of his theme finally helped a lil though.

#my art #rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #tmnt 2003 #cross dimension kidnapping #rise + 2003 crossover #blood #injury #rise mikey #03 raph #03 don #writing #long post

[tomfrogisblue]

There's a bunch of valid arguments for Bagi's brother being Cellbit, Wilbur, or Tubbo - you could argue reasonably well for each of them.

But what if it was someone random, someone totally not those three.

Turns out it's Rubius, and the white streak in her hair is from whatever deity produced them (his irl hair does look kinda like the silhouette, I know his cubito doesn't fit the silhouette at all lmao).

Turns out it's Antione, and actually, they're shapeshifters anyway but she doesn't know cos she can't remember. Remembering brings some new abilities to learn to use.

Turns out it's Phil, and he just loved wearing a cool jacket when he was younger because it went with his black wings, and it's from an old picture. She's a bird too. She was frozen, so she's a bunch younger physically even though they were about the same age.

Turns out it's BBH coz no one has actually seen under his hood. So she couldn't recognize him coz his voice has also changed from when they were kids.

Turns out it's Etoiles from before he was turned into a cucumber (lol, idk man). He looks completely different now, obviously.

Turns out it's Roier (maybe q!Ro had a lil emo phase as a teen, spiked up his hair and loved to pop his collar), so by technicalities, she is also Vegetta and Foolish's daughter, Leo's sister, Bobby's tia, Richas' tia and Cellbit's sister in law. She had no family, and now she can't walk two steps without running into them.

Turns out it's Mariana. Reason she can't find them is because he's never here and the only descriptions she gets is "misclicker", "child killer" and "my bitch wife". She had a neice but now something using their name is corrupted and taking over her brother in law.

Turns out it's Luzu. My guy has fallen into a strange fate and she needs to help to get her only family back. But if she does ever get him back, what form will he even take? Will he even know her at all?

Turns out it's Quackity, but that man's mind is broken, and memories leak in and out all the time. He's a shell of a person and nowhere near whatever memories she could possibly salvage of her little brother. His child is dead, and she'll never meet her, just hear stories of what the loss of Tilin and her best friend Juana did to the sanity of the island so long ago.

Turns out she's remembering wrong and it was a sister, not a brother she's missing and one's of the girls used to have short hair because they were born in a lab and the Feds mandated that shorter hair interferes less with their tests and the physical maintenance of their test subjects. Expanding the possbility for it to be Baghera or Jaiden especially.

Turns out it's one of the workers. It's been hinted at for ages that the workers aren't here by their own choice (not even close in Walter Bob's case), and changing people physically is well within the capabilities and ethics (the lack thereof, I mean) of the Federation. Also, they have zero problem removing memories and inserting new ones. He's in plain view somewhere, but his face is gone, what could she even recognize?

And then the fandom favorite rn - it's Fit from before he lost his hair :)

#my apologies if i remembered lore completely wrong - there's so goddamn much of it at this point #this was meant to be just funny #also i just made up stuff dont take it seriously please #turns out it was DanTDM - sorry hes just not here #also my bad if i missed a stream this morning and we know without a doubt who it is now lmao #qsmp #qsmp lore #quackity #qsmp bagi #qsmp cellbit #qsmp tubbo #qsmp wilbur #q bagi

[sroloc--elbisivni]

"so how's the vacation writing going" well i made progress on a couple of the Actual WIPs i have posted and then i also saw this art by @wtf-a-psychoanalysis for space leosagi with usagi in the slave leia outfit and uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i blacked out and came to with 2800 words typed up on my phone in the Notes app. anyway. love to commit sexual violence against a man via application of aliens amiright. went in a different direction than jabba the hutt, this is far future in the space bodice ripper au when the guys are running around having space adventures. cw: implied sex slavery.

“Well?” Leo hissed, prodding one of Donnie’s feet.

Donnie kicked him, face intent on his wrist computer. “I’m working on it. The camera network in this place is stupid big. Are we sure this is a guy and not an AI?”

“We’re not even sure he has the thingamabob we want,” Leo said. “Hence, you, hurrying up, in our near future, please.”

“Um,” Mikey said, peering through the slats of the maintenance tube exits. “Is this a bad time to mention—“

“Probably,” Donnie said, not looking up.

“—that the guy I saw earlier is standing right there?”

“What do you mean right there?” Leo shoved him out of the way for a better look and got an eyeful of draping black cloth and white furry leg. “Oh. Right there, right there.”

“Yeah,” Mikey said, pointedly.

“Listen, guys, I got this,” Leo said, and shoved the maintenance hatch open. “Heeeeyyy, sorry to ask, but do you mind just moving down the hallway whiiiiii…”

He got about halfway through his sentence before he pried his head out to talk with this stranger and convince him that they were just a couple of maintenance guys doing very important work who should not be interrupted. This was about when he got a good look at the man—very much a man—and lost his entire train of thought.

The legs that were uh, pretty muscly actually, revealed by the drape and cling of rich black silk shot with gold, led up to a belt of gold hanging low on some shapely hips. Trim hips. Put all your weight behind a solid punch shaped hips. The torso crowned with wrapping curls of gold around the shoulders and pecs was also muscled, in that really nice dorito-shaped bulk way. Scars crisscrossed the soft-looking white fur in more than a few places—a starburst on this hip, a slash on that shoulder, a scattering of burns like a meteor shower across the torso. Leo really wanted to touch all of them.

The look on the guy’s face said if Leo did that he probably would only get to enjoy it for like. Three more seconds before his untimely demise. He was some kind of rabbit alien, ears bound on top of his head and draping down like a fancy hairdo. There was one more scar over his left eye, arcing like an extra eyebrow and lending some punch to his glare.

“While what?” he asked.

“Um,” Leo said. Words. He could do words. Eventually.

The rabbit rolled his eyes, leaning back against the wall and bracing his elbows in a way that showed off his abs. “Listen. Whatever you’re up to, I don’t actually care. If you’re going to try to kill Hikiji, I’ll have to stop you, but until you’re at his throat? Not my problem.”

“We’re here to rob him, actually,” Mikey chirped, sticking his head out of the tube next to Leo’s torso.

“Great. I mean it. Please, rob the bastard blind.”

“Do I. Uh.” Leo shook his head dragging his tongue back into place. “Who are you?”

The rabbit smiled. It didn’t look like a happy smile. “These days? No one.”

“Nice to meet you, no one,” Mikey said, and Leo elbowed him back into the vent so he could pull himself up and get on eye level with the rabbit.

“So, do you maybe wanna help us?” he asked, hopefully. If they could just get this guy to come with them, a little longer, maybe he’d loosen up a little bit. He probably had a nice smile, when he was happy.

For the moment, the rabbit loosened up enough to blink and snort. “What the hell, sure. What do you want to know?”

“Where’s the vault?” Donnie yelled from inside the vent before Leo could embarrass himself by asking for this guy’s number. “This map is useless!”

“He has fake copies of the blueprints on the servers. The real ones are metal engravings in the engineer’s quarters and can’t be photographed.”

“That’s—horrifyingly impressive. I hate that.”

“So do the engineers,” the rabbit said, dry. “Which vault? There’s three, but I don’t think you want the one for alcohol.”

“Wherever he keeps the, the,” Leo snapped his fingers, trying to remember.

“The Mambrino basin,” Donnie said. “Smallish, gold, contains a code only activated when a certain fluid is poured over it?”

“Oh, that. That’s in the leeward vault. You’re about three floors too far up.” He pointed down the hallway, and Leo admired the pretty blue crystal on an elaborately wrought bracelet he was wearing. “There’s a ladder that’s been locked for the last year, but if you’re blocking the cameras, you can probably bypass that too.”

A brief squabble ensued as Mikey and Donnie both attempted to leave the vent at the same time and tangled up their limbs. Leo ignored them with long practiced and grinned charmingly at the hot rabbit, trying not to look at where the smooth arch of his hipbone jutted out beyond the edge of the skirt-thing. “Sooooooooooo…wanna come break into a leeward vault with us?”

“I’ll pass,” the rabbit said, but he looked softly amused. “You all are really going to do this, aren’t you?”

“Of course!” Leo swept a little bow. “Stealing from rich bastards is one of our specialties.” He straightened and winked at the rabbit. “Along with daring rescues, if you know anyone in the market for one?”

Oop. Wrong tactic. The rabbit gave this horrible sad little smile and looked away. “Plenty of those needed out in the galaxy, I’m sure.”

Donnie and Mikey had finally worked their way out and stumbled upright. Donnie looked the rabbit up and down and said “Your outfit is derivative and tacky, I could do better. Call me if you ever need a stylist. Where’s the ladder I’m opening?”

“I’ll—” The blue gem on his bracelet flashed three times, accompanied with three chiming tones. The rabbit straightened immediately. “Down the hall, that way, third door.” He jerked his chin, didn’t point. His pointing hand was too busy wrapping around the bracelet, which had started to blink.

Leo grabbed up the rabbit's wrist—he was clutching it like he was in pain.

This was obviously a mistake. The rabbit’s eyes flashed and he jerked back.

“Let me go,” he snarled, and Leo was startled enough to drop his grip entirely.

“I—sorry,” he blurted. The rabbit was already turning around and striding away, black cloth swishing between his legs.

Leo hated to see him leave, and somehow, he didn’t much like watching him go either.

“C’mon,” Mikey said, tugging at his elbow. “The next person who catches us out here isn’t going to be that nice.”

“Yeah,” Leo said, staring at where the stranger vanished. “Sure.”

They got all the way down the ladder before he persuaded Donnie to follow the guy on security cameras all the way back to the main throne room of this big evil villainous castle on a meteor they were infiltrating to pass the time.

The rabbit walked in from a side door, not the big front one, and headed right for the big fancy dais where a human-looking alien in black and gold and brown was sitting like he owned the place.

The rabbit walked up to him and dropped to his knees. The guy, who had to be the Lord Hikiji they’d come here to rob, waved one hand for the rabbit to approach his fancy bench throne. When he came in reach, Hikiji took his chin in one hand, possessively, and held him in a bent-forward position that looked like it would be murder on the back.

The rabbit had his someone-else’s-untimely-death look on again, but he wasn’t…doing anything. Just standing there while Hikiji was saying something they couldn’t hear.

Hikiji turned his gripping hand into a caress down the rabbit’s throat and let him go. The rabbit moved to the side of the bench and dropped to the floor, leaning his back against Hikiji’s legs and staring at the wall. HIkiji rested one hand on his head like a Bond villain stroking a cat and seemed to forget about him.

“Hey, broskis?” Leo said, staring at the tiny screen like this might be the day he developed the ability to kill things with his eyes. “Change of plans. We’re going to destroy this guy.”

#usagi yojimbo #rottmnt #miyamoto usagi #ficlet #leosagi #turtles #space bodice ripper #i am having...fun. #yes that is a man of la mancha/don quixote reference 'aldonza' is usagi's theme song here

[twoidiotwriters1]

The Curse of Oenone (Leo Valdez xFem!Oc)

A/N: To the creator of the gifset I will never thank you enough -Danny Words: 2,241 Series' Masterlist Previous Chapter // Next Chapter Listen to: 'The Wreck of Our Hearts' -by Sleeping Wolf

XXXVI: There's a HORSE Loose in the HOSPITAL

"So what's Frank's color? Does it match Hazel's?" Leo follows her around while Ara secures the ballistae. "Is he bright pink?"

"They're lavender, not pink," she has a vague smile on while she explains, not minding his interrogatory. "Percy and Annabeth are scarlet."

"What's ours?" He stands in her way. "You never told me."

Ara moves him out of the way and continues her chore. "It's golden."

His body lights up instantly. "Golden looks great on you! Do I look good?"

Ara laughs. "You could see it for yourself, you know?" 

"What? For real?" He gets excited. "How?"

"Light yourself on fire, it won't be that different."

"Funny. Seriously, I bet we all look god-like in your eyes," Leo's smile dies. "Do gods have soul lights?"

Ara's never thought of that before. "I don't know, they glow all the time regardless of how they feel. I don't even know if gods have souls, they're entities, right? Their bodies aren't vessels, just a form they take."

Leo hums, tinkering with the object he's been making since the night prior. "What about Chiron? And the nymphs and—"

"Mythical creatures don't have soul lights. I don't know why," she frowns. "They experience life differently."

"Can't wait to tell Jason you can see when he's horny," he snickers.

"Ew!" Ara makes a face. "First of all, I don't see sexual attraction, if anything, I only see when he's fawning over Piper."

"Same thing," Leo rolls his eyes. "If you're in love you want the person in every way."

Ara tries not to think of what that implies about his relationship with her. "There are people that don't feel romantic attraction—Or aren't interested in sexual stuff. Soul lights tell you about a person's interests, and what they love most in the world. In other words—"

"Weaknesses. You called them that, I think that's not accurate, but whatever," Leo leans against the ballista smiling at her adoringly. "I still love you even when you're wrong."

Ara stares at him with amusement and annoyance. He treats their situation like it makes him the luckiest guy in the world, which is insane. Leo jokes about being crazy, and she jokes about it too, but there are limits to how delulu you can pretend to be before it gets dangerous.

She hasn't been able to forget the way he freaked out at first, and she wants to ask him if he also conveniently forgot that thing about being an ill match after knowing about their soul lights, or if he's pretending to be happy for her sake.

"Done," Ara sighs, patting the ballista.

"Why are you securing them?" The boy asks. "They don't need maintenance."

"So they don't go off if we crash against them."

Leo frowns. "Crash?"

Ara whistles and Nico jumps from the topmast, landing next to her quietly and swiftly. The girl turns Almighty into a sword. "It's normal to lose your footing while training."

Leo steps back in alarm, eyes widening and darting between Nico and her. "You're training here? Near my valuables?"

Nico snorts. "I can't fight Ara, we can't afford to lose any limbs at the moment."

The girl tosses the sword at Leo and he catches it on instinct. "You got this, Firecracker." 

Nico unsheathes his sword and Leo looks over his shoulder nervously, eyes on the stairs. Ara clicks her tongue. 

"You can't outrun us and you know it. C'mon, stand your ground!"

"I don't like swords!" He complains. "And why are you teaming up all of a sudden?"

"He's doing me a favor."

"I think it'll be funny to watch you panic until you get it right," Nico admits with a smirk.

"Hazel!" Leo shouts. "Zhang!"

Ara raises a brow. "Both of them want you to train as much as I do. And Frank won't save you."

"For all the wrong reasons," Nico nods. 

Leo tries to appeal to her by being cute. "Doll, c'mon, I forge you weapons—"

"Oh, right!" Ara presses the hair tie around her wrist and once it becomes a shield she tosses it to Leo, who struggles to catch it now that he's holding her sword. "Now you're ready!"

"Where did you get that?" Nico eyes the shield with interest.

"Leo made it! It was my birthday present."

"I can make one to match your killer aesthetic, man," Leo offers. "Just put the blade of eternal damnation down..."

Nico ponders, worrying Ara for a second, then he shakes his head and lifts his sword slashing the air. "Nah."

He vaults at Leo, and the boy yelps and jumps out of his way, his dark curls burst into flames. "Jason, help!"

"No one's going to help you!" Ara raises her voice. "We all want you to get better! Who knows what my prophecy could bring? You want to help, right?"

He glares at her while Nico corners him against the mast. "Not fair, Ara!"

She shrugs, not even remotely sorry. "Neither is the curse."

Nico tries to hit Leo's head with the butt of his sword and Leo dodges him, but Nico trips him and Leo falls, dropping the shield and her sword.

"Fast reflexes, weak stance," Nico lowers his sword and offers a hand to pick him up.

"Fine," Leo makes a face, taking Nico's hand and getting up. He picks up the sword and the shield. "Just stay away from my fingers, I need them."

"Make sure I don't get close then," Nico replies, jabbing at him effortlessly.

Leo does his best to stop him with Ara's shield and strikes back, though poorly. It makes her proud anyway, he's trying and it brings her hope.

When Jason almost falls to his death while handling a hoard of Venti, he asks them to hold a meeting. He recounts his vision of Lily, Grover, and Rachel talking to Octavian and Reyna about the note Annabeth sent them.

"She's alive," Leo's arms are covered in the cuts he got during training. He's in no pain, Ara mended each wound with special care, and the boy loved every second of it. "Thank the gods and pass the hot sauce."

"What does that mean?" Frank makes a face.

"It means pass the hot sauce, Zhang. I'm still hungry." Leo rolls his eyes, shirt full of crumbs.

"I can't believe Reyna would try to find us," Frank continues, handing over the bottle to Leo. "It's taboo, coming to the ancient lands. She'll be stripped of her praetorship."

"If she lives," Hazel adds. "It was hard enough for us to make it this far with seven demigods, the daughter of Olympus, and a warship."

"And me." Hedge says proudly. "Don't forget, cupcake, you got the satyr advantage."

"How's Lily?" Ara asks.

Jason gives her a look. "She was close to stabbing Octavian, but Rachel kept her at a proper distance—apart from that she looks okay."

Ara watches Leo and cleans the corner of his lips with her thumb. "Lily hates being in charge..." she sighs heavily. "I've failed her."

"C'mon, Ara, you're doing all you can," Piper soothes her.

"It's not enough!" She complains. Leo clears his throat and Ara corrects herself. "Lily can't work like that, the closer she is to the action, the harder it is to see the whole picture. Reyna will have it worse, though, Romans work in teams exclusively and to be forced to travel alone..."

"Crossing the Atlantic is a hard journey, no doubt," Jason agrees. "But I'd never bet against Reyna. If anyone can make it, she will."

"Well, I'd love to see Reyna again," Piper says politely. "But how is she supposed to find us?"

"Can't you just send her an Iris-message?" Frank suggests.

"They're not working very well," Hedge sighs. "Horrible reception. Every night, I swear, I could kick that rainbow goddess..."

Everyone falls silent. Leo's voice turns playful. "Coach? Who have you been calling every night, you old goat?"

"No one! Nothing! I just meant—"

"He means we've already tried," Hazel interrupts him. Ara remembers Coach used to have a girlfriend back home, a nymph they met during their first quest. "Some magic is interfering... maybe Gaea. Contacting the Romans is even harder. I think they're shielding themselves."

"I don't suppose Reyna has a cell phone...? Nah. Never mind. She'd probably have bad reception on a pegasus flying over the Atlantic." Frank grumbles.

"She'll find us," Jason assures them. "She mentioned something in the dream—she's expecting me to go to a certain place on our way to the House of Hades. I—I'd forgotten about it, actually, but she's right. It's a place I need to visit."

"And where is this place?" Piper asks.

Jason's soul light suddenly flashes across the table, a dark blue that envelops his body and grows in intensity the more he looks at Piper. "A... uh, a town called Split."

Ara elbows Leo discretely but with urgency, he looks up in confusion and she gestures at Jason, a look of amusement on her face as she does. Leo watches the blond boy for a moment and snorts, understanding what she's exposing.

"Um, yeah." Jason blinks, trying to gather his thoughts. "In fact, we should be getting close. Leo?"

Leo nods with a shit-eating grin still on his face, then he presses the intercom. "How's it going up there, buddy?" Festus responds with a couple of clicks. "He says maybe ten minutes to the harbor—Though I still don't get why you want to go to Croatia, especially a town called Split. I mean, you name your city Split, you gotta figure it's a warning to, you know, split. Kind of like naming your city Get Out!"

"It could be called Care Bear Island and I would still not feel safe," she brushes the crumbs off his shirt. "And slow down with the chips, dude, look at yourself..."

"Wait," Hazel frowns. "Why are we going to Croatia?"

"Well, technically we've been in Croatian territory for the past day or so," Leo leans closer to Ara while she fixes his appearance. "All that coastline we've been sailing past is it, but I guess back in the Roman times it was called... what'd you say, Jason? Bodacious?"

"Dalmatia," Nico corrects him and Jason gives a start. Ara has a hard time not laughing and Nico tries just as hard not to make eye contact with her. "Croatia used to be Dalmatia, a major Roman province. You want to visit Diocletian's Palace, don't you?"

"Whose palace?" Hedge asks with alarm. "And is Dalmatia where those Dalmatian dogs come from? That 101 Dalmatians movie—I still have nightmares."

"Why would you have nightmares about that?" Frank questions.

"Nico is right," Jason interrupts before Hedge can respond. "I need to go to Diocletian's Palace. It's where Reyna will go first, because she knows I would go there."

"And why would Reyna think that? Because you've always had a mad fascination with Croatian culture?" Piper questions.

"Reyna and I used to talk about Diocletian," he explains. "We both kind of idolized the guy as a leader. We talked about how we'd like to visit Diocletian's Palace. Of course we knew that was impossible. No one could travel to the ancient lands. But still, we made this pact that if we ever did, that's where we'd go."

"Diocletian..." Leo tilts his head. "I got nothing. Why was he so important?"

"He was the last great pagan emperor!" Frank exclaims.

"Why am I not surprised you know that, Zhang?"

"Why wouldn't I? He was the last one who worshipped the Olympian gods, before Constantine came along and adopted Christianity."

"I remember something about that," Hazel ponders. "The nuns at St. Agnes taught us that Diocletian was a huge villain, right along with Nero and Caligula." She scowls at Jason. "Why would you idolize him?"

"He wasn't a total villain," Jason replies. "Yeah, he persecuted Christians, but otherwise he was a good ruler. He worked his way up from nothing by joining the legion. His parents were former slaves... or at least his mom was. Demigods know he was a son of Jupiter—the last demigod to rule Rome. He was also the first emperor ever to retire, like, peacefully, and give up his power. He was from Dalmatia, so he moved back there and built a retirement palace. The town of Split grew up around..."

Jason's gaze locks on Leo, who's pretending to write on his palm. "Go on, Professor Grace! I wanna get an A on the test."

"Shut up, Leo."

Ara laughs and Leo smiles at her reaction proudly, dragging his chair closer to her. He has been flirting at every opportunity and in front of everyone like he hasn't done in months, and she can tell he's overdoing it to make her forget their problem. She tries to resist it, but as usual, it's no use.

Piper brings them back to the subject. "So why is Diocletian's Palace so special?"

Nico grabs a grape and pops it in his mouth. "It's said to be haunted by the ghost of Diocletian."

"Who was a son of Jupiter, like me," Jason nods. "His tomb was destroyed centuries ago, but Reyna and I used to wonder if we could find Diocletian's ghost and ask where he was buried... well, according to the legends, his scepter was buried with him."

Nico smiles slightly. "Ah... that legend."

"What legend?" Hazel questions.

"Supposedly Diocletian's scepter could summon the ghosts of the Roman legions, any of them who worshipped the old gods."

"Okay, now I'm interested," Leo whistles lowly, his eyebrows raised. "Be nice to have a booty-kicking army of pagan zombies on our side when we enter the House of Hades."

"Not sure I would've put it that way," Jason sighs, "but yeah."

"We don't have much time," Frank reminds them. "It's already July ninth. We have to get to Epirus, close the Doors of Death—"

"Which are guarded," Hazel points out, "by a smoky giant and a sorceress who wants... Well, I'm not sure. But according to Pluto, she plans to 'rebuild her domain.' Whatever that means, it's bad enough that my dad felt like warning me personally."

"And if we survive all that, we still have to find out where the giants are waking Gaea and get there before the first of August," Frank groans. "Besides, the longer Percy and Annabeth are in Tartarus—"

"I know," Jason eases him. "We won't take long in Split. But looking for the scepter is worth a try. While we're at the palace, I can leave a message for Reyna, letting her know the route we're taking for Epirus."

"The scepter of Diocletian could make a huge difference," Nico concedes. "You'll need my help."

"Hey, sounds fun," Piper tries to step in. "I'll go, too."

"You can't, Piper," Nico reasons. "It should only be Jason and me. Diocletian's ghost might appear for a son of Jupiter, but any other demigods would most likely... ah, spook him. And I'm the only one who can talk to his spirit. Even Hazel won't be able to do that."

Something scalding pokes Ara in the back, like the red-hot pointy end of a spear, and she bolts forward. Her palms slam down on the table and everyone looks at her.

"Ara?" Hazel eyes her with concern. "All good?"

There is a presence in the room, and it wants her to join Jason and Nico. "I'm going with the boys."

Nico frowns. "Ara, I just said—"

"I know," the presence isn't talking but it feels like it's pushing down on, bending her back. "I'm not saying I'm a modern version of the Emperors but I'm the daughter of Olympus, so—"

"You're the leader of both camps," Jason finishes for her, understanding her point right away. "Greeks and Romans answer to you, yeah I see what you mean."

"So far that hasn't helped much," Nico mentions.

Ara glares at him."I think I hear hooves."

His face shifts, that's what they used to say to let each other know they were being heard. Usually, the code was used while talking about Connor and Lily, and the hooves referred to satyrs and nymphs, they like gossip a bit too much. Or Chiron, so they could run away before he could catch them in one of their childish competitions.

Festus rings the ship's bell and speaks through the loudspeaker in his usual machine language, distracting everyone from the weird stuff Ara just said.

"We've arrived," Leo announces. "Time to Split."

Frank makes a noise of annoyance and looks at Ara. "Can we leave Valdez in Croatia?"

"No," she smiles, getting up from her seat.

"'Cause you can't live without me?" Leo catches her wrist before she can go away and kisses her hand.

"You already know the answer."

Next Chapter –>

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[faithshouseofchaos]

I know no one asked but here’s a little get to know me….

Tagged— @moss-on-tmblr @toasttt11 @omgsuperstarg @norrisleclercf1 @wolfsbanesbite @otako5811

Dear other mutuals I forget to tag This is what your stuck with I don’t make the rules 🫡🤷‍♀️

What I look like

Age 21 will be 22

Birthday December 6th

Zodiac sign— Sagittarius

Moon sign— Leo

Oldest of five

Loves plants

From North Carolina

Im Irish on my dads side and Scottish on my moms side

I have more irrational fears than irrational

Like I’m terrified of Kimono Dragons and snakes that can swallow me whole but not someone breaking into my house (that’s happened before)

When I was little I used to be terrified of penguins because of the surfs up movie I had a nightmare where the penguins had put me in a pot and cooked me alive (I was stuck in spectate mode the whole time) now I hate them with a passion

Loves tomato’s this goes for ketchup and diced tomatoes but don’t give me whole stewed tomatoes because I will not eat them

I have adhd Asperger’s syndrome dyslexia and the math version of dyslexia

I love to read but hated English class

Loves learning about Greek mythology and history

I’m polygamous (I listen to all kinds of music right now I’m on my divorced dad rock era)

I’m really sensitive to ghosts they like to mess with me (I can see them and feel them one time at the beach we went to an old civil war fort and I had a whole conversation with what I thought was a guy an a costume and one of the ground maintenance guys told me they didn’t have anyone out in costumes that day)

Favorite color is purple

Last time I had a boyfriend I was 18 💀learned a available lesson about what I need to look for in a relationship

My love languages are quality time and acts of service

I’m the type of person that will help whoever need it but won’t seek out help when I need it

I have a crush on Selena Gomez and Kika Gomes (I hope Pierre can fight)

I’m great at taking care of people but not myself

Loves kids but don’t want any of my own because I’m terrified of being a bad parent

I’m closer with my two younger brothers than my two younger sisters don’t get me wrong I love them but because of the big age gap they are closer together and tell each other everything which I’m okay with I would proudly go to jail of anyone hurts them.

Can play the flute I’m not good at it but I can still play I can also play the keyboard if I were to practice more I’d be pretty good at it.

I’m not street smart or book smart (correction get me going on something I’m passionate about I turn into Einstein) I’m fun fact smart

Loves animals especially horses

I talk down on myself because I believe that I’m not good enough for anyone this mainly comes from my childhood I went so long letting my stepdad treat my like crap I wish I stood up for myself more.

I have dismissive avoidant attachment

The most prominent characteristic of dismissive-avoidant attachment is extreme self-sufficiency. People with a dismissive-avoidant attachment style do not want to rely on anyone, and in turn, do not want anyone relying on them. They value their freedom highly, believing that they function at their best by themselves. It’s weird because I would drop everything to help my family and friends but I wouldn’t want them to help me.

I’m angry at my bio dad and I have been for a long time

I used to cut and burn myself one time I got really depressed and I started cutting myself my younger sister came in my room and stopped me saying that her and our other siblings needed me we never told my parents because my stepdad told me that if I said that I wanted to kill myself that he would dump me in a mental hospital and leave me there.

Even though I hate hugging I give good hugs and I want to be hugged (by certain people) im weird and it doesn’t make sense

My red flag 🚩

Self sabotage

Does not cry

Can’t express my emotions

Anger issues

Can’t dance for the life of me despite playing just dance my whole life

God may have given me a ass I can’t shake/throw it back only thing I’m shaking is the car keys because I wanna go home

Strongly believe that I’m not good enough for anyone to wanna be stuck with me for the rest of my life I’m too hard on myself my too best friends tell me all the time that I’m great to be around but there’s a constant voice in the back of my mind telling me that it’s not true

I speak high Valerian, Scottish Gaelic, some Spanish some German (only Rammstein songs) and I know a little sign language

My pets

This is bruiser And this is mars

[yellowhollyhock]

2003 O’Neil Tech Team

April, the big boss

Donny, also technically the big boss but used to operating from the shadows and prefers to be just be called ‘engineer’ (good luck with that DonDon)

Casey: building maintenance (he has so many sets of keys, some of which may or may not open wormholes directly to other planets or cause time to freeze if used in the right sequence)

Leatherhead: more of a theorist than an engineer. Initially he’s helping where he can with the science, but ultimately the role he will thrive in is office doctor. He knows how to phrase “go take a nap” scientifically enough to get through to April and Don when they’re in the zone.

Fugitoid: he’s the marketing team. Mostly he markets in space, but he also helps run their website to draw earth clients in. He travels a ton. When he is in the office it’s because he’s helping build or maintain transportation (whether it’s a spaceship or a handheld teleporter).

the rest are my 2003 versions of characters from other tmnts. In order of hire:

Irma Langinstein (1987): April’s friend from her college days, business major who ended up doing secretarial work at a big law firm (which she hates). She is the first outside hire; April realizes they badly need help (she’s ending up doing a lot of the administrative work, Donny and Casey are both hard workers but neither one is organized or fiscally responsible), and doesn’t want Don to have to hide from his own employees, so she scours her family albums and yearbooks to make a list of people she might trust enough to tell about the turtles. She ends up contacting Irma, inviting her to lunch to talk about a job opportunity and bringing all four turtles along. They all half-expect Irma to scream and run, which it seems like she’s going to, but April made the food she likes and nothing keeps her from food. So she gets to know them over lunch and ends up fitting in great. Being sworn to secrecy is hard for her, but it helps that she can talk to April.

Harold Lilja (IDW): a physicist who was fired from the university he works at and decided to go into early retirement. He’s spending all his time in his basement designing impractical but extremely cool tech and on online chatrooms when Donny contacts him about some of his published papers. He’s extremely condescending and very difficult to get useful information from. Don contacts the university, but it becomes apparent that nobody there actually understands Lilja’s theories, and all he’s really able to learn is that the guy’s extremely unpleasant to work with. So naturally, he goes to his house. Irma is furious about having to help with this assignment (refuses to be left behind because Donny is clearly being too nice). Lilja turns out to be much nicer in person (is this because of Irma’s glare and Donny’s impossible-to-be-mad-at voice? hard to say), though still not very good at explaining his ideas. Donny hires him to get around the problem.

Oyuki Mashimi (archie): meets Leo and Mikey through the dojo they run. She introduces Mikey to the world of social media and he introduces her to April. She joins the marketing team, filling that earth gap that Fugitoid can’t. Being just two years younger than Donny makes her the youngest employee. Her and Irma work together a lot and are instant besties

Timothy Pulitzer (2012): he just walks in one day and applies at the front desk. He’s been working a cubicle job at a tech company for a decade, and noticing recently the things O’Neil Tech has been doing, and wondered if that would be a better fit and also better for his health. At first he annoys almost everyone because his enthusiasm seems too much to be sincere, but after a while it becomes apparent that he really is just that way. He adores Donny, which people tend to see as just sucking up to his team lead, but actually it’s because he’s never had a boss talk nicely to him before. Also once he catches him doing a cool flip in through the window, he becomes obsessed with ninjas, and always calls Splinter Mr. Ninja Rat and the other turtles Mr. (Name) Ninja Turtle. He also has a crush on Irma, but I haven’t decided if or how that goes forward.

Libby Meitner (IDW): not Harold’s partner in this, maybe in the future idk. But he is the one who contacts her because she has relevant expertise, I think probably specifically about supply chain things? She’s a chemist. She’s going to be filling Leatherhead’s role in that way so he’s able to focus more on being the office doctor. Personality wise she’s fairly aloof, keeps personal and work life very separate, really chill about mutants because why would it be any of her business anyway type of person. Do not play Poker with her.

Kala: An engineer! Very creative thinker, has experience with tech from all over the galaxy. Passionate about marketing as well. uhhh I wrote the blurb today about them meeting her. She and the other Neutrinos are shapeshifters, learning new things is their whole purpose of living. She loves to party and build superconductors. Energy sources will definitely be her expertise. She’s the one who starts calling Donny Boss and it catches on in spite of his protests (once she says it in front of Timothy it’s game over). She’s secretly April’s favorite.

Zak: cars. just. cars. Also has no business being as charismatic as he is, this little neutrino mechanic can talk his way out of anything. Him and Harold working together can either solve whatever problem has been stumping the team and create a new system of government while they’re at it, or burn the place down. It depends on their moods and the weather. Also at some point he will take Timothy under his wing to try to build up his confidence and people skills, and accidentally learn from him instead about being utterly sincere at all times no matter the stakes.

Dask: no interest in science whatsoever but he is a very effective administrator. He takes an interest in LH’s work specifically, the two of them are now the HR department. Figuring our human bureaucracy and how to make it work for their employees well-being is like a fun little puzzle to him. They’ll come up against a wall and Leatherhead’s like I cannot get Libby on the insurance :( And Dask rubs his hands together like he’s just been given a delicious treat. Also he’s able to get Leatherhead access to detailed medical notes about all different kinds of aliens.

#tmnt #tmnt 2003 #2003 donnie #2003 april #o’neil tech

[perrydapandapillowpet]

Percy: y'know, Luke had a point

Annabeth: how?

Percy: if his dad is lin-manuel miranda, he had a right to rebel

Annabeth: I mean, I guess

Percy: if I had to listen to the Hamilton soundtrack for years, I'd start a war and possibly kill everyone I ever cared about

Annabeth: sure

Percy: like, imagine if you're trying to sleep and "my shot" starts playing in your left ear, while "satisfied" is playing in your right ear

Percy: and then you look up and lin-manuel miranda is staring you right in the face like "ma name is alexander hamilton"

Percy: the songs are catchy, but...

▪︎Nico walks up to the duo▪︎

Nico: are you guys talking about the new God of theives

Percy: mhm

Annabeth: more of him *points at percy*

Nico: out of all people

Percy: I think apollo made this decision

Percy: too bad I'm too tired to visit him

Percy: I'll just have to call

Percy: ☆ the squad ☆

Percy: *on the phone* jason

Jason: w h a t

Percy: gather the squad

Jason: why can't you do it

Percy: I'm tired okay

Jason: *hangs up*

▪︎two hours later▪︎

*the squad is gathered in chb*

Piper: sooooo

Jason: ask him.

Percy: I need you to go visit apollo

Thalia: but like

Thalia: why

Percy: this is hermes

Reyna: uh huh

Percy: this was obviously apollo's decision

Will: but what if you're wrong and this all goes to waste and apollo wasn't even aware of this

Percy: be optimistic

Percy: who else's decision might that be?

Will: idk Rick?

Percy: who?

Nico: *facepalm*

Frank: are we visiting Roman apollo or Greek apollo?

Percy: it's the same thing

Leo: wait. why do we have to go and you don't???

Percy: you see these eyebags?!?!?!?

Leo: bitch i know you've had those eyebags since the moment you've stepped foot in this camp

Percy: no need to call me out

Percy: Wise girl help—

Percy: Annabeth?!

Piper: I saw her put on her hat and disappear

Piper: sooooooo

Percy: AND YOU DIDN’T TELL ME?!?!?!?

Percy: *crying*

Hazel: fake crying really isn't going to get you out of this so save yourself the tears

Percy:

Percy: yeah my face isn't even wet let's go

Jason: how are we gonna get to the empire state buliding

*everyone looks at him*

Jason: what

Thalia: n o .

Percy: I usually like hugging my nearby hunky hunka himbo, but not this time

Doorman/elevator man: Yeah no

Nico: I can get there myself

Frank: me too

Leo: I am not taking Festus for a mini trip

So...

Percy: six hundredth floor please

Percy: why

Thalia: yeah why

Doorman/elevator man: HARRY POTTER ALL THE WAY—

Thalia: *punches*

Thalia: I lost my patience and have no money, so

▪︎the elevator opens, elevator music playing loudly ▪︎

Reyna: you know, it's really tight in here

Leo: and really hot

Piper: I swear to the gods, if you burn us...

Leo: alright chilllll beauty queen

Nico: ugh I'm getting claustrophobic

Nico: Jason can you get your ass outta my face

Nico: I understand that your height is high maintenance

Nico: but that doesn't give you the right to shove your cheeks in my face

Jason: I'm on the other side of the elevators

Nico: what—

▪︎elevator dings▪︎

Percy: now remember

Percy: don't get distracted by the wonders of olympus

Percy: we gotta go to the sunshine

Piper: but that's so bright

Will: I have twenty sets of emergency sunglasses

Will: take

Thalia: DAM we look good

Nico: I see the light

Hazel: WHAT

Nico: no, apollo is right there

Thalia: oh no, I need to use the bathroom. I'm gonna go

Percy: pussy

Leo: Apollo!!!!!

Apollo, in all his glory: oh, my favorite relatives! What brings you to olympus?

Piper: was the Hermes situation your fault

Apollo: what situation

Reyna: ya know, lin-manuel?

Apollo: what about him?

Frank, whispering: he got casted as Hermes for the show

Apollo: *jaw drops* NO FUCKING WAY

Percy:...yeah

Nico: im guessing it wasn't your fault then

Apollo: ask Hermes himself

Will: no way we're talking to a man who played Alexander Hamilton AND lipbites AND writes music

Apollo: I did all three of those things, so watch your mouth!

Will: whatever, I was right.

#pjo #pjo incorrect quotes #heroes of olympus #lol #puns #memes #will solace #nico di angelo #jason grace #piper mclean #reyna avila ramirez arellano #jason and thalia #thalia #annabeth hoo #leo valdez

[ducknotinarow]

“Hey, uh, Raph? I think I might need your help with something.” Don starts, rubbing the back of his neck. “So there’s this guy I maybe have a crush on, but I’m not sure if it’s right to move on a friend of a brother’s, you see.” ( shfbshsbdbdh; I had to follow up :’ 3 ‘03 verse! )

| Muse Interaction @starsandsavages

Raphael, was busy in the garage tinkering away with his shellcycle. Don may have built it, but he was the one that tended to the maintenance. Or tweaked things here and there mostly in an attempt to get it to go faster. He would just love to show up Casey when they wond up getting into a race. Thier dumb face left to go slack jaw and eat his dust. Chuckling to himself as he was trying to see if there was a way to make the frame lighter. That help with his speed, he could reduce the compression ratio as well. Mulling it over a second as he hears footsteps work their way in to the room.

Raph doesn't really give much attention to who it is. The safe bet was Don anyway. Reaching for the drill ready to contuine woth what he was in the middle off but he can just feel Don staring at him so he turns to look at them letting the purple banded turtle knkw he had hus attetion.

“Hey, uh, Raph? I think I might need your help with something.”

Watching Donatello rub at the back of his neck had Raphael tilting his head to the side. He moved to sit on the floor to better show Don had his attetion. "Kay guessin' this ain't one of those give me a hand with an enegie or help me move some junk around calls for help? Alright brainaic what's eattin' at ya now?"

“So there’s this guy I maybe have a crush on, but I’m not sure if it’s right to move on a friend of a brother’s, you see.”

"Uh interestin" was all the turtle had to say at first "what it's you Don I have expect ya to marry ya computer before ya get a crush on another person." He smirks a little as he teases them over it nit focusing on the question well the bit Donnie likely would want him to at least. He was curious who's friend it was. Even rubbing at his chin.

"Well ya talkin' to me so can' be any of my friends. Pretty sure ain't any of Mikey's, cause I'm pretty Mikey would love to set you up." That left one brother Leo, so that would be. "Ya 'ike Usagi?!" It wasn't to hard to land on that answer Leo wasn't excatly one that had a lot of friends. But he was the one that made sense for Donnie to be a bit worried about having a crush towards.

"Shell, I say do it. Shoot your shot Dee. I said it as a joke bro but I really 'm worried ya come an' tell me ya got hitched to a circuit board or somethin'" the lack of a grin was to show he was serious about it now. "If ya worried about Leo wouldn' hurt ta ask 'ight? He lokes the guy so clearly he might not have an issue but I still say go for it."

Moving off the floor so he could make hus way over to Donatello. Throwing his arm over thier shoulder and tugging them into a side hug. "Aww looked at Don, gettin' all them warm fuzzy an' shit. Kinda surpised since ya started off on the wrong wit' 'em. But eh could pick worse I guess." He takes a second to look over his brother. Fixing a look on them before he speaks again.

"Look ill go with when ya talk to fearless if it helps ya knkw moral support or whatever. Or mediator either works." He smiles clearly kidding still. "Come on lossen up bro. I gotta back here. Promise. Just gotta mess with you too."

#muse| hamato raphael #starsandsavages #[ brains and brawn duo starsandsavages] #muse interaction #ic reply #stay queued #((raphs biggest fear is donnie gonna marry a computer or computer part xD))

[spatio-rift]

He might be a bit comical, but his ability to catch rebounds is the real deal! He's unbeatable when he puts his mind to it!

happy birthday hayakawa 🥺💕 im glad i could finish this in time to post it today! rebound is love rebound is life etc. using alisayamins scans again for the pages above, and below the cut is the transcription ^__^

Burn it all in a (r)ebound battle!!

He beats them all under the hoop with endless endurance and fighting spirit! His body and technique are still developing, but his enthusiasm and stamina more than make up for it! He contributes to the team's offense with his specialty: rebounds!

PROFILE: ● Height: 185cm ● Weight: 77kg ● Birthday: August 18 (Leo) ● Blood type: B ● Motto: The anxiety that comes from doing nothing is worse than any danger you might face / It's easier to do something than worry about it / Action is worry's worst enemy ● Favorite food: Crab cream croquettes ● Hobby: Modelguns ● Special skill: Target shooting -> likely as in shooting games like in festivals, the kind where you try to hit the prizes? hes a gun enthusiast so im not sure lol but prize games made up most of the results when i looked it up ● Best school subject: World history ● Committee: Physical education committee ● Family: Father, mother, older brother ● Not good at: Tongue twisters ● Special skill (basketball): Offensive rebounds ● Type of girls he likes: A calm / laid-back / easygoing person ● How he spends his time off: Taking care of his modelguns (maintenance) ● Why he started playing basketball: Because the basketball club felt the most intense (passionate) ● Player he has his eye on: Wakamatsu Kousuke

KUROtter!! He'd make a good captain. (Mx. T, Osaka prefecture)

“This time fo(r) su(r)e...! (R)ebooound!!”

Hayakawa Mitsuhiro’s memorable moment: Kasamatsu missed a shot early into the inter-high quarterfinals, setting up the stage for a rebound battle against Touou’s Susa and Wakamatsu! They might have had an edge over him in terms of size, but Hayakawa overpowered them with his intensity and his assist led to a successful shot!!

Kaijou High 2nd year; Hayakawa Mitsuhiro Kaijou's number one passionate guy! He likes to get up close and personal with his opponents while fighting it out under the hoop, and his enthusiasm for rebounds is second to none!!

A rebounder with endless fighting spirit!! He might be a bit comical, but his ability to catch rebounds is the real deal! He's unbeatable when he puts his mind to it!

FAVORITE: Hayakawa's plays are just so passionate and energetic! His amped-up attitude may fire up those around him… or on the contrary, irritate them!?

He's so noisy, he could be called a mood-maker!? He's got too much energy and makes a big deal out of every little thing! It really gets on Wakamatsu's nerves!!

Anyway, isn’t his speech way too characteristic!? Hayakawa not only talks too fast, but he always messes up his r's as well! Just a few words and his presence is already felt! -> im not sure about this one but i think what i put as “characteristic” in the title doesnt just mean like unique but also specifically typical of a fictional character

A word from Fujimaki-sensei! Now that I think about it, I’m not sure that not being able to pronounce r’s is a good trait for a character to have.

KUROtter!! A pure angel who can't pronounce r's! (Mx. N, Ibaraki prefecture)

#kuroko no basket #hayakawa mitsuhiro #knb #imayoshinobasuke #trucs #there are SOOO MANY exclamation points in this entry lol #i dont know why theres burn it all in the title. i dont know if im missing something if its an expression that means something else etc #i just dont know. i couldnt find anything. ok then hayakawa lets set everything on fire #maybe its in a way like lets get real fucking fired up. who knows. im exhausted so forgive me for not looking that much into it #i did have fun picking the most obnoxiously loud font i could find to write it though

[king-of-better]

Everything not in PreFINAL

Strongest CD 4: FINAL.-01: White & Black (Kouryu & Anryu)

The Dragon Brothers have been assigned to clear up a junk island, while awaiting assistance from their sisters, who are finally returning to duty after being damaged in the incident in Lyons. RaiRyu and EnRyu keep arguing.

It is May 2006, 2 months after the battle with the New Machine Species, and a mysterious junk island appeared in the south Pacific. Specifically, the UN concluded it was illegally disposed of industrial waste. Due to the risk of hazardous gases, the Brave Robots are the ones sent to clear up. Arguments spring up, over Gai tricking EnRyu into taking the mission, or the other's "important duties", FuRyu starts to freakout right before the others arrive via Mirror Catapult.

KoRyu still has the problem with her landing inherited from EnRyu and RaiRyu, and the sisters meet their brothers for the first time. In his excitement to impress them, EnRyu starts melting trash, and FuRyu blows some towards the coast, HyoRyu freezes the ash but has no plan for afterwards, they do stop RaiRyu using electricity recklessly. The girls suggest Symmetrical Docking may be more useful, and in theory RaiRyu or EnRyu could join with AnRyu, or HyoRyu or FuRyu with KoRyu, but it just leads to those pairs arguing over which will get to do it. Losing patience, the sisters attack and wind up igniting the island.

A month later, after repairs, they are gathered at the Big Order Room, the island had included dangerous materials dumped by Bionet. The sister's attacks get dubbed as KoRyu's Primerose Moon and AnRyu's Cherbourg Rain.

The narration later tells us that, due to modifications made to their frames in France, the Sisters cannot Symmetrical Dock with their brothers, though they didn't know this yet.

Strongest CD 3: FINAL.-0.5: The Sky In the Universe Is My Sky (Sol-J)

In the depths of space, Tomoro 0117 has gone berserk, and is randomly launching attacks from J-Ark, J and Arma can do nothing. It began with J-Ark emerging into normal space to recharge the Jewel Generator before the next jump, as they are making their way back from the Void, they find a capsule from an unknown civilisation, opening it to find a strange creature, Kaidou dubs it Pogechu. Tomoro scans a data box, and goes berserk.

Kaidou tries his mother's technique of percussive maintenance, but Tomoro starts attacking empty space. J fears he will die without settling things with Gai, and Kaidou without seeing his mother, but they realise Pogechu is releasing radio waves that are affecting Tomoro, and launch it again in the capsule. The 3 promise to continue fighting together, before launching towards the future.

Afterwards, J goes nuts due to a parasitic mite that was on Pogechu. The narration notes that on earth, Arma will internally name a dog at the harbour Pogechu.

Final.0.0: Evoluder GUY

Chapter 1

Aboard High-speed Mobile Mothership Yasakani, Mikoto communicates with GF-01, telling Evoluder GUY, whose now fights against Bionet, to return to the ship. Professor Takanohashi, now chief of development after the departure of Liger and death of Leo, feels his work will be done soon, though the chief developer of GF-01, the young Alouette Pommier, wants things fully finished, as the Phantom Ring still needs studying, she has been responsible for developing the new GaoMachines Final Fusion Program. Gai is aware of how important it is that the GaoFighGar project succeeds, as Galeon isn't around to form GaoGaiGar anymore, though for Bionet he feels GaoFar is more than enough.

Aboard the Orbit Base, Hyuma and Taiga follow Yasakani's route. Gai and Mikoto offer Alouette a sweet, which she rejects while trying to act overly mature, when a black figure appears in front of Yasakani, and breaks into the rear hanger, realising they're after the GaoMachines, Gai equips to go confront the attacker, as Entoji loses satellite connection.

Gai confronts the intruder, as Bionet mutants board, Ushi not having the manpower to fight them off, as Gai struggles, Takanohashi holds off a mutant, sending Mikoto to the cockpit, to try and stop Yasakani crashing. Alouette, to prevent all the GaoMachines being lost, tells Gai he has to board GaoPhantom and launch, he successfully initiates Fusion with her support, forming GaoFar, the intruder moves on to confront Mikoto in the cockpit, Mikoto takes a moment to recognise him as Wanibuchi Shuu, he then knocks her out.

GaoFar prevents Yasakani sinking, but Shuu appears to taunt Gai, escaping with Mikoto. Gai tells Takanohashi that Shuu was an old friend.

2

Volfogg transports Gai and Alouette through Paris, then lets them go ahead, fighting Bionet Mutants, Gai finds himself blinded as other ambush him, but he's saved by the arrival of his cousin, and G-Stone Cyborg, Renai Kerdif Shishioh, who eliminates the mutants. Bionet was shielding the GS-Ride signals of the new GaoMachines, but GGG caught a minute trace, and requested Chasseur aid. Alouette is needed to cancel the protection on the GaoMachines once they reach them.

Gai fights a Bionet cyborg, while elsewhere a Bionet leader forces Mikoto to watch.

Renais questions what Alouette's reason for being involved in things like this is, not exactly impressed by her treating it like a game, but then Renais takes note when the Cyborg refers to them both as traitors. Renais is beaten back, Alouette working to unleash greater radiation, allowing the two together to destroy the cyborg, only to come to where Shuu stands atop StealthGao, the protection broken, Shuu goads Gai that he'll be waiting in Japan and flies off, Volfogg, AnRyu and KoRyu unable to stop them. Gai promises he will be following, for Mikoto and to fulfill his promise to Shuu.

3

StealthGao III is approaching G-Island City, HoRyu and EnRyu have been readied to intercept, but can't keep up, Volfogg manages to grapple onto it, Gai and Alouette following in PhantomGao. LinerGao II appears and blasts Volfogg off, Gai throws Alouette to him, and forms GaoFar, as DrillGao II also appears.

With Bionet and Shuu in control of all 3 New GaoMachines, Taiga fears there is no option, and readies a key, Hyuma and Takanohashi have identical keys, even as Takanohashi fears the damage may be too great, and Ushi and Papillon also seem concerned. Alouette announces there is another option, GaoFar will automatically retake control of them if there's a successful Final Fusion. The odds are exceptionally low, but Gai decides to try it. Papillon does the Program Drive, GaoFar launches the Program Ring to control the combination, with Alouette having fine tuning work.

Mid combination, a Bionet Fortress appears in the sky, Shuu leaping from int into GaoFar right before LinerGao II docks, and confronts Gai, the Fusion cancels.

The Bionet leader, annoyed by Shuu's straightforwardness, throws Mikoto from the fortress, Gai being distracted by the news is enough for Shuu to beat him, and resume initiating Final Fusion to take control of GaoFighGar, struggling against the forces of combination.

Taiga, Hyuma and Takanohashi initiate the forced shutdown, Gai, falling sees Mikoto be caught by the Bionet leader, falling into Volfogg's hand.

Bionet escapes with the GaoMachines, though Shuu is unhappy seeing what has been done to Mikoto.

4

December 2006, Gai and Alouette are heading to the Space Development Corporation for an Intelligent Division worldwide briefing. On the way they run into Hana, Sunou, Ushi, Reiko and Ayame, who are Christmas shopping. Hana asks about Miktoto, Alouette claiming she's on a mission to cover for him.

The Bionet leader threatens Mikoto, Shuu is furious they've harmed her, all he wanted was to be able to settle things with Gai, he joined Bionet just for a Cyborg body. Mikoto asks Shuu why he would do this. In school the two were rivals, but Gai always surpassed him. He requested a final duel, which Gai agreed to do after his test flight. Shuu thinks Gai probably never intended to keep the promise, but in order to have a chance now he went to Bionet, who experimented with recovered Zonder Metal, and unable to create hybrids, but eventually managed to create Pseudo-Zonders, and from that Metal Cyborgs, Shuu was the last surviving subject, but his body will become unmaintainable soon, so he intends to settle things with Gai soon.

Gai and Alouette eat at the Hatsuno's restaurant, but Alouette becomes troubled by the kids and decides to leave. Gai decides to take her past her mother's home. Alouette's mother doesn't know she's alive, as Alouette was experimented on as an embry by Bionet to create a super genius, and stolen the moment she was born, GGG only saved her 6 months ago. He encourages her not to try and keep the weight of the world on her shoulders.

They meet with Mic, Swan and Stallion, who have retrieved data from another Bionet base, signals Alouette can use to locate their main base. Volfogg reports finds the GaoMachines in Hong Kong, but Shuu then knocks him out.

5

January 2007, Hong Kong. The Mobile Unit have evacuated the city, and GaoFar stands in the city, the Mobile Unit try to fight as Gai and Mikoto burst into the base on GunDober, and confront the leader.

The Mobile Unit suffer power drain, and Main Order Room loses communication. The leader promises to hand over Mikoto if they trigger a Final Fusion. Alouette, in the name of scientific curiosity, agrees if they put her close.

Alouette triggers Final Fusion, then signals Gai to act, he breaks free, and she's also given him an opening in the tornado, and he gets into GaoFar, and begs Shuu to stop, his body can't handle it and they can't settle things if he dies, Shuu realising Gai didn't forget his promise, but rejects the offer to join them, as he is guaranteed to die soon, his body torn apart, GaoFighGar forms with Gai in control.

The Bionet leader launches an attack at Alouette and Mikoto, GaoFighGar destroys the base with a Broken Phantom.

A few months later, Alouette managed to survive, however she lost her memories and her genius, and now lives a normal life with her mother, happily taking an ice-cream from Mikoto when she drops her own. Gai and Mikoto are glad to see her happy, but sad to have lost their friend.

Strongest CD 1: FINAL.0.25: Evoluder is tough (Gai)

Early 2007, GGG have created a new King of Braves: GaoFighGar. One day Mic brings Swan to Orbit Base, Papillon wants Gai to get ready, but he's forgotten about his regular checkup.

These checks are about studying Gai's Evoluder nature, Papillon noting despite the immense stresses of Final Fusion into GaoFighGar there is no signs of injury. Gai and Mikoto think it's done, but Papillon and Swan also want to X-ray his stomach. He barely lasts long enough, and then has to take a laxative, then give blood, Papillon mentioning that if the UN permits she wants to study engineering superhumans using Gai's abilities as a framework.

Papillon explains that as an Evoluder, when at rest Gai isn't too different to his record from before he became a Cyborg, so she wants to determine what triggers his abilities.

Placing Gai in extreme conditions, he does far better than a normal human, but cannot seem to trigger his abilities.

Before Papillon can make any conclusions, an alert rings out that Orbit Base has a fault and is falling out of orbit. The Carpenters are in LA after a quake, Kanayago cannot make it back in time, and ChoRyuJin won't be ready in time, and so Gai, without hesitation, goes to do what he can as GaoFighGar.

Afterwards it turns out Papillon had the emergency faked, reasoning that Gai's Evoluder abilities would only activate if he was acting to protect people or earth, as they do when fighting Bionet.

Gai is about to give Hyuma and Taiga a piece of his mind for helping fake the incident, when the laxatives kick in, Papillon notes his abilities surge again, but Papillon's hypothesis has already been disproven.

Strongest CD 2: FINAL.0.6: Close Contact! 24 Hours Life (Mikoto)

A TV crew is following Mikoto for 24 hours, disturbing her by entering her room while she sleeps, Mikoto is shocked in waking up and thinks the reporter is EI-22 for a moment.

The reporters keep following Mikoto through her day, on a date with Gai, Mikoto is annoyed when she spots the camera crew again.

Back at the Main Order Room, Mikoto greets Papillon, who she feels is keeping too much distance between them, only for the camera team to even appear there. Later one of the Robots has to stop them going into a restricted area.

They follow Mikoto to another rendezvous with Gai, and later Mikoto meets with Stallion, the camera crew hidden in a corner until she sneezes, Swan let her in. She later has training with Hyuma to have effective form form performing the Program Drive, and the Safety Relieve, she becomes exhausted, and the camerawoman becomes convinced Mikoto is not someone they should entrust earth's protection to.

An alert about Bionet requires the Mobile Unit to mobilise, while Mikoto analyses the situation and advises HyoRyu and EnRyu what to do, and initiates Final Fusion, launches the Dividing Drivers, and Safety Relieves, impressing the reporter, demonstrating her indispensable support to GaiFighGar.

GGG later go out to celebrate in G-Island City, Mikoto is made to do karaoke. However, even this was being filmed.

Strongest CD 5: FINAL.0.7: Mamoru Returns (Mamoru and Hana)

Ushi, Hana, Reiko and Sunou have made it to the grand opening of Bottom The World, with mascot Chika, a whole year after the originalky planned opening date. They are naturally only aware of the cover story behind the postponement, but Ushi has heard rumours of a ghost woman.

It's spring 2007, a year has passed since Mamoru left. The others want to go on Uppo-kun's shooting coaster, but Hana doesn't want to after her experiences with it in Okinawa.

While waiting she wishes Mamoru would return, she spots a couple, Hinoki and Kei-chan, and feels jealous. They enquire if she's okay, a little perturbed by her mentioning her husband, but advise she visit their friend's Sensing Mind Fortune House.

The fortune teller tells her in response to her question about her loved one, which she already knows, that soon seven lives will be released into the world.

Confused by the fortune, Hana is surprised by Kaidou's sudden appearance, having not see him since Tokyo Tower, he is with something. The others return, shocked but glad to see him. Rather than give him a chance to explain, they instead want to go on the GaGaGa Ride, which has a story of them being passengers on a Zonder Robo bus that fights GaoGaiGar. Kaidou asks about Mamoru, correcting himself from calling him Latio, and is told he's in space. EI-27 makes an appearance as part of the ride, Zondeising the driver. The simulation includes a Hell and Heaven, followed by Mamoru appearing to purify the driver. Except Ushi notes the Mamoru on screen isn't vanishing. It's actually him.

He says he purified all the New Machine Species across the universe.

Kaidou and Mamoru greet eachother, Kaidou isn't out off by the alien news of course, but is surprised about the wedding, being dismayed having had feelings for Hana. Mamoru tells him he and Hana pledged marriage back in preschool. Kaidou claims this isn't Mamoru, his teasing attitude not matching Mamoru, and engages in a competition, when it doesn't prove Mamoru an impostor, he decides to expose him by force.

Summoning J-Ark, he initiates Mega Fusion into King J-Der, in opposition Mamoru does Final Fusion into Star GaoGaiGar. Hana begs them to stop.

Hana awakes back in the Fortune House, having been shown a future vision via Sensing Mind. She takes solace that Mamoru will return.

Yosef gives birth to a litter of 7 puppies, Hana realising this is the portent to Mamoru's return, though not quite under the circumstances she was in Papillon's store.

Strongest CD 6: FINAL.0.8: Mei Detective Lion (Renais)

Renais rushes to save Papillon, who has been abducted by Bionet's Dr. Gimlet, after he absconds Volfogg arrives to assist Renais. This may be May 2007.

Swan was abducted from GGG America, Gimlet revealing his cyborg nature as part of the kidnapping. Sakura was abducted from the Space Development Corporation while thinking about Taiga. Hirata was the last abduction before Papillon. Renais gets annoyed with the ninja.

Volfogg's plan is to have Renais infiltrate Gimlet's perverted photoshoot operation, she isn't happy about it, but will do it for Papillon's sake.

Volfogg announces Renais' presence to Gimlet, a distracting tactic as she is forced to perform.

Eventually Gimlet's perversion become to much for Renais, who triggers her own Hyper Mode and beats the hell out of Gilmlet. Volfogg uses the opportunity to get some pictures for later use.

Volfogg winds up sharing the images with Entoji, selling them for a profit. Renais is angry about this.

#gaogaigar final

[exovapor]

The Adventure - TMNT Bitches: chapters 12 & 13

CHAPTER 12: Larger Than Life

(Earlier)

Shredder moves through the congregation of cosplayers and genre aficionados looking for looking for suitable ‘volunteers’ to join his cause.  While there are no lack of people in general, most are too scrawny or out of shape to be of use to him.  He needs to find adequate specimens for his new mutant army and fast. 

As he reaches the lower level of the hotel, he sees a small group of rowdy, intoxicated, unruly men dressed as gladiators harassing a small group of women dressed in right colored outfits and long wings, which reminded him of some of the Japanese cartoons.  These five men are decently in shape and seem to be fairly strong considering that they are picking the women up and tossing them around as if they were dolls, they will definitely do for his purposes…now to get them alone and to inject them with the mutagen.

Shredder approaches the loud group manhandling the women and addresses them directly, “I see that you are a group of fine warriors, how would you like to become larger than life?”. 

The largest of the group of gladiators sets one of the anime dressed women back down on her feet, allowing her to flee from his grasp while muttering crass language his way, and he looks at the elaborately dressed Shredder with derision, “Bud, I think you need some glasses, can’t you see that I am already larger than life?”, he responds while flexing and ending his posing with a quick grab to his crotch.  His other four buddies laugh at his antics and copy his flexing to prove their size.

“Yesss, I see that you are quite the specimens”, Shredder’s placating voice rings out, “but, what if I told you that you could be more.”, he practically purrs out.  “I am offering you the opportunity to be unstoppable, to take whatever you want, whenever you want.”, he says while directing his gaze to the group of women who have moved as far away from the disorderly men as possible.

Despite their intoxicated state, Shredder’s words are sounding logical to them.  Hell, they came to Dragon Con to party and live it up, taking whatever drugs they could find to increase their pleasure while here.  If this crazy knife guy says he has something to increase their libidos or hype them up, they were game!

The dark skinned gladiator of the group speaks up after visually consulting with his companions, “Sure, man, we’ll hit your stash, I’m Ty, the big dork that started flexing for you is Bran, Todd and Mark there are our token gingers, and this lady’s man,” he says punching the third gladiator in the shoulder, who looks like he might be a mixed heritage of Thai and Filipino, “is Chompoo, Chomp for short.  So, where’s this stash of yours?”.

Shredder pats a leather bag on his belt and motions for the men to follow him, “The stuff I have will change your life, we need a bit of privacy, let’s see if this establishment has a basement area”.

CHAPTER 13: Rallying The Troops

(Back to the Present)

Leonardo and Raphael search through every ballroom, panel room, and maintenance closet on the lower level of the Marriott for over an hour but still come up empty handed.  “We’re nevah gonna find Shred-head in dis place!”, Raph grumbles to Leonardo.

Leo signs his own frustrations as the futility of the situation, “Raph, we don’t have a choice.  Donnie’s surveillance shows him coming to this location.  He’s got to be here… somewhere.    We have got to find him.  Maybe Mikey and Donnie have had better luck, let’s head back to the center of the atrium.

As Raph and Leo exit the inner hallways of the building and enter the open air area of the atrium, they see a very excited blonde male human nearly dragging a very tall burnette male behind him.  Mikey sees Leo and Raph off to the side of the atrium and makes a beeline for them as he pull’s Donnie along by the shirt hem. 

“DUDES!  You are never gonna believe what I saw!”, Mikey exclaims as they draws near his older brothers.  Despite them being human now for a couple of hours, it is still heard to wrap their minds around Mikey’s voice coming out of this human mouth.  In fact, all aspects of being human is still taking some getting used to.  They feel like their hearing is off or muffled, they can’t smell as well as they normally can, their sight isn’t as acute, and damn did they feel vulnerable without their shells.

“What?  Did ya see yer hero Elmo or somethin’?”, Raph chuckles at him.

Mikey gives Raphael a withering look before continuing, “No!  I saw us!”, he says gesturing between himself and his tall companion, “ Me and Donnie!”.

Leo and Raph look over to Donnie for an explanation.  As Donnie tries to straighten out his crumpled shirt hem he offers, “First off, it’s Donnie and I.  Secondly, no, he didn’t see his reflection if that is what you two are wondering.  To my knowledge, he didn’t see actual versions of us, just people dressed as us….or so he thinks.”.

“Not just people.  GIRLS!  And they were dressed as us.”, Mikey emphasized.  Leo and Raph glance at each other out of the corner of their eyes, trying not to crack too big a smile at Mikey’s story.  “Tell them the important part”, Donnie complains as he straightens up his glasses, thoroughly over Mikey’s around-about story telling.

“Oh, right!  Yeah, they told me they were looking for the Shredder”, Mikey adds in as an after thought.

Leo’s eyes go wide, “What?  Are you sure Mikey?”, he chokes out at the information.

“Yeah, dude, I talk to them.  Totally cool chicks, smokin’ bodies, totally dressed as us and looking for Shredder.”, he says states grinning and crossing his arms in proud triumph at talking to hot women.

“Oh, Leo, dis is bad”, Raph offers up. 

“You’re right, Raph, if they find Shredder before we do there is no telling what might happen to them.  He could take them as hostages or worse…”, Leo surmises leaving his sentencing hanging as he thinks about the possible outcomes. 

Directing his clear blues eyes on the youngest, with a focused stare Leo asks, “Mikey, this is very important.  I need you to tell us where they went and what exactly they looked like.”.

“Oh, that’s easy dude.  They were headed down here.  They should be around here somewhere…just look for sexy hot versions of Donnie and I.”, Mikey says giving Donnie a pleased smile at using the correct wording, to which Donnie just rolls his eyes. 

Undeterred, Mike continues, “They are wearing green corsets, with boobs out to here,” he gestures with his hands in front of his chest making comically large breasts for himself, “and fluffy little green skirts that show off their asses.  Oh, and little cute turtle shells on the back.”.

Leo, Donnie, and Raph stare shocked and open-mouthed at the Mikey.  Raph is the first to recover, “What are we waitin’ for?  They need us!”, he states emphatically and starts off to search the atrium.

“Raph, wait!  We need to coordinate the search effort….”, Leo tries to yell after him but the large human is already cutting a path through the throng of party-goers.

“I guess we’re all going this way”, Donnie offers up.  Quickly the three brothers head off after the hot-head in search of the women.

Sorry for the formatting... Tumblr has become SHIT for allowing formats to transfer over from Word and the space count is just effing backwards of how it wants me to do the KEEP READING line. I'm probably starting an AO3 soon to link over to since Tumblr wants to make this place inhospitable to stories. @turtle-babe83 @tmntspidergirl @nittleboo @raisin-shell

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[perfectpaperbluebirds]

Full of so much Tenbusch brainrot this past week thanks to that awesome ask about their comfort items and writing their next story, so I finally finished full bio pages for them all. That means y’all get another Tenbusch info post that no one asked for:

Did you know that all the family members have assigned roles in the household? Here’s the breakdown: 

JB (the numbers guy): Bills, finances. He’s also the resident foodie, helps with menu rotation and menu planning for big events, always willing to help cook. 

Thad (the visionary): Repairs, upkeep, business and estate future planning and preparation. 

Theo (the engineer): Snowmobiles/quads and trails, hunting and fishing gear, calendar coordination (for events that everyone needs to be involved in. Obviously they all have their own individual calendars).

Audra (the lifeblood): Chickens, livestock, yard work, laundry (mostly laundry coordination and helping if people are getting behind. Most do their own laundry.)

Thalia (the task master): Vegetable garden/greenhouse, menu planning, chore assignments

Padma (the designer): Shopping/keeping the pantry stocked, decorating for holidays and events, interior design and decorating. 

CottageVersity birthdays and Zodiac signs: 

JB: November 15~Scorpio

Thad: January 7~Capricorn

Theo: February 28~Pices

Audra: September 9~Virgo

Thalia: July 29~Leo

Padma: October 20~Libra

Have a bonus fun fact about each of them that may not have come out in their stories yet:

JB: Since I accidentally missed this in the “comfort items” post, JB’s comfort media is black and white movies and smooth jazz-- things that are relaxing and easy on the senses. His favorite cuisine is Indian food. 

Thad: The most athletic of the three original siblings. Played football, wrestled, and ran track in high school and during his first few years in college. Lots of chronic physical issues due to sports injuries. 

Theo: Very mechanically inclined even though he looks like a nerd. Rebuilt his first several vehicles and does most of his own car maintenance. He finds taking apart engines relaxing. 

Audra: Struggles to relate to many people, especially emotionally, though she hides it well. Gets stuck in her own head easily and loses touch with the outside world, though she desperately craves connection. Stammers when she’s excited, a holdover from childhood. Often talks too fast and has to rein this in when she’s lecturing. She has a hunch she’s at least slightly on the autism spectrum, though she was never tested. 

Thalia: Only had two girlfriends before settling down with Padma. Her (closeted) high school girlfriend Alexis helped her learn that she was gay and what passion feels like. Her college girlfriend Bella taught her what a committed relationship looks like, and how to exist being “out”. Padma taught her what it means to be in love and build a life with someone. 

Padma: She’s a Hindu and a vegetarian. Every meal cooked in their home has a separate vegan or vegetarian option prepared for her. The other siblings also enjoy vegetarian meals from time to time, so they like having options.  

#CottageVersity AU #OC asks

[dark9896]

Hidden Secrets [Head Cannon]

This fun collection of head cannons was requested by anonymous 🧐

This will be the order of the head cannons:

Weirdest thing they've eaten

Annoying trait about themselves

Worst fear involving s/o

Worst fear not involving s/o

Klaus

A 200 year old recipe called Grand Trifle. It had genuine calf's foot jelly in it and while he didn't dislike it, he wasn't keen to eat much of it.

His fangs. It might be a family trait, but after so long away from his family he's grown to resent them. Especially around his s/o because of how much he can hurt them on accident.

His worst fear is being unable to protect his s/o more so than anything. While he can't protect them all the time, he still worries about not being there when they need him most

His other worst fear is falling to his curse. While it would mean he lost hope, he also worries about hurting others above all else.

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Steven

Fried Spider. He didn't realize what it was until he went to buy it and decided to try it anyway while he was on a mission in Cambodia. He didn't really care for it, but it was nice and crunchy.

His emotional distance. He feels he's too distant from others at all times and worries that it hinders him as a person. He still forms connections, but feels like he could do better to come off as a warmer person.

That he isn't doing enough for his s/o. This stems from his annoyance and worries about his emotional distance. He can buy the things, he can take them to nice places...but is he really spending enough quality time with them? Will they leave him for someone who can?

Other than that, he fears he's somehow too rough or cold to others. He doesn't want to come off as authoritarian or dictator-ish, but also knows that Klaus can't (Or won't) do anything to reign in anyone in the office.

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Leo

Cuttlefish Cheetos. He was tired and didn't realize the restock in the store had moved the Cheeto Puffs down a shelf. While they were the crunchy Cheetos, and Leo doesn't really likes those either, Leo hated the fish flavor and tossed the bag without a second thought.

His (height) "normalcy". He thinks everyone is better than him in every way. And that seeps through every part of his life. Literally the reason he himself thinks he's only valued because of his eyes.

He fears that his s/o is somehow an enemy only interested in him for his eyes. (He is traumatized after what happened with White.)

Other than that, he fears that he isn't doing enough for anyone. His eyes might be magical, but he's still a normal guy. And he usually ends up in the hospital after giving his all.

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Zapp

Baby Shark Curry. He went with a date to an Indian restaurant and just ordered the first thing that caught his eye. He wasn't disappointed by the dish, but also wouldn't order it again. He was hoping it would be a bit spicier.

His lanky body. He actually has severe self-confidence issues that he buries under his bravado and it stems from not being very buff. Though being told he's ridiculously handsome helps, just not when his feet poke from over the end of the bed.

He fears that he's being used by a true s/o that he's genuinely invested in. Sure he has multiple partners, flings, and one night stands, but once he starts getting attached to a single person (every if they are both poly) he gets nervous that he's being used.

He also fears that he already peaked as a person and will only get worse. Certain milestones and expectations will always be out of reach because he tries so hard to fit his ideal of a manly man.

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Zed

Deep Fried Gator Tail. He thought it was some kind of deep fried chicken nugget, but chewy. Once he was told about it, he questioned everything about it. But he definitely liked it.

The little webs between his fingers. He's up on dry land a lot. Those need water or they get flimsy and crack. His very existence needs maintenance but his hands get the worst of it because of his love at books.

He fears his s/o is going to get hurt because of him. Either his job or because of his physiology. He has claws and lives best in water! Human s/os, or just dry land s/os will be in far more danger with him.

Otherwise he fears that he will be attacked and have his air pods stolen again. Being a fish out of water he always worries about being stranded.

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[vampacidic]

*sits down in front of you* do you happen to have any more mayoi phantom thoughts for the night i would like to hear them please

hi. i passed out. hmmm i have a coupleeeeeee?

i really went crazy with that 'mayoi has eyes that glow in the dark' thing i love that one so much. yknow she how she watched aira sleep that one time. i think that aira assumed she was just a fuckin cat and was like hey. who let the cat in? and then he turned on the light and it was a Guy and screamed. hiiro is just like wow mayoi that's so cool can you teach me to do that? (she can't) and tatsumi just thinks it's endearing or something i haven't read an enstars story in ages. she has better eyesight than everyone else in ES at night bc of the glowing. however it does freak out maintenance workers who get up in the vents to clean the fan or something to see two glowing eyes in the distance followed by a whimper.

she sleeps in a coffin. she won't explain why. she says it's comfortable (it's horribly claustrophobic). it's actually bc it makes her feel closer to death which helps with the self loathing. her thoughts race at night with self hatred and worry about how the world sees her and by sealing herself off it helps abate that (to a degree). she can't really breathe but she appreciates the asphyxiation. she shouldn't be allowed to breathe anyway. (it's brought up that rei sleeps in a coffin, too, at one point. this is what gets her to start sleeping in a normal bed)

def has a housewife fantasy (not like nuclear family housewife i mean like. housewife that is respected in their job. idealized housewife)... she wants to be a stay at home mom one day. terrified that children hate her (they don't. they think she's silly) but she really loves them. really really really wants to be a mom. she wants to take care of them and just live a normal life.. long after the plot of enstars i think she gets to settle down with tatsumi and they have a little baby and they're the best parents ever [i have a terminal case of baby fever]. she's def the one that does the shopping she's incredibly skilled at taking care of people. something something mamayoi

she composed in her free time... 'its nothing big...' she stammers out before playing a modern masterpiece that rivals leo. she (eventually) befriends leo because of this. is she still scared shitless of his erratic behavior? yes. but they talk music theory and composing and they're buddies... leo's music is very loud and kind of everywhere while her tunes are simple and melodic. they compose together sometimes. usually via mayoi sliding a compositions through the ceiling tiles into leo's room while he sleeps (leo wakes up and reads it and scribbles out things he doesn't like. mayoi takes it a little too personally at first but she realizes it's just because leo is Like That and has no idea how he comes across to other people. she adapts)

i think it's stupid that mayoi's hands are shown in canon. i think her hands are like. gross looking. shriveled and bone-y and littered with scars and there's almost no fat on them. that's why she wears the gloves. but enstars is a COWARD so i will just do this myself. she hates taking her gloves off. takes her years before she trusts someone enough to take them off (and even then she squeezes her eyes shut so she can't see them run away)

#i fell asleep the night you asked this. hi nyx (waves) #i hope you're nyx this is embarrassing if you're not (i am horrible with names) #YOU ARE THIS IS GOOD! #god ok anyway #ask #nyx 🍀 #i hope you like these.... had to use my brain #and this was a break from reading US history blerrrrrgh gross #rbs are fine idc have fun #mayoi and erik thoughts #i am also dead tired rn