#draxum knows their principal much better than he would like to lmao

[bambiraptorx]

Okay that was great but the only thing I can think is "You really hit him with the dad beam, didn't you?"

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There's just something so funny to me about hitting Draxum with the dad beam. These are his creations, made for war and violence and slaughter, and he was attached from the very start. Baron "I'm not a dad" Draxum mentally adopted these kids within a few days of making them, and it took him four years to figure that out.

Would he be a good parent? Debatable. He never intended to end up with kids, and keeping then essentially isolated from society until he officially got the adoption certificates was... certainly a choice. (He did it out of concern, of course, but the concern about them being taken from him overwhelmed the concern about how isolation might impact their development.) There's also the matter that I tend to write him with a degree of internalized ableism about his neurodivergence, and when your children are all neurodivergent that causes issues.

Also, putting four war machines into a regular school setting and expecting them to just be able to act like normal kids, especially when they don't even have a context for how normal kids act, is gonna create problems. Just because he thinks his kids are brilliant doesn't mean they don't get noisy and disruptive in a class setting or that they can sit still for more than five minutes at a time. I think he would hold them to pretty high standards for their educations, but they were made for war, not academic success. I think he would end up training them how to fight just to give them something demanding and high energy to do.

Not to mention that there is the slight issue that his kids actually believe that they were adopted since he never told them the truth about creating them (and it made sense to him at the time, they would have been too young to understand at first, and then later when they had to interact with people but hadn't learned to filter their words it would have raised too many questions).

So long story short, there's several fun points of conflict with this au that I would explore if I do more with it. And hey, I've already written a 2k fic about it so I might do more.

#asks #bambi's rambling #ableism mention #rottmnt baron draxum #rottmnt fanfiction #mcmt au #draxum raises the turtles au #and then there's all the factors about how different the turtles would be if actually raised with exposure to other people #which is what i was originally planning to write about lol #it boils down to them all masking more heavily and struggling to form/maintain relationships outside of the family though #also so many academic violations because the stuff these kids do when they're bored is off the wall bonkers #draxum knows their principal much better than he would like to lmao