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fahbev · 7 months

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Babs, Bruce and Danny in my dpxdc merfolk au!!!

argh, plz excuse the poorly edited photo lmao- lost a lot of detail TvT

Babs has her info Here. But this is her design! I’m not actually entirely sure if any of these designs are final, i might tweak them, but here she is! I gave her necklaces.

Bruce is based on a leatherback sea turtle! The spots aren’t actually super accurate to a leatherback’s underside, but if you look at it a little harder... you may find a fun little easter egg. It’s subtle... or at least i tried to make it that way. (If people don’t get it i’ll explain in a rb lol) Did you know that leatherback sea turtles can be up to 880 pounds? Idk what that is in metric but that’s roughly 7 and a half Bahfevs. They’re also much more triangular/less round than other turtles, so I reflected that in his design. And ofc, Bruce and Damian are both sea turtles bc they’re related. But they’re different sea turtle species so it doesn’t make much sense. Who gives a flip. What’s Talia, you ask? To that I say: 🤷‍♀️

(Side note: apparently, I’ve conditioned myself so I can’t draw nuetral expressions. It’s gotta have some emotion or else it looks wrong, and it feels natural to always have something going on there. So... drawing Stoic McStoicface here was a pain in the penis. He kinda has an expression anyway lol)

Danny is based on a ghost knife fish! I’ll be honest, i didn’t even know these existed until I looked up “ghost fish” in the hopes of finding something thematic. But then... omg! They’re black with little white accents? Like Danny’s design? And they have cool, funky bodies? AND they produce electricity!?? That’s so FKING COOL! I’ll have to do more research, but so far i’m pretty sure they don’t produce enough electricity to hurt someone. They are related to electric eels though! I first learned that electric eels were knife fish and not true eels when I was researching the moray eel for Duke. Funny how that connects!

Danny’s story under the cut!

Heehoo!

Okay so basically: Danny went diving to gather pearls because he wanted to make his parents happy/proud. While he was diving, His foot got caught in a rock and he couldn’t get it out. He panicked and he begged— to who? God, maybe? The universe, or the ocean? Maybe just begging fate or any higher power that could be out there, he doesn’t know. His only prayer was “Don’t let me drown!”. Unbeknownst to him, one of the pearls he’d grabbed was a magic, wish granting pearl. They’re rare enough that humans don’t even have legends of them... but the merfolk do ;).

The pearl took his very non-specific wish and decided to give him a tail and gills. He swam back up in a panic, and saw his new tail. Of course, this is a very horrifying thing to happen. But in less than a minute... it was already starting to dry off. As it dried, it turned back into skin.

Now, Danny has to be extremely careful not to get his legs or hair wet when he’s near people, because he’ll turn back into a merboy.

i... probably should have given him a shirt? He’d be wearing it, right? But i also did need to see what I was doing with that fin thing lol. I mean, a shirt would get annoying with that fin- he’d probably take it off. Tbh he’d probably have it off when swimming in general? Idk.

So: funny thing that happened when I was drawing Danny:

A first grader came up to me while I had it open on my desk, and she was like:

“Oh my god, that’s so good! Like, how did you even draw that?”

so I was like: “Oh thank you! ❤️”

And I think she asked again “How did you even draw that?”

so I was a little confused on how to answer, so I said:

“Well, I used my pencil...” and held up my pencil—

and then she got distracted by a spinny chair.

She’s so precious omg 🥰

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boots-with-the-fur-club · 1 month

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Chapter 6 of The Teenage Mutant Phantom of the Opera!

@daboyau

“Leo! Are you here? I’m really sorry if I hurt your feelings somehow! I just want to talk!” Usagi calls out, alone on the stage.

“You don’t need to apologize.”

Usagi jumps in surprise, then turns around to see him entering from the direction of the main entrance for once.

“You came back!” He rushes down the stairs.

“Because this wasn’t about anything you did, it was me. I’m sorry I made you think I’d stop talking to you.”

“Apology accepted! How’s your hand?” Usagi gently holds the one remembers was cut and looks it over.

Leo’s other hand starts fluttering at his side.

“It’s fine.”

Usagi’s happy face turns to one in confusion when he sees there’s zero trace of the cut.

“Oh, I guess it is. Must not have been that deep of a cut.”

Leo takes a breath, letting himself feel the fur against his hand.

“It’s the reason I left. I was….afraid. I realized that I was wrong to think that you’d hold something like this against me. I want to show you what scared me, can I?”

Usagi nods.

Leo slowly takes away his hand and holds out the knife from before. He cuts along the palm, hardly flinching as he does.

Usagi stares in shock before Leo holds his hand up and shows that the cut heals before his very eyes.

“It’s completely gone.”

Leo wipes the blood off his hand.

“I have no idea why I’m like this, it’s….not normal, I know.”

Usagi isn’t 100% sure since he’s not a turtle yokai, but he doesn’t think he’s heard of one being able to heal like this.

Donnie could be right about who also is.

Oh! Donnie!

He forgot what he promised!

“You were right. You don’t need to be worried. I’ve seen a lot of weird things, and this is by far one of the coolest.”

Leo melts at how he says it like the weird part of this all is okay, good even.

He puts his knife away.

“I should have known you’d understand.”

“Of course, Leo. I might actually be able to help you figure out why too!”

Leo looks at him in confusion.

“How?”

“I know what you’re going to say, but just hear me out, okay?”

“Always.”

Usagi’s takes a breath.

“So Donnie-Leo! You said you’d listen! What’s with that face!?”

Leo has the expression of someone who’s just stepped in something squishy.

“I didn’t say anything to stop you from talking.”

“I know you don’t like him and I get why, but please just give him a chance. Leo, he could be your brother.”

Leo feels himself tense.

“Excuse me?”

Usagi takes out his phone.

“I promised I’d tell him when I found you, he can come over and we can all talk about it together!”

Leo has to hold himself back from grabbing the phone and breaking it to pieces. Instead, he holds onto Usagi’s wrist gently.

“Please. Don’t.”

“What? Why? Is it because of how he acted before with me? I promise that he has nothing against you.”

Leo starts feeling sick to his stomach.

If there were three more turtle creatures in the lab he was found in, why was he the only one left alone?

What could he, as a baby, do to deserve to be the only one that wasn’t saved?

He was scarred, physically, mentally, in almost complete isolation at most times.

What if that rat didn’t want him even now?

What if everything about how his life is comes out and takes away what he has left while giving him nothing?

He already freaked out once, he can’t lose control again.

“Yuichi. I’m not ready. This is….life altering. I need this to go much slower. I can’t go right into meeting him.”

Usagi’s ears droop. He understands why he feels this way, and he himself feels guilty for making a promise that Leo might not have agreed to.

“Is it….okay if I tell him I found you but that you want more time?”

Leo is very aware at the moment just how far he’s willing to go for Usagi.

Terrorizing and running off the other lead was much objectively crazier but also what Leo has already done in the past.

This, was….different. Already not getting rid of Donnie right away was different.

He makes him different.

“Yes, but if he tries to see me I’m leaving.”

Usagi smiles and Leo feels like he’ll never regret this decision, even if he already is.

“Thank you. Now I can keep my pinky.” Usagi jokes, tapping on his phone.

Leo decides not to question that statement.

The phone only rings once.

“Did you find him!? Is he with you right now?”

“Yes, but-“

“Tracking your location!”

“What!? No! Hold on! Donnie! He doesn’t want to meet yet!”

“What are you talking about? Why not?”

“He’s not ready.”

“Not-not ready!? I’ve lived 15 years without a brother I was supposed to have and he’s not ready?”

“Donnie, he’s spent all this time believing he didn’t have brothers period. Give him a break here, please.”

Donnie sighs heavily through the phone.

“I can’t believe I’m asking for this, but isn’t there something in the middle we could do? At least a plan to meet eventually.”

Usagi takes several seconds to think about what they could do that Leo would be comfortable with.

His nose twitches as an idea comes to him.

He puts himself on mute.

“Leo, you can come to our first performance! You were going to anyways, right?”

“I….don’t know, Yuichi.”

“I can get you a ticket in the back, you could come in late and avoid the crowds. Any time you feel uncomfortable you can just portal away.”

Leo’s stomach drops again.

Sitting next to all those people?

He was just going to watch the performance while hidden somewhere.

The anxiety in his heart mixes together with the absolute excitement at a chance of getting a better view at Usagi, being able to watch the culmination of everything they worked for together.

Could he do it?

Can he even try?

He glances at Usagi’s eyes, those comfortingly warm brown eyes filled with so much kindness and compassion.

“I’ll…..I’ll do it.”

Usagi smiles widely and Leo feels yet again that this is both the best and worst decision he’s ever made.

Usagi unmutes himself.

“Leo’s coming to our first show!”

“I suppose that’s better than nothing. Fine. You and I are pulling out all the stops then, understood?”

“I was already planning on it! I’ll see you tomorrow.”

“I want to ask one more thing.”

“What is it?”

“When is his birthday?”

Usagi hesitates slightly since he wasn’t expecting that question, but covers the phone anyways as he looks over at Leo.

“When’s your birthday?”

“I don’t know what my real one is, but August 17th was picked for me.”

Usagi moves his hand.

“August 17th.”

He hears Donnie chuckle softly, but in the way that a villain would when his plan is coming together.

“That’s the birthday I chose for myself! I considered the 12th but 17 has a nicer shape to it.”

“That is such a big coincidence.”

“Not a coincidence. Proof. Evidence. Talk later.” Donnie hangs up.

Usagi puts his phone away.

“I’m glad we got that sorted out. Why don’t we relax together instead of practicing?”

“But….you didn’t get any lessons from me last time because I ran off. The performance is soon, don’t you want all the practice you can get?”

“You’re more important than that. Besides, I could use some downtime.”

Leo is constantly reminded why his obsession has taken such a hold.

They spend the rest of the time Usagi has talking about nothing and everything. The opera was at the back of their minds for the moment, and they had a better time for it.

Leo once again watches Usagi leave, then makes his way to his main hidden room. There’s a chest full of costume items that he’s taken from other productions.

He digs through the different articles of clothing before finding the set he left at the bottom.

A white dress shirt, a blue bow tie, dark blue dress pants and vest with gold buttons, black dress shoes, blue gloves, and a blue cape where only the underside has stars.

It matches his equally star filled mask.

When he took this years ago, all of the items were far too big.

They’d fit perfectly for what’s right come.

The time until the performance almost blurs by for everyone. It’s so busy for Usagi and Donnie they can hardly believe the practices will become the real thing.

They were working harder than ever to make sure it would be the best opening night possible.

For Leo, the nervousness and anxiety whittled his time away.

Usagi had given him his ticket, it was in the back row as promised.

Now it was just minutes before the performance is supposed to start and Donnie stares hard from the slightly drawn curtain into the crowd.

“Don’t worry, we’ll see him once it starts.” Usagi insists from behind him.

“You’re sure he’ll actually be here?”

“He said he would be and I trust him. Have faith.”

Donnie grumbles as he closes the curtain and heads to where they’re supposed to be with him.

Leo’s portal opens up above his seat and he drops down onto it.

The people around him stare in shock until the curtains open up.

Leo can’t pay attention at first, the stares already having gotten to him already. Knowing he’s surrounded by actual people in these usually empty seats makes his heart beat out of his chest.

That all changes when Usagi starts singing and his eyes snap to attention.

His heart keeping beating fast, but for a much different reason.

Usagi is gorgeous on the stage. His entire presence perfectly captures the character, even from where he’s sitting.

He did it.

He’s doing it.

Exactly what they wanted to do.

He’s so entranced with Usagi that he doesn’t notice Donnie scanning the crowd once again when he enters the stage.

Donnie stares right at the seat Usagi told him the ticket was for and has an immense feeling of familiarity.

The outfit he’s wearing is something Donnie would have picked in a heartbeat, save for a few changes to make it look crisper.

The smile on his face, the look in his eyes, even the way he sits.

They’re brothers, they have to be.

His performance is invigorated by this fact. He sings like never before. Leo’s laser focused vision was even slightly turning his way as he did.

Usagi can’t help but feel encouraged too, knowing how special this moment is in so many ways.

People are clearly impressed when the song ends with a roar of clapping.

Two turtles and a rat in the front row seem the most enthusiastic about it.

Eventually, it’s time for the intermission and Leo once again feels the anxiety rush in.

He leaves alongside the other viewers in the crowd into the lobby.

There’s some relief in seeing other people wear masks just as added decoration to themselves for this special occasion.

He’s not sure what to do so he just people watches for a bit, taking is still the first time he’s been next to this many….ever.

There’s some talking about how good the performance is, some heading for a bathroom break, and others buying food and drinks.

Movement to his side catches his eye, someone moved too fast against the direction of someone else.

His body moves on its own and a smaller body wearing a suit falls into his arms.

“Nice catch Raphie-oh! You are not Raph.” The turtle yokai comments as he cranes his neck backwards to look up at him.

“No, I’m not. Are you okay?” Leo stands him up.

The yokai nods enthusiastically.

“Thanks to you! I’m Mikey.”

Should he also give his name?

There doesn’t seem to be any immediate harm in it.

“Leo. Glad you’re okay, enjoy the show.”

Mikey’s eyes seem to light up at hearing his name. They then look Leo over curiously, stopping at his face.

Leo immediately feels self conscious and glances away in embarrassment.

“Wow, your markings are so pretty!”

That is not what he was expecting.

“Th-Thank you.”

He hates the stutter that comes out from him at times.

“Do you think you can help me get back to my dad and brother? I was trying to get to them before I got knocked over.”

“I’m sorry, I should really be going.”

Mikey gives the biggest puppy dog eyes that Leo has ever seen, he’s not even sure this level of sad cuteness should exist. It should be illegal.

“Pleeeeeeeeease? I would really appreciate it!”

“I…..okay, which way are they?”

Mikey smiles at him and takes his hand, pulling him in the same direction he was heading before he fell.

Leo finds it odd that this kid would hold his hand after just meeting him. He looks a little too old to be doing that.

They eventually get to where a large turtle and a small rat yokai are-

….

Oh.

Oh no.

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