#sorry for stepping on your donnie dreams anon

[rottmnt-residuum]

Any other LGBTQ+ Headcannons that are canon is the comic??;)

*patiently awaits Cupioromantic Donnie*

hmm... had to think about this for a while and talk about it with co-author, but here's what we got. we mostly base this stuff on how plausible it is in show/if there's evidence for it. with a dash of personal experience. This only applies to residuum, btw. I have different personal headcanons for these characters outside the comic.

april: lesbian. this is mostly based off of the fact that most aprils get with their caseys & the comment she said to dale. which could be taken as disinterest in dale specifically, but she seemed more concerned with impressing that popular girl earlier and that reads as more... saphic, i suppose. or at the very least homoromantic.

raph: raph is just raph. we look at him and basically just *tv static*. go crazy. all we got is jokes or stuff that has too little evidence to support. so, yeah, he's whatever you want him to be i guess?

leo: trans. already said my reason in the other post. also, gay. if gay were a power source he could power the entirety of the united states for five months straight without a single power outage. failing power grid notwithstanding (< thats the actual word. its supposed to be mushed together like that. wack.).

donnie: as much as i'd like him to be ace/aro spectrum rep, he just doesn't have the evidence in show for us to apply it to him in this comic. it's funny, for being hc as ace so often he sure is the most outwardly romantic/sexual turtle in the show lmao. one! cherry: "you're so cute, but you're so mean! why do i always go for your type?" two! astrogirl?? (whatever her name is) he is very very romantic with her. he has a type y'all. also just look at those two, he's a leg man lmao (bootyyshaker9000 anyone? ha!) anyway. and with the bromance/instant chemistry he had with that one guy in the purple dragons... Pan. or possibly Omni as he does seem to favor... cute brutal femme... Yeah. Omnisexual.

(you have no idea how fucking bad i want this boy to be ace spectrum. hes got the colors y'all!! The Colors!!!!! but alas... i am bound by my canon plausibility creed for this comic)

mikey: ace. possibly ace/aro. he shows interest in literally no-one. we're aware that the common hc is pan but... we know a pan 13 year old, and let me tell you ahahahaha, kids going through puberty are very uncomfortable to be around sometimes, especially around their partners. or crushes. and mikey... well, that boy is ace behavior personified lmao. aces in the back you get what we mean right?? right??? anyway commiting to aroace

#residual asks #rottmnt #i really get a kick out of he/him butch lesbian raph and ghostbear-sexual raph #but i'd never use those seriously. or at least in this comic #co-author says what they get if they really had to choose for raph is ace homoromantic #but otherwise... #he's just raph #like we can't apply any identity to him. and we really mean ANY identity. not even straight or umbrella terms like queer #its a very odd feeling #i also really like trans april but we don't have enough evidence for it #in fact there's actually counter evidence- but don't let that stop your dreams y'all. it just stops ours :P #sorry for stepping on your donnie dreams anon #but honestly i think that label applies more to 2012 donnie imo #i really do personally prefer ace/aro donnie. but i'd make everyone ace if i were able lmao #co-author would also do the same thing ahaah #i just don't like depicting romantic relationships. or attraction ahahaah #with mikey... we get why people hc him as pan... but like its a fandomism stereotype #that literally every fandom applies to optimistic friendly characters. and honestly i really don't like the fandomism stereotypes #i just find them... unenjoyable i guess #cuz like y'alll... your sexuality isn't inherently determined by your personality or vise versa #cuz like i know for sure that in fandom spaces- if i were a character- i'd be stereotyped as pan or a hypersexual cis het #to which i am neither. at all. #and co-author would be stereotyped as the demure femme book lesbian #which they are VERY much not #and i know this because i've been fandomified by people in my life more than once #it is a very uncomfortable experience y'all #whoops rant in the tags #residuum #rottmnt residuum #residuum wb

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verstehen (rottmnt x reader post nightmare comfort)

anon: How bout the turtles comforting you from a nightmare

A/N: doing requests out of order since im kind of out of it nowadays too.

also, verstehen has to do with empathy- i learned about it in sociology and it’s one of the few topics i found really interesting. and im not sure if the format for this seems weird or not. i think it’s just because i haven’t written hcs in a while

You spend the night at the lair every weekend you get the chance to, during school breaks and even when you just needed to ditch another lonely night at home.

It’s always a fun time and you’re able to escape stress and life pressure with the turtles. But, that doesn’t mean dark thoughts didn’t catch up to you sometimes. And you hate it when it’s your dreams that they crept into.

The only bright side to jolting awake, wide eyed and hyperventilating in the dark, was you almost always slept near one of or all the turtles. 

So, a mutant teen was there tonight too. Instantly at your side and whispering to you in worry.

Leo:

- he’s a light sleeper so you always accidentally scare the shit out of him when you burst awake

- he needs to take a small breath himself before he asks if you’re alright and looks at your dazed face in the light of the television you all forgot to turn off

- it’s a minute before you say huff a yeah and drag your hand over your face

- you looked like it’d been a rough ride in whatever dream you had

- leo knows the drill for night like these and gets up, stepping over Mikey who was camping out on the floor in a pile of linen and couch cushions

- raph and don went on some solo mission so it was just you guys and on stormy nights, mikey especially didn’t like sleeping alone

- “Want to go on a walk?” leo asked, already pulling on a university sweatshirt that you found among clothes your uncle didn’t want a while ago

- and of course, like every time you had a nightmare, you nodded

- taking your time in getting up and shoving on your boots

- leo learned from the first few times you woke up like that, that you itched for a walk afterward. sometimes you even went to an abandoned, overgrown train yard only he knew about. (he kept tabs on a lot of cool spots like that since he went on a lot of solo jaunts around the city)

- even if you never wanted to talk during the walks, leo would just fill in the night air by regaling childhood stories 

- and by the time you got back to the lair, you’re a little rain soggy but okay enough to try sleeping again

- this time though, you paused as you sat down on the edge of leo’s bed. (mike had crawled into it while the two of you were gone and leo was already settled down next to the smaller turtle)

- “...Thank you.” and leo knows it’s hard for you to say

- it meant confronting you’d had a nightmare and he knew you preferred running from them

- who didn’t?

Mikey:

- it was kind of scary when you woke up like that

 - you never screamed or anything, just shot up. looking bedraggled and struggling to breathe

- he’d touch you and bring you back to where you were, but you couldn’t settle back in easy

- so, mikey got to fort building

- he’d scamper off to gather up all the linen he could; quilts, blankets, pillows, and stack them sky high in whatever room you happened to be in. 

- you’d quietly help, still obviously rattled but doing something helped get ease your breath

- when the pillow fort was done, you’d both crawl inside and mikey would pull a movie up on his tablet for you both to watch. one of his favorites or one of yours. (it was usually one of mikey’s favorites)

- though, this time, the far away look in your eyes stayed a bit longer than other days. even though you were reclined into a huge, fluffy wall of pillow comfort and surrounded by the ambient sounds of Valiant

- mikey, he couldn’t fight the monsters in your dreams. but he could do his best outside of your head 

- “If any of the monsters in your nightmares ever tried to get you out here, I wouldn’t let them.” he assured off handedly with determination printed on his cherubic face

- then you surprised him, “What if the monster’s me Mike?” you uttered lowly

- you sounded so...cold. so sure that you were some terrible creature

- so he pulled the blanket on your laps over the two of you and gave you a big mikey hug that made you lay back further

- “I’ll remind you that you’re not one.” he muttered into your shoulder. almost tearful with worry over what you were feeling deep down somewhere

- you lose some of that stony look as the movie ending pans out and mike goes out cold

- he wakes up that morning happy to see you sound asleep

Raph:

- sometimes he doesn’t wake up when you have a nightmare (he’s a heavy sleeper like don)

- but your shifting tonight rouses him

- you’re sitting up and there’s tears you don’t seem to notice arching down your cheek and he’s immediately concerned

- “Hey are you okay?” he close to slurs

- you look at him, suddenly aware and wiping your face

- you tell him yeah with a scratchy voice, and tell him your sorry for waking him

- raph doesn’t care that you did and, knowing you didn’t like talking about your nightmares much, he’d bring up something new he learned about animals. and once he knew he had your attention, he’d go off on a tangent

- and like every other time, it calmed you down

- you were able to lay back again and breathe easy, distracted by his enthusiastic chatter

- you encouraged his interest in animals all the time (often joining sessions where don and him would go through old living science textbooks, and watching documentaries with him)

- raph was getting pretty tired again though and started to lose steam 

- you said it was alright if he went back to sleep

- and as guilty as raph felt, sleep winked him back in. 

- you eventually nodded off too. thinking of new, bizarre animal facts as you curled up into his side

- hugging his large arm like it was an anchor and listening to the low snore rattling in his broad chest

Don:

- he knew the symptoms of a nightmare like the back of his hand

- he had his fair share and the both of you have encountered the other in the midst of or being woken by one

- you were on the couch sleeping alone this time because they all had to step out for a mission earlier that night

- don was struggling to sleep and came out to make tea

- you were sitting up, swathed in a tattered throw blanket. you looked at him with hooded eyes and he held your gaze before resuming to the kitchen

- he made two cups of tea and returned to the den area, plopping onto the couch too and passing you your mug 

- you blew at the steam furling up from the lip

- you both quietly sipped, plagued by some ugly thought or another

- you placed your cup on the coffee table in front of you after a bit and threw part of your blanket over donnie too. letting your fingers gently poke the knods on the back of his tender shell

- “Think you can fall back to sleep?” he carefully asked as you stared down at your hands

- you shrugged and your voice wrinkled out. pale and hoarse, “Maybe.”

- the only time you ever talked about what happened in a dream was after you got sleep. and most of them had a lot to do with yourself; how you felt about yourself 

- and donnie could relate

- he hummed and yawned, finally feeling fatigue tug him down 

- needless to say, he camped out with you and you both slept well into the afternoon (none of his brothers wanting to wake you. mostly because when donnie slept this long, it meant he was bound to make pancakes once he was up)

#Rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt #rottmnt x reader #reader insert #nightmares #verstehen #comfort #tried to make them #about the same length #my writing