Opinion on the hc that the (2012) turtles are bilingual (with there first language being Japanese) ?
(Kansjevdjdhud, I love that hc smm<3)
ITS ONE OF MY FAVORITE HEADCANON EVER
i love multilingual turtles!!!
i do think 2012 it's the one iteration that seems to be more in touch with yoshi's culture the most.
this might be for the fact that yoshi didn't have absolutely anyone at all when he arrived to new york, a complete unknown different place to him.
it's not literally specificed but one can deduce yoshi got the four turtles in the first place as an attempt to not feel as lonely after losing his family,his clan and being exiled.
so after the mutation i feel like yoshi would have taught the boys how to speak and read in japanese first instead of english since he would have been trying to find a level of normalcy and comfort in all he was going trough.
Another fact is that the brothers are used to splinter telling them stories as a way to pass the time when they were growing up. I like to think he tells them stories about different things like legends and just silly random stories from his past, all in yoshi's og language.
The show also shows it a lot! the brothers speak and understand japanese words pretty randomly! So i do think they mostly speak it while they are by themselves exclusively and at home instead of english (probably not much when april or casey are around as to not make them feel left out of the conversation tho)
also another fun silly headcanon i like is that mikey somehow speaks and understands spanish because of how he says random words of the language in the show too lol. as to how he learnt it himself idk tho. he probably found some telenovelas in vhs or smt lmao
ok but i'm like in love with the concept of the chitauri scepter acting like a drug. and you suffer withdrawals when you are severed from its influence
One thing I think is funny about Donatello is he is absolutely unhinged no matter which iteration.
Like, yeah Rise Donnie is probably the most overt version of completely unhinged Donatello because he'd chug Uranium and fistfight Cthulhu. And you have whatever is going on with 2012 Donnie and that version of April 😨. But I would like to bring up some of the absolutely hilarious unhinged things some of the other Donnie's have done.
87 Donatello:
-has a personality altering ray that caused so many shenanigans but he kept anyways
-frequently talks about how he wishes he was a regular turtle with no higher thought
-was electrocuted once which convinced him he was Batman then proceeded to try and off Shredder on his own (and almost succeeded)
-literally just makes things blow up for fun
-if at first brains don't succeed, violence is the answer. (he's got a temper than can rival most Raphael's)
-he likes being in jail
03 Don:
-nearly drove himself insane trying to save his dad from cyberspace
-saw some rabbit making googoo eyes at his brother and chose violence.
-also makes bombs and missiles for fun
-Raph's #1 enabler (you'd think it's Mikey but no. Mikey eggs Raph on a ton but no. it's Don. they're the og disaster twins)
07 Donnie:
-bro works IT. That's it. That's the post lol.
I'm not familiar with the comics, IDW or Mirage, so I can't really comment on them. But I'm pretty convinced Mirage Donatello would be a war criminal.
Don’t get me wrong, the OG ones are pretty okay (especially Raph and Donnie’s) but I could never really get into Mikey and Leo’s haha. So, because I’d already done a bit of redesign on the 2012 boys to make them biblically accurate, I thought, heck, why not convert those same designs into the apocalypse versions!
I was watching Avengers the other day and noticed something I haven't ever joined the dots on before.
In this shot of Barton just before he shoots the arrow at the helicarrier, he's pale, sweating, and has dark circles under his eyes. I can only assume this is due to having been under the influence of the sceptre for the last few days.
And then there's this more familiar shot of Loki having just come through the tesseract's portal...
...pale, sweating, and with dark circles under his eyes.
Barton still has those bright blue eyes that indicate he's under the direct influence of the sceptre, and Loki doesn't.
So what I'm concluding from this is that Loki was recently under the direct influence of the sceptre just before he was sent to earth.
This direct control was removed before he was sent, but he remains under the more indirect influence that the sceptre has on people nearby (e.g. the Avengers on the helicarrier). We see his physical health improve the longer he's on earth, which would work with this theory, and this is the same as how Barton recovers after the influence is removed.
I'd never subscribed to the theory that Loki was under the direct control of the sceptre at any point during Avengers, but this makes me think it's very likely he was being directly controlled by it for a period of time shortly before he was sent to earth.
Maybe this was some form of conditioning? Maybe it's easier for the sceptre to influence someone indirectly after they've been directly connected with it? I don't know. Possibly these effects were due to something else, but since Endgame we know it's not travel by tesseract that causes this. Although there's a possibility whatever the SHIELD scientists did on this end of the portal could have had some effect. But it's just too similar a set of symptoms to be unrelated.
I curse it again that we were never given more of Loki's story with Thanos in the series or the Avengers films!!!
Percy isn’t even a millennial anymore! If he’s 17 in the year of our lord 2023 (or maybe any year since 2020 which is like when people started using boomer in slang I feel like) he was literally born in like 2006!!! He’s younger than me and I’m peak Gen Z lmao
I will forever maintain he's a millennial based on the 1993 birthdate as we in fandom determined by the OG publishing timeline of the lightning thief i don't care what rick says lmao
we didn't have hilary duff references in tlt for him to get retconned as gen z or alpha!!!
Some things for an old friend's fic/AU? It was called Fatal Phantom, I don't remember the context for these but I think it was something along the lines of Fenton/Phantom being 2 separate people and Phantom not entirely being accepted by Jack and Maddie as a member of the family