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[chiangyorange]

Big Leo holding Raph and joking around with lil' Leo 🥺💜

RAPHIE!!!! I LOVE MY BIG MAN SM!!!!!! i love him i love him i love him i love him i love himmmmmmm

(v excerpts taken from ch7 v)

Before he responds Leonardo walks into the room. Under his arm is Raph, hanging there limply with a shocked expression. Leo reels at the sight a little bit. It looks like Raph is too as he jolts up. “Wait, you can actually carry me?” “I've been waiting for the perfect moment to!” The older turtle chuckles. “And I can do more than carry you, big brother.” He lets Raph down to the floor and crouches down forward for a piggy back ride. Raph gasps loudly and climbs on his back, locking his ankles together. Leonardo stands up with no struggle and Raph starts to pat excitedly on the older turtle’s shoulders. His older brother was wiggling, and yes, it’s fucking adorable! “Leo, Donnie, look!!” “We see that, bud.”

raph is literally so excited to be picked up, the last time he was picked up was from when april tried and he was like 11. yeah sure hes 17 now but that does NOT make him immune to having an indescribable amount of joy for being carried around like a ragdoll

he kicky his feeties

on the other hand, fleo wanted to return and thank raph in his own way. for protecting him, for taking care of him donnie, and mikey. and also as kind of an apology.

"let me carry the burden you do" is what hes trying to say here. and even to present raph, hes still taking care of fleo. raph cares about his brother so much it doesnt matter if fleo is taller than him now, that hes older with decades on him, that he survived a war.

fleo is his little brother and nothing is going to change that.

onto the leos !!

He sees in his periphery that Leonardo smiles wider. “Awe, you like me.” “Don’t push it.” Leo rolls his eyes. “It’d be shitty to demote you just because you're not from this timeline. If we did that, we’d have to do it to Case– Junior too. It wouldn’t have been fair.” “Whatever you say.” Leo snorts. “That being said, can you stop leering over in the shadows? It's actually terrifying.” “I can only do so many things in the lair before I’m bored again.” “And that means giving me a heart attack every time I go into a room? Put away your scary ass stare man, I swear your eyes turn red.” “I didn’t know you were so faint of heart.” “I should have kept you sedated.” Leo says, knowing he never once put him under sedation.

my dynamic of leos is very hard for me to describe personally. its not hostile, its just complicated, and even then "complicated" has too negative of a connotation.

leo is a person who latches onto family with his entire heart. he accepted karai as gramgram near immediately and we all know how fucked up about her death was on him and to the rest of the boys.

its different when its a version of yourself.

for me i didnt want immediate hostility(look away from the scalpel incident for one sec), because i saw some fics that go too hard into the "leo hates himself" angle and while not unsounded, it can be played straight and have a good payoff, it was NOT the tone i wanted in wmas. it wouldnt match the kind of complication im trying to give across here

pov leo, hes seeing himself as the pinnacle leader, from how casey described him, hes the Hero, this is the ideal of what he should be striving for.

but the person hes seeing in front of him is just a guy. leo saw him injured, resting on bed in the medbay, he saw him start to cry in raph's arms, he sees a father, he sees a confused and lost man in front of him.

in a way its pity. in a way he pities himself. fleo is tired and leo can clearly see that, cause hell, hes fuckin tired too.

“I should have kept you sedated.” Leo says, knowing he never once put him under sedation. “That’s called elderly abuse.” “And you’re how old?” “Do I really- okay I see that face, alright.” Leonardo moves his hand to cover Leo’s face and shoves him back. “You got me. Whatever, you absolute child.” Leo cackles.

and fleo's pov on the matter is, well, i kinda already typed it out all the way in chapter 5

The world of this timeline said that Leo will be able to make up for his mistake with the key. Not him, the world said. 

he looks at leo and feels so much pride, but hes scared that leo thinks less of him. leo managed to save the world and he didnt. and now hes here fucking up a perfectly good happy ending that didnt need to include him.

and on a little more selfish level, "why wasnt i good enough" fleo is thinking.

he doesnt think leo as the superior version of the two of them, but the fact still stands. one of them won. the other didnt. and he sometimes wishes he won too. its complicated.

they dont hate each other, not even a little bit. theyre too good of people to hate each other

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[chiangyorange]

Soda stabby <3

THE WRETCHED SODA.

(v excerpts taken from chapter 6 v)

sherlockcorn: explody sody Bootyyyshaker9000: … Bootyyyshaker9000: I hate how compelling that argument is. sherlockcorn: WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO sherlockcorn: its finally time for that nasty cough syrup elixir to perish

first of all; they are teens, theyre gonna do stupid meaningless shit sometimes and it means SO much to me. ALSO!! presenting this implies that this isnt the first time they exploded sodas!

sherlockcorn: then i saw a pack of 12 mini bottles with a cute little cherries on them and i had to try them cause u know chchchchchcherry bomb i had to

april is gay cherry bomb is my reference to show that she is gay. thats it thats all i have to say on this.

sherlockcorn: they were cheap for a reason ig and now ive just been waiting for an excuse to get rid of them sherlockcorn: they haunt my dorm sherlockcorn: so now they DIE

april had been HAUNTED by these sodas and ofc, like any friend group, when you discover the most heinous shit ever, you make it everyone else's problem too to share the burden of knowledge.

then the actual sodie splosions

NeonLeon: [video description: Mikey is seen standing away from the camera in a darkly lit parking lot at night. He is holding his arms up and behind him with a bottle of soda in his hands. Leo’s voice is heard, “Okay go!” Mikey throws the soda down hard on the concrete. It bounces two times before the neck of the bottle breaks and soda burst out of it, making the bottle spin more times. Surprised shouts are heard when the bottle spins towards the camera. /end video description]

leo has always been mikey's hypeman and its SO endearing to me. THATS HIS LITTLE BROTHER!!!!! HE CARES ABT HIM SO MUCH!!!!! and gah. GAH. when the older sibling lets you do something cool instead of them that literally means the fucking world are you kidding me?

esp with how much mikey looks up to leo, this moment is saying "i am good enough to do this dumb stupid shit because if i do thisi dumb stupid shit im more like my brother and i love my brother"

ILL CRYYYYYYYY

green2: A story in 3 pics green2: [image id: A picture of the same dark parking lot from the previous video. In the dark, two eyes are seen reflected from the distance. /end id] green2: [image id: An open soda bottle is thrown at the eyes, the liquid visibly spilling out of the neck. The picture is blurry with motion. /end id] green2: [image id: Leonardo is standing in the view of the camera with eyes closed. There is soda splashed on his face, neck, and shoulders. /end id] 

fleo unintentionally scaring the kids and being immediately punished by having soda thrown on him is fucking hilarious to me but other than that, he was checking up on them!

its late at night and while splinter is used to the late night teenage shenanigans, fleo ISNT. casey jr is a good boy and i dont rlly personally imagine him as being the type to go out alone and fuck around during the apocalypse, and its a habit the present teens are trying to slowly break out of him.

so obviously, fleo would kiiiiinda get worried about where the teens were so late at night and went out to check on them after asking splints and checking on casey sleeping in the lair

Bootyyyshaker9000: [video description: Leonardo is sitting down with April standing in front of him opening a 16 ounce soda bottle. April says, “Smell first.” and offers the bottle to Leonardo. He takes the bottle in hand and sniffs, immediately backing away with a scrunched face.  “That is not soda, this is a chemical.” he replies. April faces the camera and looks off screen with a pointed look while Leonardo pauses and takes a tentative sip while she is turned away. Leonardo sputters and coughs, doubling over himself. The bottle crushes in his hands and the soda spills all over the concrete. April backs away quickly with a yelp. /end video description]

fleo is still a leo and hes not immune to getting stupid ideas.

sherlockcorn: [image id: a pocket knife is stabbed through a soda bottle right through the middle. The soda inside is leaking out. Donnie is seen in the background looking at something off camera with a soda in hand. /end id] sherlockcorn: nasty soda die <3

sometimes people dont write april unhinged enough and im personally fixing that /lh

no but fr this is a girl who canonically has a canoe and hazmat suit ON HAND. IN NEW YORK.

queen shit

i love her so much she means the world to me. blunt weapon wielders hold a special place in my heart and they just hit different. LITERALLY!!!!!

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[chiangyorange]

9. What’s your favorite line(s) or scene(s) that you have written?

ouguugghghghgbg thats a hard one

i think my MOST fav scene (so far) has GOTTA be cassandra and casey jr meeting. hands down. ironically it was also one of the hardest scenes to write bc i had to edit cassandras dialogue over n over again to get her voice right!! what to reveal/what not, vernacular, etc etc

ive rambled in the tags a bunch about this, but i fuckin HATEEEE IT when ppl reduse cassandra, future version or not, to just. "caseys mom".

like. the girlie's an ex member of the foot clan, training since 7 years old, and then defected when the originator of her beloved clan is RIGHT IN FRONT OF HER. BRO. SHES SO FUCKING HARDCORE.

AND PPL WANNA SAY THAT PRESENT CASSANDRA TAKES 1 LOOK AT A STRANGER WHO CLAIMS 2 B HER SON AND THEN IMMEDIATELY ADOPTS HIM? bruh. do you not think of the hangups she would have for family figures in her life?

ANYWAY while i was writing the scene proper, i wanted her to get along with cjj ofc ofc but HAVE A REASON FOR IT TOO!!!!

that being; they are legacy characters. (i will make that venn diagram of splinter casey and cassandra i WILL!!!!)

theyre both legacy characrers in that they were raised with the teachings that will haunt them for the rest of their life. for cjj, its the apocalypse. for cassandra, its the footclan.

nothing their ever gonna do is going to erase what they were raised with. cjj is still going to track each and every exit in a room and cassandra is never going to look at whisps of fire the same ever again.

theyre haunted with the ghosts of their raising.

THAT is the core of their connection here

THAT is why they understand each other on a fundamental level

and im gonna make it everyone elses fuckin problem.

[ask game]

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[chiangyorange]

I just read the most recent chp of your fic (a superb piece of writing) and got the urge to ramble about it, if you don’t mind. (Feel free to ignore, if you want)

I really enjoy the way you write, and the interactions and characterization is splendid! And you even brought up the multiverse/diverging timeline stuff! :D

It’s such an interesting concept! Like, there’s so much to unpack! If Blue and Casey jr came back, their timeline obviously existed, but does it continue to exist? If it didn’t, would they cease to exist, as well? But if it did, what would be left? What is required for a timeline/universe to even exist?

As you know, CJ goes back in time and alters that past (now his present) so that his past doesn’t happen, and that rules out the theory that the future is unchange-able. So the future can be changed, but that implies that different decisions could bring about divergences (i.e. branches) in the timeline, causing wildly different outcomes (butterfly effect). As Donnie noted, who/what decides what these ‘big decisions’ are? Where do the divergences occur? Why?

Another possibility is that the multiverse exists, and Casey jr went back in time to another dimension (we’ll call it D2), not actually changing his dimension (D1)’s past or future, but becoming part of another dimension where the Invasion failed. (Does this mean D2 would follow the same path of D1 if CJ hadn’t travelled to D2 to prevent it?) If the past/future can’t be changed (alluding to a higher being), but the multiverse exists, then theoretically the dimensions/universes might mirror one another, with varying differences.

A third theory is that the multiverse and separating timelines both exist, and that’s a whole mess I can’t even get my head around rn. Like, do the dimension/universes mirror each others’ branches/divergences? Could separate branches of D1 and D2 converge, creating a bridge of sorts? Would they still be separate universes?

Idk, just lots of theories.

Thank you for sharing you’re amazing fic <3

first of all thank you so much for reading!!! im honestly so glad people are enjoying wmas <3<3<3

AS FOR THE TIME TRAVEL putting this under the cut because hoooooly shit anon i LOVE thinking about it sm

OKAY SO as it stands this is the scenario i think of when i think about the rottmnt movie in terms of actual canon. the invasion timeline was the main branch of what happens in universe and by sending Casey Jones Jr back, it branches off to what we know now as the movie proper.

the main takeaways for this scenario is that the butterfly effect is confirmed and true, but on the other hand it brings up the question; what happens to that future timeline? does it disappear and its linearity is continued through CJJ? or does his presence not affect things at all and the invasion timeline falls into the invasion?

personally i like to think the former, even though the world ""dies"", it still lives through CJJ unknowingly. the events of the invasion still HAPPENED, but its linearity is more like a loop rather than a break.

then theres scenario 2, the dimension theory where CJJ doesnt actually change the past at all, and instead just hops from one dimension to the other.

imo this one is a lot more bleak in terms of not changing the past, but it DOES bring up the interesting aspect where both timelines are just cocurrent, so for example while the rebellion falls in D1, at the same time in D2, the chase for the key is happening.

AND THEN THE THIRD SCENARIO which kinda of builds on the previous, but its also an option to consider. whatever ""master timeline"" is just the encompassing idea of rottmnt i suppose. we DO see in film that events sort of parallel each other (which has VERY interesting implications of fate), but in different ways (ex. f!mikey winking while opening the time gate compared to mikey winking while closing the portal to the prison dimension).

in this scenario, CJJ goes back in time like a loop, but also experiences a sort of deja vu when events from the apocalypse timeline echo and reflect on the failed timeline which ALSO runs on the cocurrent events scenario.

this one MOST opens up the meta of the peepaw multiverse too because it ALL comes from a source and the paralleling events are just the entirety of the f!leo goes back genre lol so i think this one is the most canon to wmas proper.

ack, ack!!!! its all SO INTERESTING to think about!!!!!!

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[chiangyorange]

I really need to reread all the peepaw fics because my brain has trouble keeping them separate, but I'm pretty sure WMAS has the wonderful marigolds scene that is very memorable to me. (I'd double check, but you know, jail!)

MARIGOLDS!!!!!!!!!!!!

(v excerpt taken ch3 v)

Mikey opens his eyes and he sees a city around him. This… is new. The sky is a pale red like the sunrise and as he looks around him, the city is destroyed. It doesn’t scare him somehow.  He takes his time turning around in place, seeing the tall battered buildings covered in bright colors of paint. Greenery of plants overtake the sides of buildings, framing the bright formless graffiti, the dull grey of concrete to something colorful. It clings to the bricks in a relentless enduring grasp of life. From the windows of the buildings shine lights through them. Multicolored, like they are the LCD screens from Times Square.  It’s bright.  There are no people, the city is in shambles, but it’s still alive.

i wanted mikey to be somewhere that is so familiar but not at the same time. in this one, i was thinking "if you were to make a place, a physical plane that defines yourself by you dreams, your hopes, your desires, what would that look like?" and for this dreamscape, the obvious answer was new york.

(and i think that everyone knows it by now that this is future!mikey's dreamscape) i thought, how different would this be from our mikey in the present?

so i added the broken city, the apocalypse feel, but unlike the city we saw in the movie, this is clean. its not overrun by kraang bio-whatever the fuck, and instead with plants, flowers. i took most inspiration from tlou in this because even though THAT setting is an apocalypse, well, fuckin LOOK

and then the graffiti and glowing windows, those are colorful, the proof what was alive, the people of new york, the community, the art.

(v excerpt taken from ch1 v)

Uncle Michelangelo said that the old New York could be really pretty. There were so many lights that made the fog glow a brilliant color that makes everything magical. Quieter, he told Casey that there was always a person behind those lights. Someone was always adding to the beauty.

and then we come to mikey's exploring

(v excerpt taken ch3 v)

Mikey looks through the streets as he walks. He sees something move in the periphery and his eyes catch onto an overgrown patch of marigolds from a window’s flower pot bobbing from a breeze. His eyes follow as the flowers seemingly grow in pathways, falling out from the pot, down the walls, and to the streets. He follows the trail. The path of marigolds becomes denser and denser, but the petals slowly recede from the flower heads until the floors are simply just the leaves and plucked stems. Mikey finds himself at an intersection, the metal poles of lightstops fallen over at angles around the area like fencing.  In the middle of the intersection is a massive patch of marigolds with bursting orange petals. The rendering petals from before cover the concrete of the street like a carpet. The patch of marigolds in the middle looks like a bed, how the orange flowers pop out of the ground into a perfect circle like a mattress.

i chose marigolds specifically because 1) theyre orange and 2) to continue that life, everything that's sprawling but in a good way. (and maybe in a smaller, but no less important way, tie back to donnie's passion to botany)

mikey is fire, that much is true, but more than that, its a wish to go back. back to the time where people COULD have planters on their balcony rails of bursting flowers, back to when spray paint breathe life to dull concrete walls.

its a dream, its a hope.

its planting marigold seeds in a pot and nurturing it to brighten your home.

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[chiangyorange]

The scene just after the mindscape where Mikey realizes that there’s paint all over him and he painted the apocalyptic city in his trance +plus Future Mikey winking at him!!! And how all the bros react to their lil bro being in said trance/possessed🤩🤩

THIS MIGHT BE MY FAVORITE PEEPAW FIC and I am angy it got suspended Chiangy (I said that cuz it rhymed lol) do you know when the suspension is lifted?

-☄️

[SUSPENSION QUESTION: i have my calendar set on the 24th(aka this coming friday) to remove the tags but i THINK its gonna b longer till wmas is fully back up bc i have to be under review]

AS FOR MIKEY;

(v excerpts taken from ch2 v)

There is a sudden gust of wind. The orange petals swirl around him and it turns to fire. Not just any fire, his fire. It caresses his scales playfully, constantly moving around him, circling like an excited puppy with too much energy. The fire moves in front of him in the space of a person standing on that bed of marigolds. White eyes blink open from the flames. Mikey can only stare back. The fire moves again, but this time it licks away from the figure’s form. The eyes blink and tilt up in a way where it’s clear that they’re smiling. The fire reveals the figure underneath. He catches sight of orange fabric, white wraps on arms. Mikey only makes out a flash of green skin before a knock at the door snaps him from his focus. “Everything okay in here, Mikey?” Donnie and Casey stand by his door. Mikey blinks, “Yeah I’m fine. Is something wrong?”

mikey's fire.

i have only a bare bones of thoughts on his fire ill b honest, but as it stands, mikey's powers are literally part of him. he's much more intuitive at mystics than his brothers and in this, i wanted to emphasize that he is as much mystics as his mystics are him.

and in this case, the mystics are LITERALLY him.

Donnie and Casey glance at each other, the latter points to the sketchbook behind him. Mikey sees the sketchbook’s page freshly painted in an abstract version of the city he saw while meditating. He sees centered at the bottom the bed of marigolds and flames. And looking down at himself he sees his hands covered in paint. He was clearly working, but had no recollection of moving. “You were painting, but your hands were glowing.”

THE PAINTING okay. while mikey was meditating, sure i coulda had him float like future!mikey does, have objects in his room floating, the whole shebang, BUT.

i didnt.

there is a bit of power scaling im playing with here and to me personally, mikey is too weak at the moment to handle floating.

so that means; a vision, a dreamscape, a moment where he wasnt present in the moment and made something intangible, tangible via the painting.

i also just like the idea of visions being a form of proof? like it isnt all mental, its real and it has importance. its not JUST implicit symbolism and foreshadowing. it has relevance.

Mikey looks to the bed of marigolds and the bright orange figure of flame. He stares into the eyes of the figure again. They're winking. “...Huh.” 

the wink. come on now.

literally winking is such a fundamentally playful action and it fucking RUINS ME every time. it literally just show ME that even during the apocalypse mikey manages to find a way to be so so fun and ill cry if i think about that fact too hard.

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[chiangyorange]

i have a couple for the wmas thoughts :] (you dont have to do them all)

1. the big leo small leo fight in the kitchen

2. mikeys possession and painting

3. mikey training with draxum

4. donnys time travel notes

normally i would choose the time travel to annoy tf out of u bestie sean but;

fleo and leo fight, the beginning

(v excerpt taken from ch1 v)

He dodges just in time as a scalpel imbeds itself into the calendar. Leo lunges for the nearest kitchen knife and prays that Mikey won’t be mad at him. He flicks the counter light on and sees the future version of himself standing in the shadows. “Dude, what the fuck?!” The hulking figure throws out his arm, a line of blood running down the side of it from where he likely pulled the IV out and- IS THAT THE FUCKING STAPLER??? Leo dives out of the way as the stapler hits the cabinet with a loud thud. Leo hears his older self grunt and reaches at his still healing side.  “Woah, you’re gonna rip your stitches old man!” He hears his future self growl at him and starts to charge at a high speed. Leo chuckles hysterically, “Oh this isn’t a safe space suddenly.”

future!leo is the personified version of throwing a wrench in the system. literally.

the hamatos roll with the punches SO many times but this fight was really me trying to give off that point of, "this is a person who is shaking up the recently established status quo and whatever he does is going to change that."

i really wanted to drive home that him coming back? not predicted, maybe not intended either? who knows, the present hamatos definitely fucking dont

then cutting to fleo's pov

(v excerpts taken from ch2 v)

Leonardo wakes up with a searing pain in his shoulder.   There’s dim light in the room with brighter lights beaming through the windows, but all he can focus on is the tightness radiating from what’s left of his arm. He looks over, yep that’s gone. The entirety of his prosthetic arm is missing, only leaving the metal implant behind, broken and melted. His eyes scan the room around him looking for the sword he knows he won’t find.  He takes a deep breath to suppress the urge to cry. They took away the last things that were from his brothers. He doesn’t even have anything from Mikey.  Now he’s trapped, truly alone on a godawful hallucination of whatever Kraang ship he’s been taken to. 

you have to remember that fleo was taken the MOMENT he died, hell, even here he doesnt even remember that he DID die

“Ow, fuck!” he hisses. He leans against his arm and grumbles into the pillow to put pressure on the resulting wound. Leonardo stands himself up and takes a deep breath in. He lets it out and blindly opens a drawer and grabs whatever can fit in his hand. He stops and crouches away from the window when he sees movement. He looks out and sees a younger version of himself walk past and to the kitchen. They say the past haunts you but come on, this is getting ridiculous. He sees the false image of himself hanging up his photo. Dread pools in his stomach because he gave that to Casey. If that photo is here then they must have captured him too, somehow. The figure stands up taller and Leonardo responds in kind.He takes the scalpel, tucking the medical stapler in his waistband and throws. The image dodges, diving towards the countertops and flicks on a light. Leonardo only blinks as the lights hit directly into his eyes. “Dude, what the fuck?!” 

its been explained in post, but fleo, as he stands right here, is under the assumption that the kraang took him and doing literally all they can to snuff out the rest of the resistance/punishing him as the leader/everything BAD

fleo tore out an IV (which OW.) which is an indicator of "i dont give a shit about what happens" then immediately grabbing anything and everything he can as a weapon, an indicator of "all i want to do is take as many kraang down as i can"

its reckless, its desperate, its not inherently self destructive, but it is apathetic in its most senses of the term.

here i dont want to say "fleo wants to die", but rather "if im going to go out, im gonna go out fucking fighting like the rest of my family did". its a dignity thing there fleo is trying to control his own demise as a last fuck you to the kraang

“Leo?” Mikey’s image calls to his younger self. He looks up at him, “Leo?!” “Be surprised later, he’s VIOLENT.” The two of them start to turn and run. 

but thats not happening here. the audience KNOWS that hes safe and this line of thinking is only going to get more dangerous if he isnt stopped.

He sees out of the corner of his eye something being thrown at his feet. Before he can react, it hits his ankles and someone collides with his side. He falls hard directly on his bad shoulder and his vision goes white with pain. Rolling to his back, he digs his hand into the bad shoulder and wills the pain to go away. “Sensei!” He hears through the fog.He feels a hand on his shoulder, the one he's not holding, and flinches hard back onto his feet. Leonardo breathes hard as it grows uncomfortably silent. His vision slowly comes back to him and what he sees is… “Casey?”

and he is. and then he remembers.

He remembers the final act of the rebellion. He remembers April’s hands pushing him out of the way as she orders him to keep going, commander’s orders. He remembers the injury to his side and falling to the ground. He remembers being on his feet running uphill with Casey supporting him just like now. He remembers wishing that April was there with them. He remembers being surrounded, and then immediately being saved by Mikey. He remembers the time gate, and how the speculation needed to be reality. He remembers the brilliant gold that took his remaining brother. He remembers throwing Casey into the time gateway. He remembers fighting off the Kraang. He remembers the heroic image he hopes is the last thing Casey sees of him. He remembers the feeling, the thoughts that he will join his brothers soon. He remembers his world lighting up in a bright light. He remembers- “I don’t understand.” He admits. 

from living in constant chaos, his hear in his throat, losing friends left and right in the last act of the resistance, of course he would be confused as shit.

its an overwhelming kindness after years and years of heartache, of grief, of loss and now youre telling him hes safe? after 2 decades of a living hell, he can breathe again?

its going to be overwhelming.

Leonardo looks around the room, actually looks for the first time and sees his younger self wincing and sitting up from the wall he was thrown at. On the floor is the calendar and the scalpel he threw, the newly hung photograph’s frame tilted at an angle in a comical manner. Mikey stands over his younger self with an ice pack in hand looking at Raph pensively. A textbook by his feet and notes that that’s what tripped him before he snapped out of it. Wow, now he really feels like shit.

and then he starts to feel like he's intruding on something that was meant to be peaceful.

he escaped hell, but hell followed him.

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