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Finally writing again! I’ll try and respond to competition asks and propanganda but no promises apologies!
Boom late seasons Leo design
IM GONNA BE AWAY FOR THE FIRST VOTE SO REMEMBER TO PLEASE VOTE FOR TURTLES OF THE HOUR (TOTH) !!!!
We’ve got:
- ANGST
- REALISTIC GRIEF AND LOSS OF PARENTS
- JONATELLO
- MIKEY RUNNING AWAY
- A SICK AQUARIUM GANG WAR ARC CO-CREATED BY MY FRIEND @alienne-in-green
- SO MUCH COMFORT
- A THERAPY ARC
- TRANS FEM LEO
- TRANS MASC CASEY AND DONNIE
- QUEER MIKEY
- RAMONA
- MUTAGEN BOMB ARC WITH TONNES OF NEW AND OLD MUTANTS (WINGNUT, MANRAY, STONEFISH MACKENZIE, SUNITA THE HAGFISH)
- STALKER MONDO GECKO
- DONNIE AND KENDRA’S COMPLICATED FRIENDSHIP
- APRIL FIGHTING FOR HER JOB AND PLACE AS A JOURNALIST AGAINST SEXIST MANAGEMENT AND PEERS
- IRMA BEING AN UTROM
- SHREDDER KINDA REDEMPTION ARC
- SICK STORYLINE!!
How long do you think it’ll take before the first polls come after submissions close? Not asking to rush you, in fact I encourage you to take your time. Just asking to get a general time frame! No problems if you don’t have an answer yet of if it’ll be a while, it’s really fine.
hey there!
so, submissions close tomorrow at 12:00 AM (y’all got an hour and 30 minutes lmfao). i’m going to try and post the first poll tomorrow, but it depends on how busy i am!
if i’m unable to post it tomorrow i’ll either do it on the 11th or the 12th.
quick reminder i’ve never done this before and am absolutely awful with time, so i might forget to post a future poll or mess something up.
if i do, just poke me with a message to my inbox! aidbjsjsjsj
-platonic kisses from your mod <3
Hii I started reading your AU and I have a bit of questions for starters what is their species? Are they the same age? If so how old are they? Which universe is this mostly based on? I am assuming the whole Donnie leo being twins is from Rise?
Hello!! I’m very happy that you’re reading my au, I have actually got the answers to their ages and species on their intro posts but I’ll say it here because they’re kind of old and a long way to scroll!
Leo is 16 and a red eared slider
Donnie is also 16 and a hawksbill sea turtle
Raph is 15 and a common snapping turtle
Mikey is 14 and an Eastern long-necked turtle
I take inspo for all iterations cause I’ve seen most of them, but the 2012 show gave the most inspo for plot and character dynamics, 2003 for storylines, and rise for character design, IDW for late-story plot points!
Yes I headcanon Donnie and Leo as twins in rise as well! I took that because I love eldest sibling Leo and wanted to explore an older sibling Donnie as well! And also love the teasing twins dynamic :))
😡🐯🧶
😡What is your villain’s motivation?
There are multiple villains but for now I’ll talk about the shredder and purple dragons who are the current main big bads. They are both puppet gangs as a secret force is manipulating gangs towards NYC. The Shredder is currently fuelled by bloodlust and revenge. He is not in his right mind and barely in control of most of his actions, seeking out revenge on the remaining Hamato clan and trying to avenge his daughter who he believes to be dead (Karai). The purple dragons want to rule NYC. Hun specifically wants all the power and wealth that comes along with that.
🐯Is there a Tigerclaw in your au?
There is a Tigerclaw! He is a minor character. He is a younger brother to Alopex who fought in the Battle Nexus to save his life.
🧶 Does Raph knit?
Raph does knit! He used it at first as a way to cope with his anger but it’s just become a hobby of his now, unconsciously. He’ll just go to his room if he needs to chill out and knit for hours until his project is finished. He also uses the items he knits for apologies. He has a hard time apologising so he will make something for them instead.
Thank you for sending an ask, I will literally rant about them for hours <333
Heya! this is battiegutz, i jus cant send images in asks unless its thru my main blog i never use 💀 anyway ik it hasnt started yet but my solarpunks boys wish you luck in the tmnt iteration competition !:3
Raph LOVES strawberries (he loves any food but especially red food), he is incredibly grateful <333!
Good luck to you as well!!!! I adore your art and au’s!
@tmnt-iteration-competition
Eldest twins, I love their dynamic and am having so much fun with them!!
Atm I’m building a bit of angry tension between the two in planning, so it’s nice to chill with them being happy siblings
(Thinking about making them both trans instead of just Leo)
Finally Chapter 6 and accompanying art!!
So happy to finally have Casey debut, I love him so much aaaaaaa!
Here are Donnie and Mikey’s human designs, drawn in February, would probs change a couple things now but overall I’m proud of them!
Originally they were all going to be in this chapter that’s why the gang are reacting to Mikey’s human form!
Chapter going to be coming later this week, busy out of my mind studying </3
Id say I’m 1/2 done with it so far tho!
I haven’t forgotten about my writing, been incredibly busy studying!! New chapter today or tomorrow for turtles of the hour!!
Did some expression studies with my boys !
I need to talk about my guys but the words they don’t word aaaaaa
Kendra from my TMNT AU, Turtles of The Hour!
She leads the tech subsection of the Purple Dragons and is a programmer. She hates having to do the dirty work but really wants to be up with the tops at the purple dragons so they use the alias Nobody to get there ;)
That’s enough spoilers tho, hope you like them!
YOOOOOO
New chapter!!! Hope y’all enjoy!!
Stayed up late and made shitposts on ibisPaint, these are so fun to do
Also it’s Don cyber bullying April
LAST MINUTE PROPAGANDA BEFORE I SLEEP VOTE HERE FOR TURTLES OF THE HOUR!!
HAVE SOME NEW-ISH JONATELLO SKETCHES, DONNIES MIKU BODY PILLOW IS UPSET AND REJECTED
THEY BATTLE IN THEIR DREAMS
SOME MORE RANDOM THINGS FOR YALL:
TRANSMASC CASEY JONES EXISTS, DYSLEXIC RAPH, LEO HAS AN EXTENSIVE SKIN CARE ROUTINE, A CERTAIN VILLAIN (NOT BIG MAMA OR DRAXUM) HAS A REDEMPTION ARC EVENTUALLY, MONDO IS CREEPY AND GRUNGE, AUTISM OUT THE WAZOO, CASEY AND RAPH ARE BESTIES, KARAI AND CASEY ARE BESTIES (FOR A BIT), RAMONA EVENTUALLY, BIG SISTER APRIL, MENTAL BREAKDOWNS AND MORE TO COME
Realistically, I know I’m not gonna win but thanks for getting me on here lol <333 I also really like mutant manhunt so a worthy opponent to be crushed by!! I will be rooting for them in further rounds, fight the good fight and all that lmao
Newest chapter posted!!!!
Hope you enjoy!! I write all my drafts in a book with this pen and feel like I’m writing a secret journal lmao:
PROPAGANDA ARRIVES — VOTE FOR THE UNDERDOGS TURTLES OF THE HOUR (I love mutant manhunt tho lmao)
Surprise trans and disaster bi don, only explicitly canon identities for the turts, everything else is up to interpretation!!
Mikeys expression is my favourite thing to draw in the world
SURFER BOY LEO!!! HE SURFS GUYS
Old splinter design drawing but I still kinda love the design so I’m gonna canon-ise it!!
GUYS VOTE FOR THE UNDERDOG PLEASE 🙏🙏🙏I GOT YOU SOME YUMMY STORY SNIPPETS IN THE NEXT POST AND SOME SECRET JONATELLO OUT BACK AND LEOS SITTING IN A DUMPSTER EATING THE PIZZAS, I GOT THE GOODS!! DO YALL WANT THE FULL STORY OVERVIEW??? CAUSE ILL POST IT!! DO YALL WANT MORE OF ANY CHARACTER??? CAUSE ILL POST IT
Guys WTH
ANYWAYS Get turtles of the hour into the bracket and I’ll post literally everything lmao, UNDERDOG SUPPORTERS GUYS
I’ll reveal some of the cool plot points surrounding the shreddy, some of the upcoming arcs, and I’ll post some more of the characters!! More propaganda is being produced now!! Also the new chapter is tonight or tomorrow!!
Preliminary Votes List (1)
List of creators and their creations for the preliminary votes! I would've put these in but I was conked out last night my apologies. AND I REACHED THE LIMIT GOOD LORD
Residuum - @rottmnt-residuum Donnie 2.0 - @domesticatedopossum Mutant Manhunt - @baskeigh-ball Raphs on Raphs - @gumball-gotdamb-watterson Separate Dreams - @55cdfc-f7a8b8-ffffff-f7a8b8-55cd8b8-55cd Same As It Never Was - @kittynumyum Homographs - @realmsalot Mer(tles) - @quewp1 Turtles of the Hour - @ranchshark Wishing on Reflecting Street Puddles - @loonbark Out of the Shadows and Into the Neon - @obsidiancreates Things Will Be Fine - @skeletonjock Third From The Son / Dawning of the Hour - @thedawningofthehour Raph meets Little Y'gythba - Submitter did not give a user to anything Mutant Ninja Midlife Crisis - a_platypus (ao3) Winged Turtles - @mobiitez Conjoined Disaster Twins - @mintyyyshake9000 Banana Split - @alexcant578 Pieces of Home - @daedelweiss And One to Grow On - @zelgadis55 The Question is Violence and the Answer is Pizza - anon (ao3) Two Arms Left - @intotheelliwoods Adopted Mikey - @tblsomedoodles Unfamiliar Familiar - Torable (ao3) Life Transitions - @purplefuzzysocks Seratello - @noodlenoodlenoodlenoodle Tenative Devotee - @s0fti3w1tch TMNT CY.V1 - @ikemengoessbrrrrr Adopted Donnie - @/tblsomedoodles We Ran Out Of Rats - @sheltered-uno Seer Twins - @/tblsomedoodles Sewer - @mej2235 Giovanni Twins - @enthblaze Dystopia - @alexthenerdbird (on twitter too) Five Nights at Leo's - @nrrrdgrrrl2002 Sewer Punks - @kettle-bird Coin Toss - @ gemini forest (ao3) Little Scraps of Wisdom - clandestineClairvoyant (ao3) Trans-Dimensional Chaos - @tmnt-obsessed-ace Turtle Loops - @sunnylighter Sea Bunny - InkySpikes (Twitter) Prince - @beannary Three Days To Live - @spectrumscribe The Future Left Behind - @shittygaypornmagazine Odd Man Out - @threestripeslider Teenage Mutant Neglected Turtles - @nerves-nebula Journal - LemurzSquad (ao3) Universal Collision - @misteria247 Casino - Malka_gol (TikTok) Prolonged Agony - @archtype-archives (ao3) Behind the Scenes / Actor - @catboycamdotcom Turtle Trauma Powerfield - @donatellokinnersinner Vendetta - Adelfie (Fanfic.net) Prime Leo - @darth-sonny His World - @skylerskyhigh Memoria Damnum - @aduckmurder In Search of Shadows - @echakazul (ao3) The Jersey Incident - Averycreativeusername (ao3) The Shinobi's Garden - @taizi Murals and Mutants - @aslitheryprinx TMNT: The Last of Us - @deedeeprince164
Guess who finally finished the full markings references?
Woohoo! So glad these are done! Mikeys was done way before the rest lmao
Also @alienneingreen helped with Leo’s shell and marking designs!
As a note, a couple things in the references haven’t happened yet as of the current fic.
1. Raph hasn’t got his tattoo (Casey dared him to and then gave it himself, it’s not a serious tattoo and he wears a patch to cover it), because they haven’t yet met Casey (he’s soon though don’t worry!!)
2. Leo does not yet have his knee scar! He gets that a little ways down the storyline :)
New chapter and 2 new characters!! Enjoy the cliffhanger ;)
April’s debut! I’ve posted her before but now she’s here! Yippee!
Welcome to the first chapter of TMNT AU! I had so much fun writing this and I hope you enjoy! More chapters will be written soon.
I also gave it a name! TMNT: Turtles of the Hour! I’m going to be tagging it under ‘turtles of the hour’ and adding the tag to the previous posts regarding it! This is one of my first works of writing I’m sharing so I’m a bit nervous but I hope it’s enjoyed :))
How Splinter got them to stand still for this? I have no idea but he did and it’s cute!!
The proportions are off but that’s ok dlgkdlgkf I love my silver paint pen so much
April O’Neil for my TMNT au
I got new pens and pencils at the time of drawing this and got very excited
Aprillllll!!!
- 18
- 5’2
- At the start of the story she’s just ending high school but throughout the course of it she’s mainly in college
- Her major is journalism with a minor in chemistry
- Camera bag, never has the time to set it up
- Bleached her hair and it came out ginger, she likes it, roots are always visible
- Good older sister to the turtles, met them when she was ~10
- Met Raph first (I’ll do a whole post on how they met eventually)
- Refuses to wear the glasses she’s been prescribed and hates contacts
- Soooo stubborn
- Didn’t have friends in high school
- Donnie and her are besties
- Donnie hates her fashion sense
- Mikey keeps stealing from her (help)
- Very protective over her younger brothers + Casey
- Best social awareness out of the group
- Weilds a bat that she got as a gift from Casey
- Considered the weird kid at school
- Always has energy
- Her father (Kirby) and mother (Alice) have met the turtles and Splinter over a family dinner. They though that they were weird but ok for April as she didn’t have any other friends. They were pretty open about being mutants but her parents didn’t seem to catch on and just thought they had some weird birthmarks or conditions. The turtles come over a lot.
- Very happy when they meet Karai, and overall very excited to meet new people
- Name anything and she knows how to do it because she’s had a job that required it before (SCUBA, sharpening knives, crane operating, etc)
- Super supportive, up for anything
Casey Jones for my TMNT AU!!
Casey!!
- 16
- 5’7
- Puerto Rican
- All his weapons are taken from the school’s gym, and he carved his name into them
- Met Don before the others but he didn’t really know he was a mutant yet
- Had no phone until Don gave him one, doesn’t like going online
- Been homeschooled his whole, just started regular school after his mother passed
- 7 year old sister, Angel
- Hockey player, duh
- Works as a mechanic, part time
- FtM
- LOVES spider man
- Listens to Bikini Kill and Lana Del Ray, uses music as escapism
- Scholarship student because of his hockey ability
- Gets Don to tutor him
- Accidental enabler (especially with Raph)
- Met April when he was very little, they are family friends
Casey Jones tends to be my favourite character in TMNT iterations so I hope I did him justice in mine!
Donatello design for my TMNT au!!
Donnie!
* 16, Leo’s younger twin
* 5’11, tallest by a lot
* This turtle is so tired
* seeks validation through his tech
* Is heavily addicted to Fortnite and caffeine
* Outrigger splints for radial nerve palsy from damage done to the nerve via self-experimentation. He adapted the splints to be gloves and fits a tonne of tech in them
* He streams on twitch with his face-cam. He tells them it’s a 3D vtuber model, he hates his chat because they try to rile him up.
* Invites Leo on stream to mess with him, Raph and Mikey don’t like being on stream bc of his gamer rage
* Likes to think he’s rebellious (he just stays up late and has been caught a couple times)
* Wasn’t interested in training until he adapted his bo and learnt that if he wants his tech to back him up in battle, he has to learn how to fight with it. Still prefers to not train when he can
* Headphones are noise-cancelling and can function as earmuffs
* Inventor of T-ASL (turtle-American sign language), used in ninja work and in non-verbal episodes
* Mad temper which he doesn’t understand
* Terrible liar
* he got autism hasn’t he
* Leo’s right hand man
* Raph’s on Donnie’s self-experimentation watch (appointed by Leo), so he tries to get him to help out at least a little bit.
* Raph and Mikey pick on him all the time because it’s funny to get him mad
* Mikey and him prank their brother’s together
My man!!
Michelangelo design for my TMNT AU
Mikey!!!
* 14, youngest!
* 5’2 (just under Leo)
* His knee pad mysteriously changes face anytime you can’t see him
* Wants to be just like Leo!
* He has small claws
* He’s a chef but not a baker (Leo tried to teach him one time and it came out awful)
* Super flexible
* Loves acrobatics and watches it at the olympics with Raph (who likes all sorts of sports besides swimming)
* Eastern Long-necked turtle
* Steals stuff from everyone (got his tessen from April’s wall)
* Extremely emotionally intuitive and expressive, he can’t hide them at all
* Super dense
* Painter but especially graffiti art. He takes lots of pride in his art and is always scared to show his brothers — they always love it.
* Makes music but doesn’t sing, plays the most random instruments (bassoon, santour, synthesiser, the bottle, etc)
* Him and Leo enable eachother’s silly sides of the brain
* Raph and Mikey create together, art and music. They also play video games together! Raph is way too overprotective of him tho
* Mikey and Don confide their emotions in eachother
He’s a little silly!!
Raphael Reference sheet for my TMNT AU
Raph!!!
* 15
* Seething Middle Child (second youngest)
* Knits to calm down and give gifts after outbursts
* Secretly Sensitive
* Ariana Grande and Metal!!
* Alligator Snapping turtle
* Loves anything and everything sports
* #1 hater
* Outbursts of anger after bottling his emotions too much
* Gossip bug
* Draws with Mikey
* Mutual understanding of silence or extreme metal with Don, is on Donnie self-experimentation watch duty
* Leo’s teasing older brother to Raph’s middle child waiting to snap
I hope you like my boy!!