Builietproof - ♰

“I’m still trapped

in the disgusting feeling

and I keep remembering

that I’m still broken

from a sacrifice I didn’t ask”

When the family take trauma bonding to far.

the parallels of rottmnt.

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the way rottmnt portrays the cycle of sacrifice and generational trauma through the concept of the hamato tradition is so beyond phenomenal it’s really hard to articulate with just words how hard it really hits. there’s so many parallels btwn splinter & his history/family than can be seen within raph & leo that can also almost be translated to f!leo & casey in some ways, not to mention the parallels btwn karai and leo as well.

the way splinter tried SO hard to break from that cycle, the way he saw how it effected his family and himself and didn’t want to put his family through it again yet it seemed to be inevitable regardless. he never wanted to have to choose btwn his family and the world and yet even when he made that choice in S1, in the end he still ended up losing a family member (karai) in exchange for time to save the world.

and even though he tried to break the chain so hard, the cycle of sacrifice was still adopted into raph and leo in different ways which was later passed down to donnie and mikey.

not to mention the future timeline where they ended up losing EVERYBODY and in the end of the movie casey is met with the same choice of the world over family just as many family members before him have.

the sacrificial bone and need to protect is just so ingrained into the entire family, to the point where the same events just seem to happen over and over no matter what is done.

the cycle of love and loss, protection and sacrifice, family vs the world. over and over.

Been reading "the neon void" by @sugarpasteltmnt on ao3 and GUYS ITS SO GOOD

so I went and drew my favorite moment so far from chapter 6

( TW: limb severing)

Doing some Leo studies wile watching the show again! It's so fun to see him star fish like a crazy boi. Hope you all like it! It's been a hoot of a time

i drew raph so cute here hehehehe

reposting this old bloody toki :3

“It’s been too long”