random post about some of my version of the BLU mercs!!
I haven’t drawn all of them yet so while I find motivation to do that, take these!!!
PART 1
"The 2012 turtles would be appalled at how childish the Rise turtles are" this "The 2012 gang would look down on the Rise gang because of how they deal with things" that
ALL of you are wrong!!!! The 2012 turtles would take one look at the Rise tots and kill anyone that LOOKED at them wrong!! The 12 tots may be 18 and traumatized and more serious and battle-hardened than the Rise boys but as someone who grew up with the 12 boys I can confidently say they would hold them gently and protect them from anything that tried to take their lighthearted nature away from them. Hell they'd probably try and kill Big Mama for the shit she's pulled with the boys! This extends to Splints too, they would SO threaten Draxum within an inch of his life for the shit he's done to both Splints AND the boys AND humanity. 12!Mikey may not have a Dr Delicate Touch alter ego but he'd TEAR into the Rise boys enemies, specifically Meatsweats for TRYING TO EAT THEM.
All of you who think there'd be tension n shit between 12 and Rise are losers if anything the Rise boys would be fed up with being babied by the 12 gang! And no don't you dare try and pull the "But 12!Raph is abusive and would-" NO shut up did you SEE how he treated Spike and Chompy and how hard he fought whenever he thought his brothers died or were in mortal danger???? He's not abusive he's emotionally constipated and holds himself to the unhealthy toxic masculinity standards and doesn't know how to deal with his own anger he is NOT abusive he is TRAUMATIZED and needs THERAPY, he would fucking baby Rise!Raph and fist fight anyone that breathed at him wrong! Don't you dare come into my house and tell me he wouldn't he babied Slash post-mutation however briefly and fucking SWOONED whenever Mona Lisa kissed him or was on screen. Don't come for my baby with your "but he's abusive!!11!11!1!!1" bullshit he is BABY and a SWEETHEART.
And 12!Leo is a dork and a NERD he takes every opportunity he can to mimic Captain Ryan and turns into a giddy fanboy and kicks his feet and giggles and twirls his bandanna whenever he watches Space Heroes, he's BABY. He's silly and messes with his brothers and teases Raph for his bugphobia and takes every opportunity to mess with them, he blows raspberries at his bros like a little shit and trips them when they walk by and aren't paying attention. He is a silly little guy and makes jokes and gets made fun of by his brothers for his catchphrases and when he mimics Captain Ryan. He has a Space Heroes comic collection and scrambles to hide it when someone walks in when he's reading it. As weird as it was when he had a crush on Karai (PRE-SISTER REVEAL) he tripped over his own goddamn feet whenever she showed up and made a FOOL of himself (and still did later when he looked up to Karai as a big sister and tried to impress her). He fought tooth and nail to protect his brothers and went into a blind rage when he thought they'd all been murdered right in front of him, he spared no expense when it came to his family's safety. This man would infodump about Captain Ryan whenever he had the chance, if he met Rise!Leo and learned about his Jupiter Jim obsession these two would spend HOURS geeking out over their hyperfixations. Do NOT tell me they wouldn't because they WOULD. He would NEVER put Rise!Leo down for his jokes and puns because he doesn't do that with his Mikey, he'd rather fight Shredder again than do that. He would be PROUD of Rise!Raph for his leader position and would even give him tips! And if it's post-movie Rise!Raph and Leo he'd hug them both and tell them he was PROUD of them. If you think he wouldn't do any of this in the slash negative way then get the fuck away from me (half joke).
12!Don would faint upon seeing Rise!Donnie's tech and run out of air asking questions about how the mystic tech works and probably even hyperventilate over the battleshell's and he would DEFINETLY do the flappy hands and bluescreen over Shelldon. 12!Don is a nerd and a science dork, he would grab Rise!Don's tech and shake it because of how excited he'd be. Would he be jealous? A bit, sure, but he'd quickly brush that off in favor of learning everything he can about this new world full of magic and advanced tech because why waste time being jealous when he can take all this knowledge home and improve his own tech back home with it? He. Would. Be. So. Proud. He'd learn Rise!Don is a softshell and be AMAZED at how he adapted, he'd probably steal some of his confidence for himself too! He would be PROUD of the Rise turts and would show them off to anyone who asked because look at these wonderful little guys! They're adorable and could kick my ass and I'm so proud of them!! LOOK AT THEM DAMMIT!!! APPRECIATE THEM!!!!!!!!!
12!Mikey would scoop the entire Rise gang up and give all of them a big ol hug and fanboy over how proud he is of them. This man looked a feral Leatherhead in the face and went "Oh he's just a little guy! You're my friend now, we're having soft tacos later :]" which just sums up everything about 12!Mikey that you need to know, nothing else needs to be said. No fuck off he would love all of them just as much as he loves his brothers, and he loves his brothers a lot. I can and will drown you in the evidence I have that he loves his brothers more than life itself and that he's just as much of a little shit to them as they are to him, he is baby and he sometimes treats his brothers like babies. How do I know? Just look at how he interacted with Raph whenever he was scared of bugs, he's a little fucking shit and I stand by that. He snapped Raph out of a bug-induced panic attack by slapping him and it WORKED and Raph THANKED him, and some of you chucklefucks ignore that when compiling evidence on why Raph is "abusive". If 12!Raph is abusive then I'm the goddamn fucking Grinch and I will die on this goddamn hill.
Do the 12!Tots have some unhealthy dynamics to their relationship with each other? Sure, but every family has that. If you try and tell me there's not at least ONE unhealthy dynamic in your family you're lying to me AND yourself. What you need to remember about the 12 brothers is they are child soldiers are were raised to treat every moment like it would be their last, they grew up fighting to survive and it shows. They're co-dependent on each other because they spent their development and formative years being told they can rely only on each other and to falter is to put each other at risk, that every choice they make could potentially threaten their family's life and to put their brothers lives above their own or all of them would fall. It's unhealthy but they can't do anything about it because they were taught that since before they could walk. To call them abusive to each other is lies and slander because they would rather die a thousand deaths than hurt their brothers. And when they do hurt their brothers - because they have and likely will again, because that is the way of love and to love someone is to admit when you have wronged them and work to right it - they work to make sure they don't do it again, and they apologize and help each other back up and never leave each other behind because to do so is to doom them all.
TLDR; Calling the 12!Turtle brothers dynamic abusive and saying they'd look down on the Rise!Boys is laughable and I do a little jig on your grave every time you say that. They would put the Rise!Tots in a pile and swaddle them like little babies and coo at them and speak to them in baby voices and get punched by the Rise!Tots for it.
Thank you for coming to my ted talk have a lovely day 😘
Behind the scenes of Godzilla (1998)
The fact that Rise gave Splinter not one but TWO love interests will never not be funny to me.
my current dark urge is a half-elf bard named fern and they’re just,,
romancing wyll
spent majority of act 1 shoving astarion whenever he said something witty then kills anyone else who does it
freaking out whenever shadowheart or wyll gets downed
usually gives the pretty items to shadowheart or wyll
looks vaguely amused by everything
constantly bloody
continuously says “first in my heart” whenever talking to wyll or gale
minsc and boo are their new best friends (sorry gale)
is currently hoarding clown parts
despite having viscous mockery, barely uses it and always gets cursed by it
i think they’d be an anxious squirrel if they were an animal
I love OC x canon btw is so fun
the amount of guilt redemption Durge must have everytime someone brings up the fact they were the cause of the whole illithid thing has to be staggering. Like damn bro they’re already feeling sucky about all their other previous actions they’re still learning about 😭
why do so many fics portray octavius as being super uptight and serious like have you seen him in canon this man is an agent of chaos and a complete enabler and enjoyer of jed’s unhinged behaviour
Oumaede really was kind of confirmed woooooow, good day
The face of someone who has already experienced 3 overblots
LOVING your scout thoughts. Tell me more im sitting and listening and kicking my legs back and forth and giggling like I'm on the phone
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Okay okAY I have like so many headcanons for Jeremy Scout and like my own interpretation of the other scout I couLD GO ON FOR DAYS
Anyway!!! Dynamics!! ‘M gonna talk about that and just,,, stuff about scout I like and headcanon,,,
- scout is a lot smarter than people give him credit for and I will fist fight anyone about that. he is smart intelligence wise and emotional wise.
- I see a lot of scout having ADHD; which I believe 100%, but I do believe he is also autistic. I don’t see a lot of people bringing up that idea, but as a person with autism, he just gives off the vibe.
- also scout slurs his words together because he talks too fast. everything he does is fast. so sometimes he needs to be reminded to slow down a little.
- I love love love the idea of scout and pyro being bffs, and not like the same way scout is bffs with sniper. I mean like in the sense they kinda get each other without really getting each other. They’re both underestimated and perceived as less than their worth (both being babied and seen as dumber than they are at times)
- they are both childish but not children! they can color together and make comics together and scout will collect rare plushies to trade with pyro because they cAN HAVE INTERESTS THAT ARE DEEMED CHILDISH WITHOUT BEING CHILDREN
- and I don’t care what anyone says!! pyro and scout hold hands and scout does not mind because it helps pyro keep themself grounded!!!
- pyro and scout will go to one another if the other can’t sleep and they’ll just watch crappy movies and giggle and half the time they don’t even talk they just enjoy each others presence
- scout and sniper are the friends that one talks and one listens. they are best friends in the sense I think scout treats sniper like how he treats his brothers
- scout will just gangle himself around this jungle gym of a man because it is fun and there is a primal urge to climb anything tall. sniper is desensitized to it and will just let scout do whatever.
- like sniper is the friend that scout feels comfortable enough to let out all his stims and stuff around. he could just doodle on sniper, fiddle with his fingers, yank his hair, touch his face, bite his hand, and sniper will just allow it because he knows scout doesn’t even really think about doing it, it just happens. he won’t tell scout to lower his voice or slow down, he just lets him go wild, y’know?
- scout and soldier are two of my most favorite characters and they are both so so loving and I need more people to realize this!!!!!!
- I saw this headcanon (I forget by who) that scout got his dog tags from soldier and it is like my favorite things.
- scout and soldier, I don’t see their relationship as brotherly but more like closer than friends, they have a kinship that can’t be explained by words. like they’re good friends where it’s almost brotherly almost mentor-y, but it’s not.
- I think scout looks up to Soldier while also thinking he’s an utter buffoon. Like he thinks Solly is so cool and so amazing but he’d never say that, cause Solly is insane and oblivious to a degree. Despite this, both Solly and scout are so emotional in their own ways and I think that’s something they have in common. They’re both intelligent but not in ways that is conventional.
- also of course they both beat each other up but I think it’s more of like just a thing they do. Solly going after scout i could see as a form of “cuteness aggression”, in the sense that he cares about this silly guy so much he doesn’t know how to handle it.
- I think Soldier just picks up scout in a fireman carry just because he can and then scout tries and fails and Soldier just keeps encouraging him
- I don’t care what anyone says; Soldier is scout’s number one supporter even if he sounds aggressive in his positivity
- “KEEP IT UP MAGGOT!!! I BELIEVE IN YOU!! LETS GO TWINKLE TOES!! ONE TWO ONE TWO!!”
- I could go on about these two for days they are such goobers
- MEDIC AND SCOUT IS JUST A SILLY DYNAMIC AND I LOVE IT
- they’re both silly guys and both have weird fascinations with pain. the guy who wants to explore it in a sense of science and the guy who doesn’t think twice about it before charging headfirst into it. they’re besties.
- “medic finds scout annoying” “scout finds medic scary” NO!!! THEY’RE BESTIES. medic adores scout since he’s the one constantly volunteering to be first for the experiments!! heavy is the first volunteer? NO ITS SCOUT!! Scout volunteers for all the experiments!! Helpful and just for fun ones!! and he’s in perfect shape and age, so why wouldn’t medic deem him as the perfect test subject???
- both medic and scout have a flare for dramatics and absolutely adore rambling. you cannot tell me they wouldn’t talk all the time. scout will pace around the lab as medic does work and just ramble about his day, his thoughts, any ideas for experiments he has that he thinks Doc could pull off.
- I can see both scout and medic as the type of people who just cannot sit or stand still for more than a few minutes. Medic can handle it better, but even he gets restless being still.
- I love both the interpretations that medic loves touch and the interpretation that he hates touch. I see it more as medic adores touch in the sense that he must be the one to initiate it or on certain days he feels more touch adverse. With this in mind I believe that scout is very similar in the sense he loves touch but also can really hate it other times. So I like to imagine that they just y’know poke at one another :)
- I like the idea of them being bros that acknowledge their equal desire for comfort from touch but also the occasional adversity of it. So I think they’d do like platonic cuddling and stuff just because
I WILL DO THE OTHERS AND THEIR DYNAMICS WITH SCOUT IN THE NEZT POST BUT I MUST EAT