Prolonged Agony Just Hit 100,000 Words!

I'm terrible at propaganda but....

VOTE PROLONGED AGONY!

...If you want to.

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As an incentive, I drew something from one of the few heartwarming scenes in the fic. I thought I'd give everyone a break from the angst.

Still loads more angst to come though hehe.

If Prolonged Agony gets through I will drew more art.

I'm not much of an artists, I'm far more confident writting, but its fun to try anway.

i'm invested in this a normal amount, i need to add to the propaganda

☆ KEEP VOTING FOR THE BOI @autismswagsummit ☆

We gotta keep rottmnt trending!

Alright guys, I managed to screen record and compress the animatic to Tumblr specs because this absolutely needed to be shared!

Enjoy!!

ROTTMNT : SPIRITS WITHIN THE WEAPONS.

Story idea info here.

Antics the Spirits get up to while the turtles are sleeping...

Honestly, Oda doesn't know why he even bothers to mediate knowing that Fundi can't last five minutes without causing some trouble/bothering him.

Tonfa has to use the Tonfas to flip the pages of the comic as the Spirits cannot interact with anything other than the weapons they inhabit.

As much as this poll is really fun, all I can think about is the quickly growing list of fics I now have to read because I didn't even know half of these existed!

I have a lot of reading to catch up on!

ALRIGHT EVERYBODY!!

The bracket's all been put together!

Please note that there were a few more submissions that I had to take out of the running for the sake of space, but I hope that everyone's still excited!!

Full list of names (the text is tiny ik I'm sorry) and links to the content themselves below the cut

For the record, I put all of the names in the order I had them saved then just shuffled them, I didn't make these match-ups.

I also haven't seen 100% of these, nor do I remember all of them, so if I don't remember the nicknaming system used in that specific fic, I apologise.

Left Side

ITBOTB Blue vs. Fracturing Time Mikey

Hansel AU Leo vs. Kosmara Mikey

wify,ifm Leo vs. TAE Leo

AMW Leo vs. RtEoTW April

NQK Leonardo vs. Red Rover f!Leo

TFLB Donnie vs. JTOEL Donnie

Full Lair Leo vs. Dead Man's Deal Leo

IBEH Leo vs. GitS Ghost

Right Side

Separate Times Donnie vs. MNMC Leo

Cass' Uncle Donnie vs. 2 arms left Leo

Time Napped Raph vs. LCM Leo

His World Nidas vs. Kosmara Leo

WMAS Leo vs. Two Souls Aoi

LMAD Leo vs. Mystic Hands Mikey

NQK Michelangelo vs. OMO Leo

Replica Leo vs. Last Hourglass Leon

Prolonged Agony

Chapter 18 uploaded

ROTTMNT : SPIRITS WITHIN THE WEAPONS

Odachi

Nicknames : Oda / Chi / Ochi 

AU info here

(Or probably in better terms, more Canon Compliant than AU..?)

Oda is the only spirit that has all his old memories, but he never tells anyone his past. Like the others, he decided to adopt the weapons name as his own, despite knowing his original name. 

Although the other spirits don't know their ages, they all know that Oda is a lot older than them. 

Oda is stern, calm and collected, and mysterious. However, his firm attitude comes across as him not caring about what others think or feel, when really he is super intuitive to others thoughts and feelings but pretends otherwise.

Oda is more than willing to listen to and help the other spirits with their problems and insecurities, but his answers and solutions—although helpful— are often too blunt. 

Oda thinks Leo is too child-like to wield a dangerous weapon and mystic power such as the Odachi and portals. 

Oda deliberately made it hard for Leo to use the Odachi, wanting to test Leo to see if he was worthy to use the Odachi. 

Eventually, Oda sees Leo's determination to fight for his family. This determination and stubbornness to give up on using the mystic portal abilities, despite multiple failures, is what changes Oda's mind. 

Overtime Oda learns to trust Leo with the Odachi, knowing that, although it may not seem like it, the young turtle knows what he's doing. 

Although it took a while, Oda started to really enjoy Leo's sense of humor, even going as far as to laugh at his more stupider jokes. 

Oda constantly threatens the other spirits if they ever mention how he likes the young turtles wielding him— although they all know he never goes through with his threats. 

Oda is the only one who can keep Fundi in check. 

Oda doesn't talk much, but the others can hear his sighs and eye-rolls miles away. He's full of eyebrow raises, huffs and disappointed headshakes. 

Hums old tunes a lot. 

Oda's formless self consists of blue lightning whizzing around the blade and brilliant blue eyes appearing from the lightning. He can whip the sword around by itself but can't access any portals or teleportation. 

Oda hates it when his blade goes blunt. Before he was able to take on Leo's form he stressed about the condition of his blade, but now that he has a form he can sharpen it himself when the others are asleep. 

All the other spirits rely on Oda, trusting him with their lives as well as all their problems and insecurities. 

Oda loves to meditate and train, and while the others are sleeping, he can sometimes be seen by the other spirits practicing with the Odachi. 

Although he denies it, Oda is the only one who has tried multiple times to reach out to Leo, often to stop the young turtle form doing something stupid, but alas, they can't touch or communicate with the real world. 

The other spirits know Oda is soft for Leo, and secretly they all wish they could interact with the turtles just so that they could see Oda talk with Leo like they know he wants to. 

Oda often talks about old teas he used to love drinking but can't anymore (the only time he speaks of his past) and secretly enjoys watching Jupiter Jim and Lou Jitus with the turtles—though will deny it when someone mentions it.   

Thinks of Hal the most but knows that Hal probably doesn't think of them much. 

Tonfa

Fundi

Hal

Somehow I feel this is exactly how my 2023 on AO3 is gonna go, especially since I'm looking into getting an autism and aspergers diagnoses in the new year. 😳

curious about what's in store for you for 2023? :D

let AO3 decide!

(this is a random generator that will give you four (4) ao3 tags, so you know, warnings for what that usually entails)

ROTTMNT : SPIRITS WITHIN THE WEAPONS 

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So I've had this trivial idea stuck in my head for a while that kinda intrigued (and bothered) me enough that I had to share it. 

Basically…. What if the mystic weapons each of the turtles wield has a living spirit inside it? 🤔

Indulge me, please:

Say, when the mystic weapons were created they unintentionally accessed formless spirits to inhabit the weapons. Spirits that remained conscious when the turtles "borrowed" the mystic weapons. However, they chose to stay hidden so that they could observe their new turtle wielders.

Overtime they formed such a bond with their wielders that an unbreakable unity was created that allowed the turtles to access more and more power from their weapons. 

Also, when the turtles aren't looking, the spirits in the weapons communicate with each other, mostly to discuss their welders, deciding that they are going to do all they can to look after the young turtles. They also adopt their formless natures to take on the image of their wielders, forms the turtles can't (yet) see. 

(But then I realize that Donnie didn't take the halberd which kinda makes me sad for the spirit inhabiting it…)

I guess that makes this idea more Canon Compliant than an Alternate Universe. I just see it as the Spirits within the Weapons interacting with each other behind the scenes without the turtles knowing.

Hmmm… just food for thought…😅

I also did some art for each of the Spirits! 😁

Links to other posts:

Oda profile

Tonfa profile

Fundi profile

Hal profile

Bored Fundi

The Spirits reaction to Mikey screaming in the Library

Fundi convincing Hal to leave the halberd

Hal watching Donnie work

Short fic: That's not usual

Short fic: Night Grafiti

Short fic: Not like every other day

VOTE DONNIE FOR AUTISMSWAGSUMMIT OF 2023 PLEASE

imma say it again; Donnie is not only autistic, but such a good representation of it

i went on a long, detailed version of this bc i love my turtles and i REALLY love writing my thoughts out, pls bear with me

special, and I mean SPECIAL interests in what he loves (ex: his technology, like the man literally has his own lab for them). there was an episode where he lost his tech, and it shows how uncomfortable and worried he feels without them bc those were his comfort items and his passion

NOT apathetic -> rise conveys that Donnie has low empathy, where instead of showing no emotions at all, he can seem to be distant or uninterested, yet he just has a difficult time expressing those emotions unless it involves his hobbies and his family

there are a lot more clues into how his autism is so well-done, but i think these are the main signs.

this is proof of his autistic swag, please go vote for him in the autismswagsummit!! go donnie!!

he also shows up in the mad scientist showdown and w/ his brothers in @siblingtournament too btw

*if you choose to reblog this, please include a few of the tags I listed to spread the word!! New tags would be better to alert people about the autism swag summit!

@autismswagreblogs