I Fgot Glove Generation And Weather Ranged Weapon Projectile 😂 So I Can Shoot Thunderbolt Bolts (maybe)

And this is why I will forever mourn Ride being cancelled it had so much potential yall 😭SO MUCH POTENTIAL AND THE CHARACTER DYNAMICS AND CHARACTER NUANCES JKDMNCJWLALCNF SO MUCH POTENTIAL

The dynamic in Rise between the rest of the team and Leo is. so fucking funny. Because like you've got these three extremely talented individuals who all seem like perfectly reasonable people at first glance, right, but then if you squint hard enough you realize they're actually all batshit insane (affectionate) and the clown boy standing behind them is secretly their common sense.

Clown boy will occasionally put himself and the others in danger to Prove Himself or Prove Someone Wrong (see Minotaur Maze and the movie) but like otherwise... i think people forget Leo's overwhelmingly the voice of reason in most situations?

Raph, Mikey, and Donnie are all incredibly powerful boys with very specific skill sets. They are also, as a direct result of this, the WORST decision-makers on god's green earth lmao. When presented with a problem, Raph will smash, Donnie will blow shit up, and Mikey will razzmatazz. They will all run straight toward death with the same oblivious enthusiasm of a dog about to run straight into a screen door. None of them realize this and all of them think they are Extremely Good At Problem-Solving.

And the guy cursed with the common sense to realize this is literally the LAST person anyone would expect.

When you look closely, the entirety of Rise is actually a chronicle of Leo trying to find new and creative ways to keep this team of superpowered fools alive while simultaneously white-knuckling his Cool Fun Guy persona so the others don't realize he's secretly the Boring Responsible One. Haha, you know what would be Cool and Fun, guys? Not going after the Spine Breaking Bandit lol. Getting home before the sun goes up lol. Evacuating that civilian lol. Not telling the guy dangling me off a roof "you won't, no balls" lol.

The sacred struggle of every iteration of Leonardo is thanklessly wrangling the most trigger-happy siblings in the world, and Rise Leo has not escaped it. He just does an occasional shenanigan to avoid detection and his brothers fall for it every time.

Oiling gears and Changing shifts: Part 1,<Next!>

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Oh hey look I’m making a comic! Ngl not entirely happy with this but welp that’s what practice is for XD

Behold, my 3 beautiful green children

Behold a short animation

✨Masterpost 💫

Rottmnt au: Healer Cj

So ngl this is turning out to be bigger than I thought so uhhh Master post it is!

[how Case lost his Ninpo]

[Mikey and Cj shenanigans]

[Helper]

[Time to Panic!]

[Hath no fury like Healer Jones]

[Dynamics]

[Oiling gears and changing shifts]

[Fic:So let’s try this again]

[Team up of the century]

[Rage]

[You are 15, nobody else thinks so tho]

[Lorreeee]

[Snippet/Fic:The broken off branch]

[The greatest thing we’ve ever lost]: [ 1 ],[ 2 ]

[There were children, even among the end]

[The Shrine(s)]

[Growing Pains]

[Little pockets of sunshine]

[Fic:Stand ready]

[High fi-wait. High three?]

[The thing that started it all]

[Updated Cj ref]; Tw for dead plants/animals

[Ref for April but with Ninpo✨]

[Ref for the Turtles]

[Collab: Mystic battle]

[Fic:This is victory(hollow and cold)]

Other rottmnt stuff:

[Gift for Biconic]

[Pheobep’s 2k DITYS]

[Angie my boi]: 2

[VINDICATTIIOONN]

Anndd that’s how Junior “lost” his Ninpo! :D

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Please excuse the formatting I’m trying to figure it out 🥲(also have some closeups of my fav scenes)

Behold, my pride.

Behold more rough doodles shenanigans of our fav apocalypse kids

I’M SO EXCITED LETSSGOOOOOOO 🎉

2 Days #LOSTCOMPANY

Find us on our ultimate journey...

The kids ref:

P.S: training started as early as five (if the kid made it that long) this is cuz, even if they never made it to the frontlines ( if they got older they were allowed to specialised elsewhere like mechanic work, physical trauma care, full on wilderness training to be a scout etc etc. not everyone was a soldier ) first aid, wilderness, combat skills were essential for obvious reasons.

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Of course it first started out as very kid friendly games like ninja hide and seek and what not. Basically, think of their training as their version of our education. Also I didn’t include this but all the kids were taught to read and write as part of that training. Literacy is importance guys!