Oooo I Need To Do Something Like This

omg I read something that said you should write whatever you feel like writing in the moment to avoid burnout :0

I think I saw it on a tumblr post....

so I say write what you desire! uh...not cheat though, that's probably not a good idea XD

What do you meannnn I have to write everything else that comes before it? Booooo

From one leader, to another

I'm so embarrassed but it's fine

I REALLY don't want to post this. but it's fine. IT'S fine. It's stupid and lame, but I'm committing. While this may be a brain child of mine (honestly someone could've already made this and I have no knowledge of this) I'm not particularly attached to it, so construct as much criticism as you want. or kill me, either one works.

just a small warning, this is like. soooo not professionally written (or proofread) at all. it's just a bunch of different types of notes slapped on a page. good luck soldier.

@dreamweave01 this is for you

so the main thing i remember is that it's mainly donnie and mikey angst

OH OH i just got something BIG

so it started out with donatello being replaced by someone else for years and the other turtles had no idea. then it was him replacing himself and then it was leo instead and a few other different versions that i plot holed away. i ended up with raph, leo AND donnie being replaced by robots BY the real donnie (who had died along with the other two) for years and mikey had no idea. then i was like, hm another plot hole, robots dont bleed. and THATS where it all came together.... (evil hand mushing)

boom, bop, bam: they're from another timeline/multiverse

and then the angst started. (side note: i personally dont think i have a good handle on their characters/relationships with each other. i need to rewatch the show and watch the other ones tbh, please take this with the finest grain of salt you can find)

scene 1: mikey finds out

right now, it's just him and donatello in the lair, the other two are out or something. he overhears don talking about "day 1,100, didn't think we'd make it this far without michaelangelo finding out, etc."

"who are you? where are my brothers? what's going on?"

"get away from me. don't touch me"

"don't call me that, you don't get to call me that. not mikey, not mike, or mikester or angelo or anything, none of it!"

he's freaking out. 3 years? his brothers aren't even his brothers? initially he's flipping his shit, trying to get away from donnie(?). for all he knows they could be robots, shapeshifters, anything.

scene 2: leo finds mikey (on a rooftop)

"hey bud"

"GET AWAY FROM ME" he's got his kusari-fundō spinning, pointed at leo(?)

leo(?) raises his hands "okay! okay! it's okay dude, i'm not gonna hurt you i promise", he reaches to lift his swords out and throw them to the side.

michaelangelo, breathing so heavily, lowers his weapon yet still spinning it. he's leaning side to side, lightly pacing but never turning his back to his brother(?)

"listen, uh. buddy, just come back home and we can talk about this. we'll explain-"

"no! i'm not going anywhere with you"

"do you really think we would wait this long to do something to you if we were going to?"

that stumped him. would they play the long game? tello would. but the others wouldn't and honestly, donnie would get bored eventually anyway.. maybe he should hear them out.

scene 3: the explanation

they all sit down together and donnie explains what happened.

at first, he tells mikey the truth and leo and raph immediately berate him for not going through with their inital plan to lie so that mike doesn't flip again. buuuut then I thought it'd be angstier to go through with the inital plan 🫢

Donatello explains:

"So say," he draws two lines on a hologram, one purple, one orange. he points to the orange one, "this is your timeline and this is ours," pointing to the purple line

"In our world, you died. You weren't strong enough, too young maybe, to handle the ooze. As time went by things were normal for us, then out of nowhere a portal brought us to your timeline."

(context dump: the three completely grew up without him, mike has no memories of the portal why? idk yet...trauma response probably..)

L: "We were all confused at first but eventually we figured out that you had brought us here because your us's were gone."

R: "So we figured out the routine, the rhythm. Played the parts that you expected."

M: "So this is...my fault? I took you from your home and you, you just let it happen?!"

D: "I obviously have been trying to figure out a way back but alas, even the most genius of geniuses have trouble with multi-versal travel.

scene 4: emotional damage

(an: i know, i didn't write much here. i got a little lazy, its literally just the climax)

big crazy scene, like wild colours (lots of orange and yellow) and destruction and stuff like the movie type shi.

D: "MICHAELANGELO, MIKEY, PLEASE. please. I know you're still in there. I- I'm sorry. You didn't do anything wrong. It was me, I lied to you, Mikey."

spell breaks (yippee)

M: "what?"

D: "You didn't pull us away from our timeline. I-" deep breath

"I pulled you from yours."

M: speechless, confused. vulnerable.

D: "You were all alone! You had nothing, no one left. I couldn't just abandon you."

"I thought it'd be perfect. We didn't have you, you didn't have us. It was the perfect puzzle!" sigh "and then we had to go and mess it all up by not telling you the truth."

I want to post a mood board I made for something I'm working on but the longer I wait the more embarrassed I feel about it XD

this is kind of giving Desert Kings for me

Ninjago + Edgerunners?? Those are mostly screenshot redraws.

For this specific au kai is much older than Nya, her being 17 and kai being 26.

it's so true though. I stand by the fact that "Femininomenon" IS his song

Okay hear me out. A gender-bent Kai would not be a spunky tomboy but rather she would be a femme fatale

he will never be jay pilled

I've got Jay brain now!!!!!!! I've spent so many hours using his voice in my head that my thoughts are in his voice now. lmao

I really miss Cole's downturned eyes from Seasons 8-10... they just made him look so kind... this is a guy with so much love and kindness in his heart... If I saw him I would befriend him.

Because I have nothing better to do (I have 4 unfinished assignments please why is college so stressful) I'll cry:

I was rewatching some old Ninjago seasons and I had to stop because I couldn't watch jay anymore.

Seeing pre- DR jay hurts now. I'll miss how happy and a little goof he was. I re-watched the show so many times before DR even existed and I was never this hurt or emotional.

This honestly the beauty of this show , every new season, information, plot , comic and more.. put a new perspective in an older season and make it so much more meaningful.

It makes rewatching the series more fun or heartbreaking knowing how one action would lead to something bigger.

I miss jay so much man , i hate how I used to always brush him aside when I was younger, but now I'm growing to appreciate him more.

He's such a deep and complicated character when you really think about it but it's always covered up by jokes and humour, so seeing him get serious ( not that he is always joking around ) really makes you stop and think about it (the ending of prime empire and how he opened up about his parents ,as well as skybound .I literally glued my eyes to my phone )

Idk how to say it but seeing "evil" jay ( it's hard to call him evil , he was manipulated) is like when a sitcom talks about a very serious topic mid episode. It just shocks you and draws you in. LIKE WHAT DO YOU MEAN JAY JUST SAID HE HATES NYA.

Anyway I LOVE HIM SO MUCH PLEASE STOP HURTING HIM