Not My Fault Pottermore’s A Bitch Idiot Coward This One Is My New Best Friend

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Some of you guys simply do not understand that Leo is a prime example of how eldest siblings are put in a gray area of both caretaker and sibling and how the amount of responsibility he was given over his brothers’ lives and the thousands of people in New York is what ruined both his mental state and his bond with his brothers.

Leonardo was never able to separate work and home because it was one and the same and as such, he was unable to properly separate being a leader and being a brother within his relationships with others. He was unable to establish a good emotional routine with his brothers. The amount of responsibility he was given as a teenager is as much responsibility that Splinter has as their father because Splinter is putting Leonardo in charge of his brothers’ wellbeing, safety and lives as well as the wellbeing, safety and lives of others. 

He is a planner because it is a trauma response to the amount of pressure and responsibility he has. He feels panicked when he does not have control because if he does not have control over a situation, someone could die and it is his fault because he is responsible as the leader. He is in constant survival mode and is on high alert at all times. Stop basing his entire character off of moments where he is clearly stressed and panicking. He’s not a gentleman, he’s a young adult that has built his entire personality off of ninjutsu and the morals his father taught him and has never given himself the time to explore and redefine himself outside of a fighter and leader. 

The entire point of Leo’s character is that he is not a leader. He is not built for leading, he is not meant to be a leader. Leo’s position in the family as a leader is the cause of conflict caused by unhealthy power dynamics. Leo being a leader tears their family apart because he’s not meant to lead. He’s a teenager. 

In all, Leonardo is an incredibly complex character who has based his entire worth as a person on how well he can lead and has no idea what his personality is because he’s built a façade of a leader for the sake of his family. His leader façade is a defense mechanism used to confront conflict and has become a trauma response to his own PTSD. 

Leader Leo isn’t Leo, it’s a façade and persona he’s created as a way of successfully handling immense stress and responsibility without breaking. 

- Mod Quill

Rottmnt!Casey Jones (Jr.) design is fantastic and here's why:

I'm sorry for ignoring the numerous asks actually requesting stuff for me to review, but I have to strike the iron while it's still hot.

Ok, so. Rottmnt has fantastic, 10/10 character designs. That's not something I discovered, it's something anyone with two eyes and a brain can figure out. In particular, the eponymous Turtles themselves have never been more interesting and distinct before this incarnation:

They are fantastic anthro designs, simultaneously easy to imagine as humans while feeling inseparable from their animal traits. And the crew managed to take this a step further with Casey by going in the complete opposite direction! Casey is not just a regular post-apocalyptic fashion kid, he is a reverse engineered turtle gijinka. It's not all that visible at first because the pieces of his attire are all pretty standard, admirably practical, and color-faded, but think about it! The green jumpsuit and shoes are the base "skin", the chest-plate is self-explanatory, and the cape is the turtle shell.

And of course, it's all made even more endearing by how he incorporates something from each of the 4 brothers. Leo is the most obvious influence because Casey is his direct protege; he adopted his eye markings in his mask, his color for the armor, and the diagonal fanny-pack -I wouldn't have complained if he used a belt, but the fanny-pack is the much better option because it's more realistic and practical for him to use that-.

Donny made his gadgets, so he wears his insignia on the cape -which also cleverly breaks the dullness of it without bulking the silhouette- and his shoulder pad is purple.

You get the sense that Casey never really met Raph in his original timeline, so he is only present in the red details and, lastly, Mikey is present in the adorably doodled knee-pads.

Lastly, his facial design is great. Now, I could follow that up with an actual argument about how it balances his more traditional lean hero physique with less conventionally attractive traits that actually convey a personality and a context for where he grew up, but actually, no, I'll just spam pics of him because he really does have Expressions™️ and I love him for that:

”You can just call me Jake,” their teacher said the first time they met. “The title’s ridiculous and we all know it.“ ”Yes, sir,” Berenson’s new students chorused obediently (Yes, Prince Jake.) (Ax called him prince from the very beginning - it was respect, it was allegiance, but do you think maybe it was also something else? A reminder, that they follow him, he holds their lives in his choices, and he is not - can never be - one of them. He knows this by the end; Ax knows it in the beginning.)

Jake would have been very unremarkable, if he hadn’t walked through that construction site, if the Yeerk expansion had not come to Earth in his lifetime.  His family is well off and he’s not much of a follower (good leaders make poor lackeys, there’s a reason that there’s an officer track), so he wouldn’t have been likely to go into the military, and he wouldn’t have thought much about public service, I think–he’s not the type to want to play detective.  He might have volunteered as a firefighter, a way for him to turn his big frame and athletic experience into a real world task, but he wouldn’t have worked as one full-time.  

He would have gone to college and gotten a degree, maybe in history (if he ever even realized that he loved history, without a war to prepare for), maybe in whatever seemed reasonable.  Business, perhaps.  He would have tried out for a few basketball teams, but probably never would have done particularly well on them.  He would have graduated middle-of-the-road, not terrible, but not great, and gotten a job, and married, and maybe had children.  He would have been a great father, but nothing special in the rest of his life, except.

Except.

The handful of times when something went wrong–then people would wonder how he learned his steadiness, where he got his level head, whether he had always been so confident in command.

Then the crisis would pass, and Jake Berenson would go back to his comfortable, quiet life.

He would have lived an unremarkable life, but he might have been happy. 

Instead, when he tells people to call him Jake, they agree and nod and call him sir, sir, sir.

AU where (somehow) Palpatine becomes Emperor and all that jazz without killing off the Jedi, but before they can like... DO anything to fix it, Anakin (recently implied imperial heir and visibly off his rocker) has a meltdown of absolutely horrific proportions and beheads Palpatine on live television, then declares that he's installing Padme, his WIFE whom he adores VERY MUCH, as Empress.

Padme isn't even THERE, she's busy giving birth on Naboo and nobody's had the guts to tell her about the whole Empire situation. IDK maybe Anakin begged Obi-Wan to look after her while Obi-Wan was on a forced leave and got a "Well, I've certainly nothing better to do" in response, and Padme and Obi-Wan are both kinda bougie, they're on an ~*~electronics cleanse~*~ while Padme rides out the end of her pregnancy.

"Don't contact us unless it's an emergency," they said, not anticipating that people would fail to tell them about the fall of democracy.

Realistically, the Jedi manage to Handle the Anakin problem (which, like, nobody's that upset about someone tackling him in the middle of the Senate to take him down after what he just pulled, there are OBVIOUS justifications for this arrest, holy shit), and then let democracy come back before Padme ever finds out, and really someone should have told her and Obi-Wan the second Palpatine went "hey, I should have a crown, and absolute power, and also the opportunity to torture Anakin for shits and giggles," but I just think it would be really funny for her and Obi-Wan to come back to Coruscant, twins in hand, only to find out that Palpatine was a Sith Lord, the Republic is an Empire THAT NOW BELONGS TO PADME, and Anakin lost his mind so spectacularly that he now thinks presenting Palpatine's severed head to her on bended knee upon her return to Coruscant is somehow a good idea.

Maybe the Jedi just decided that, since Palpatine was a Sith anyway, and Anakin isn't really DOING much while warming the seat for his absent wife, they could just... wait for her and Obi-Wan to come back and knock some sense into him. Less of a risk of a Jedi getting hurt trying to arrest him?

“Before clocking in, I was doing my weekly recap on the Dent case in the archive room and I found some old photos of a young Dick to add to my collection.”

“Wait. Back up. There’s about a million things to unpack in that single sentence. You have a ‘Dick’ collection?” (Duke)

Crime AU: Tim Drake

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Found this while going through my granddad’s VHS tapes and couldn’t find it anywhere online, so here it is.