#Dagger from the Mirror

[thejadecount]

These children can fit in so much trauma

#you guys have no fucking clue how hard making this was for me #not as hard as what the turtles have been through tho #AM I RIGHT #rottmnt #rise tmnt #rise tmnt fanfics #I’m looking at you #like father like son #dagger from the mirror #you amazing bastards #rise leo #rise donnie #rise mikey #rise Raph #rottmnt fanfiction

[nostalgiaruinedme]

Dagger Leo wants a turn with the ball

@tmntaucompetition

Vote here!!!

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[alphalavenderstar2]

Rottmnt trending??

Ok so haha uhh....,,

Testing out my style, have a. A tortle from Dagger from the Mirror / Stranger in the Mirror fics made by uhhhhh TotallyNotASecretAO3Account on ao3 or

nostalgiaruinedme on tumblr

Saw how some people make his face marks look kinda pink and I. I ran with the idea that being with the Kraang makes him glow a bit pinkish, and when he's not being controlled he's more of a natural red. Love this fool, can't wait for his eventual downfall (him being saved by his bros)

Working on a few more turts at the moment, may or may not have a bit of wonk autonomy on them haha sorry. It'll be a while 'till I'm done with them, though.

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[cyanferret21]

“Tell him if he has a problem with that, he can come see me. I’m not scared of him.”

Aaaaaaaa! This scene just got stuck in my mind immediately!!! This fanfic is amazing! Everyone GO AND READ IT!!!

@nostalgiaruinedme ILOVEYOURWORKSOMUCH!!!

Link to the fic itself

#Villain mind controlled 18!turtles #are you kidding me #thats awesome #rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt fanart #tmnt 2018 #tmnt 2k18 #rottmnt donnie #rottmnt april #rottmnt fanfiction #dagger from the mirror #cyan ferret art

[ghost-dyy]

Go read Dagger From the Mirror!!!!!!

#dagger from the mirror #archive of our own #rottmnt #crossover #tmnt #fanfic

[kayzean]

Me reading the end of chapter 29 of Dagger from the Mirror by @nostalgiaruinedme (go read the fic now its INCREDIBLE!) A Mood board:

I'll have you know, you get the award for breaking me in a way I haven't been broken in a very long time, congrats and thanks.

#their writing.... its incredible #yes i cant stop thinking about that ending #its haunting me #at the point of posting this i havent continued coz i made the dum dum mistake of reading it when i woke up and now i have to work #fuck man it broke me but i can only thank them #rottmnt #tmnt #dagger from the mirror #2012 tmnt

[liffy-feelin-jiffy]

🚨 DAGGER FROM THE MIRROR/ STRANGER IN THE MIRROR THEORY 🚨

This idea has been bugging me for a good while and it’s about time I share. Now I know it’s probably not gonna reach everyone who's a fan of the AO3 crossover series, Dagger from the Mirror - or maybe it will reach all of you - I just need to get this idea off of my chest.

Y’all are probably gonna call me coco for Cocoa Puffs for this, but… What if Rise!Leo… isn’t completely being controlled?

Alright, let me clarify: what if Leo is actually self aware and is plotting against the Kraang whilst still being under their wing?

Yeah, I know, craaaaazy, right? Well let me show you what I have to offer.

Before we begin, let me stress that this is only a theory, and despite the invasive amount of evidence I have provided here today, it doesn’t automatically mean that I’m gonna correctly predict what’s gonna happen later in the story. This all for fun, and I’m not a wizard, guys.

Also ⚠️MAJOR SPOILER WARNING⚠️ for if you haven’t read all of DFTM and its sequel, SITM (Stranger in the mirror). Obviously, I’m gonna take a load of important scenes and incorporate it into my argument of why I believe what I believe.

Alright, so let’s begin…

Let’s think about how he could’ve escaped, first. So Donnie is smart as shit, and because of his major intelligence he was able to recognize his self awareness and free himself from the clutches of the Kraang. Sure, it took a lot of persuasion from 2012 Donnie, but still. Now I know you may not believe me, but Rise!Leo is smart as shit, too, (They are twins after all!) and he’s so smart that it’s frightening because you never see it coming. Everyone always makes him out to be a reckless little goon who’s bound to break his neck doing a flip off of a truck, but we have to remember that in serious situations, Leon doesn’t play around and he calculates his surroundings and actually comes up with a good plan.

Need I remind you that in the first season 2 episode of rise, while everyone had to fight against the feral Shredder, Leo and Splinter were the ones to go down to talk to Big Mama, all the while everybody thought that “Leo’s probably talked himself straight into Big Mama’s dungeon” before cutting to him sitting all pretty and drinking tea and being waited on. Not to mention, Leo basically came up with a remarkably accurate description as to what the bros and April were doing, like how Donnie imputed coordinates, Mikey razzed his tazz, April FINALLY put her crane license to use, and Raph was about to make a plan with the collar Leon got. Leon knows his family like the back of his hand, he practically knows them better than himself. He knows how they function, how they act, what they’re gonna do, meanwhile everyone just assumes the worst about Leo and always get their hopes down, only for Leo to bounce back higher than their expectations could have ever gone. So, yeah, smart as shit.

Now, if you’ve read the bonus chapters within the series - specifically the one where we get a detailed insight as to how the rise turtles were taken under control - Leo is the first one to realize that it was mind control that the Kraang were going to use on them. I know, Donnie said he was aware for a good amount of time too, but he was still the one to break free. We don’t know if Mikey and Raph knew, and they probably didn’t cuz they’re both kinda dumb as rocks (I’m not slandering I love them both).

Leo was given a head start to figuring out that he was being used by people who forcefully kidnapped and endangered his family and plan to endanger the whole city, and even though the Kraang’s control could’ve been strong a first, it would’ve been a matter of time before Leon was able o come to his senses, and all of that had to click when he finally lost his leg.

Donnie said it himself; Both he and Leo were focused on whether or not he’d be useful to the Kraang again. Donnie worked tirelessly to build him a new leg, but in the aftermath of his mind control arc, he couldn’t help but think that the Kraang would’ve disposed of Leon had they decided he was useless. He probably realized this too - during his mind control - and it only confirmed his true suspicions Leon had of the Kraang and how they only viewed him as a pawn.

“BUT LIFFY-“ you might say, and I hear you loud and clear!

“-Leon is still doing all of this other evil stuff; wasn’t HE the one to suggest putting bombs on the “bridge” to prevent the protagonists to go to dimension 18 to get more allies?”

Good question! But, I feel like this just feeds into my argument. Based on the most recent chapter, Rise!Donnie explains that the Kraang are plotting to take over the whole multiverse, but they likely can’t take over dimension 18 because of the bombs. Leon had to have known about this plan because of his high ranking and suggested putting bombs on the dimension 18 gateway in an attempt to protect his home - albeit how reckless it may be. Yes, if triggered, the bombs would cause a chain reaction and blow up the whole bridge - which could also work in his favor with the Kraang being unable to take all those dimensions over too - and he and his family would never be able to go home, but all of his friends and family back in his world would be safe; they would find a way to move on without them, all this Leon believes. We know that Leon is the kind of person who’s willing to turn to drastic measures in order to protect the ones he loves. We’ve seen him sacrifice himself by trapping himself and Kraang in the prison dimension, but it’s not like he would’ve put his family through anything near as bad as the prison dimension, he knew they would’ve been fine. He, his brothers and April could’ve learned to adapt to dimension 12 with their counterparts, and everyone back in their dimension would’ve found a way to survive without them, too.

Of course, this idea had to have sprouted so early on during Leo’s time with the Kraang, but since time moves so much faster in Dimension X, the span for Leo losing his leg and starting to plot against the Kraang would’ve surely already happened in time for the chapter where the good side fights the Kraang and Controlled Mikey and Raph at the docks, where the explosives were.

“BUT LIFFY!”

Yes?

“What about the way that Leo keeps giving the Kraang advice to their army? Eventually becoming commander and what not?”

Pardon me, but when one has great persuasive abilities and clever thinking skills fit for a leader, how do you expect a slider with such abilities to not put them to good use? Also, please don’t tell me that you think that trying to get on the goodest of good sides of your enemy is a bad idea?? Man, I pray for you, buddy.

“BUT LIFFY! Leon put a tracker device in Rise!Donnie because he knew he was going to break free of the control and join the other side. How can he be working against the Kraang if he’s putting his brothers and friends in danger of being found?”

This is a very good question, and for a while I had no answer to it even though it had been the top question in my mind. But now, after internally arguing with myself and examining the clues that I can remember from both fics, I think I finally got it.

Sure, everyone was aware of the fact that the city was gonna be swamped with a giant mutagen gas bubble that everyone can enter but no one can leave, but this wasn’t until after they got Rise!Donnie back and he had to tell it to them straight to their faces. It’s not long after he does so does the lair get invaded and Splinter gets kidnapped by Kraang subprime and his entourage, all because of the tracking device in Donnie. Because of that, the team was left with no lair, and no lair leaves them vulnerable. There was nowhere else in the city for them to go, so at that point they had no choice but to flee.

To flee from both their enemies and the mutagen bubble.

Leon saw the bubble coming, but he didn’t know if the team had known about it so he had to give them some sort of reason to get them on their feet and skedaddling for the hills so that they wouldn’t get mutated, and because he knew that Donnie was going to break free from control, and make his way back with their counterparts’ side, he put the tracking device in Donnie to reveal the lair and run them out. Leon knew that they were able to hold their own pretty well against a couple of measly Kraang soldiers, and they would eventually catch on to the fact that they were being tracked and figure out a way to disable it. It would also explain why he was so unfazed when they did so and got tired of regular Leo going on about it; “it’s fine! It’s going according to plan! Quit nagging me, you’re not my mom! I never even had a mom to begin with!”

Also, one more thing, the fact that Leon states that he knew his brother was going to break free of the control gave him an alibi to do so without looking suspicious and also implying that he knows he can do it too. What’s to say he hasn’t already done so?

Anyways, what are your thoughts? Have any back up claims or counter arguments you’d like to add? Leave ‘em in the comments, I wanna see!

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[not-kayvalencourt]

SPOILERS FOR "DAGGER FROM THE MIRROR" BY @nostalgiaruinedme on ao3

A kick line is INEVITABLE!

I drew the sketch before I got to the chapter w/ controlled Donnie's design n that's why he's got a lab coat, but honestly I think it suits him ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Bonus stuff

#I might draw a comic for one of the scenes soon 👀 #rottmnt #rise of the tmnt #dagger from the mirror #i hc donnie as a massive theater kid and this fic convinced me that that would be his favorite ❤ #i am SO HAPPY with how april's hair turned out tho. i really want an excuse to draw hair more #literally sm fun #also dee having sharp teeth <333 blorbo fr fr #song is called inevi/table from the musical tgw/dlm

[wow-its-me]

Uh oh accidentally stayed up wayyy to late again!

Im usually not one for fan fiction, like as much as I obsess over tv I could never get into it

BUTTTTTTT

I kept seeing things about ‘dagger from the mirror’ by totallynotasecrectao3acount on Ao3

ANDDDDD

I’ve spent the last few days binge-reading it, I just finished book 1 (chapter 40)

It’s so freaking good

Anyway go read it

Thanks

Goodnight

#tmnt #tmnt 2012 #dagger from the mirror #rottmnt

[0luna123]

I am vibrating like a sopping wet rabbid raccoon, I haven't eaten much in the last few days, I'm on the 35th chapter of Dagger from the Mirror by @nostalgiaruinedmedme and I love it!

pls peer-pressure me into eating something more than just two bajadera's and a glass of milk

#dagger from the mirror #tmnt fic

[hamato-artemis]

Little Dagger meme heh

@nostalgiaruinedme @voiceoftheshadowsI love ur fic and have been working on little fanarts XDXD idk if you will see this but I love u ur amazing and if anyone tells u otherwise well, they just can’t see your inner glory <3

#dagger from the mirror

[justbirdie]

I did read that thank and I adore that fic

Good! It deserves all the love!

#dagger from the mirror #rottmnt #lmao what is my life #rottmnt fix #Rottmnt fic #tmnt 2012 #tmnt 2012 fic

[nostalgiaruinedme]

A list of reasons why you should vote for Dagger From the Mirror in @tmntaucompetition

1. Badass evil ‘18 turtles

2. Cassandra gets the redemption arc she deserves

3. ‘12 April’s powers are actually explained/developed

4. EPIC Dimension X Mikey teamup

5. ‘12 Donnie gets cyberbullied by his 14 year old self

6. ‘12 Raph gets to meet Doctor Feelings

7. Savage Raph AND Evil Kraang Raph

8. Angst. So much angst.

9. One of the first 12/18 crossovers to not favor one over the other

10. 2 main books, 1 spin-off book, 1 oneshot collection, 1 animatic, lot’s of art, and so much more to come!

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[littledigits]

Myfav thing about Willamina as a DND character is flavoring her spells in a way to make her ignorant of her magic. She will catch on eventually, and then be disappointed that she gets her way much less after she stops accidentally charming people.

#art #ocs #willamina #i mean the spell components for 'friends' is a small bit of makeup #her purse is her spell component bag its perfect #got some glass for cloud of daggers from the pocket mirror #got some eyeliner if you need charcoal for fire spells

[autumnfangirler]

got tagged by @m3k-fhr and @thecryptidenthusiast to use this picrew! this picrew was so cute so of course i did all of my steps and their puppets

tagging @silvery-bluish @euelios and @gonesoft-ish if any of you are interested?

#fun fact: i had to redo caine three times because i kept forgetting/getting stuff wrong #at one point i forgot his stubble and only remembered when i accidentally gave ceci stubble 😭 #i tried to base each puppets stats on their in game stats! not with the steps because i didnt think about doing that for them djejjejd #can you tell cyrus ended up w puppetcrash #general tidbits about this: #caines little fish treat is not for him. its for spoon #cyrus Has stuff in those little locked things but you dont get to see them because hes a cagey bastard(and by that i mean #theyre crochet presents that hes embarrassed to show) #cyrus' puppet is actually named argentine but! it Did Not Fit :') agent works though #i gave ceci the dagger because it was cute but if were speaking fr shed just beat your ass w her fists. love my fighter girls <3 #ace has the same things in her inventory as ceci because she doesnt like acting like somebody else #-ia. there i completed cynthias name #eden is not a mirror puppet but she Does closely resemble cynthia prehb #which i really wanna dive into when i eventually make the post w my steps and their puppet relationships #the stats from left to right for the steps is energy/fighting proficiency/how close they are to snapping #the stats from left to right for the puppets are current health/how fit the puppet is/precog

[its-testu]

I’ve got a fic to share that I enjoyed reading

Dagger From the Mirror 

and its sequel  

Stranger in the Mirror

in the author’s words it’s ‘ A fic in the 2012 universe in which the Kraang kidnap and mind control the 2018 gang, and use them to attack and destroy the 2012 boys. Takes place before the season 2 finale of the 2012 series! ‘ 

#fanfic recs #rottmnt #2012 TMNT #while everybody was reading lfls I was off reading Dagger From the Mirror #but I'm all caught up so 👀 #I guess I know where I'm going next