Hi there!
I have a question: what are the indie turtles’ biggest fears? And because? Is it because of a past experience or something like that?
I’m curious
Sure why not!
Well to start with their collective fears humans, needles, The Shredder, and a world with no pizza or videos games or TV (a true horror).
Most of their fears are spawned from Splinter trying to make sure his boys stay safe. You can’t explain to a 5 year old the true gravity of the situation they’re in. How do you explain that they live in a world where if they’re caught, their life is basically over in the most horrific way you can imagine? So Splinter ended up relying on fear to try to keep them from getting too friendly with the outside world.
Of course, childhood fears aren’t easily overcome, though in most cases their fears become more of a deep respect, like with humans, though some of their fears, however, have evolved beyond reason, but it’s also arguably the only thing keeping them alive, like the Shredder.
But for individuals fears, they mostly come about from unpleasant experiences.
Leo fears failure, though this is more of an insecurity than a fear, I feel like it counts. If you want the psychology on that just read this short comic, it does a better job explaining it than I could here 😅 He also dislikes snow/the cold as he has unpleasant memories associated with it.
Raphael hates bugs, he’s not really sure why but they just disgust him to an almost irrational degree, though the bug themed enemies they fight probably don’t help. He probably takes trauma the best of the brothers, but he can still be shaken. He fears failure similarly to Leo but more in a protective way than a responsibility way (if that made any sense,
Don starts out with probably the least number of fears of his brothers—being the most logical and rational of the four—however develops several trauma related fears including fear towards medical equipment, being alone, and restricted movement/tight spots.
Mikey is weird because somedays things bug him that won’t the next, however the most consistent fears of his are of getting lost/being alone(which stems from his lack of a sense of direction and knowledge that he didn’t pay attention) and loosing others, either in battle or can’t find them which is only exasperated over time.
I may end changing some of this, idk, my plans are ever evolving, but i’m currently happy with this.
Good question! :]
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My 11-year-old decided that the Turtles need to have their mask tails match their weapons in terms of length.
So, Raph has the shortest mask tails because he has the shortest weapons; Leo has mid-length mask tails to match his swords; Donnie has the longest because he uses a bo staff; and since Mikey's are variable, he either has one mask tail longer than the other, or his tails are braided to match the chain on his nunchucks.
This is law now.
I don't make the rules.
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