At the end of the episode, Splinter still saves Karai, but she doesn’t fall into the sewers (a blatant excuse to further my big sis Karai agenda, and give her more time with the family) Also, each new batch of worms is stronger than the next, so that’s why Splinter’s healing hands work on Karai but not Donnie 🤫 not at all because convenient shhh.
If the Shredder were to recycle using the brainworm on one of the turtles, I think he would put in a failsafe. He obviously wouldn’t use this feature with Karai, but he’d have no qualms about using it on Donnie.
Mikey to the rescue! Finally Donnies and Leos souls are out of the pool of death. But something seems to be wrong with Donnie! When Karai tried to send Leos soul back into his body, Leo refused to return. Karai could hear the distress of Leos cries. Donnie was in pain and Leo is not about to just leave him!
i genuinely believe that 2012 leo just cannot tell platonic and romantic attraction apart and that’s why he was so weird about Karai. he was envious of her because she was cool, and had more freedom (lack of leader responsibility, able to walk on the surface+in the day, never had to follow laws or rules) and his brothers just assumed it was romantic, and he didn’t know how to correct them because, if ALL of them saw it as romantic he must have been the one in the wrong.
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Half of this was worked on while I was sick (😤 AGAIN!) so I’m sorry if it looks kinda rushed. Can anyone tell what anime I was watching while drawing some of the first part?
"History Doesn't Repeat Itself, but it Often Rhymes" - Mark Twain
Something that I have kind of seen some people talk about & have kind of been thinking about are the parallels that can be found between Leo & Karai in Rise such as how they both had a family member corrupted by the Krang, they both sealed themselves in another dimension to protect the world & their family & how both of them were released from the dimension they had sealed themselves in due to their family.