I've been thinking about Mikey as a character, specifically how we see him in SAINW and The Last Ronin, and it's so interesting to me how he turns out really cynical and honestly kinda mean when his family is no longer there.
Obviously an apocalyptic setting would affect anyone, but Mikey's change is something I can't stop thinking about. How he goes from an optimistic goofball to a bitter, cynical, old man.
I'd be interested to see how Mikey might change with his family still there, and how they'd react to it. Like if Mikey had an arc similar to 03 Leo's and ended up the same, though probably to a lesser degree, as he was in SAINW or Ronin
Basically what I'm saying is: what if Mikey got an antihero arc, because you KNOW that turtle is capable of incredible violence. And how would his brothers recon with it
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Since Florida Republicans have now deemed Michelangelo's "David" statue, one of the most beloved and famous works of art on the planet, to be obscene, and fired a teacher for showing it in class, I'm going to post it everywhere. If you're that much of a goddamn snowflake, look away.
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I was present at the beginning of creation…
participating at the side of the Lord in the work of creation.
—Sophia in the Book of Proverbs
Sophia is thought to have been a divine feminine force who was present at the time of creation and took an active role in it. This turns our patriarchal understanding of a sole male God who was responsible for all of creation on its head.
Many scholars and art historians believe that the female figure beside God in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling is a representation of Sophia.
The Italian writer Dante (Inferno) had a deep connection with her and received a vision of Sophia in the form of ‘a snow-white rose.’ Artistic depictions of Dante’s vision resemble images of the Milky Way, and some believe that when we look at images of our galaxy, we are really looking at Sophia, the divine wisdom or ‘plan’ of creation, who forms the very structure of our galaxy.
In the Book of Revelations, Sophia is described as the ‘woman clothed with the Sun, with the Moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars’ (Revelations 12:1). Some say that these twelve stars represent the zodiac. Many believe that Sophia is a real spiritual being, and there have been reports of her appearing as a radiant divine feminine being wrapped in azure light.
Sophia is referenced throughout the Bible, and especially in the Wisdom Books of the Old Testament, in which she speaks in the first person as an actual being, rather than an aspect of God. But despite these many references to her, Sophia is rarely spoken about in Christianity today.
As Christianity became more and more patriarchal, the divine feminine aspect receded further into the background and she was forgotten.
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I'm a menace for my school work, but yeah.
So, you all see how everyone is convinced that Mikey - mainly Rise version but it could fit with the 2012 version too - is a soft babe with a little bit of a gremlin attitude but no more no less? Well, I'm pretty sure he's more of a gremlin than a babe. Man, he is 13 at the start of the series. You can't even begin to imagine how much of a pain in the ass I was when 13 hit me.
I used to do so much bullshit. My friends/family literally had to keep an eye on me every time we went out because I have these magic hands that managed to break everything I touched, no matter how damn hard they were.
My point is that Mikey is a natural disaster. Figures. But if he and his family were wearing tennis, boots or whatever shoes you like to put them on, and for script convenience they happened to be white, Mikey would get out of the blue, full speed to his siblings - yep, April is in the middle too - and stomp on their shoes as hard and fast as he can, screaming for his brothers not to do the same to him, even when he obviously deserves it.
Gosh, Mikey will be a hell of a nightmare. Imagine Leo just got his new pair of white super cool tennis shoes. He is super excited and is taking as much care of them as he can, rambling about how comfy and awesome they are to a so-done Donnie when out of nowhere he senses The Danger, The Imbalance in Force. Donnie feels it too and gets out of the room in a matter of seconds. Through the whole lair, a battle scream is heard. And out of the corner: BOOM; Savage Mikey Is On The Game, Babe!
We can tell that was the end of Leo's perfect, awesome, cool white shoes, and the start of one grand fight of Leo chasing Mikey, who is doing his best to hide behind Raph while laughing at full force as Raph tries to get Leo to not kill Mikey.
It could even be part of the lair games: "Last one with the cleanest shoes wins!" And even if Mikey doesn't win, he does get his brothers running all around trying to stay away from him and failing miserably.
If you didn't chase your friends to stomp on their new clean shoes, did you even have a childhood?
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