#sorry about the continued leo stress response stuff it will happen again. . uses analysis purely for Floor Time Posting

[teenagenutant]

OK QUICK GAME THEORY: (very inspired by this post on twit)

in end game, splinter imagines saving his boys from the foot. its an interesting little peak into how splinter thinks they respond to stress!

he thinks of raph defeated, mikey sad, leo typically ~*dramatic*~, and donnie scared. in real life, though, raph is determined and mikey is pretty chill and chipper about the whole thing- mostly the opposite of their imagined reactions. with donnie and leo though, it seems more like he's mixed the two up.

donnie is arguably the most unaffected, being pretty much his typical self- but splinter's assumption isn't totally out of nowhere, because that seems to be what donnie did as a tot!

but you know who actually curls up into a ball while they're trapped?

splinter might still imagine his boys with how they responded to stress as tots, and they've just grown up and gotten different coping mechanisms.

maybe leo started doing it because donnie did it first, maybe leo never got as overwhelmed as other Floor Time examples as a little kid, or maybe he just never did it in front of his dad...possibilities just thinking of them...

#tmnt #rottmnt #long post #sorry about the continued leo stress response stuff it will happen again. . uses analysis purely for Floor Time Posting #txt