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finally finished this

The losers raided Aprils kitchen.

Ref:

#tmnt 2003 #this is so cute #Mikey is on the fridge like a cat

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#I’m sorry Mikey but it’s got to be you #Raph would immediately punch me back without hesitation and they would all punch me if I hit Donnie #Leo I don’t think would hit me back but I would have some explaining to do #Mikey would probably be like yeah deserved #and he’s most likely to have been a little shit #love him though #I don’t think I could even punch Leo in the first place he would dodge #and then he would cross his arms and look disappointed in me

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This is such a them interaction

#tmnt 2003 #tmnt 2003 clips #tmnt #My favourite part about this is Mikey made a Raph replica and carried it around all day just to annoy him #I actually kind of love fast forward

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2k3 turtles i love you.

screenshots from the golden puck.

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New 03 head canon that when the turtles are exploring a new planet or dimension and are able to walk out in public, Donnie and Leo split off together because Raph and Mikey are embarrassing and 100% more likely to make a scene or just be openly cringe in public

#tmnt 2003 #tmnt #tmnt 2003 headcanons #tmnt headcanons #I just imagine them walking in on a scene and being like those aren’t my brothers I’ve never seen them before in my life #I like to think that when raph and Mikey are left alone together they just both turn feral

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according to a conversation in the pit,

Raphael is a grill dad

#him

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aahhhhh!! seeing you post again made me jump for joy 😭😭😭😭😭 ur head canons are so good like it’s amazing how well you know the characters!!! hope ur having a good day/night

Thank you! This honestly made my day!

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Hi! 🖖🏻

Can I ask abt morning routine from tmnt 2003? It maybe fun,if Leo and Mikey are morning persons and Raph and Donny more like owls 🥲

or just Mikey is morning happy boy 😁

Thank you! 🍀

I'm so sorry this took so long! I was out of town for all of January and then I got swamped with school and work. But I love this prompt so much! In these head canons I'm assuming this is on average days where they aren't on late night patrols or anything. Just more casual days.

Leonardo:

Leo goes to bed (or at least falls asleep) late. But he is usually the first to get up in the morning.

I feel like Leo enjoys the quiet first thing in the morning. He likes to get up, make tea and just relax in the living room for like half an hour before anyone else gets up.

He might slip outside for a little bit and watch the sunrise while it's still quiet out.

Tea is his preference for a morning drink but he'll take coffee if he's really tired.

First thing in the morning Leo is usually pretty calm and relaxed. I feel like he might even be more sociable in the morning. Like if someone is up at the same time as him he'll suggest they go out and watch the sunrise together and hang out for a bit.

As a kid, the morning is when Leo got a lot of one on one time with Splinter. He and Splinter would be the first ones up, Splinter would make him tea and breakfast and they would talk. So mornings are kind of domestic and peaceful for Leo.

He wakes up around 6-7. Maybe even as early at 5 depending on how late he was up the previous night.

Raphael:

Usually wakes up to the sound of his family being loud.

If left to his own devices he would naturally wake up at around 10, but he's a light sleeper so he's up around the time Leo, Splinter and Mikey start making noise.

The first thing he does is go and eat breakfast. He just heads straight for whatever Mikey just made and if Mikey didn't make anything then it's cereal straight out of the box for Raph.

Raph isn't cranky in the morning he's actually pretty quiet. He just wanders into the kitchen, casually grunts to announce he is awake, eats his breakfast and lets his brain catch up with him.

Once he is awake enough he'll usually go and do a pre-training work out to get warmed up.

Wakes up at around 8:30-9.

Donatello:

He sets 10 different alarms and he might actually get out of bed at alarm #7.

He violently rolls over, slams his snooze button and goes right back to bed. The movement is so swift now the alarm will only go off for a second so it doesn't wake up the entire house (Not that it matters because he is probably the last on up anyway)

Doesn't even wipe the crust out of his eyes before he is checking his phone.

Donatello is actually the one who is cranky in the morning. If he is awoken before his alarm there will be bloodshed.

He won't be functional for at least 15 minutes right after he wakes up. He makes a beeline for the kitchen, gets coffee and just sits at the table and stares into his mug.

He gets up at 9:30 exactly because that's the latest splinter will let him sleep in for before he starts making comments about the importance of a balanced sleep schedule.

But the day after late night missions he will sleep until 1 pm no problem.

Michelangelo:

Mikey is naturally a morning person. Even when he is up late he rarely sleeps in past 9.

When Mikey was a kid, all the good cartoons were on first thing in the morning. Also Splinter let him watch tv before training so the earlier he was up, the more he could watch. So that trained Mikey to be up when the sun comes up

Mikey's mornings are slow and relaxing. He gets up, wanders down into the kitchen and starts making breakfast. He will throw on some coffee and he'll cook for everybody. Then when he is done he will grab a blanket, sit on the couch and watch cartoons while he eats breakfast. (He never grew out of loving a good morning cartoon)

His usual breakfasts are pancakes, scrambled eggs, waffles, french toast and bacon he likes something sweet in the morning.

Also I bet he puts a ton of cream and sugar in his coffee.

He's upbeat in the morning and he's probably pretty loud. His brothers will wake up to the sound of loud singing and dishes clanging in the kitchen.

On average he wakes up at around 7-8.

#thanks for the ask! #tmnt 2003 headcanons #tmnt 2003 #tmnt headcanons #tmnt #tmnt 2003 michelangelo #tmnt 2003 raphael #tmnt 2003 leonardo #tmnt 2003 donatello

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Splinter watches hallmark movies

TMNT Christmas headcanons:

- Mikey is ridiculously, over the top festive. Mikey is decking the lair in layers of holly. In 12, he's decking out the dojo tree and aggravating Splinter with it. He bakes Christmas cookies. He wraps gifts elaborately. He watches, and has memorized, every Christmas special released in the English language. He would play Christmas carols all month if the rest of the family would put up with it. Mikey believed wholeheartedly in Santa until approximately one year before any given show or movie came out, and even then only stopped because Leo finally sat him down and told him.

- Raph pretends to be a grinch but isn't. Rolls his eyes at Mikey's antics and started trying to talk him out of the Santa thing when they were still toddlers (it didn't work). His favourite Christmas movie is Die Hard (it's actually Love Actually, but he won't tell anyone that). Is actually, stealthily, excellent at both selecting and wrapping gifts. Complains that he's Christmas-coloured all year round.

- Donnie is the best gift-giver in the family, because he painstakingly makes gifts for everyone in his lab. Doesn't bother wrapping, just slaps a tag on each gift and under the tree they go. Pours eggnog into his coffee during the month of December. Refuses to allow Mikey to decorate the lab but grudgingly gives him some kind of makeshift mechanical tree in a corner to go nuts on, and is the resident Christmas Light Repairman. Unironically enjoys the Star Wars Holiday Special.

- Leo is terrible at picking out gifts and worse at wrapping them. Wound up having to have the Santa talk twice, with both Donnie and Mikey, because neither of them would believe Raph. Piles everyone into whatever vehicle they have for each version to look at Christmas lights while Raph complains. He is one of two brothers most likely to try to peek at wrapped gifts before Christmas. Also unironically enjoys the Star Wars Holiday Special. Has tried to carve a turkey with his katanas at least once.

#tmnt #tmnt headcanons #these are too cute

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tmnt 2012 donatello headcanons

He does NOT drink enough water

And when he does get a glass of water he chugs it in 2 seconds because he remembers he hasn't had any water all day and he's actually very parched

He drinks so much coffee that he has just adapted to drinking it black. Also he will drink any brand, any strength at any temperature with whatever in it he has no standards

Something about Donnie attracts people that overshare. Something about him makes people go "I'm gonna tell this guy my deepest darkest secrets unprompted."

He cannot sing for the life of him. He is just incapable of it. He's completely tone deaf.

Donnie likes his food more on the bland side. When they get pizza he actually prefers just a cheese pizza. He picks things off his pizza all the time and usually give it to Mikey. He's big on texture so he doesn't green peppers or olives on his pizza. Weirdly enough he is okay with pineapple though.

Donnie has a whole double online life where he's involved in a lot of online forums for various hobbies and he has a few online friends. He'll message them about random stuff he's working on so he'll be smiling and giggling at his computer and someone will be like "Ooh, Donnie who are you messaging?", and Donnie is like "Oh my friend Greg, we're talking about motherboards." And Greg is like a 45 year old man from Australia he met on reddit

He is the only one in the house with any streaming service account. Everything is under his name and everyone is constantly pestering him to come fix the tv.

He's got a stress ball at his desk and it is worn.

Sometimes when he's working on something he'll listen to classical music. Partially because it helps him focus but also because it lowkey makes him feel like a mad scientist.

#tmnt #tmnt 2012 #tmnt 2k12 #tmnt donatello #tmnt headcanons #tmnt 2012 headcanons

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tmnt 2012 Raphael headcanons

He makes Mikey get rid of all the bugs in the house. If there is bug in the room he will refuse to be in that room until it is eliminated. Mikey insists on saving the bugs so Raph makes him deal with them otherwise Raphie smash

Raph is a little bit of a romantic. The fbi wouldn't be able to get this information out of him but sometimes he likes to watch classic romance movies just cause he thinks the story is sweet. He would absolutely never do this around anyone else though except for maybe Mona Lisa. Otherwise, he's taking that to his grave

I feel like his fear of bugs originated when he was a kid. He was in bed and this monstrously huge cockroach was crawling on him in the dark. He felt it crawling up his arm so he turned on the light and saw it and just about went into cardiac arrest

He refuses to watch any movie where the dog dies

He likes super freaky, gory horror movies but if there's a dog in the movie he won't watch it because if anything happened to the dog he would scream

He sucks to watch horror movies with though because he spends the whole time talking about how he would actually be able to survive. Like no offence to those teens who just got murdered but Raph is simply built different. They're watching a scary scene with the serial killer and Raph is just like "Yeah I could take him."

Raph is the go to brother when you can't beat a video game level

Him and Casey have this ongoing bit where they jokingly flirt with each other (casey started it)

Raph will save him and Casey will be like "Damn bro you're actually kinda dreamy ngl"

No one (except mikey) likes sharing a pizza with Raph because he makes it way too spicy

#tmnt 2012 #tmnt 2k12 #tmnt headcanons #tmnt 2012 headcanons #2012 raphael #2012 is next on my chopping block #tmnt

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Headcanon Masterlist

I've made too many of these so here is a list.

2003:

Raphael

Michelangelo

Leonardo

Donatello

Donnie and Leo

Mikey and Raph

Cooking

Sick

Sleeping

Bedrooms

Getting Startled

Hygiene

Boardgames

Panicking

Morning Routines

2012:

Raphael

Donatello

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Idk if you've already done this, but have you done how they would deal with panic/hard feelings?

I haven't yet! This one is interesting. I focused more on panicking/fear but I'll make another post for hard feelings, how they act when they're mad, etc. I was thinking about the 03 turtles when I wrote this mainly but it's sort of just my head canons for the turtles in general.

Leo:

I feel like when Leo panics, it's less visible. You might mistake his panicking for just general stress but in his mind he is losing it.

He'll get pushy and impatient.

He'll be anxiously pacing.

When he's starting to panic he starts desperately trying to keep track of everyone in his mind. His head will be darting around in all different directions because he's trying to keep tabs on everybody

In general though, I think Leo is good at keeping his head when he's panicking. He is able to filter out what is important at the moment and what isn't.

And I feel like Leo's panic response sort of hits after the situation has been dealt with. He will handle it in the moment and then the second it's over, he snaps.

His habit is bottling things up until he explodes.

After a high stress situation, Leo needs to be alone. He'll go some place private and just let it out. He won't do this around other people except maybe Splinter.

I could see after a particularly bad mission, he comes home and after everyone's been taken care of he goes into his room and cries for a good half hour. I feel like it would be kind of cathartic for him.

Or he starts replaying the situation in his head and spiraling into what-ifs.

It helps him to talk the whole thing out with Splinter.

Raph:

When Raph is afraid he gets snappy and jumpy. He'll be visibly on edge and probably pretty irritable.

When he is full on panicking I think he would enter a blind rage. Not out of anger but as a fear response. He'll start desperately attacking whatever the threat is. He loses his judgement pretty quickly.

The more panicked he gets the more impulsive and aggressive he gets

Also, notice how some iterations of Raph (I'm thinking bayverse and mutant mayhem) start making heartfelt confessions when he thinks they're all about to die? I feel like that's a Raph thing. In moments of high stress all his pent up feelings just come flooding out.

I think after a really high stress situation, Raph becomes pretty mellow. Also he'll get really tired. He might get upset about the situation again later but in the moment he'll just be exhausted

Afterwards, I could see Raph wanting to spend some alone time, but I could more see him wanting other people around. He'll want some quiet company. He might not say much but he'll stick around the room where everyone is. I think it would comfort him to just be in a mundane and safe environment with everybody.

Donnie:

When Donnie is scared he starts rapid fire thinking of solutions. He shuts everything else out and tries to laser-focus on whatever he's doing.

This makes him block a lot of stuff out and he might not notice or respond to things. He'll blank out for a second and go into his own head but eventually he'll snap back.

When he's panicking, and it's from something he can't solve or analyze, like something flying directly at his head, he'll freeze.

He might start overthinking or over complicating things. In really bad cases he'll be over thinking something so much he'll forget really basic information.

Donnie has the patience of a saint but if someone rushes him when he's under pressure he will obliterate them.

After a stressful situation, Donnie becomes a bit reserved. Like Leo, he'll start replaying the situation in his mind. He'll think about how he could have prevented it, if there will be any repercussions, if he did a good enough job, etc. He'll be a bit jittery and restless. He'll start bouncing his leg or shaking a little.

When he comes home he starts looking for a distraction. He'll be so in his own head he'll need something to distract himself from his own thoughts. He'll immediately start working on/researching something.

Mikey:

If Mikey is afraid, he will say so. Even if he is completely alone he will still say so out loud. He'll get jumpy and easily startled. He also uses humor to mask/cope with fear.

When he is anxious he fiddles with things in his hands, especially his nun-chucks.

But if he picks up that everyone is panicking, he'll force himself to calm down and become a bit more level headed. He'll become unusually serious and focused on whatever they're doing. He also might try to calm other people down, particularly Leo and Raph.

When he gets anxious he'll start slipping up and making stupid mistakes, and then he'll get insecure about those mistakes and start to spiral even more.

When he's panicking he gets flustered and frantic.

Afterwards he might be a bit shaken but he usually comes back down pretty quickly.

He likes to be around people afterwards. He's usually the one to lighten the mood and I think he purposely makes an effort to do that.

He'll be pretty good for a few hours but I think when he goes to bed or is by himself it will hit him again

Sometimes he'll read a comic or play a game or do something fun to get his mind off things

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Just some 03 shenanigans.

#tmnt 2003 #canon

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tmnt 2003 headcanons: board game night

Raph:

Never wins

He's terrible and will almost always come in last

His problem is that he's impatient so if the game requires any strategy or thinking ahead he just won't

He begrudgingly agrees to play a board game to humor everyone but then he gets too invested

Sometimes he will get too into it and he will unintentionally be so loud. You can hear him yelling from the next room and you're like "omg what are they doing in there?" and they are playing scrabble

He's debating with Donatello if his made-up word counts

Him and Mikey have a near fist fight over who gets to be the car in monopoly every time.

He also pulls risky plays, he will put everything on the line on his first turn

At the end of monopoly night he's left defeated in jail, in shambles with one monopoly dollar left to his name, a shell of the man he once was

He plays as the dog because Mikey threatened to eat the car if he didn't get it

Donnie:

Reads the instructions out loud but no one is actually listening so he has to explain the rules to everyone like five times

He is the board game referee and his word is law. He is the only thing stopping the evening from turning into an all out brawl

Donnie likes boring math games that no one else knows how to play (Mikey's words)

(He's talking about cribbage)

Donnie will put up a good fight, especially if it's a logic based game

But he over thinks and plays too cautiously

And when he isn't playing a round he will hover over someone's shoulder and tell them what to do

And no one likes to play trivia games with Donnie because he's too good

In monopoly he plays as the thimble

Leo:

Leo is dangerous because when they play board games he sits politely and looks like he's just quietly enjoying himself but he's actually watching

He's plotting

He picks up on everyone else's strategy and then destroys them one by one

He gets progressively more unhinged as the game progresses

No mercy

He just will sit there with a polite grin on his face while he bankrupts his own brother (in monopoly)

And then as soon as it's finally over he just sits there and is like "So are we playing another round?"

In monopoly he plays as the top hat

Mikey:

With Mikey it could go either way, he will either be eliminated in 10 seconds or he will do surprisingly well. It really depends on the game. Mikey can be strategic, it just depends on if he's interested in the game.

I feel like Mikey likes games that have a bit of a story to them and if they don't he will make one

In monopoly Mikey will create a narrative and then try to use it to guilt his brother's into not making him pay

He'll be like "Please. I am but a humble commoner. I need this money to feed my family of eight. If you take it my children will surely starve. Do you want their blood on your hands, Leonardo?"

But also he would trade his real-life brothers for 10 monopoly dollars

Like Raph, he's also impatient and tends to just wing it but he has better luck than Raph, and he subconsciously picks up on other player's strategies

If he is giving 100% effort he might be able to give Leo a run for his money

In monopoly he refuses to play as anything other than the car

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i definitely recommend mutant mayhem!! it was really nice, i think you'll like it. about rise and/or 2007 movie, do you plan on sometimes making headcanons for these versions too?

I have definitely thought about doing some for Rise, same with 2012. I actually have a few drafts for 2012 I haven't posted yet. When I made this account I fully meant to do all 3 but ended up only posting for 2003. But I think I will probably end up making posts for rise and 2012 as well. Especially if I re-watch either of them. 2003 was the most recent one I watched so it's very in my brain.

2007 I haven't thought of any but it might actually be really fun!

#thanks for the ask!