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• Say “April” by Onwardian

  Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 1987)  

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  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • F/M
  • Complete Work

  17 Oct 2025

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • April O'Neil/Splinter (TMNT)
  • April O'Neil (TMNT)
  • Hamato Yoshi | Splinter
  • unrealistic
  • Triple Drabble
  • waking up from a coma
  • Almost No Dialogue
  • Whumptober 2025

  Summary

  Whumptober Day 17: Coma

  A comatose Splinter wakes up to see his girlfriend, April.

  Series

  • Part 22 of TMNT Drabbles
  • Part 7 of Triple Drabbles

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  300

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Collections:

  3

  Comments:

  14

  Kudos:

  8

  Hits:

  55

• Sleepless For Sakura by Onwardian

  Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types  

  • General Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • F/M
  • Complete Work

  06 Jun 2024

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Splinter (TMNT)/Original Female Character(s)
  • Hamato Yoshi | Splinter
  • Quadruple Drabble
  • Not Canon Compliant
  • Crushes
  • Possibly Unrequited Love
  • Mentioned Turtles (TMNT)
  • Ambiguous/Open Ending
  • mention of past illness
  • Splinter-centric (TMNT)

  Summary

  Splinter never tried to find love. As an old sewer rat, he naturally assumed that nobody would ever have feelings for him. But after becoming smitten with a mutant opossum, he begins to wonder if she likes him, too.

  Series

  • Part 16 of TMNT Drabbles
  • Part 5 of Quadruple Drabbles

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  400

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Collections:

  2

  Comments:

  9

  Kudos:

  7

  Hits:

  64

• I’m a Lost River (That’ll Never Reach the Sea) by Onwardian

  Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 1987)  

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  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • F/M
  • Complete Work

  04 Feb 2024

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • April O'Neil & Splinter (TMNT)
  • April O'Neil (TMNT)
  • Past April O’Neil/Splinter
  • Implied Cancer
  • Sick Splinter (TMNT)
  • Sick April O’Neil (TMNT)
  • Quadruple Drabble
  • Crack and Angst
  • Ambiguous/Open Ending
  • April O'Neil-centric (TMNT)
  • Guilt
  • unrealistic
  • Hurt No Comfort
  • Complicated Relationships

  Summary

  April feels guilty after abandoning Splinter while he’s sick.

  Series

  • Part 10 of TMNT Drabbles
  • Part 4 of Quadruple Drabbles

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  400

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Collections:

  2

  Comments:

  4

  Kudos:

  5

  Hits:

  59

• Resonating Light by Onwardian

  Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 1987)  

  • General Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • F/M
  • Complete Work

  21 Sep 2023

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • April O'Neil & Splinter (TMNT)
  • April O'Neil (TMNT)
  • Hamato Yoshi | Splinter
  • Quadruple Drabble
  • Character Study
  • Complicated Relationships
  • Mixed feelings
  • Mentioned April O’Neil/Splinter (TMNT)
  • Sick Splinter (TMNT)
  • No Dialogue

  Summary

  April finds herself going to the sewers over and over again just to see Splinter.

  Series

  • Part 4 of TMNT Drabbles
  • Part 2 of Quadruple Drabbles

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  400

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Collections:

  2

  Comments:

  4

  Kudos:

  8

  Hits:

  75