13 Works in Raphael Has Self-Esteem Issues (TMNT)
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Bitter Lemonade -- Raph's POV by PlumRoseWriting
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2012), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2003)
22 Sep 2025
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Sometimes siblings have bad days. Sometimes they don't get along. Sometimes they are cruel. Sometimes they fight and cause harm. Sometimes bad days don't only last one day.
Raph's POV of the original
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This is a filler story about Raph and Leo after In the Deep but before the next main story of my AU. That being said you DO NOT need to read the main story fics to read this one.
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- Part 3 of To The Surface AU Side Stories
- Part 2 of Bitter Lemonade both POVs
- Part 3 of To The Surface
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In the Deep by PlumRoseWriting
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2012), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2003)
18 Sep 2025
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To no ones surprise, the sewers are deep. They run like mazes underground, to places you'd never know existed. But the creatures of those places are wandering out. Wandering from the depths into the tunnels of a city they'd long since forgotten existed.
A monster wakes in the sewers.
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**This is the second arc in my To The Surface AU. The boys are 15, 14, and 13. Raph and Leo are snapping turtles, Donnie is a diamondback terrapin, and Mikey is a red bellied cooter. If you want you could probably stand in 2003 or 2012
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- Part 2 of To The Surface
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I hope this plane never lands by Sakura_Teas
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2003)
09 Sep 2025
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The photo was the two of them sitting in Joi’s room, enjoying some random tea that she had, (The best tea he ever had) and laughing over Raph’s (Stupid) stories about his life. Joi was wearing a green and yellow hakama (That matched her eyes and hair perfectly) as opposed to her typical green and yellow jumpsuit.
Tittle from plane that never lands by AJR
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Happy endings come slowly by Citrine_Cutie
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (Movie 2023), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types, Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2024)
31 Jul 2025
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Raph’s math grades had apparently been good enough that the teacher wanted him to stay after school to go over “advanced calculus material”. That was surprising to him because Raph didn't FEEL like he was any good at it, let alone good enough for advanced material. Despite guessing on half the test and homework questions, he seemed to have done a lot better than he thought he would. But hey, it made his dad proud and it gave him a sense of superiority over Leo. Anything that made him better than Leo was a bonus. Still, he wasn't quite sure why he had to come after school instead of just being in the advanced class, like Donnie. He definitely wasn't better at math than Donnie.
When he arrived back into his math classroom, something felt… off. Miss. Sarah felt a little too… excited to see him, and it left him uneasy. She was usually at least somewhat excited, after all he had to be one of her best students, but this felt different.
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Solo Patrol, or At Least, the Aftermath of One by Ducky_died_inside
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2012)
25 Jul 2025
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Raph comes back after a solo patrol, hoping to just slip into bed and ignore his own recklessness. Donnie has other plans.
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i am incapable of being human (i am incapable of being inhuman) by lesbianardoo
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (Movie 2023), Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2024)
19 Jun 2025
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Raph is definitely no stranger to feeling inhuman. It always hurt, not always upfront, but a distant, aching feeling. It was a constant.
At first, going to school had been a saving grace. He finally felt normal, in a sense. For a while, it's everything he's ever wanted and more. But now, over half a year after Superfly, two months into his sophomore year, he feels, somehow, more alien than he ever had.
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- Part 18 of asher's rasey shenanigans
- Part 26 of asher mm fics 😁😁
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Born and Raised for Revenge by BurningHive
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2012), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types
11 Apr 2025
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After the loss of his daughter and wife, Splinter swears revenge on the Shredder. He is given an opportunity when a mysterious ooze transforms him into a rat, along with 4 infant turtles. Blinded by his need for vengeance, he raises the turtles to be warriors to help him on his warpath.
Now the teenaged turtles have to navigate their trauma and try to find meaning in their lives after both Shredder and Splinter are dead before it rips their family apart.
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TURTLEVERSE by Mx3i505
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2012), Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018), Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2024), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (Movie 2023)
21 Feb 2025
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Turtle multiverse GC?
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- Part 2 of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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it’s alright, we’ll survive (cause parents ain’t always right) by Anonymous
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2012)
06 Dec 2024
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The four “sons” and “only” daughter of a ninjutsu master who only had them to continue his legacy and to replace the hole in his heart left by the death of Tang Shin.
The daughter of an overbearing, overprotective, and suffocating dad who won’t give her any freedom ever since her mom died.
A boy who’s only reason to live is his little sister.
A “witch” who is judged both at home and at school.
A girl in the foster system who hates everything and everyone.
And the “perfect” and “straight” son of the head scientist of TCRI who only has his mother to confide in.
What happens when they all meet?
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- Part 1 of TMNT: Human AU
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Cold Blood, Hot Love by TiddyGoblinPowers
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types
23 Nov 2024
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( Based on the the 2014/16 movies with aspects of the 2007 TMNT movie and 2000 series villains)
Raphael has been having weird dreams lately, but with no clue why since it always features his and his brothers' childhood imaginary friend. The same red eyes always look back at him with an unknown message, and his brothers tell him he needs to forget it and move on.
Meanwhile, since the brothers have been reduced to hiding once more with little allowance on the surface, Raph has taken the name Night Watcher and been sneaking above ground to fight crime on his own. However, a new group of vigilantes has taken root in New York that often steals his targets, identifiable only by the black tattoos on their wrists. This added to their increased activity at night when Raph is on the prowl, has earned them the name Moonlight vigilantes. No one knows how many there are, but all of the turtles are ready to find out. They come face to face with the group by tracking criminals being targeted, and Raphael is surprised to see a familiar face.
This imaginary friend wasn't just a dream and is dangerous, more dangerous than the turtles could imagine. And it's not fair when your imaginary friend is your potential executioner.
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Fathers and Sons by NekoReecesPieces
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2012), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types
12 Apr 2024
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"Is Chompy Picasso your son or your pet?" Casey asked point blank.
A simple question by Casey Jones causes Raph to think about his relationship with the alien turtle, and brings up some thoughts about the Rat who raised him.
Was he his father's son, or a failed once-pet?
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- Part 3 of Hey Brother Series
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Under the Skin by WhyamIhere999
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types
06 Jan 2024
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Raph should be sleeping right now. But he's focused more on the way his body just doesn't look or feel right.
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Sometimes Nightmares Have Good Outcomes by Ether_TheStickFigure
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018)
05 Nov 2022
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Raph's been having repetitive nightmares where he hurts his brothers. He doesn't cope in the healthiest way. But, hey, when the eldest doesn't feel up to listen to Mikey's optimistic joy or Leo's joke comments, there's always Donnie.