17 Bookmarks by TheCausalReader366
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Never Better by less_depresso_more_espresso
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018)
26 Apr 2024
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The turtles think that Raph's home life is an absolute mess of horror. They wanna get her away from Draxum as soon as possible. But, well, the truth is, Red's never been better.
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- 23/?
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31 Jul 2025
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The Greatest Thing We've Lost by SupremeCommanderOfPencils
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018)
17 Aug 2025
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Leo waited. His leg was growing painfully numb under the ice. He wanted to rip the pack off and heave it across the room where it could shatter on the floor. Instead, he forced himself to stay quiet as he watched everyone disperse on their assignments, feeling his heartbeat inexplicably rise in his chest until he finally couldn’t stand it anymore.
“And me?” Leo looked to Splinter. “I know portaling is kinda off the table right now, but, you know, plans are still kinda my thing. Just give me a minute—an hour max—and I know I can come up with a place for us to stay...” Leo’s voice faded as Splinter placed a warm pink hand on top of his own, making it lay still.
“Do not worry, my baby blue.” He said, giving the back of his hand a pat, a soft smile reaching his furry face. “I know exactly where we will go.”
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Leo knew losing an arm would be a hard change. He just didn’t know exactly how many changes he'd have to deal with. Turns out that narrowly avoiding the Krang apocalypse doesn't mean everything goes back to normal.
(Or my traumatized turtle boys spend some time recovering in the countryside because the author was listening to Noah Kahan’s Stick Season album A LOT)
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- Part 1 of We'll All Be Here Forever
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- English
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- 59,746
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- 10/10
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31 Jul 2025
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i'll be your arms, i'll be your steady satellite by stardustcoral
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018)
08 Nov 2022
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"What’s up, man?" Mikey asked—more for the principle of the thing than a genuine question as he scanned his brother's form. He may be the youngest, but he wasn't an idiot. Leo wouldn't show up at his room in the middle of the night for no reason, especially when double checking everyone was safe and sound seemed to be a family tradition of sorts; nevermind that Mikey had never caught him doing it before, it was still the most obvious conclusion. Without Leo’s blue mask to cover it, the heavy bags hanging under his eyes were laughably easy to spot, a clear indicator that once again, he still slept nowhere near as much as he acted like he did.
It took everything to not call him out on it—blurting it out would do no good.
"Oh, uh, you– y'know," Leo said with a strained smile, voice faltering and cracking. "Stuff."
Leo has a nightmare. Mikey helps.
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20 Mar 2025
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heavy is the head that gets no sleep by stardustcoral
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018)
20 Dec 2023
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“Do you just not care?” Donnie eventually asked.
“What?” Leo replied, voice raspy and startled.
“Sorry, let me be more specific: do you care if you die?”
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Donnie and Leo have a conversation about Leo’s self sacrificing stunt at the end of the movie.
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19 Mar 2025
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Saving Purple by a_wild_goblin
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018)
22 Sep 2024
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It had been two years since Hamato Donnatello died in a tragic accident. The Resistance was facing great difficulties but, what was better than pretending everything was okay? No matter how hard Harper tried to believe better days were to come, they couldn't lie to themselves, they missed him. But as hope was slowly fading away, an unsuspected event reopened the wounds, awoke old ghosts and forced Harper to leave for a journey to bring back what they thought was lost long ago...
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05 Sep 2023
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in my hour of weakness, you were there to see my courage fail by stardustcoral for saltwatersweets
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018)
23 Jan 2023
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"Frankly, Leo had never felt more like a child, not even when he actually had been one. But he was already there, and the thought of leaving Raph’s room—with the soft lamp-light driving away the shadows, an easy sunset yellow-orange that was most decidedly not red—and returning to the endless, spilling darkness that was the rest of the lair made something inside him writhe in a blind panic, vehemently protesting against the idea and making his next breath sharp and wheezy as it stuttered through his throat. Raph was safe.
And so Leo, blanket still wrapped around his trembling form, hands white knuckled around the hems, carefully tiptoed over and climbed into Raph’s bed, just like he had used to when he was young, crawling under the massive blankets haphazardly strewn across his form and into the expanse of sturdy sheets."
Leo has a certified Bad Time™. His brothers help.
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26 Mar 2023
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Growing up is already hard enough, but when you're a mutant turtle teen you get some added complications. Namely, shedding.
A smattering of drabbles inspired by/heavily based on https://twitter.com/Bflyscribbles/status/1617205484095950848 by Butterflyscribbles :)
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04 Feb 2023
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Calling them twins has always been Leo’s thing, and Don has always discredited the claim with science. No matter how many facts about their very distinctive species of turtle were spit at him though, Leonardo’s irrefutable truth since childhood was and always will be that Donatello is his twin.
Or: Four times Donatello rejects Leo's notion of them being twins, and the on
ce (and future) time he embraces it.Series
- Part 1 of Wish we had just a little more time...
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- English
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- 22,647
- Chapters:
- 7/7
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18 Dec 2022
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Turtle Bingo by HappyFoxx
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types
17 Dec 2022
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We're playing bad things happen bingo! A series of oneshots from before, during and after canon, in no particular order.
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Leo remembers when he first decided to be the team medic. Of course, at that time it wasn't really the team medic, it was the family medic and it rarely amounted to more than sticking brightly colored band aids to his brothers scraped knees and elbows. Still, Dad kept him well stocked and provided whatever reading material he could find. Leo drank it up. He learned as much as he could, about medicine and treating injuries and keeping his family healthy.Bookmarked by TheCausalReader366
18 Dec 2022
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Battle Scars Prologue, aka Where Cartoon Plot Armor Comes to Die (Like the Future TMNT Boys) by kaysdenofchaos
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018)
09 Aug 2023
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Donatello is faced with the eternal sight of failure.
Raphael hears his brother's cries a moment too late.
Leonardo fails to fulfill his role as face-man.
Mikey just wants his brothers back. (+ very nearly faces a fate worse than death)
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Battle Scars AU Prologue: A Movie-Ending rewrite where the TMNT boys face more permanent consequences from their fight with the Krang-- takes a more mature shift from the source material for some lovely IDW-level plot.
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- Part 1 of Battle Scars AU
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- English
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- 18,247
- Chapters:
- 4/5
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- 106
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- 1,555
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14 Dec 2022
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The Same Little Faces by awkwardusagi
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018)
25 Feb 2024
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A mishap with a witch in the Hidden City leaves Leo de-aged at three years old until the spell can be broken. Donnie, Mikey, and Raph must care for their brother until they can turn the slider back to normal. This is nothing the Mad Dogs can't handle, they know their brother better than anyone. Besides, how much trouble can it be to take care of one turtle-tot?
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- English
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- 9/9
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14 Dec 2022
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A Better Word Than Humanity by silentsnowdrop
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018)
23 May 2025
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“I don’t know what to do. If I tell everyone that I’m still infected with a Kraang parasite, they’ll freak out. If I try to get rid of it, I’ll probably kill myself by secondary infection. I’m between the world’s largest mountain and the world’s largest slab of diamond.”
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Three months after the Kraang invasion, Donnie is struggling with a secret. When he was yanked from the Technodrome like an unejected hard drive, part of the control panel came with him, and has been growing along his nervous system ever since. However, a desire to tell his brothers and a need for a new phone screen put him and Leo in the path of a new and insidious human enemy. While their brothers try to get them back, they are forced to face Donnie's new condition, and the people who are intent on exploiting it any way they can.
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- English
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- 52,220
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- 23/23
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- 1,556
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- 306
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05 Dec 2022
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Stolen Sight by citrikspoon
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018)
28 Nov 2022
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He turned his gaze up, the night sky full of starts that he couldn’t see. He wished he could see them again. Just one more time.
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05 Dec 2022
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The Aftermath by Starrcrossrose
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018)
11 Oct 2024
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Leo knows this isn't about him; not anymore. But that doesn't stop the nightmares from haunting him every night, or the fact that he may have to wear a leg brace for a long time. It doesn't stop his shell from hurting, or his breath from catching when the air is too stagnant. Leo knows his brothers are struggling, too. But, in the aftermath of what happened to him - to them - he's having a really hard time getting back to normal.
- Language:
- English
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- 129,281
- Chapters:
- 22/?
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- 3
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- 1,413
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- 4,125
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05 Dec 2022
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Every Night the Longest Day by ashtreelane
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018)
25 Nov 2022
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Honestly? None of them take mystic as seriously as they should. Sure they respect it and are fascinated by it (excluding Donnie), but none of them really considered the dangers that it may hold for the four of them.
A fight with a mystic user is going to change that forever.
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Leo is struck with a curse that makes him unable to sleep. As his mind deteriorates and his family struggles for an answer, he slowly loses himself to his delirium, unable to tell reality from his mind.- Language:
- English
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- 42,224
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- 16/16
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- 5
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- 1,708
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- 6,975
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05 Dec 2022
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Would It Really Matter? by Angelpuns
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018)
09 Nov 2023
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A normal mission ends with Leo questioning his place on the team. Mystic rings are not to be trifled with.
This is mid-s2 (specifically right before the hidden city episodes!), so Leo's portaling skills and overall ninjocity are basically nonexistent.
EDIT: Now that this fic is finished, I will be editing every chapter as well as releasing some extra content! Thanks o everyone who was supportive while I was writing it! I had a lot of fun :)
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- Part 1 of Would It Really Matter
- Language:
- English
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- 60,653
- Chapters:
- 18/18
- Comments:
- 453
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- 1,841
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- 308
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05 Dec 2022
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Sleepless Habits by Starrcrossrose
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018)
17 Nov 2022
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Leo Cannot Sleep
Old Habits Die Hard
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25 Nov 2022