17 Works by qolden
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Sometimes, on the rare nights they spend in bed together, Pomni will sit up by her side, and watch her sleep.
Usually she situates herself lower down the bed, like she wants to be small. She'll throw her arm over Pomni's waist and tuck the scarred side of her face against her side, right above her hip. She'll always start out sleeping restlessly, but her face will even out in dreaming.
Pomni will often reach out, to cup the back of her head with her hand, run her fingers through her hair, and stare at her peaceful, unguarded expression — and she'll think, selfishly, just to herself, I wish I knew your name.
(or: jax coming back from abstraction doesn't automatically fix everything. pomni struggles to reckon with it.)
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- Part 2 of armor ends
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"We were so worried, we heard you—" Ragatha starts, and then looks up. She meets Jax's gaze dead-on, and goes silent. Tears brim in the corner of her eye. Her hand flies up to cover her mouth. He can't tell if the look on her face is relief or fear.
Gangle's staring at him like she's seen a ghost. Pomni slowly raises to her feet, brows furrowed. She winces as every movement jars her wavering form.
Cowered on the floor, panting, confused and disoriented, with everyone standing above him, taller than him… it reminds Jax of something deeply unpleasant. They're all staring at him. They're all seeing him.
Jax knows they're not going to like what they see.
His breath quickens until his head is spinning, and he feels like he's going to vomit. He forces himself upwards with a frustrated cry, swaying in place, and then turns and bolts towards his room as fast as he can.
"NO!" Pomni screams.
(or: pomni pulls jax back from the brink.)
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- Part 1 of armor ends
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i can't help the fracturing by qolden
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types
28 Apr 2026
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Booming footsteps sounded behind him. He could feel something—someone much bigger than him, breathing down his neck.
He didn't quite manage to process the situation in time.
Before he could whirl on his other opponent, a cattle prod was thrust into the back of his neck, paralyzing him with the force of the electric shock. Donnie's breath punched out of his chest, and he felt himself crumpling to his knees as someone roughly grabbed his arm. Voices sounded off around him, but he couldn't make out the words.
The last thing he saw as his vision went black was his phone (containing his tracker) clattering to the ground, and the unimpressed faces of his kidnappers disappearing as he was thrown over someone's shoulder like a sack of potatoes.
He'd barely even been able to fight back. How embarrassing of him.
(or: a group of sky pirates need a fuel source to power their ship. donnie's appearance presents them with a perfect opportunity.)
Series
- Part 5 of rottmnt - bthb 2025-2026
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winter of 1986 by qolden
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types
23 Apr 2026
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An anthology of misc. Canary Continuity oneshots.
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- Part 6 of the canary continuity
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keep my closet free of skeletons (i'm much better at digging graves) by qolden
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018)
08 Mar 2026
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"Don't blame Leo for trying," Raph piped up, a bit tense, and Donnie immediately bit down on his lip to stop himself from shouting in frustration. "We kinda can't ignore it, buddy. You're always doing… y'know."
Donnie glared daggers at him. Raph flapped his hand around in lieu of an explanation.
"How articulate of you," he ground out, trying not to sound too offended.
"Y'know," Raph repeated, intelligent as ever. "Your thing."
"Your ninpo," Mikey interjected. "You do that thing. I think Barry called it projecting? With your feelings."
Donnie's heart sank into his stomach.
"I what?"
(or: despite his insistence, donnie doesn't actually function like a machine. he finds a way to try and change that.)
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- Part 4 of rottmnt - bthb 2025-2026
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where we went wrong by qolden
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types
16 Oct 2025
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Mikey had spent his entire childhood believing he only had one older brother. After an unlikely encounter turns his world upside down, he soon discovers a world—and a family, by extension—that's been hidden underneath his feet the whole time, and he's determined to reach out and make sense of it all.
As it turns out, Donnie is just as desperate to connect with his lost family on the other side of things; all in spite of both his and Mikey's respective older brothers not wanting them to.
(They really, really don't want them to.)
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- Part 1 of where we went wrong
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wait out the weather by qolden
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018)
28 May 2025
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There was a knife hidden in Donnie's lab desk.
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- Part 4 of the canary continuity
- Part 3 of rottmnt - bthb 2025-2026
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fire at will by qolden for FluffyDice
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types
16 Apr 2025
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It'd all happened because Leo had forgotten the first and most important rule he'd been taught when he'd started his training: never, ever turn your back on an enemy.
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ode to eurydice by qolden
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types
15 Mar 2025
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"The little ones learn from us," Raph whispered, the note in his voice almost pleading. "Before you know it, they're gonna be taking after you."
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- Part 5 of the canary continuity
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lay my curses out to rest by qolden
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018)
28 Feb 2025
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Raphael was trembling, already tearing up again. He was shaking with the force of his growl, and his eyes only seemed to sharpen when they locked with Splinter's.
Leonardo's snarling had been in-the-moment, defensive paranoia. Splinter was interchangeable from everyone else— all he had wanted was to get away, to hide, not to hurt. Raphael knew exactly who he was looking at, and he was furiously protective anyway.
He was not afraid to hurt him if he had to, to protect the boys that it had always been Splinter's duty to protect.
Splinter could not help but feel like he had done something irreconcilably wrong.
(or: the boys are hit by a mystic pollen that heightens their paranoia. to take care of them, splinter is forced to confront some uncomfortable truths about them; and more importantly, about himself.)
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- Part 2 of rottmnt - bthb 2025-2026
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turn all your ghosts into mine by qolden
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018)
27 Feb 2025
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"Angelo?" he asked, gentling his voice. "Are you— my lab is open, the call wasn't necessary. Did I lock my door?"
"…Donnie?" Mikey's voice sounded shredded, like he'd been screaming.
Donnie straightened from his spot sat on the floor, dropping the tools held by his spider-shell and letting the limbs recede back in. He pulled his goggles up, shocked, because Mikey was not supposed to sound like that.
(or: donnie had always joked about being the best to call if his brothers needed to hide a body. he'd never expected it to actually happen.)
Series
- Part 1 of rottmnt - bthb 2025-2026
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clipped wings by qolden
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types
12 Feb 2025
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The hand in his squeezed. “You’re okay,” April said, her voice wobbling dangerously. “We’re gonna be okay. I’ve got you. Can you tell me what you remember?”
He blinked slowly, furrowing his brow. Swallowing was a struggle. His chest twinged. He felt embarrassed when he whispered, “I don’t…”
“That’s okay,” she soothed. “I… I’m sorry for not being here sooner. The guys, they told me what was going on. They told me everything.”
Donnie stared at her blankly, trying to piece together what she meant. Everything. What was everything supposed to mean?
Oh.
It slammed into him all at once. The large hand shattering his wrist, his head cracking against the floor, screaming as Leo ran his blade through his shoulder, Raph ripping through his shell like paper, dragging him back by the ankle, shattering his plastron, hands around his throat, squeezing, being dizzy and delirious and terrified and begging—
They’d tried to kill him. They’d tried to kill him and she knew.
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- Part 3 of the canary continuity
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miner's eulogy by qolden
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types
02 Oct 2024
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Never before had Leo witnessed his brother be crushed so thoroughly. He had soothed the cracks in his resolve and glued the chipped pieces back before, scars and grooves that told stories of labors of love—but he’d never had to cradle the dust in his hands in the way that he had that night, unable to remember the shape that it had once formed. He’d never felt so in over his head.
He’d never thought he would be the cause of it.
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- Part 2 of the canary continuity
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caged lungs by qolden
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types
28 Sep 2024
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Something is wrong with Donnie's brothers.
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- Part 1 of the canary continuity
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Circumventing Death by qolden
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types
05 Sep 2024
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Donnie straightened, reading the words a second time. A third time. He rubbed at his eyes to make sure he read it correctly. There was no way. The serum was making complete sense in his brain and it was only exciting him further.
“No way,” Donnie breathed. Pieces of the puzzle were beginning to click in his brain. “Oh, no fucking way.”
“I think I know you well enough to say you’re scaring me,” Casey said.
“I’m a genius,” Donnie said. “I mean, I know that. It’s undeniable at this point, but I am feeling so affirmed right now, because I just. I did that, Casey. I just…”
Casey blinked at him. “Please clarify?”
Donnie didn’t. He let the silence stretch so the pieces could fall into place, beginning to shake with excitement. He could go where no man had gone before, fix Casey’s problems like he desperately wanted to, and most importantly, break the laws of nature.
“Donnie?” Casey’s voice was small, because he’d spent enough time around a Donatello to know that face.
He had an idea.
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coming undone (one step at a time) by qolden
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types
24 Aug 2024
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They hadn’t told him, but Donnie had eyes. He could observe it. He wasn’t asking for thanks or open appreciation— he knew people only did that when they wanted something more from him or wanted to hurt him. Knowing they were content without him because of his actions was all that mattered.
(He missed praise. He missed turtle piles, and pizza weeks, and movie nights where they watched his favorites and actually engaged with them. He missed karaoke and DDR and biweekly Powerpoint nights where he deliberately picked the most moronic topic to rant about like a madman, just to revel in the sound of Leo shrieking with laughter.
And God, he missed S.H.E.L.L.D.O.N, so so much. Something had broken in him when he’d found his AI chip in the rubble, unsalvageable. Something about the grief of it all had made everything feel worthless. Even if he yearned for it—that didn’t really matter anymore, did it? It was gone.)
(or: in the middle of building their new lair, donnie is cursed. not wanting to slow himself down, he resolves to keep it from his family.
little does he know, that is the exact problem that got him cursed in the first place.)
Series
- Part 1 of two steps forward, one step back
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Enhancements by qolden
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types
05 Aug 2024
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Unknowingly being built as weapons of war with enhanced physical resistances has been, up to this point, nothing but a perk. But it also means that they're immune to regular painkillers, something they only learn about when it's a little too late.