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• To the One before Me, For the Man I’ll never Be by Trickster_from_beyond_16

  Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2012), Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018)  

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  25 Mar 2025

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Donatello & Leonardo & Michelangelo & Raphael (TMNT)
  • Donatello & Donatello (TMNT)
  • Michelangelo & Michelangelo (TMNT)
  • Raphael & Raphael (TMNT)
  • Leonardo & Leonardo (TMNT)
  • Donatello & Leonardo & Michelangelo & Raphael & Splinter (TMNT)
  • Donatello
  • Leonardo
  • Raphael
  • Michelangelo
  • Splinter
  • Mentions of April O Neil and Casey Jones
  • No 2012 or 2018 bashing
  • Near Death Experiences
  • momentary death
  • Lets be fr the 2012 turtles were either near death or temporarily dead one too many times
  • Talk about dimension travel
  • Dimension Travel
  • 2018 Donnie is very excited
  • 2012 Donnie’s crush on April is like…very less
  • Talk about 2012 Splinter’s death
  • The Leonardo Effect (trademarked by fandom)
  • The 2012 boys are dead inside
  • No Beta we die like Splinter
  • The Author Regrets Everything
  • Might be OOC
  • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
  • Autistic Donatello (TMNT)
  • Michelangelo Has ADHD (TMNT)
  • 2012 Raph has a soft spot for 2018 Raph
  • Leo and Leon bond over the Effect
  • Splinter is a parent and he’s trying
  • Both Splinters are tbh
  • No bashing whatsoever pls and thank you
  • No abuse here matey
  • they’re all good brothers
  • 2012 Donnie does a shit lot of work in canon
  • like 2018 Leo is the medic while Don is genius inventor
  • 2012 Donnie be both…and a lot of everything else
  • I hc him to be the Family doctor; dentist; therapist; basically the medical professional
  • Mikey is his emotional support
  • Leon speaks some Spanish
  • Author doesn’t know Spanish
  • pls send help
  • Donatello-centric (TMNT)
  • Mentions of The Power Inside Her
  • Disaster Twins Donatello and Leonardo (TMNT)
  • Michelangelo is a mental health advocate
  • Mentions of disintegrating
  • Mikey and Leon's ADHD solidarity go brrr
  • mentions of family issues
  • Splinters are not perfect parents
  • they try their best
  • But sometimes that best leaves scars on their children
  • 18 turtles find the 12 turtles to be sources of comfort
  • Try and pry that from my cold dead hands I dare u
  • Donatellos and their crimes
  • Raph and Donnie bomb Foot buildings as a passtime
  • Leo did it first so he can't say anything about it
  • The 2012 turtles did a lot of things
  • Reference to Half Shell Heroes: Blast to the Past
  • Dead Splinter (TMNT)
  • Dead Karai (TMNT)
  • Grieving in solidarity
  • Don is kinda beating himself up over how when he asks questions something bad happens
  • Someone assure the poor turtle that he’s not the problem
  • Raph wants to kill Shredder again
  • He wants that old and musty guy to suffer
  • #LetRaphMurkShredder
  • Raphie is trying his best to mediate
  • Leon be asking the real questions (he’s asking most of the questions let’s bffr)

  Summary

  Don somehow brought variants of himself and his brothers to his world

  How do the newcomers react?

  Well…

  “So…we fuck around and find out…?” Mikey sounded hopeful. Donnie sighed before nodding. “We fuck around and find out.”

  TL:DR- 2018 Donnie brings the 2012 brothers into his world and they fuck around and find out

  Series

  • Part 2 of 2012 Donatello appreciation 🐢💜

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  English

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