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little kid with a big death wish by remrose
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018)
08 Oct 2023
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Leo's mind rebelled against the sensation. The heaviness burst into awareness, body, limbs, lungs, blinking. The middle distance he'd apparently been staring in focused. Leo was awake. Leo was aware. Leo was alive.
Being alive wasn't something he thought he'd be.
or: recovery fic featuring dissociation problems, missing limbs, and Leo discovering a familiar presence in his mind. twice the trauma in one body, what could go wrong?
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- Part 1 of death wish
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- English
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- 153,915
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- 33/33
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- 3,168
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so good so fire author ily i cried i uusually avoid future and present leos in one fic cuz i dislike the angst battle but to have future leo basically be an older brother was so so sweetening and sad 🥹 add to collection
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"Don't think you can distract me." Donnie was unmoved. "Rate your pain from a scale of one to ten."Leo incredulously showed his grand total of three fingers.
Donnie's lip twitched in amusement. "Give it to me in multiples, I am capable of basic addition."
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(Mind the tags of the fic!)
I was very very invested on this story, I binged it in four days. I loved how the themes of learning self-love, reaching out for help and a bittersweet hopeful healing path ending were tackled! Leo and Sensei's dynamic, the guys ever, and everyone else's dynamics too, it was such a good read <3.
I also read the following one-shots and adored how they ended, showing a great progress on Leo's recovery! (Plus the Donnie POVs, heck yeah)
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Mikey was Leo's little brother.
Leo was supposed to protect him.
He had failed even before the window shattered.
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- Part 9 of Death shots that I'm proud of :3
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Interesante concepto. Amo cuando hacen cambio de roles
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Life: The Ultimate Sacrifice by Shattered_ontheInside
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018), rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles movie
27 Aug 2024
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“I don’t know how I’m still functioning, I haven’t slept or ate or drank anything even once since getting here...”
Leo’s voice cut out and everyone stood in silence for a moment, until Mikey yelled: “Why didn’t anyone tell me!?” Donnie replied honestly: “We thought you’d kill yourself trying to open a portal.” “You bet your shell I’m gonna open a portal! Leo’s still alive and I’m the only one who can get him out!”
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Leo was presumed dead in the Prison Dimension, until a transmission from their trapped brother somehow reaches Donatello via his wrist com.
Mikey is determined to use his mystic hands to save Leo from the Prison Dimension, even at the risk of his own life. Will they get their brother back? And if so, will he come back as the fun, pun-loving Leonardo they all know and love, or will a dark secret be hiding in the shadows, waiting for the right moment to pounce?
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Love the stories, List of Best AO3 Stories
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Good Boy, Little Pest by Abbie_Lauren2024
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types
10 Oct 2025
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After Leo is saved from the Prison Dimension, his brothers quickly realize that more happened than they had realized. Leo would get random bouts of feral bewilderment and had random triggers that had not been there before. What had happened to him?
Gaichū doesn’t understand what happened. One moment he was in his home, running away from a beating from Master and the next… well… the next he found himself in a strange new world surrounded by new enemies who seem to know him. Now he has to learn to navigate the peculiarities of this new place and hope Master won’t find him.
Peculiarities such as gravity.
And light.
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the canary continuity by qolden
Fandom: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types
18 Sep 2025
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the one where donnie ninja turtle should probably check his carbon monoxide detector
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Ooh, angst! :D
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Where You Belong by Shattered_ontheInside
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2012)
17 Sep 2025
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How does it feel to be so very alone and so very forgotten?
Why do you enjoy tormenting me?
I will answer your question if you first answer mine.
Leave me alone.
Answer the question, Leo.
No. Leave me alone. Allow me a shred of peace for once.
Answer. The. Question.
I don’t want to.
You don’t have a choice.
I never have a choice.
Answer me.
I won’t lose control of my own mind!
Leee-ooo. Answer the quessss-tion.
Why?
Answer. Me.
I don’t want to.
How does it make you feel, Leonardo?
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Despair.
Is that your answer?
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Yes.
Good.
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After being hit with a mystic attack that removes Leo's ability to communicate one unexpected turn after another takes his life on a downward spiral that rips him away from his family; seems to have no end; time and time again puts him face-to-face with the reality that where he is told he belongs is not where he wants to be...
and that makes him struggle with the answers to two important questions:
Can a hero be turned into a monster?
And does a murderer deserve forgiveness?
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Chapter 9 second section
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Two Minutes . . . and Counting by Shattered_ontheInside
Fandom: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018)
14 Nov 2024
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A short collection starting with my tragic angst 'Two Minutes', dealing with dying, death, the tragic loss of a loved one, and learning how to forgive before one member of the 'Mad Dogs' family team of heroes can move on to the mystic realm with their ancestors.
*WARNING* this fanfic series contains graphic depictions of canonical character dying and death, and has a bittersweet ending, not a happy one.
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- 32,406
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- 3
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Got any coffee? by its_ya_theater_girl
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2012)
23 Aug 2025
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Look Leo really just wanted some coffee, he wasn't expecting to get summoned to some dark universe to deal with a villain they couldn't.
Honestly this dimension traveling stuff was getting old, but at least there was coffeeOh freak is that the kraang?
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RISE!Leo gets summoned to the 2012 verse-
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Rise got summoned. Meh
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Just Another Momma Softshell ☆ ToaF by ALH_GremlinzKeep
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2012)
29 Jun 2023
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Nothing like being a Softshell out of time, even worse being one out of not just her native dimension but her universe in its entirety. Toss some tots & teens into the mix & we have quite the conundrum.
'Ello!
I will be adding relevant tags, CWs, and character tags as we go, hopefully I have the majority of the bases covered from the start though.
I'm occasionally half blind & have ADHD so if I do a fuck up grant me you patience kind Sirs, Madames, & Mxs~
(Comments and kudos bring me a boost of serotonin every time I see them and as we all know the angst machine feeds off serotonin)
Enjoy~
This is angst, not torture porn. So while there may be some vivid descriptions in fights or other scenes, there is fluff & hope & such to counteract it. There may be melancholic aspects to the end when we finally get there. But there will be a good end.
CWs in notes
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- Part 5 of 🐔 Turts of a Feather 🐔
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Shadows of the Hamato by Magisav
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018)
05 Oct 2025
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A year after the Kraang invasion, Leo still struggles with his failures and the weight of leadership. Determined to grow stronger, he makes the painful decision to leave for Japan, training to become the leader his family deserves. But after a year, a deep unease stirs within him through his ninpo. He returns home—only to find the lair in ruins, his family gone, and the Foot Clan's insignia flying over what was once their home. Believing them dead, Leo wages a ruthless one-man war against the Foot, hunting them relentlessly.
But his family is alive—held captive by Shen, the new, ruthless leader of the Foot. A cunning and powerful mystic, Shen seeks to steal the Hamato Clan’s ninpo, intending to ascend beyond mortality and reshape the world in her image. With the Foot under her control and power within reach, she will stop at nothing to claim what she believes is hers.
Unaware of the full extent of her plans, Leo has one goal: to destroy the Foot and make their leader pay.
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It Didn't Matter Before! by Shattered_ontheInside for NerdyBoiYeet
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018)
05 Oct 2025
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Something was wrong.
The dull ache in Leo's carapace erupted into a blinding pain shooting through the hairline cracks that were leftover as a lasting reminder of what Krang Prime had done to him.
Specifically the ones that went over the stylish blue markings that lit up with his ninpo energy every time he tapped into his mystic powers.
This had never happened to him before! Sure sometimes when he practiced too long his shell wound up aching but he never really gave it much thought.
Donnie landed on his feet in the soft sand of a beach on a secluded tropical island, while Leo did not. Instead he landed on his side with a pained: "Oof!" followed by an: "Augh!"
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Whumptober 2025 #5 - "My Panic's at the Ceiling but I'm Facedown on the Carpet"
prompts: quivering, phobia
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- Part 5 of My Whumptober 2025
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- English
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- 5,258
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- 1/1
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- 33
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Villain Donnie AU by Firefly026
Fandom: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018)
15 Aug 2025
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"Something's made your eyes go cold...."
In which Donnie becomes a villain post-movie.
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Endure Alone…or Together? by Purpleandbluelove24
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018)
05 Oct 2025
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After being kidnapped by a mysterious organization, the Hamato brothers are separated and experimented on—physically, mentally, and emotionally. Each is told the others are gone. But what their captors don’t realize is that the bond between these brothers is more powerful than any chain, any scalpel, any lie. This is a story of resilience, pain, and the love that holds them together even in the darkest depths.
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and in the yard, you're keeping guard (you're right where you need to be) by OpposableThumbs for hatakaka
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2012)
15 Jun 2023
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Splinter was never a father to the turtles. Not really. He was more of a lieutenant, training them non-stop, sending them on dangerous missions with no regard for their safety. The turtles never really saw each other outside training and missions, needles to say, none of them liked Splinter.
What will they do when splinter dies, and they're left to try and repair a bond that was never really there in the first place?
Heavily heavily HEAVILY inspired by ‘We’ll Learn’ by MikeyWth and waiting on that morning sun by veritas_dolos
Previously titled "I wanna shoot him in his brain (but id miss him in the morning)-
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Son of a Spider by Shattered_ontheInside
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018)
04 Oct 2025
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Life wasn't all that bad for the kappa teen son of the influentially wealthy Big Mama.
When he was an infant the red-eared slider kappa (who was really a mutant turtle - but he didn't know that) had been brought to the wildly successful spider yokai who owned and ran both the Hidden City's Battle Nexus and the lavish above ground Grand Nexus hotel by one Baron Draxum.
At first Big Mama had curled her lip up in disgust at the distasteful thought of caring for a helpless infant that couldn't do so much as feed himself. But instead of disposing of him that soft spot she held for Lou carried over to this little baby so that she held on to him and over time her mind was changed and her heart softened.
What was wrong with that? Even a villain can have room in their heart for love. Although their definition of how that love is displayed can be vastly different from what love really is.
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Whumptober 2025 - #4 "Don't Be Scared, I've Done This Before" & #12 "It'll Be for Nothing"
prompts: non-human whumper, iron rod, loss of power (#4); withholding medical treatment (#12)
Leo-centric; canon-divergent separated au (raised by Big Mama)
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- Part 4 of My Whumptober 2025
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- English
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- 6,631
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- 1/2
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Shredded Hope by Purpleandbluelove24
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018)
16 Jun 2025
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An episode rewrite of 'Shreddy or Not' where Donnie gets hit by the Shredder and his battle shell cracks. Raph and Mikey assumed that Donnie is dead but Leo believes that his twin is still alive. However, he is dragged away from their crumbling home before he can find his twin and it seems like Leo begins to lose hope
Meanwhile, April finds Donnie in the rumble alive and the two of them work together to find their family, relaying heavily on the twin bond between Donnie and Leo
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ITS THE FIC. THE FIC. GAHHH OMG
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Trust Fall by NerdyBoiYeet
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018)
29 Jun 2024
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A simple team building exercise in trust. The classic trust fall!
Leo falls each time without even hesitating, but as each brother attempts to get out of him having to catch/save them, one thing becomes apparent.
His brothers don't trust him at all.
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- Part 1 of Villain Leo
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Bombastic Side Eye by Sevimkiz (Rainjer) for remrose
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types
03 Apr 2024
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The ridiculousness of the nickname would make him laugh if he didn't feel a cold pit where his stomach would be. His chest was hollowed, emptied out of anything nice. The remnants of a memory he had not so long ago rang loud in his ears.
No. No, not again. No. I can't-
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Leonardo Hamato, a second year med student, overhears some of his classmates talking behind his back. He can't help but crumble under the weight of painful memories.
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Tether by Purpleandbluelove24
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018)
07 Oct 2025
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Months after the Krang invasion, Donatello begins to experience severe shell irritation. When tests reveal leftover Krang matter lodged deep in his shell from the Technodrome explosion, Leo and Draxum perform a delicate extraction procedure to save him. Recovery seems promising—until Donnie collapses weeks later and begins coughing up blood.
After an emergency evaluation, Draxum delivers the devastating diagnosis: a rare, aggressive form of cancer, likely triggered by the Krang residue. As Donnie undergoes harsh treatment, Leo—driven by guilt, love, and fear—digs into his medical training, determined to find a cure. He refuses to let his twin slip away, even as Donnie weakens by the day.
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- Part 28 of I love the disaster twins
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give my best to the mess by remrose
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018)
20 Nov 2023
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'Smarten up? Who do you think I am?'
'You are an intelligent and brave young man who is going to take this fucking Nyquil so I can have a nap.' Sensei said, then added as an afterthought. 'Please.'
'Heard, chef.' Leo caved, and popped the blister package to get two Nyquil in his mouth before he drank directly from the tap. 'Don't even know why you're so worried. It's just a little eensy weensy fever. We're totally fine.'
'Leonardo, I swear.' Sensei warned, feeling his intention.
Stepping out of the bathroom and into the hallway, Leo proclaimed to his headmate, 'Could a not-fine person do this?' and tried to do a handstand. He immediately fell on his ass, tumbling sore head over heels.
or: post death wish finds a little illness revealing a bit more than expected
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- Part 6 of death wish
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deathwish