Rougher Than Da Rest

ok hear me out- au where splinter actually focuses on training the boys and teaching them about their hamato ancestry from the beginning

he chooses to prioritize the threat of the shredder and other dangers over his own reluctance to combat and, inadvertently, his son's selves.

and instead of being able to just be kids, they have to discover themselves and their individuality later on

Ok guys just thought of this what is the first blorbo you’ve ever had/can remember

I caved 😔

I FORGOT I MADE THIS

Enjoy :)

(for clarification this is Zuko)

I love doing silly little adventure time AU’s cuz autism go brr. If anyone wants to know more feel free to ask :) [These are only 2 of like, 3-4 I’ve got going on in my head]

me when I black out for an hour and 50 minutes and end up making an animated gif of Michael in Vewn’s art style

would daring and rosabellas ship name be something like flowercrown??? or just straight up beauty and the beast?? 🤔

also is it weird that when i see these two-

a very straight couple-

I shout

“OMG GAY PEOPLE‼️‼️‼️”

i can smell fruit lurking about i just cant pinpoint it y’know?

EYESTRAIN WARNING GRAHHHHHHH‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

I got bored and made a low quality edit

Didn’t reach the reblog nor like goal but im obsessed so I made the refs anyway 😋😋😋

Now heres my Yap-Fest from my notes

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Basically a second gem war breaks out while Stevens a toddler, as Steven grows, (without Greg, L + Ratio bozo) more and more homeworld gems end up joining the Crystal Gems with Stevens diplomacy skills, however at the same time Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl are all captured by Homeworld (presumed dead but they arent dw-) leaving Steven, 14 years old at the time, to command them. A year later Steven finds Bismuth in Lions mane and questions her, homeworld or rebel? Why were you important to Rose? What do you do? etc.

And extra later, (roughly a year after Bismuth is re-active) Jasper is abandoned by Yellow Diamond, after she finds out about Jasper resorting to recruiting, what the Diamonds think, are Earthlings (The Corrupted Gems), and ends up reluctantly joining the Crystal Gems as a catalyst for revenge. (She slowly comes around to them and further advances Stevens fighting style)

Speaking of his fighting style!

Stevens powers are more on the offense gem-ish side than the shows defensive humane side.

So this Steven is lavaproof and poofable! (with enough force/damage that is)

As you may have noticed in the references, Steven’s shield has more thorns around the radius, so when he throws it, it ends up acting as like, a sawblade ig.

He also has a helmet like Jaspers, I thought it’d work out since this Steven is more headstrong and “dont think, dont care,” than classic Steven. Which leads to this Steven being taught to use fighting to solve most homeworld problems, (by both Bismuth and Jasper) however a bit of our classic Steven tends to slip out in waves of empathy and doesn’t *always* resort to such methods.

This isnt really a fighting style but he figured out how to store things in his gem like the others do, (mostly Pearl) which is where he keeps his mothers sword, as in this version he never found her scabbard to keep it in / he never brought Lion to the straw-battle field.

A handful of humans are in the care of the temples base to avoid the robonoids that now wonder Earth, now being programmed to search and destroy unregistered gems AND organics, while others are either dead or have successfully made it to the shelters before the war went all out.

These humans include Barb, Lars, Sourcream, and Yellowtail.

Later to be found: Sadie and Onion, who were taking refuge in the Big Donut before Steven found them.

“The latest atmospheric readings are going bananas-“

“Something big is coming.”

“And it's gonna change ALL of this…”