So I’ve been talking with my therapist a lot. And because TMNT is my special interest, its coming up a lot in therapy.
I am also going through a lot of family issues too. Along with other shit as well.
But I was talking with them and I had a realization. The reason I’m so heavily attached to them (and maybe others too), is because it is a safe space for exploring the idea of family/healing from family trauma.
The turtles allow for you to explore the idea of what family can look like, with each iteration a different representation of a family dynamic. They explore different forms of trauma a family may go through–death of a parent or grandparent, child neglect/absent parent, and childhood trauma just to name a few.
This show allows for us to see ourselves and our struggles. It gives us a safe space to explore this in a healthy manner. So we can, sorry for the psychology buzzword, “heal our inner child” from what we faced.
My attempt at explaining why EMS works and why swapping eyes won’t help
Ok it always bothered me bc like there’s no way it’d cure myopia just by swapping eyes so I decided to try to understand it. And yeah i reject swapping eyes bc that wasn’t the point of EMS in canon, it was meant to be a sacrifice and a tragedy.
As we know, Mangekyo Sharingan (MS) has 2 problems: bad eyesight when not using sharingan and painful eye bleeding.
I hc that MS bleeds so much, bc in order to activate it, the user pushes much more chakra into their eyes and it creates very high blood pressure there. Pushing so much chakra into his eyes also worsens the cornea which affects the vision. They basically speedrun myopia.
So how EMS fix it?
For EMS to work they take not the whole eye, but only donor’s eye’s cornea, iris and anterior chamber, where by my hcs are chakra channels for the sharingan. Uchiha’s eyes are stuffed with chakra channels. Same with Hyuuga, its went down from Otsutsuki’s eyes.
So they take this (marked with yellow) part and basically slap onto the old eye, basically fusing these two areas. It somehow works, cuz in no way that would work for any normal human. But they’re shinobi and Uchiha, who are direct descendants of an alien princess, that’s already not really normal human.
Ok so, how then this procedure really works? Basically, with fused cornea it solves the problems
Fixes myopia. Like check out how lasik works, its pretty similar.
Eye bleeding. New cornea gives the old eye more chakra channels and it helps to redistribute the strain of the chakra pressure enough for the eye not to strain so much so no bleeding.
Adds new powers because of some chakra that was left in the anterior chamber + new cool MS pattern bc it’s basically iris on iris situation.
Oh and btw, i think its pretty obvious why it should be siblings, mostly bc it’s way less of a chance for transplant to get rejected.
LGBT people, I need you to know that any “pedophile execution bill” passed in the US is meant to put you, personally, to death. When the right says “groomer,” they’re talking about you. When they say “predator,” they’re talking about you. When they say “pedophile,” they’re talking about you. Any actual child sex abusers who are convicted and executed would be, to them, a happy accident, a cherry on top of a law that’s meant to exterminate anyone who deviates from the cisgender, heterosexual norm.
Donald Trump raped a 13 year old girl. The GOP never cared about stopping actual predators.
To conservatives, anyone who is not cishet is assumed to be a child molester by default. This has been the stereotype since before I was even born.
wow! your understanding of this character is so… Unique! just wondering by the way but when was the last time you directly interacted with the source media
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