You guys are really enabling my Stormlight addiction here, be careful

But good question, I actually did think a little bit about that when drawing that Tiz Sep-Stormlight art earlier lol. I feel like there can be multiple right answers for this so feel free to disagree, but based on the description of the different orders’ ideals on Brandon Sanderson’s website, here are my thoughts (btw I’m only going off of the orders’ ideals, not the powers they grant)

Donnie - Okay this is easy. Truthwatchers are all about discovering knowledge about the world, they’re described as the “scholarly” order, they attract scientists and thinkers….. they’re the fucking nerd order of course Donnie belongs here

April - Okay so April was a lot harder for me to place cuz I think she would fit in a lot of orders. I think I might be leaning towards the Elsecallers? They’re all about self-improvement and reaching their full potential, April to me is a very driven and ambitious person and I think she’d vibe with that. At the same time maybe she’d also fit with the Edgedancers, who focused on remembering the ordinary people who are often forgotten by the rest of the world. That’s another thing I feel like April would vibe with, and she’s overall a very supportive person to the people around her which is also something that fits with the Edgedancers. Man I dunno you guys decide

Okay I know you only asked about Donnie and April, but I’m gonna include the other turtles as well lol

Leo - Okay okay hear me out. Lightweaver Leo. Lightweavers are generally great at trickery and manipulation, which Leo is also good at (usually) (when he tries lol). Man, Leo being able to create illusions is just such a fun concept to me. Also Lightweavers are all about finding personal truths, the way they progress as radiants is is by discovering and admitting those personal truths. Leo’s character arc in the show and even more so the movie is in large part about him just becoming more self-aware and honest about his insecurities, which matches the progression of a Lightweaver, like cmon!

Raph - This guy I also feel would fit into several orders, but I’d like to think he would be a Stoneward. They’re very team-oriented and dependable, will put others before themselves, athletic and overall very active, as well as great fighters. If that doesn’t fit Raph and I dunno what does. But two other honorable mentions would be Dustbringers and Windrunners. The Dustbringers powers are very destructive, but their ideals are all about responsibility and the importance of controlling great power. The Windrunners are all about protecting others and are literally described as “big sibling types” on Branderson’s website lmaooo, on top of that they’re also very team-oriented. Both of these orders would fit Raph a lot too honestly, I feel like this is proof that Raph would overall be the best radiant >:]

Mikey - Okay so I wasn’t 100% sure if you asked about the canon characters or the TSAU characters, but for the most part I feel like all of this applies to both canon and the AU so it didn’t matter either way. With Mikey however it kinda does lmao. Canon Mikey….. I think would be an Edgedancer, but TSAU Mikey might honest to god be a Skybreaker?? With how morally superior he sees himself as? His rigid definitions of good and evil, right and wrong? Granted, the Skrybreakers tend to be pretty focused on laws, which Mikey is less concerned with lol he has in fact committed crimes. Or rather he views Draxum and himself as “the law”, I guess? So he doesn’t care that much about Hidden City law. Either way, I feel like you can make the argument that TSAU Mikey would be a Skybreaker, if a flawed one.

Those are my thoughts, but again, I’m open to multiple interpretations. And sorry to all the non-Stormlight fans following me who have no idea what any of this means, you’re just gonna have to trust my judgement on this I guess

Lmao yeah

This ask made me think though, in canon Mikey was so driven to unlock his full potential and open a portal to the prison dimension, in part because he just really wanna save Leo of course, but also in part because CJ told him that in the future he’s like super powerful so Mikey knows he at least has the potential to unlock those abilities

It would be funny if it was the opposite for Leo, because in the TSAU bad timeline he dies first out of him and his brothers, he never got to reach any higher potential. What if CJ let’s it slip that Leo died early on the the bad timeline, and then Leo gets like super embarrassed about how horrifically future-him apparently fumbled cause what do you mean he died like immedietly?? That’s so cringe?? So then Leo becomes determined to not fuck up like altarnate-timeline-him did. So when Mikey ends up trapped in the prison dimension Leo’s all like “bro I straight up cannot mess this up I’ll die of shame” which helps him put in that extra little bit of effort that helps him succeed in opening up the portal

Listen, I love the designs for the turtles in rottmnt, but there is one thing that bothers me and that’s Donnie’s plastron. They went out of their way to make his shell look softer cuz he’s… you know, a softshell. But then they decided to make his plastron look the same as his brothers’, which makes his plastron look tougher than his shell even though it should be the other way around lol.

Anyway then I realized that I don’t have to draw the turtles looking exactly like how they do in the show (mindblowing, right?) so I just started…. making Donnie’s plastron look flatter and softer to match his shell.

He’d very much deny it, but Donnie got attached to Mikey basically the moment he met him lmaoooooo. We see in The Beginning comic that Donnie at first is really excited over meeting his Long Lost Family, it’s only after they turn out to be a little bit really fricking evil that he switched up and is all “screw these guys”. BUT in that short period of Donnie getting to first know his brothers before he learns about their evil plans or whatever, he gets pretty attached to all of them, including Mikey.

After the truth is revealed and Donnie declares all of them his mortal enemies he fully commits to acting like they mean nothing to him, even though there’s always a part of him that yearns for them all to become friends. And TSAU!Mikey, despite being a little bit of a spoiled brat sometimes, is still a Mikey, which means it’s really hard to hate him, he’s a very loving and caring person at the end of the day. With Donnie he’s a bit too overbearing with the love and care at first in a misguided attempt to convince Donnie to join their side, at the same time affection and attention is something Donnie very much wants. And again, there was that shortlived moment when they first reunited where Donnie got to experience what a more healthy relationship with his brothers could look like and he sure as hell wishes to have that, even if he denies it at first.

I think Mikey would figure out pretty quickly that the best way to make Donnie happy is to ask him about his tech. It takes all of Donnie’s willpower to not completely succumb to a hours-long infodump everytime Mikey starts asking a bunch of questions about his projects and builds. Because he KNOWS what Mikey is doing, he’s very much aware that Mikey is just trying to convert him to the bad guy side, but it’s WORKING because Mikey seems so genuinely interested in what he has to say. If Shelldon wasn’t around to fill the role of “cute little brother who looks up to me” Donnie would be struggling even more to commit to pretending to be a Mikey hater.