but the grave’s gonna have to fight for me

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also the full poses for these fuckasses bc i was struggling too much for half of it to be cut out

its TIMEEEEE!!!!!!

scene 2/3 for the next chapter :]

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edit: fixed some typos in the text

new graves chapter dropping sooooon ! once i finish all the drawings for this one,,, <3

and WOAH?? IS THAT A REDRAW⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️🚨🚨

KIND OF !!!!

anyways check out my fic over here if ur new <3

this took me an unholy amount of time to finish

born to infodump about aroace rottmnt leo and his rejection of romance while also suffering allonormativity forced to listen to a conventionally romantic song and interpret it as aroace

prompted by no one at all /j HERE WE GO DISSERTATION ON ROTTMNT LEO’S AROASEXUALITY plus how it fits into graves leosagi bc theyre not romantic

alright so Already previously seen we know he gags and finds romance and pda and the idea of people dating to be gross and Sure maybe thats just a teenager thing (although his brothers never reacted the same way really) But heres my detailed description of his aroaceness that will barely be brought up in any art or writing ill make (maybe. it might be brought up in my fic but itll be a while)

- he rejects romance from a young age , his repulsion being brushed off as just being a little kid thing; he hates romantic plot lines in lou jitsu films, he is disgusted when they kiss on screen, he finds randomly interjected romances in the jupiter jim comics Insanely boring and very forced and unappealing

- growing up thru the series , romance has never been a focus for any of them at all bc like who cares But even when it wasnt a big deal he . still had that disgust . perhaps its just cause he wanted to be a stinky little rebellious teen ? perhaps he just found it funny to annoy ppl by fake gagging at romance movies ? his brothers also thought they were pretty stupid and cliche, he never rly needed anyone but his family anyways, he couldnt imagine somehow finding someone that was more important than any of them

(although when he’d discuss fictional crushes with donnie , he’d just pull up his favorite characters honestly. he didnt realise donnie was actually Attracted to atomic lass or cheery tomato or whatever, he rly did just choose the fake guys that made him happy to think about, isnt that just what all love was? they were fictional, so it doesnt reallt matter)

(its not like romance was ever important before but splinter keeps making jokes about all of them gettinf married sometime in the future and it fills leo with dread at the idea of it being inevitable)

- ALLONORMATIVITY !!! he and his brothers grew up mainly consuming media to know about society outside !!!! and almost Every media has romance somewhere in it. it’s exaggerated and conventional and flowery and unrealistically explosive . he knows hes aroace somewhat, he wasnt so sheltered from the outside world that he didnt figure out himself, but those Doubts wriggle in , all the “maybe you havent found the right one”s got to him sometimes

- he cant imagine being away from his family for any reason. romance cant be that good. (psst! all tmnt families grow up codependent on each other due to knowing nothing else aside from their family and fear of beinf discovered !)

- but as irrational as it is, hes afraid of his family and friends outside of it (not that he rly has any,,,) being split away from him bc romance takes priority. it always does in movies at least.

- heres where my fic comes in , him and usagi are an unlabelled relationship but a qpr if a label Had to be given (they dont label themselves) and leo is openly physically affectionate with usagi (but he is affectionate with everyone in the same way) and Doubt crawls in

- fear that usagi sees his affection as romantic bc romance repulses both of them , fear that his usual affection isnt Big enough to show his Big Feelings bc he knows it isnt romance but like? surely just platonic feelings cant be this strong? surely he has to show it more? does he have to kiss him on the lips to show it? go on grand dates and outtings? does usagi expect that? (they both think kissing on the lips is gross, leo still has trouble unlearninf that platonic love is not inherently lesser than romantic, most of their hangouts are mundane and domestic errand running, usagi expects nothing more bc hes content with what they have)

- basically leo has only ever grown up with romance being shown as the end all feelinf above everything else when He Personally prioritizes his family so much more . so when he gets a feeling thats Just as big as how he feels about his family, but its obviously not a familial feeling, he just. Doesnt know if what he does is enough to show how important usagi is to him. he tries to follow what they do in movies but it feels unnatural and gross and uncomfortable and he doesnt Like it !

smth smth queer platonic love here have a writing snippet that can say it better idk

gestures loudly at him hes aroace he has big feelings and hes so freely affectionate with everyone he knows and everyone he loves is so important to him but its not that big of a deal really bc of course he loves his family more than anything of course he loves his best friend he loves a lot of things love isnt restricted to romance

Long time no Yuichi bullying Leo 🥺