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Date: 2025-03-19 11:12 am (UTC)
supersmashbro: (oof ouch)
From: [personal profile] supersmashbro
[ He shoulf learn Raph's secret: optimism can be replaced with raw brute force stubbornness at will. That's a lot of what Raph relies on.

And he's gonna keep relying on it as long as Donnie needs that gap bridged. ]


North goes north, Donnie. We're gonna figure it out.

[ And probably not even die. ]

Or. Or get somewhere Leo can put a portal.

[ So somewhere he knows and somewhere with like. Signal. There's probably no signals or whatever down here? Raph doesn't get paid to know that.

But, with a reluctant breath hold, he guesses he will start working on getting back up. ]


Easy.

[ So easy. Or maybe he's talking to himself like a horse? Debatable. ]

Date: 2025-03-25 02:20 am (UTC)
supersmashbro: (whats ur read gram gram)
From: [personal profile] supersmashbro
[ Nonsense?? Wow. Rude. Right in front of the rubble that they saved Raph from using an incredible mind meld power.

But in the spirit of Donnie probably being really upset about all this, fine. Raph will play calvinball. ]


Never tried it like this. [ This far away, this out of nowhere, this roughed up. Nothing ventured, nothing gained?

He guesses. ]
Gimme a minute. If it don't work... move somewhere, try again?

[ Damn. Actually Raph really hopes it works now. The idea of a lot of walking for a while and stopping and then having to get back up and go again sounds... bad. As much as the stops could be rests, they don't sound restful. ]

Date: 2025-04-01 03:52 pm (UTC)
supersmashbro: (write it DOWN i said)
From: [personal profile] supersmashbro
[ Raph makes a sound that's mostly laugh-based. The humor is there. His timing for it is impeccable. ]

Whatever it's gotta look like. [ If it comes to it. Something tells him there's not a lot of not-moving plays left in the book if the answer is different. So he'll cut out the middleman himself. Ugh. ] Just maybe... we're gonna hope it don't gotta look fast anytime soon.

[ He'll do whatever he has to, but if it's "go fast" at any point, he reserves his right to complain about it. All the better to showcase that there's clearly nothing to worry about. That's how Leo and Mikey do it, right? If they're too quiet, it's a problem? Raph can use that metric. ]

You got eyes on a route?

[ Otherwise he might just randomly pick one. All roads will lead to home one way or another, because Raph refuses to let them not. ]

Date: 2025-04-18 11:57 am (UTC)
supersmashbro: (ok look we don't wanna fight)
From: [personal profile] supersmashbro
[ Apologies accepted. Mostly on account of it meaning Donnie's not the thing falling down the rubble pile. He's nice and secure going up. Flashlight can attest.

That's good.

And Raph gets a minute keeping an eye on him to just kinda breathe. Pull his focus back together. Really run the what-can-he-manage diagnostic and have it in mind when he does whatever he needs to do anyway.

They'll be fine. It's gonna be fine. He'll make sure it is. ]


Good spot, bud. [ You gotta be supportive. You gotta be nice to your genius bro in these stressful times. ] One floor up's better than stayin' down here by a long shot. Stinks down here.

[ Mostly emotionally. Physically, there's not much to be done about the stink. They are in a sewer.

Time to commit. Raph grunts and starts getting to his feet. ]

Date: 2025-05-05 08:26 pm (UTC)
supersmashbro: (rip raph bullied to death)
From: [personal profile] supersmashbro
[ Safe to say, Raph hates this. The slow-going. The needing Donnie's help to even manage that. The aches and pains that are gonna keep him off his game.

What if something else happens? What if Donnie needs him and he's too slow to react? There's no guarantees what happens out here, only what probably happens once they make it home. Classic turtle's lament, that.

He's starting to get the feeling that neither of them actually have any real idea what to do, which means that he needs to double down on acting like he does have one. Keep being stubborn, keep pushing. Just until he can make a safe responsibility handoff to Leo or Mikey or Pops or-- heck, maybe April, you never know when April's gonna swoop in like a boss. ]


Sure. Long as you don't tell him I agreed. [ Leo's ego and confidence must be tended to with highly specific methods. Like a finnicky plant, or some kinda exotic pet fish. ] Two minute break. Gonna try a ninpo thing.

[ See, he is so responsible. That's like resting but also working. Raph figures there's no shot he can just be like "hey fam here we are exactly come get us," but maybe there's a way to put "so things are not going good" into it? Gotta be an option, right? There's connection. ]

All else fails, maybe Raph, uh. Raph just punches out ceilings until we get sub-surface?

[ One floor at a time... Surely that will work. ]

Date: 2025-06-29 03:25 pm (UTC)
supersmashbro: (yeah wow rly interesting)
From: [personal profile] supersmashbro
[ Booooooo, ceiling punches shot down unfairly and unjustly for safety hazard reasons. Oh, wait. Those are fair and just reasons. Fine. ]

Draxum should've mutated us with sonar or somethin'. Supersoldier ninja turtles put on hold by bad floors. [ This is all Barry's fault actually. Every single thing that's ever happened ever. ] Waste of... waste of Raph's whole skill set.

[ NTS. Evolve sonar to detect bad floors and ceilings to punch immediately after this. There's probably a YouTube tutorial for that. ]

I don't think I'm gettin' our location out to anybody.

[ Enough bad vibes to get their ears perked up, maybe? He doesn't wanna say it's a sure thing. Sometimes it's hard to tell with ninpo, weirdly enough. But this sure wasn't a whole mindmeld, Raph can tell that much. ]

Date: 2025-07-09 12:40 am (UTC)
supersmashbro: (well what if we go left)
From: [personal profile] supersmashbro
[ Raph will allow it. The joke. It's worth the chuckle. Triplicate????? What is he, an accountant? Absolutely not.

He's on that shonen jump shit. ]


Uhhhhh. [ Great question. Thing about growing up in the sewers is, you get really used to tuning out that sort of background noise. If you're not talking deadly whirlpool or lazy river gone horribly, horribly wrong, it's not usually a huge issue.

Where's Donnie going with this? Who knows. Raph's gonna try to trust the process and get his listen on. ]
Yeah. From down that way, I think?

[ He helpfully nods even though Donnie might not be looking at him specifically in the moment. ]

Date: 2025-07-20 04:58 pm (UTC)
supersmashbro: (god im a shitty leader)
From: [personal profile] supersmashbro
[ Hmmm. Sounds like a lot of smart guy stuff that's way above Raph's understanding pay grade. But in a good way. Sensible way.

Temperature gauging. Go off, king, absolutely. ]


If I had to fall through the floor and get stuck down here with somebody, Donnie, I'm glad it's you. [ Big brain. Brain and brawn alliance right here. ] 'cause Raph wouldn't have thought about the water stuff if you gave him about a billion years.

[ And probably no one else would have. Well. Maybe before the billion years, one of the others would've thought about it. But Raph? Nah. He'd have gone ahead and punched his way through, and poetically also wound up getting a rib punched through a lung or something. ]

Date: 2025-07-25 04:49 pm (UTC)
supersmashbro: (bless)
From: [personal profile] supersmashbro
[ GOOD GRADE IN PRAISING BROTHER ACHIEVED. Raph will proudly accept his scritches for the gift that they are. ]

Yeah, yeah, shuttin' up for a minute, Doctor Science.

[ This counts as a free breather, anyway. Probably good to take those where they can. Getting home might be a long haul and they'll probably be annoying each other before then. ]

Date: 2025-08-02 04:13 pm (UTC)
supersmashbro: (nnnnnnah)
From: [personal profile] supersmashbro
[ The staying in range is something that can be so important, for Raph specifically. It's most reassuring just having Donnie back in range, of course, but beggars and choosers and stuff. ]

Whatever it is, we'll get there. We got a starting point and a direction and that's two more things we didn't have before. [ We are so confident. Big WE. Making it happen. ] Maybe now instead of bein' cooked, we're just toasted.

[ Love not being totally cooked. ]

Date: 2025-08-05 10:53 pm (UTC)
supersmashbro: (we're just too cool)
From: [personal profile] supersmashbro
[ Sounds fake, there's definitely an enormous distinction. Which Raph will never explain because it's one that he feels and cannot give words. ]

Yeah? [ PERKING UP. Raph smash? And it will be a helpful solution? ] Consider Raph's optimism even higher.

[ LET'S LOCK IN. Please do not ask about his ribs until he's locked back out. And he in turn will respectfully wait to ask about your health until then. ]

bc he does next question

Date: 2025-08-07 01:37 am (UTC)
supersmashbro: (baby boy. baby)
From: [personal profile] supersmashbro
[ Nooooo. The sincerity.

Raph is weak to many things at the end of the day. Maybe nothing more so than a little brother just... very very sincerely and worriedly asking something of him. It's not fair. He's honor-bound to take it seriously.

Even if he thinks the whole point of having two lungs is so he can collapse one and use the other. What's biology, sounds like nonsense to him. ]


'ey. The last thing I wanna do is make you have to drag me the rest of the way home, you got that? [ In some way or another. Raph thinks that that might actually be worse than not being able to do anything. ] But we're talkin' high-risk, high-need right now. Everything gets a shot.

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