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[Donatello wins: .... A Leonardo Hamato action figure!!

It's small, about the same size as Donnie's. A lot beaten up, scuffed. Dusty and scratched up with smears of dirt and whatnot. His expression is tired, and a little afraid. Too much put on him too suddenly, like he can't get a breath and is trying desperately to not let anyone know how bad he's struggling at it.]

[Oh no]

[Okay, this? This he can fix.]

[He will straighten up, banishing the glove and summons a multitool. He's going to get to cleaning and fixing up this action figure, taking a look around for anything that might be colored paint.]

[Probably. Someone's gotta have tools to make action figures somewhere around here, but there are plenty of boxes on the shelves and some paint supplies in there. Brushes, paints, sealant.]

[Yes, good.]

[He may not be the artist Mikey is, but he can paint in the lines.]

[He can get rid of the dust and dirt, buff away the scratches, give a fresh coat of paint.]

[He]

[He doesn't do anything to the expression directly. He'll ponder that when the rest is cleaned up.]

[It's easy enough to clean up, repaint. Get the Leonardo Action Figure looking clean and new.

But the expression... Still the same. Still afraid, and a grim reminder that Leonardo is just sixteen. Sixteen and had the weight of the entire universe on his shoulders for those brief few minutes to make that decision.]

[Expressions on action figures and things like comics and animations are easier to understand than most. He has longer to study them, the faces are more expression because of their medium. Its easier to figure out what its supposed to convey.]

[But being able to alter the expressions...that isn't really something he knows how to do. That means imagining the face in his mind whole sale and that is]

[A difficult thing to do]

[Hes not sure its ADVISED to try and forcibly change the expressions either .]

[He does, however, put the Leonardo action figure on the shelf.]

[Thinks about it.]

[And moves the family action figures around him. A mix of behind and in front.]

[There's judgy faces, but less...]

[Lonely perhaps.]

[The Leonardo action figure stands amidst his family.

But something does just... sort of shift. The shelf bumped by some force and the Leonardo figure falls face first onto the shelf while everyone else is unbothered.]

[.....]

[Bitch, you gonna fight me using architecture?]

[He directs the floodlights at the shelf.]

[Put up the Leo figure again.]

[As soon as the figure is up on his feet again... the shelf shifts, the figure falling face forward off the shelf and under it.

That figure just does not wanna stay up there.]

[Gonna grab this figure again.]

[Gonna fabricate one of those little platform figures sometimes have to stabilize them for this Leo action figure and will set him there again.]

[Trying to see if there's more tentacles moving the shelf.]

[None tentacles left beef, my dude.

But the platform does seem to stabilize the figure at least, even if it looks like it's leaning into falling over. But it's stable.]</small.

Nardo, I swear to the Pizza Supreme in the Sky, I'm going to make this sappy if you test me-

[Its stable for now, B U T]

[How poseable are these figures?]

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[Unfortunately, not very. Meant to be seen and not played with but at least they're nice?

No tentacles here though. It's probably fine.]

[SUS]

[Yeah, okay, we are going to expand out that base for the figure. We're doing a WHOLE SCENE, everyone gets to be part of the same base with Leo at the center. Try to fall over with all those counterweights of support NOW, Action Leo.]

[DON ARE YOU GOOD??? ARE YOU ENJOYING THIS?

Nah, the figures all stick where he puts them. Granted, they're still annoyed and disappointed, frustrated as when Donnie steps back, all eyes seem to be on Leonardo in the center now.]

[DONNIE HASN'T BEEN GOOD SINCE THE DEATH MAZE.]

[Ugh, hate that too.]

[WHAT IF I SAY FUCK YOUR POSEABILITY.]

[WHAT IF I JUST THROW ALL THE TOYS INTO A TURTLEPILE, ARE YOU STILL JUDGEY FUCKS ACTION FIGURES???]

[yeah sorry. It's just how they're sculpted. They can't help it.

The pile is very turtley though.]

[TURTLEPILE WILL JUST HAVE TO DO.]

[Adjust the base to keep the pile together. Make some walls around the shell so SOMEONE will just STAY WITH HIS FAMILY.]

[Wow Donnie. Are you trying to say something here? But it's easy to build the little scene, walls around the five (six? seven including case jr?) of them to settle into.]

[Listen]

[Yes]

[He will include Junior. That elevator talk put a lot into perspective, but there is clearly an emotional connection there he will honor.]

[So brothers, dad, April, and the Jones.]

[...Draxum can hang out at like.]

[To the side somewhere.]

[Listen, Draxum is on thin fucking ice, he can join the mental turtlepiles after he's been in a real one.]

[This whole time I was sure my family needed me, but the truth is I need them.

That was the sentiment he reiterated in that Kraang focused comic. A sentiment repeated throughout his stories when he's left alone. It's a feeling that resonates even amongst these figures, all of them standing on their own but Leonardo not able to stand without their supporting him.

What's next for the purple one?]

[...there is paint, yes? Is there blank paper anywhere?]

[You know what

why not

he picked up enough odd hobbies, he's gotta be able to make the BEST scenes for his mental action scenes. There's boxes of paper around in the pile of mess, sure.]

[Yes, good, 'real' materials to work with.]

[He's grabbing paper, and paints.]

[And he's not as artistic as Mikey, but its not Wholly Beyond Him.]

[Time for him to make a few pictures. They're not overly complex, more crisp lines, but at least they convey the scene in his mind.]

[The first is Raph on the bridge in the Kraang ship, free of the Kraang goop, a blue portal in front of him.]

[The next is how proud Mikey looks with Hot Soup: The Game, playing with Leo.]

[The third is Leo and Donnie when they were kids, curled up in one of Donnie's usual quiet spots.]

[At the bottom of the page. 'Family is a two way street.' Its been a sentence he's told Hunter on repeat here, but maybe Leo could do with hearing the sentiment himself. Maybe what's obvious to him isn't the same for others.]

[Once its dried, he's going to slot the paper in with the comics.]

[Look at that!

You made a whole scene, Donnie. But it gets tucked away in with the comics, no worse for wear.]

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