IT WASN'T EVEN INTENTIONALLY WRITTEN TO BE READ THAT WAY he just doesn't want this fluffy adorable lil cloud to wind up as bitter about everything as he is. .. and how cloud seems to be in the future. :< stay golden tinycloud!!
donnie, trying not to look like he needs a hit of some kind of narcotics SO bad: would you uhhhhhhhhh like someone to perhaps examine that thing. scientifically
he believes at this point cloud has some weird instinctive magical knowledge of where he is and what he's scheming at any given time. HE'D KNOW. SOMEHOW. but he might try. maybe if he can't otherwise figure it out.
OKAY I NEED. to put down somewhere all the reasons parceled out why donnie did this bc I'm gonna hurt myself in my confusion instead of do some tags right:
- make sure mikey is ok (entirely for his own peace of mind and he knows it but will still frame it like they need to get back to save mikey. raph already pointed out that mikey would've saved them alrady if he could so now it's a matter of seeing whether mikey forgot or is probably dying/dead bc mikey would not leave them there if he remembered)
-see dad again (MISSES PAPA MORE THAN HE CAN ADMIT, wants daddy to tell him he's smart and good and that other worlds assigning him "bad person" markers probably don't even have decent cable shows so what do they know. misses fuzzy hugs. lowkey scared time IS passing and dad is getting older and poorer in health)
- get raph and leo back home safe. BROTHERS KEEP GETTING MAIMED AND/OR DYING. preventative measures insufficient, so solution is necessary. april is included too but her ass is way smarter and safer than any of theirs
*subheading to above: he has more resources back home to protect fam, the ones here are woefully insufficient. no credit card theft or super PACs to steal from, way harder to buy materials
-establish reliable, NON-BROTHER-KILLING interdimensional travel and then open source that shit. anybody can leave, anybody can stay. travel to a world would be limited to established denizens and then maybe guests but he was working on the guest part, no immediate plans on how to make that happen
*subheader: know thy enemy. if ppl get ripped to other shittier hub worlds (apoc, trench) they can be rescued. if ppl need help in their worlds to save them from destruction, allies are right there. *subheader 2: overconfident genius boy did not think about bad ppl in hub worlds using that same tech to hurt others bc science is supposed to be for good
-make sure found families stay together -reunite rue and hob like he promised (and figure out how to keep hob from leaving again, like he also promised) -reunite power and denji (who is clearly her lover, obv) -give ppl a chance to escape their shitty situations (power, maybe??? peter) -see dr. mckay again -see tony again
-EVENTUALLY time stuff??? bring back the dead so long as it didn't fuck shit up, or even just give them a chance to live somewhere else and see the ppl they care about if they can't go back home
across both apoc and folk donnie has made "when i figure it out you can def use my tech to go home!!!" promises to ppl and maybe egg doesn't recall all the exact details but he sure does
he can have raph's personal thoughts rundown on the mikey situation to keep in rotation w his mikey situation spiral powerpoint anytime if u think it could be helpful for donnie going forward tho bc he kinda thinks the odds are mikey's safer than any of the rest of them rn LMAO
MAD DOGS
: ok but also what if the two older (eldest????) brothers clutched each other's arms and yelled MIKEY??? IS THE BABY OKAY??!! IS MIKE ALRIGHT?!@?!? over and over until someone came over to feed them half a xanax folded into cold cuts like two anxious dogs
thirteen: donatello, drop it. drop the- drop the other Star Children, right now, thirteen: /rattles a jar with a mikey in it the humble softshelled turtle:
HOKAY
Tisiphone
i know ur goin thru it babe so no rush but here is the donnie post draft if u wanted to look at it. if you dont wanna do anything with it i am a-ok to just post his shit and let it fall how it may
can't believe leo has to feed his brothers xanax in pill cold cuts smdh raph and donnie: we're older than you leo: uh I was pulled from home first before either of you try again
mey ♡
QUESTION. did you have a particular desire for this memory thread. IE did you want it to end happily, or for rue to successfully help donnie somehow, or
bc i have an idea but it is cruel and kind of hopeless-feeling for rue, even if that doesn't carry over into real world. but if u are like NO I...I NEED A WIN i am definitely down to change it
april be like baby maybe drop the "if there's anything I truly regret" part because that just rubs the salt in about you obviously not caring about the kidnapping part
leo: ... my twin sense is tickling, I can track him down april: twin sense isn't real, that's the phone in your pocket vibrating because his tracker went off going out of range
tbf donnie would do it to himself if the fam asked; his stuff works as his tracker but he's always the one tracking so it seemed pointless to do it to himself
I'm also a little concerned that I'm playing him bc i can't play my WOL, but then again i would love to play him leaning into some miqote/hhetsarro traits bc he's sooooo buttoned up and against kind of traditional/typical things (aka a teaboo)
aerith: what if we got you something pretty cloud: i don't need anything aerith: sexy pretty. what if...u wore the dress and- cloud: i'm already outside the store
tbh april would be like "try not to insult anyone" and then tell leo that if he manages to get through the discussions semi-intact he can at least have a treat for trying lmao
leo: I'm better at apologies than you, let me at it they'll never know it's me also leo: anyway I'm a big dumb-dumb and my slight older twin brother is smarter and told me this was a bad idea also he's handsome and faster and -
*subheader 2: overconfident genius boy did not think about bad ppl in hub worlds using that same tech to hurt others bc science is supposed to be for good
-reunite rue and hob like he promised (and figure out how to keep hob from leaving again, like he also promised)
-reunite power and denji (who is clearly her lover, obv)
-give ppl a chance to escape their shitty situations (power, maybe??? peter)
-see dr. mckay again
-see tony again
- for the hell of it, the thrill of the game (science fun)
thirteen: /rattles a jar with a mikey in it
the humble softshelled turtle:
raph and donnie: we're older than you
leo: uh I was pulled from home first before either of you try again
april: twin sense isn't real, that's the phone in your pocket vibrating because his tracker went off going out of range
april: the tracker casey put in your leg you Dumb Assed Boy
zack: you're not you when you're hungry
cloud: i don't need anything
aerith: sexy pretty. what if...u wore the dress and-
cloud: i'm already outside the store
donnie: /is INSTANTLY turned into dust
if you let me, he would absolutely pull shit
also leo: anyway I'm a big dumb-dumb and my slight older twin brother is smarter and told me this was a bad idea also he's handsome and faster and -