Biblically Accurate Turtles - Tumblr Posts

i got the mutant away from the turtle

idk i just like drawing reptiles i guess, maybe i'll post some more later

Wow finally

He's silly, He's great 👍 He's gonna rip off your head

I don't got much to say this time, other then struggling with the lighting a little but that's okay

Blue brother complete! Purple one to go >:]

Here's the ones with Mikey, Raph, Donnie.

Sorry this took so long, I was-

Did I mention they can go on all fours

It takes them little effort, their ankles can twist to a 90° angle which allows to walk, run, and jump comfortably on 4×4, its faster.

Donnie is the fastest without his gear (for short distances), Leo on a close second with Mikey and Raph following

They don't do so regularly, makes them feel bad (unhuman, dysmorphic) especially raph.

Would you like some turtl in these trying times?

Designs based off your own bur more in my style :3 they probably will never see the light of day since they are mostly exploration lol. Peepaw Leo’s chin is too smol

AAAABDUEBEKSJANAJAUSJSIUAJAIAHOA THEY ARE SO COOL AND YOU MANEGED TO KEEP THE MASKS! I DONT KNOW YOU BUT I AM SO PROUD!1!11!!! RAAAAAAAHHH

How much of a “language barrier” did April & the boys have when they met? Was it similar to having really strong accents that are difficult to understand? If they were taught languages other than English, do you think some languages would be easier for people to understand from them, and some harder?

On a scale? 7/10. April hasn't really gotten out of New York much, even with its wide variety of people and cultures she wasn't exposed to many languages and accents. For her, the boys speech is equivalent to an American hearing English with a Scottish accent, so pretty bad. It took her time to understand that they are even speaking English. It seems very common with Americans, I'm not one myself the internet gave me the intel.

It was easiest conversing with Donnie, you could say his speech is the cleanest out of the four, also the reason why they bonded quicker. He was sort of the translator of her lol

The majority of the time Splinter spoke Japanese around them. I'd like to imagine most of the show when April is not around the are speaking Japanese with English being their second language learned from Splinter's shows, the internet, and the world above the sewers. By the age of 3 all of them knew Japanese, it sounded better then English and easier speak, by the age of five some catched up on their English.

Funnily enough this also forced April to start watching anime to try and learn Japanese XD

Yes, there would be languages that they'd speak better, like mainly throatal languages and languages with little to no Bilabial or Labiodental sounds.

In connection to this post

Thanks for the ask :D

Okay so with the turtles being more...turtle...would this mean they wouldn't be able to stay on dry land as much as they might be able to if they inherited the more human side. All of the turtles aside from mikey are primarily aquatic turtles that spend a good amount of their time submerged in water. irl if they go too long without being able to be fully submerged they can get unwell, and can get more prone to diseases and such, so with that said, has donnie maybe built a large pond for him, raph and leo to just be able to swim around in and bask in at random times of the day? (Maybe with a build in giant UV/heat lamp above for when they can't go and get that naturally outside?

Yes!

Donnie built many things to accommodate his family with their special needs. They did have a pond in the old lair that was made for cleaning and just for swimming so they won't have to trudge in the stinky sewer waters every time they wanted to take a swim.

In other words the pond was made more for comfort and hygiene then out of necessity for scale health maintenance. Because they can sweat.

For reference, not many animals can sweat, only a few mammals, and humans are the only ones who's whole body can sweat, in fact, this is what made humans the most successful pursuit hunters and so dangerous in their early days, its why humans lost their fur, its why humans are able to regain stamina while using it.

Of course, Draxum would know this. He would know of the strengths and weaknesses of what he was setting his future warriors against. So naturally he wrote and adjusted this ability into the genome of his future warriors.

This is how they work;

Humans have to types of sweat glands all across their body, there are sweat glands at every hair root, but our turtles don't have hair (that is another topic, Mikey wouldn't grow hair, he would grow something resembling hair).

Instead, their scales are built in a certain way, different from their un-mutated counterparts, like this.

The turtle sweat(tm) has a few purposes.

First, similar to humans it is used for cooling, for whatever the reason may be of their temperature increasing.

Second, more vital and the primary one, for keeping the scales hydrated. (Of course the brothers would rather shower then sweat, Donnie especially. When sweat drys dust and dirt are prone to stick to the scales, obviously it may cause irritation and itchiness to bother the scales and the very delicate skin below)

Fun fact, Mikey’s palms specifically tend to sweat quickly, its the reason why he has specialized gloves made by Donnie (he wouldn't use athlete's chalk so he won't leave three fingered hand prints around).

And a giant uv lamp was already shown in the show so yeah :)

Good ask!

You actually need to climb to get decent connection in desolate areas >:/

Actually just realized this would make an amazing wallpaper

This also was a random surge of inspiration which i don't know what to feel about because I should be doing homework right now 🙃

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