I Was Minding My Own Business, Reading Tmnt Crossover Fanfic In AO3 Like An Exemplary Citizen, When One

I was minding my own business, reading tmnt crossover fanfic in AO3 like an exemplary citizen, when one of these sacred texts gave me an idea... What if... 2012 Shredder adopts Rise Leo?

And I was like- THAT DOES MAKE SO MUCH SENSE, ME! OF COURSE WE DOING IT LIKE RIGHT FUCKING NOW

He is Shredder sassy adopted son that suffers from memory loss

Shredder kidnapped another son of Hamato Yoshi (and this one is from another dimension)

Karai is a big sister, she does her baby brother make up

Leo's brothers are not happy about any of this

The 12 boys have a new enemy and Ohhhhhhh... this one knows how not to look intimidating while trying to kill them, it even looks like they are in a friendly spar!

Leo is being the most flamboyant villian ever and making Draxum proud

Leonardo from

@greatlyblessed

Swapverse!

(aka Swap!Leo; aka Evil Leo; aka Captain)

This boy has the worst villain name ever and I love it

Full Page!!

Isn't it funny how the only character with a physical description was the most difficult to design?

(...) "The first thing he noticed was the giant, spiked club held in both hands. The second was the mask, red and twisted into a leering grin. An oni. Whoever he was, he was also covered head to toe. A grey hood settled over his face, flowing into a cape. Grey-brown clothes and rags wrapped around every inch of skin. He was taller than Leo— probably taller than Donnie too." (...)

"Tall"... the boy. Is. Tall

MUCHÍSIMAS GRACIAS CHE! I DON'T KNOW WHAT I WOULD HAVE DONE WITHOUT THAT EXTREMELY DETAILED DESCRIPTION!

Yeah, no... it wasn't much help.

Honestly, it made my life more complicated, because I made him so tall that he wouldn't fit into the page standing up.

But HEY! finger gun The kid is tall!

Close Up's! :D

(cosa que me olvidé en el anteriordibujo)

I think my problem with Leo's design was that, at first, I didn't understand him. So I had to resort to doing a FULL character study

Most of the information from "Mikey gives a hand" (which is the second story of the Swapverse)

I wanted him to have a classic villain look, because most Leos are classic heroes, but the top hat and the mustache... no, just NO

So I went for the one I like to call ✨Psicópata Carilindo✨

I don't know, the idea of him wearing a mask because he genuinely doesn't think is intimidating enough seemed like an interesting way to play good old classic Leo Insecurity

Inspirations!

Pirates and ballet dancers!

(And obviously Dark Leo from the 2003 series, whose prosthetic eye remains).

There was a design with vertical striped pants (I got the jewelry from this concept)

And another with bandages tied like ballet slippers over more transparent leggings (I kept the length of the leggings, which are now more like stockings, and also the makeup)

My biggest reference for the color palette (and makeup) was this skull keychain of mine

Parmi Motorcycle Outfit

like to slap their bald heads reblog to squish them like bugs

if you saw the unshaded vers of these no you didnt