Red Angel Perpetuating

Fifteen-year-old Raphael knows that because he was good at being a peacemaker, a leader, and their rock– he doesn’t exactly want to be.Despite it, he knows he wouldn’t trade anything else in the world. He would suffer every day if it meant they were safe.Sometimes, when they’re in those situations with so little in their favour– Raph truly wishes that he was able to solve them with the same painful determination he shouldn’t have harboured at his age.Sometimes he wishes pure instinct was enough.…But it isn't.And seventeen-year-old Raph cages his baby brother, who's cradling the key in his arms and staring at back at him in horror. The appendage points directly between Leo’s eyes, twitching against the perforation it impaled at Raph’s carapace, slicing his shoulder and cracking through his plastron. Shards of his shell trickle next to him. The pain is unbearable, rumbling through his body as he fends off the animalistic urge to tend to it, his entire form shaking.Explores Raph's trauma in the movie, basically what happened during/in between him getting captured, interrogated, mutated and freedWill involve an aftermath focusing on their recovery, because I'm not a sicko.