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Noise.

It starts as just irritation. A metaphorical crawling under your skin. Things are too noisy, too bright, there is too much happening all the time and you can't take it all in-

Then silence it, make it yours, make it you, take control and destroy what will not submit

It sounds so inviting, a freedom from the noise, but its wrong, its wrong, its wrong and the noise is getting louder, mechanical and foreboding as it sees you, it knows you are there, and it wants to make you apart of it.

Anatawa hitorijanai

For a moment, there is quiet.

You breathe.

And fall through water.

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[Big bro gets to be even bigger]

[The tentacles pursue! Or try to. They have been severely hindered and are in fact turning more....teal? The further he heads down the tunnel.]

[Trust exercises are power, Catherine absolutely cut down their threat level.]

[There is now one unconscious ten year old Donnie in his arms, complete with glasses and one grey rat themed hoody.]

[ 1. teal better than the original format, Raph does not know Catherine but he would lay down his life for her. He's taking this all the way back to the morals room bank and not stopping to think about other stuff until he's in there and back to a normal bigness level.

2. immediately sits on the floor with tiny Donnie and loses his whole mind HE IS SO LITTLE LOOK AT HIS LITTLE GLASSES HE'S SO SMOL HE IS A BABY

WHY IS

HE NOT AWAKE

this is the nightmare scenario ]

You're okay. Raph's gotcha, we're gonna get you set back up, you're gonna be fine-

[ gently? taps lil Donnie's face? ]

[Teal are still Bad, but it looks s standard bad over Super Bad, home trauma addition]

[There is a groan and shift in his arms. Child is alive at least!]

[ All ground gained is ground gained. Raph will one thing at a time his way through this heart sweep.

Case in point, child is alive! Victory!! ]

There you are. You scared the heck outta me, buddy. Time to get up, c'mon. Or else, uh- [ ?? ] I'll touch all your shelf stuff and put it back in the wrong order.

[.... honestly, that is an emotional connection for selfishness]

[It's not the snap awake of Donnue's usual, but there is a weak bap against his front and a groan] Leave m' order alone Raphie...

[ big internal WEH why can't they stay this little forever!! not nearly enough self-reflection to feel weird about how parental that sounds.

He's busy with his incredible power of not coming up with a plan until he's already doing the plan. Selfishness... of course. ]

Man. Still sleepin', huh? [ FLAGRANT tone of big brother ignoring. A rare menace rising back to the surface. Siiiiigh. ] Guess Raph's gonna shuffle your DVDs around so they're lined up from what he thinks is lamest to coolest.

[The TERROR!]

Don't. Touch DVDs. The're mi'e. And optimized to...objectively best.

[Bapping his chest, waking up, an eye peeking open blearily and grumpily.]

Opinions is always personal, little man.

[ Will tiny Donnie manage to dodge this annoying-ass head nuzzle? That's the real challenge. ]

How you feelin'? Anything hurt?

[Absolutely not, grumpily pouting at him for this clear harassment.]

I feel like I will never be clean again.

I don't think I can help with that one.

[ It did not deter the nuzzle. But he doesn't drag it out either, since Donnie was very accommodating. ]

I'm supposed to help get you back to... [ ? Hold on he's got it he's just gotta unscramble. ] Protectiveness? Right? Big metal guy.

[Pouts even more when he pulls back.]

[And lightly headbutts under his chin.]

[MAYBE SELFISHNESS JUST WANTS TO LIVE HIS TSUNDERE LIFE.]

What else would a Snapper Alligator bot be?

[A pause.]

....shit, how long have I been out? [Ruining his kid look with his bad language, but he's perking up more, looking around.]

Edited 2023-02-18 04:48 (UTC)

[ Raph was not made with the capacity to survive this. IT'S TOO CUTE. UNBEARABLE. HE GOT A HEADBUTT.

Selfishness can take pride in getting a free pleased rumble about it.

Also. That's really sweet and he feels a way about it. That association. Hashtag blessed. Truly a shame to have to give him not-great news. ]

Ay. Language. But... uh. If you being out is a big part of what set this whole situation off, it's been a few days.

[ Give or take. ]

A few days? Sacrifice was-

[He looks around and he tugs at his mask tails and points to a tablet. MAYBE HE WANTS TO GET CARRIED BY RAPH, MAYBE HE WANTS TO HOARD THE AFFECTION, you don't know him-]

I need that tablet.

[ Very in line with the spirit of Donatello. Kinda soothing in these trying times.

Raph is of course going to cherish it in his heart forever. This is just a little guy. Raph wants to carry the little guy. ]

Hm?

[ We are retrieving that tablet as a Team Unit now. ]

[He is reaching down to grab the tablet and just going to curl up right here because Raph is always good mobile furniture, this is FACT-]

[He's turning on the screen and scrolling through things and-]

Oh thank Pizza Supreme in the Sky. [He slumps back in Raph's arm. A cat almost falling out of owner's arms move without actually trying to leave. A turtle noodle (not traumatizing)] Cat purged the Technodrone from the system. She appears to be attempting to get rid of the Snake Corruption now. If she can do that and we can purge the mess in Relatons, things will get back to normal and-

Oh, the Core is connected.

Edited 2023-02-18 05:25 (UTC)

[ Raph also loses some considerable tension for that news. Trust good after all. Valuable lesson.

There's no Technodrone running wild in his little brother's head. ]

Relations is next up once you're safe.

[ Squinting down at tablet to feel involved. ]

What's the Core about?

[Positive reinforcement for trust always good.]

That's like...the source code of everything? [Waves a hand in the air. Well, more like flop a sleeve in the air.] All things start from there. It's the hardest to change and the strongest thing around. When the Corruption happened, he went into lockdown. Which was why magic wasn't working so well for everyone.

Oh. That sounds crazy important, so I'm glad he's back. Gonna have to thank Catherine for the heavy lift.

[ He can find her on the phones after all this is handled. It'll be fine. ]

Hmm, it looks like Shirou got through the lock a bit, but Catherine got the door open.

Catherine is always a surprise. I'm not even sure how she so thoroughly removed the Technodrone. I'll have to ask.

[He tosses the tablet to the bed.]

[Then shifts and hugs Raph around the neck.]

Sorry for going off the deep end.

If I knew we had a whole op team in here I would've given 'em a pep talk!

[ They didn't need one, though. They're putting in work. Which is good because Donnie's worth working for.

Case in point: hug. Raph is more than happy to turn this into a reciprocated hug. The fact he can't take pictures... maddening. ]

I forgive you in here as much as I'm gonna forgive you out there. So y'know. All the way. [ Wild day it would be if he, of all turtles, held getting brain-whammied and hurting people in ways they'd normally never do against someone. ] But you still owe me a real roughhouse.

I mean, there were phones to gather, but no one picked them up. [SHRUGS.]

[He is getting an outright cuddle from this tiny brother because he does like affection AND he's free of sensory issues that usually make it a sometimes treat.]

...you do know I'm going to use it against you if you feel bad about your own experiences. [He is Selfishness and he is Merciless.] And I can do a real roughhouse. Most likely free of any sedatives. [One Can Never Be Sure with Donnie vs Raph.]

[ Raph gets to selfishly hoard all the cuddles from Selfishness for a minute. He loves that for himself. ]

Nope. Don't know what you're talkin' about. [ Couldn't be him. The surprise pikachu moment of potentially having it used against him is a future Raph problem. ] If you're gonna bring drugs, just say no to the tussle! It defeats the whole point!

You're not a good liar either, Raphie.

[He chuckles.] I suppose I could also do that. I'll take it under consideration.

Do you have questions? Its a lot easier to communicate things like this. The broken filters aren't so relevant.

[ Snort. ] Yeah, I know.

[ Dang Leo and Mikey taking all the deceptiveness...

Raph makes a Thinking Sound and shrugs a little. ]

Is there anything you wanna communicate?

I always want to communicate. This is an invitation, Raph.

You know I'd be nosy. Its only fair.

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