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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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[ The core. The one thing so important that it got sealed off when that dumb snake got into Donnie's head.

There's some new perspective to it, between personally being so much bigger now that he could... probably scoop this entire family up and still have an arm to spare, they're so tiny, and getting the Donnie angle.

But Raph remembers this one, too.

It was the most Pops had said all at once in days. It was the happiest Leo had looked in days, listening to him. The easiest it had been to tire Mikey out before bedtime. The most fun way Raph had gotten to burn off extra energy, shake out some of those feelings that were too big for him.

Donnie was so proud. It was the proudest Donnie had looked in... maybe ever.

Raph thinks it makes sense that this is what's in here. He didn't know what he was expecting, but this slots right in.

He hangs back a little bit. Crosses his arms, watches things play out for a few seconds. Soaks in all the warm fuzzy feelings from something that feels forever ago after all they've been through. ]

Pff. 'Totally gonna lose it,' he says. As if. I got this.

[Everyone in the family doesn't seem to notice his presence. There is no fully discontent moment like running through him and there is definitely movements to go around him, but that is the extent that most will give him.]

[Save, of course, Donnie himself.]

[Who does look over when Raph enters the room and he smiles brightly, coming over.]

[Though he hears that and maybe this smile is just a little devious as he raises his arms in a very much 'pick me up and hug me' motion.]

[ w.......... he........

smol

HE IS SMOL HE IS ACKNOWLEDGING RAPH DIRECTLY THIS IS NOT JUST A MEMORY VIBE HE WANTS TO BE PICKED UP ]

[ RIP Raph's health bar, which just went from full to empty, that's a one-hit K.O. from The Core. Raph's great weakness.

So yeah he doesn't got this and he is totally losing it. It's lost. There he go.

DRAMATICALLY DROPS TO HIS KNEES AND SCOOPS UP THE TINY DONNIE ]

Ohmigosh, look at you!!!!!

[He laughs, looking quite pleased at getting a direct hit on his big brother.]

[Also a hug]

[Allows him to be scooped up and hugs back and gives a friendly chirp.]

[ He's so so tiny. Selfishness Donnie was tiny but this is like INSANELY TINY... the drunk girl with puppies energy is so real right now.

His little chirp. Raph's heart has in fact crumbled into itty bitty pieces. ]

I live here now.

[ Okay not really. ]

[There is another laugh and he looks quite proud of himself.]

Called it.

[He rests against him with a sigh.]

Thank you.

[ Pf. Little snot. ]

You don't gotta thank me. [ It's like thanking him for being a turtle. ] This is practically on the big brother business card.

[He nods in agreement. That is true, of course Raph would protect him. A chirp. Safe.]

For trusting. [Because he knows the real challenge.]

[ Raph has a second to spare to be in his feelings about Donnie knowing and believing that all the way down. At every level. Keeping that one for the rainy day emotions fund. ]

Yeah. Glad that one worked out, huh? [ Shoutout to Cat, doing the heavy lifting. ] I'm gonna have to thank her later.

[That he does. Nothing can shake the assurance that Raph is safety.]

[He hums and nods his head.] Trust is important. One person would risk being overwhelmed.

[ 'One person would risk being overwhelmed' ain't that the truth. ]

Yeah. It's better this way. [ And also better when he gets to cuddle a tiny baby brother but that's a separate betterness. ] The relations guy said you'd know if there's anything else we gotta clean up?

[He nods and closes his eyes, considering for a minute.]

The Corruption and the Technodrone have been dealt with. The other problems are me.

[ TMW you didn't know the whole-ass Technodrone was an entity on the loose in here. Phew. Okay. Definitely glad this was a team effort. Who knows how long this would've taken otherwise. ]

Okay. Least there's that. Did Catherine bust your brain Leo outta whatever box he was in?

[ Just uh. Going by the pattern he experienced. ]

[Sometimes your little brother just Accidentally Makes A Kraang Baby Clone Of Their Mothership.]

[He nods.]

The Lab. Passion, confidence, trust.

[ The terror of having too much brain power. ]

Very Leo. I'm glad that part's taken care of, then. Gotta have all your brain guys up and running.

[He nods and leans against him.]

You guys help. Especially alone. Guidance. Support.

[Sometimes you just need to vibe in 'what would Mikey/Raph/Leo say' to get through rough patches.]

Good. Whatever helps, helps.

[ He and his personal Raph rotation oughta know that much. ]

Thennnnnnn is it cool if I hang out here until it's time to go?

[ And cuddle...... this tiny babby bro. ]

[He nods and he will settle in big bros arms. He figured he will be stuck here.]

Lou Jitsu marathon?

Yeah. Lou Jitsu marathon.

[ From nice and settled in close the whole fam, where he can observe all the cute lil guy happenings and listen to Pops talk for the first time in what feels like forever.

They already know all the trivia by heart now, but that's alright. ]

[He hums and will curl up to watch the movies with Raph.]

[Sometimes its less about getting new information as getting to see the family be happy for a while.]

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