Puppet Tightly Strung+
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Puppet Tightly Strung by clairakitty
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2012)
31 Dec 2023
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“In fact, I bet you like doing what he tells you to do.” Their weapons clashed and Leo leaned forward, beak-to-beak with his brother. “You probably love it.”
Raph’s breaths came harsh and ragged, the snarl on his face making him look more like the impulsive, emotional brother Leo knew. For the first time since the turtles broke into Shredder’s lair and laid eyes on him, he looked like Raph again. Leo could feel the way his brother’s arms quivered through his grip on his katanas, and he fought to hide the optimism-relief on his face behind a cocky raise of an eye ridge.
Then Donnie cried out behind him, followed by a crash, and it all fell apart again.
AKA I thought the "mind-controlled Raph" concept in Clash of the Mutanimals was CRIMINALLY underutilized and should've lasted at LEAST a few episodes.
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- Part 1 of Puppet Tightly Strung+
- Part 1 of PTS - Main Canon
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Aegis by clairakitty
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2012), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types
02 Oct 2023
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Raphael is the protector. When his brothers are in danger, he would rather take the blow than the alternative.
Leo doesn't like it.
Whumptober 2023! Prompt:
Day 2: “I’ll call out your name, but you won’t call back.” / “They don’t care about you”
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- Part 1 of Whumptober 2023
- Part 2 of Puppet Tightly Strung+
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The boys grow. They become little people, with their own thoughts and personalities and habits.
Yoshi is surrounded by ghosts.
A character study of Splinter, and him seeing Saki in the turtles as they grow. Inspired by a moment in my other fic, Puppet Tightly Strung, but in no way dependent on having read that one. I'm just really feral over Splinter and the Shredder, okay? They were BROTHERS
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- Part 3 of Puppet Tightly Strung+
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A short "what if" scenario from Puppet Tightly Strung: what if Annihilation: Earth! still happened, but Raph was still under Shredder's control? Not necessary to read PTS, important info is just that Clash of the Mutanimals did not wrap up as quickly as it did in canon.
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- Part 4 of Puppet Tightly Strung+
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Years ago, Oroku Saki, as Shredder was called then, had been my friend.
Just a short little one-shot about Splinter's relationship with the Shredder, and more specifically what he told his sons about it. Takes place over season 1. What can I say? I think they're very tragic.
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- Part 5 of Puppet Tightly Strung+
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Noose Loosely Wound by clairakitty
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2012), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types
05 Jan 2025
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Her experience must be different from his. Shredder was a fucked-up, evil bastard, but he had at least fooled himself into thinking he loved her. He’s probably over there playing house, pretending everything is normal, and that’s an experience so different from Raph’s that they were barely even comparable.
He wondered if that was maybe even worse, in a way. To be turned into a thing by someone who you thought cared about you, someone who raised you, rather than someone who you had known as nothing but an enemy.
Sequel to Puppet Tightly Strung!
Starts at around The Deadly Venom and continues from there. How is Raph coping with being de-brainwormed? How does he feel about Karai's situation? What happens when Karai breaks free?
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- Part 6 of Puppet Tightly Strung+
- Part 2 of PTS - Main Canon
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Oroku Karai was a daddy's girl. She loved her father, and her father loved her, back. She had never been afraid of him.
Until she was.
A short story about the first time Karai was ever scared of her dad
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- Part 7 of Puppet Tightly Strung+
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I am my father's daughter by clairakitty
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2012)
14 Jul 2024
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He was her father.
He was her uncle.
He was nothing.Snapshots throughout Karai's life, about her relationship with her father and herself.
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- Part 8 of Puppet Tightly Strung+
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“Do not lie to me, Yoshi!” Saki can feel his face twisting into something ugly, something hateful, and he can’t bring himself to care as he jabs a finger towards them like a naginata. “Did you know?!”
The moment Hamato Saki becomes Oroku Saki. AKA I've connected the dots between the sparse details Splinter gives us, and had to write that moment of confrontation.
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- Part 9 of Puppet Tightly Strung+
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AMERICA PARTY 🦅 by clairakitty, MelonPalooza
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2012)
03 Jan 2026
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Yoshi meets someone who lives in a completely different world than his own. Not many people catch his interest—it's rare for him to meet anyone outside the clan at all—but he's especially drawn to the magnetizing Tang Shen. Which is probably why it was a little too easy for him to accept the invitation to a party that is completely out of his comfort zone. There's loud music, lukewarm beer, and too many people.
Also, his brother is there.
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- Part 11 of Melon's TMNT Oneshots 🐢
- Part 10 of Puppet Tightly Strung+
- Part 2 of Splinter Appreciation Week 2024