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Published: 2015-05-30 04:50:12 +0000 UTC; Views: 4392; Favourites: 89; Downloads: 1
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Description A different take on these guys.... my story

In the year 2130, the earth has been scorched due to over population and global warming.  Billions were wiped out and the world fell into chaos.  Food and water became a high commodity and the poor went hungry.  Hunger became panic.  Panic became hostility.  Hostility became wars.  The wars all but wiped out humanity.  Nuclear weapons created wastelands across the globe.  It was in these final days when a ruthless a terrorist organization rose to power through the use of fear and intimidation.  The Foot.  Named for their ruthlessness.  To keep all under their heels through fear and intimidation.  After taking over most of the only inhabitated human cities left, the foot, lead by unknown/unseen leader only known as the Shredder.  Securing all available resources and controlling them,  the foot became the only hope for survival. 

In order to guarantee resources were regularly accessible, Shredder implemented a population control policy which prohibited any citizen of any human city to reproduce.  Human reproduction was now done in a lab, in a tube, supervised and dictated only be Shredder.  Any human found to have conceived outside of shredders law were severely punished and the child was terminated.  The infants born in Shredders facilities were sterilized at birth to prevent any future deviations.  In order to create a more efficient human, babies received a human growth hormone which accelerated their growth by 400% until they were adults.  The human cities slowly became populated with Shredders creations and less of what was truly natural.  From this, a resistance formed outside of the genetic cities, in the wastelands, with the goal of overthrowing the Foots reign and returning things to the natural order.

The resistance was lead by a man who was a former general of shredders army.  When his wife became pregnant with a child outside of shredders lab, he fled the cities knowing what would happen if Shredder was to become aware.  Stumbling across a group of turtles and a rat in the sewers, he gathered them up for what was going to make a meal for him and his pregnant wife.  He later realized they were not ordinary, they had been exposed to a raw dose of Shredders Accelerated Growth Serum and were mutating.  Mutating at an alarming rate, while gaining intelligence and human characteristics.   He raised them.  Trained them.  Trained them to protect the only naturally born human in the past 50 years. 

The resistance sustained a large blow when their headquarters was attacked by the foot and their leader was killed.  The four turtles, named after famous renaissance painters, and the rat named splinter, were left to carry on their mission of protecting the first, and possibly last, human born child, April O'Neil, and to finish what their father started; take down Shredder and his tyrannical Foot Clan.

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Comments: 16

FauxTurtle30 [2019-04-05 23:44:41 +0000 UTC]

Didn't they do something like this?

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CatByrne [2015-07-19 21:13:36 +0000 UTC]

Awesome art, and awesome story.

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RogueMudblood [2015-06-17 14:07:43 +0000 UTC]

Gorgeous work - it really looks like it could be the cover of a graphic novel. The only thing that makes me pause when looking at it is April's face. In another comment you said you intended for her to be a child, but the face looks like an adult's.

The rest of the image looks stunning, though. I love the concept for Mike's bow being formed from his nunchuks.

And the story you conceived to go with it is a very good base to work with. Nicely done - thanks so much for sharing!

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Anothen In reply to RogueMudblood [2015-06-17 22:23:48 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

Yeah I wanted her to look very mature for being a kid/teenager... Growing up very quickly and facing the cold world she was born into...Had to try to convey that in just her face

Preciate the comment and compliments!

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Lorado69 [2015-06-13 11:18:12 +0000 UTC]

Wow, love the style very much. Good line work, contrast and colouring!

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Anothen In reply to Lorado69 [2015-06-17 22:23:57 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

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PhantomParticle [2015-06-08 20:24:03 +0000 UTC]

nice

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oldmanwinters [2015-06-07 01:36:01 +0000 UTC]

Looks even better in color!

The storyline sounds like you've been reading some Orwell 1984!  Sounds like a better plot than last year's live-action movie!

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Anothen In reply to oldmanwinters [2015-06-17 22:24:33 +0000 UTC]

I would love to see a turtles movie with this kind of style/story...would be awesome...I've always loved the turtles to be a bit more dark/gritty

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DevinHWorks [2015-06-01 23:02:33 +0000 UTC]

Mad Max meets TMNT awesome concept!  Sorta like an 'elseworlds' or 'what if' take on TMNT.  One minor nitpick, April should actually be taller than the turtles, (unless she's still a child/teen in this conceptualized version?)

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Anothen In reply to DevinHWorks [2015-06-02 14:58:46 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! Yeah, I wanted her to be a kid in this version...a sort of a younger Mila Kunis from book of Eli 

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DevinHWorks In reply to Anothen [2015-06-03 02:37:32 +0000 UTC]

Oh, well that makes sense then!  Great job!

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Crystal-Violeta [2015-05-31 01:58:51 +0000 UTC]

Wow. This is amazing

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Anothen In reply to Crystal-Violeta [2015-06-01 19:06:23 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

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Estonius [2015-05-30 07:53:42 +0000 UTC]

So wicked cool!

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Anothen In reply to Estonius [2015-06-01 19:06:30 +0000 UTC]

Thank ya!

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