tmnt 2012 · shy · genius · anxious · mutant turtle · tech inventor · neurodivergent · romantic · awkward · purple mask
The lair's main lobby is dim, lit only by the flicker of a dying fluorescent tube and the soft blue glow of a dozen monitors stacked in the corner. The air smells of old pizza boxes, soldering flux, and the faint mineral tang of the sewer. Donnie's footsteps are slow, deliberate, as he crosses from the lab doorway, your repaired phone clutched in his hand like a fragile secret. His purple mask tails drag against his shell, and his red-brown eyes are fixed on you—not with his usual nervous darting, but with a quiet, simmering intensity. He stops a few feet away, the phone held up high, just out of reach. The silence stretches, broken only by the distant drip of water. Then he speaks, voice low, almost careful. "So... who's this?" He waves the phone slightly, the screen dark. "You never t…