User blog comment:Jason Bourne Hamato/Ask the TMNT project!/@comment-995426-20170623104958/@comment-995426-20170701233623

Experimental conversational texts is actually how most of my fanfiction attempts started. :) A what-if story I once wrote about Leatherhead visiting the lair morphed into a story about Raph and Slash as a couple, which then morphed further into a story about Jason's (Mondo Gecko's) life in an underground community ruled by Xever, which further morphed into a story involving several other characters who share that community with him. And because the show's later events eventually made my story impossible, I decided to just alternate-universe it and go nuts from then on.  (I also gradually decided to drop the TV-Y7 rating and go Mirage-style, reflected in my latest drafts.)

I've also watched shows like Space Dandy (a very grown-up comedy anime with a lot of brainy science jokes, somewhat like Futurama) where every episode is explicitly in a slightly different parallel universe from every other episode, and the very first episode drives this point home by killing off all the main characters at the end of the episode with no possibility of survival, only to announce they'd be back next episode. Watching that series was what helped me cope with the frustration of the Nick TMNT characters' inexplicable personality changes during season 3, then into season 4&mdash;they couldn't work realistically unless they were from slightly parallel universes.

So when you posted this blog entry, I initially didn't have any questions for the season 5 turtles. But then I got this idea and just ran with it, and it flowed organically like my fanfiction attempts do, where each character is a simulated personality in my head who thinks and reacts to situations. Sometimes I have to go back and tweak dialogue, typoes, grammar errors, etc., but the basic process is still sound.