LUCA x ALBERTO 3AM THOUGHTS PART 2
[Part 1] [Part 2]
If you watch carefully throughout the film, you can see how much of a simp Alberto is for Luca. Strangely enough, a subtle instance of his furious simping happens at the beginning of the movie when they first meet.
…Actually, it happens BEFORE THEY EVEN MEET.
Let me explain. (…but read Part 1 first!)
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I present to you, The Diver Suit, which I argue is part of Alberto’s theatrical master plan to win Luca’s heart, or at least get Luca to follow him to the island.
We continue… BOOM, the grand entrance in a diver suit. Not even FIVE SECONDS after Luca inspects the phonograph. This seems suspiciously calculated for a few reasons.
First, thats some crazy timing… almost as if Alberto was waiting for Luca to approach and surprise him from the back, essentially directing him to swim even closer to the island, rather than to swim back to his goatfish herd.
Second, Alberto is a fishboy so he can swim! He doesn’t need to use the suit to dive down and grab his things. He even takes off the suit once he’s done surprising Luca.
Third, the only useful thing from the diver getup is the helmet that is used like a bucket to carry Alberto’s human treasures up to his island. So why not just take the helmet without the suit? Because my boy loves the ✨d r a m a✨
Fourth, if you think the purpose of his suit was because he just wanted to scare Luca (or other sea monsters) away from his loot, why did he give Luca his harpoon? Heck, why did he even bother chasing and cornering Luca, then getting all up in his face? He wants the attention!
“Here, hold this.”
Fifth, why did he steal Luca’s shepherd’s crook right after? It’s not even an interesting or odd “human” artifact! It’s like a little schoolboy intentionally taking his crush’s stuff so they’re forced to interact.
Lastly, why did he have to hook Luca onto the island? I say it’s because he saw a cute boy and told himself, “Yes, you are mine now. I will make you love me.”
Alberto calmly returns Luca’s crook with a little smirky pout on his face, but Luca didn’t actually ask for it back.
I argue that Alberto returns it without a fuss because he knows he finally got his foot in the door. His beloved finally acknowledges his existence.
Mission accomplished.
Alberto totally wanted to act cool in front of his crush and lure him into his island. Pop his “doing the change” cherry so Luca wouldn’t forget him and keep coming back for more. Alberto is a sly one. He knew exactly what he was doing.
Thanks for reading my obsessive ramblings.
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This was my personal headcanon that was apparently confirmed to be canon— that is, the part where Alberto set up the items and wanted Luca to follow him was confirmed to be canon. Unfortunately, I can’t find the original post from the director.
The simping is speculation, but you can bet your tail I am writing fanfic about this. Stay tuned 😙
[I think I’ve only seen one comic that sort of references this idea, so if you guys have seen or heard any more, I would love to bless my eyes with that content.]
Theories aside, even if it was chance that Alberto happened to show up at the right place at the right time wearing a diver suit with the objects having fallen perfectly into alignment... I have even more tangible and clear examples of his simp behavior.
I’ll write more about this (with examples!) once I get some much-needed sleep.
Luca’s first day at school 😿
the little vampire is luca for goths
luca's parents, grandma and massimo watching alberto and him being fruity in the train station :
Mikey, on the phone with Splinter: Heeeey, dad, are you coming home soon?
Splinter: Uhm… I still have some errands to run. Why?
Mikey: Oh. No reason.
Leo, taking the phone from Mikey: Hi pops, everything’s fine. There’s no fire.
Splinter: Wait, is something on fire?
Leo: No I said there ISN'T a fire
Splinter: Let me talk to Red.
Leo: He’s a little busy.
Raph, in the background: No! don’t fan it, it makes it worse!
Splinter: Oh my god. What did you do to my kitchen?
Leo: Nothing! You go on with your errands. Take your time, maybe take some reference photos!
Splinter: Put Red on the phone!
Leo: Fine!
Raph, out of breath: Hey.
Splinter: What’s going on?!
Raph: Nothing. Everything is fine here. We’re watching TV and the oven sure isn’t on fire.
Splinter: I'm sorry WHAT
Raph: *Donnie's alarms in the background* Wow, that sure isn’t one of Donnie's alarms saying that there's a fire in the lair.
Donnie, in the background: HANG UP!
it’s done
Love onward...mheheh
Barley + picking up / helping Ian
3 y/o Mikey: papa’s tea hot?
Master Splinter: yes, very hot, don’t touch it.
Mikey: me blow the tea for papa???
Master Spliter: thank you baby :) yes you may blow the tea :)
Mikey: *attempt to blow the tea *
Mikey: *half munched chicken nugget falls straight into it*
I know it's completely unrealistic but it's so funny to think about the boys having part time jobs like, if you think April can't hold down a job just wait until Leo tries to work lmao
They make fun of April for not being able to keep a job for more than a week so she makes them put on their ‘disguises’ to try it out. Only three days later they all come back with retail horror stories, they feel like they’ve aged 5 years, they’re all wearing padded shoes, the whole shebang lmaoo
Been revisiting my fave middle skewl show.
The New York of TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (1990), and its sequel.
Movies from the 80s and 90s were so well-lit. Street scenes especially—you can even see it in those Unsolved Mysteries images I posted earlier. Spotlights would be placed strategically in the background to light up parts of trees and houses, adding a sense of depth to a locale that’s often missing from modern movies, where the foreground and background elements are HD 4K sharp (except for the smudgy, artificially blurred parts). “Ok boomer”, yeah I know, “fone bad” and stuff—but I’m right.
Interior scenes in modern shows look like they’re filmed on the Sun or something. The windows are ablaze with white light, inside it’s dark and dusty. The characters are silhouettes. Everything looks tweaked, altered, manipulated. Unnatural—in an ugly way.
Just a little something I made today. TMNT 2012 as vines lolol
out of the shadows in a nutshell
I have been practicing a little with the respective and the use of models in my drawings lol
The Mandalorian Chapter 8: Redemption
me, at 4:00 am, being utterly shocked and flabbergasted seeing Mando without his helmet for the first time despite having known what Pedro Pascal looks like for years:
Basically the mandalorian plot
The Mandalorian, 2019.
they just went for a snack :p
The entire "The Greatest Showman" where everything is the same, but P. T. Barnum is replaced with Jim Carrey as the Grinch in a Santa Costume.
Finally finished some doodles of the boiz interacting with donnie… coloring takes too long for me -.-’
I love these moments when Donatello is trying to be a grumpy emotionally unavailable boi, yet he can’t help but smile because he loves his brothers so much.
87/03, 12 and 18 Splinters' backstories in that order. No I will not elaborate
I was walking in the forest during winter, and saw a wendigo sitting under a tree. I asked it if it was going to kill me. It said, “No, this is just a dream.” So I sat next to it in the snow for a bit and then he said, “The anger in your heart warms you now, but will leave you cold in your grave.” And then I woke up.
learning that splinter used to be an attractive young action star who dated multiple women, went racing and enjoyed his youthful celebrity life
finding out splinter later found love with some random woman he had never met before, developing a strong and sensual relationship, and later planning to propose to her only for her to betray him and trap him in a death arena forcing him to fight for years. and then said death arena getting to be so taxing and exhausting for Splinter that he swore off fighting and later grew to understand the value of protecting those who are innocent only to once again see his body and DNA used to create violent experiments that will most likely endure the same pain and hardships he did, so he breaks out and saves them only to be mutated at the last minute thanks to an explosion he had no control over. and how the series makes it explicitly obvious that he still misses his human days of being loved and adored to the point where even the battle nexus can sometimes be a pleasant memory for him and he still misses the woman who trapped him in the battle nexus for years and refused to let him leave and enjoy life once more. and yet despite all of this he’s still loving and supportive of his family and feels no ill towards his children, often trying to do what he can to make him happy and making self sacrificial choices for their happiness and safety because he loves them that much and rottmnt splinter is just so good guys
Would you look at that