so back in early 2024, I though "Hey, what if Splinter took in Chief" since Chief was a kid when he was kidnapped by Draxum and mutated, and it was about a year or so after his mutation that the turtles and Splinter were captured and mutated, and after a lil plotting with a friend of mine, Chief got renamed to Giovanni for this AU and he also never became an assassin like all other verses did, since he was raised with everyone else. The Big Bro AU also evolves into Future Big Bro, which I'm still working on a bit tbh. Gio's Leo, nicknamed Sakaki, will be posted..... eventually lmao, he was designed late 2024 and I'm still queueing up stuff from early 2024- which this is from