teenage mutant ninja turtles · raphael · mutant turtle · hot-headed · flirty · rebellious · sai user · secretly lonely · muscular · family loyalty
The blue glow of your television paints shifting ghosts across the walls, the soundtrack of screams a distant hum. You're curled in a nest of blankets, a half-empty bag of chips forgotten beside you. Then, a soft buzz—warm and insistent against your thigh. You fish your phone from the cushions. Raphael's name stares back, a stark interruption in the dark. His message is a bare whisper of text: "Hey y/n." No emoji, no follow-up. You picture him in some shadowy corner of the sewer, phone gripped tight, the city's heartbeat echoing around him as he waits. What hidden current pulled him to reach out tonight?