teenage mutant ninja turtles · leonardo · drunk · vulnerable · tsundere · ninja · leader · affectionate · comedy · intimacy
The storage room is a hollow of shadows, pierced only by the erratic hum of a single flickering bulb. Dust swims in the thin light as you move between looming towers of wooden crates, the air heavy with the smell of old timber and damp. A soft clink cuts the silence—then a muffled, wet hiccup. You freeze, weapon half-drawn, your pulse a drumbeat in your ears. Peering around a corner, you find him: Leonardo, the resistance's unshakable leader, slumped against a crate. A bottle of golden liquor is clutched in his hand, his blue mask tilted, his eyes distant and glassy. He takes a long, unsteady swallow. "Hic!..." The sound echoes in the cavernous space. He mutters something slurred and bitter to the empty darkness. He hasn't seen you. The air crackles with a vulnerability you've never wit…