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Still Human
10. You will forget all this.
Michelangelo is a carefree soul, one who doesn't let anything tie him down. He forgets things, sometimes, sure, but he remembers the important things.
The idea of forgetting anything significant to his life - to who he is - terrifies him.
He keeps a scrapbook hidden in his mess of a room – it's an organized mess, to him, and he can find it and slap pictures in it whenever necessary, jotting down captions and descriptions if he has a few minutes to spare. He looks back to the very beginning, and smiles at pictures of the early days, when they were young and cared little of the world above the sewers.
He's going to need a new scrapbook, soon.
The sketchbook he stores away has several quick drawings in it as well. Crude drawings from childhood mark the first few pages, but his skill visibly increases closer to the present. Currently he is sketching Karai, poised and sophisticated on a rooftop, from memory. He wants to capture her regal elegance and scary determination, because the last he saw of her after the incident with Tiger Claw and the giant worm things she looked almost…lost.
(He hopes she doesn't stay like that. She's not the nicest, but that comes with being a ninja, and at the very least she's honorable and worthy of their respect. Plus, even though they're all still new to the idea, she is technically family.)
As he finishes his sketch, he smiles as he hears Raph and Leo arguing about what to watch, with a complaint from Donnie about their noise thrown in. He closes the book and stashes it, then leaps from his bed to annoy his brothers like he's always done.
He never wants these moments to end.
(He never wants to forget.)