Raphril

Raphril is the het ship between Raphael and April O'Neil from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fandom.

Season 2
THE KRAANG CONSPIRACY

Just as April is about to have her DNA stolen by the Kraang, when Raph breaks the machine. She can't believe she's about to be saved by Raph, and probably will never live it down. Raph says that they've all been there, and starts attacking the Kraang. Several then grab him and hold him back, and he yells for them to let him go. April yells for him, but is still restrained on the table.

The Kraang push Raph to the ground, as the needle is once again lowered towards April. He struggles to break free, when April unleashed her psychic powers and knocks out all the Kraang. Raph gets up and runs over to her, getting rid of her restraints. He helps her walk and asks if she's okay. April says that her brain's on fire, but other than that she's fine. They return to the guys, where Donnie pushes Raph out of the way to give April a hug.

When they get rescued, Raph points out that they were only able to wipe out the computers was because of April. Whatever she did saved them all. April admits that she has no idea what she did.

Moments
The Kraang Conspiracy
 * Raph says that April has a long way too go before they can take her out on missions.
 * Raph mocks Donnie for helping April who is slowing them down.
 * Raph asks what April is doing in the TCRI building when she jumps from the ceiling.
 * Raph tells the others to handle the clone while he goes to rescue April.

Fanon
Raphril has a decent following in the TMNT fandom. While all the turtles have been shipped with April, Raph/April started to pick up during the 2012 series. This is due to a rumor that Raph was originally supposed to have a crush on April in the series, before it was switched to Donnie. Although there has never been a source which proves this was a possibility for the series. Those that are unaware of the rumor's still did ship them in the series though. As many saw Raph's dismissal of Donnie's crush on April as him deflecting, given his own feelings for her. There's also some who started shipping them in the Bay Movies, which came out while the series was airing.

On AO3, Raphril is the sixteenth most written ship for Raphael and the tenth most written for April. There are currently 91 written works.

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Trivia

 * A early concept for the 2012 series was for Raph to have a crush on April before it was switched to Donnie.
 * This still technically makes Raph the only turtle to never have a crush on April canonically.