“Mikey.” Leonardo’s stern voice silenced the apartment, the one in question looked at him with a sheepish grin.
“Uh, hah, my bad Emma…” Mikey leaned forward and turned his head to the side to apologize. He set his stack of six slices down on the coffee table before he moved to stand.
“Oh, it’s alright Mikey, it’s just a lamp,” Emma smiled, shrugging, before getting up, subconsciously patting Leo’s thigh before completely standing and going to clean up the shattered lamp.
Leo was frozen as her soft hand patted his exposed thigh. She touched him so freely, not he minded but he couldn’t figure out how this small woman had this power over him. He doesn’t even know her, yet…No. Leo shook his head slightly and averted his gaze until he saw Emma sashay around his long legs. He watched as Emma helped Mikey with the clean up. Leo stayed silent, cursing himself and internally groaning over the fact he was resulted to mush from a single touch.
“I can fix that for you,” the purple brother commented as he entered the small living area, typing away on his tablet.
“I’m sorry Emma…” Mikey whispered as he bent beside her and pushed her back slightly so that she wouldn’t cut herself on the glass. His large, nimble fingers grasped the small pieces and collected them in his palm.
“Don’t sweat it Mikey, things happen…let me go get you a dust pan,” Emma stood to walk towards the closet as Raphael grabbed the small trash can at the side of the kitchen island and walked towards Mikey.
“It’s time to leave—,” Leonardo made an attempt to stand before the largest brother’s voice boomed.
“Oh lay off fearless, it was an accident, he said sorry and she accepted,” Raphael grumbled, sitting back on the barstool, leaning over a plate of pizza and a sprite can that was dwarfed in his large fingers.
“Fearless?” Emma asked, holding the dustpan as Mikey swept up the glass, careful as not to cut either of them on the thin, sharp pieces. Leo glanced over at Emma who was slightly bent over at the waist, one toned arm extended with the dust pan while the other gripped her thigh to keep her balance. Her cute penguin pajama bottoms hung low on her hips, her gray cardigan wrapped around her shoulders, looking as if they were wings.
“Hah yea, honor boy ov’a here,” Raph tossed his head, pointing towards Leo, “is our ‘fearless leader,’ likes to call the shots.”
“Ignore him, he’s just upset about earlier,” said Donatello, nonchalantly, as he picked his head up from the small tablet.
“Shut up Don, ya were too,” Raphael snipped with a heavy eye roll before downing the rest of the Sprite. Crushing the can and tossing it into the trash can beside her.
“Enough Raph,” Leonardo’s stern voice commanded, causing Emma to look up, watching as Leo stood, stoic and arms crossed. His brilliant blue eyes were boring into his brother’s and it became a silent battle until Mikey broke the air.
“Wow, it’s been a whole…what, fifteen minutes since ya’ll had this fight?” Mikey jokes, causing Donnie to snort as he walked up and fist bumped the orange covered brother. His comment seemed to break the older two’s staring contest. Emma could feel the tension dissipate in the air.
“Yo! Is that Mario Kart!?” Michelangelo bounded toward the bookshelves that lined her T.V.
“You have ALL the GOOD ONES! Call of Duty, Mortal Kombat, Kingdom Hearts, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Red Dead Redemption 1 & 2! OH!! You also have Assassins Creed: Valhalla and Borderlands 3! I LOVE yoU!” Emma couldn’t stop giggling over how Mikey was geeking out over all of your video games.
“If you’re not too busy…wanna play?” Emma asked, turning to look at each of the brothers before turning her full attention on the one in blue. He was the leader after all and she wanted to respect his wishes.
With a heavy sigh, Leonardo shook his head yes, giving Mikey a small smile before tossing his head towards the T.V.
“Sure Mike…”
A collective ring of, ‘whoops,’ and hollers could be heard ricocheting off of her tiny apartment walls. All the boys filed into the small living area, picking either the floor or a recliner to reside in as both Emma and Leo had the couch to themselves. Leo never moved from his spot as he was worried his shell would scrape across her delicate skin and hurt her. Any and all small touches were initiated by her and Leo wasn’t going to complain. Something about Miss. Emma Reynolds pulled at him and he wanted, no, needed to figure out exactly what it was about her that held a power over him.
What Emma didn’t understand was what exactly she just invited in and signed up for. The hours flew by, pizza devoured and along were almost all of her snacks (except the oatmeal, Mikey wasn’t a fan.) Before she realized, she felt her head fall forward and her shoulder was jostled. Squeaking, she picked up her head, quickly analyzing her surroundings she realized that she was still in her apartment and she hadn’t dreamt of meeting Leo and his brothers. She gasped, it became apparent that she had fallen asleep on Leo himself.
“Oh my, I’m so sorry!” Emma hid her face behind her sleeves as she tried to brush away at the edges of her lips, praying there was no drool.
“Not a problem, I’m glad to be of service.” Oh…She liked the way that sounded…maybe a little too much.
“What time is it anyway?”
“Just past 4 in the morning. I’m afraid we have overstayed our welcome and have put you out.” They conversed as they stood, his brothers were already cleaning up the small living space.
“Oh please, I can—” Emma didn’t get a chance to finish fussing over them cleaning before Leonardo cut in.
“We’ve taken advantage of your hospitality, the least we can do is clean up after ourselves.” She couldn’t decide if it was because she wasn’t fully awake, or the lack of proper sleep, but she could have sworn his eyes twinkled. Glimmering sapphires that pulled her in.
“I apologize for my brothers and I for putting you in this situation.” Emma heard Leonardo as she watched his brothers leave out of her small window. They tossed their goodbyes, Mikey even gave her a hug before bounding out the small window. Chuckling to herself, she turned but hadn’t expected Leonardo to stand so closely behind her, a quick breath escaped past her pink lips before she righted her footing.
“Hah, no need to apologize Leo, Mikey is a sweetheart and each of them offered their help.” Emma shrugged, stepping to the side, allowing room for him to walk past. As their positions shifted, she felt a sudden pull, the same pull she’s felt all night and wondered if he felt it too. They locked eyes for the first time since his brothers stepped into her apartment to which she felt the pull getting tighter, her heart beat faster. She’d be lying if she hadn’t eyed him all night, seeing him in the dim lighting of her apartment, the light of the tv reflected on his face as he watched his brothers play Mario Kart. He was beautiful, so were his brothers, all in their own way, but something about Blue made her heart jump.
Leo was the first to break eye contact, twisting to straddle the window sill before shucking out onto the fire escape.
“Goodnight Miss. Emma. Thank you for your hospitality.” Leo had only gripped the first ring on the ladder before he felt a whisper of a touch against his forearm. Emma.
“Uh…sorry,” she whispered before letting him go, not wanting him to feel uncomfortable at her sudden touch. He was silent as he watched her, her green eyes shifting and looking anywhere but him. Until a sudden gust of wind blew her blonde hair around her shoulders, causing her jade colored eyes to look up at him again.
“Will I get to see you again Leo? Or is this a goodbye?” He didn’t like how she looked sad, but he knew that her words rang some truth. For her protection, he and his brothers would have to separate themselves from her. No matter how much he didn’t want to…she had plagued his thoughts ever since he saved her that night. But it was for her safety and he felt this pull that screamed that he needed to protect her. He’d be damned if he didn’t put his all into keeping her out of harm’s way.
“I believe this is goodbye…it is for your—,”
“My protection…I understand, I’m sad but I understand.” Wow. That was his only coherent thought, he was not expecting that reaction but by the way she was so blatantly honest made him believe that she truly understood. He let go of the ladder, glancing up at the roof to see three shadows looming over the edge. Leonardo stepped towards the window.
“Please…stay safe Miss Reynol—,”
“Emma…I used you as a pillow, you can use my first name,” Emma giggled as she watched him bend down towards her in a deep bow. He looked up, his mask tails falling over the front of his shoulders. Too tempting.
Emma all but lunged forward, gripping his mask tails, pulling herself to him, pressing her lips against his cheek. She was shocked by the warmth and the subtle feel of his pebbled flesh. She hadn’t anticipated his warm and smooth texture against her lips and she wanted to selfishly take more. But knew, if she took that dive, she’d want more and if this was truly a goodbye, she didn’t want to be heart broken over what could have been.
“Hah…Goodnight Leonardo…stay safe,” she whispered against his cheek before she pulled away, he was frozen for a split second before standing at his full height. He had to at least be over 6’5”, Emma herself was 5’6” and he was towering over her. He gave her a sheepish side smile,
“Stay outta trouble sweetheart,” he gave her a toothy grin and she realized that he had such a beautiful smile. Those were his last words before she watched him disappear into the night, well early morning light. It was around 4:30 in the morning. Emma couldn’t believe that she had stayed up this late but she didn’t regret it one bit. She only hoped, as she made her way to her bedroom that she’d, in fact, ‘catch’em later,’ as Mikey had adorably called to her before he left. She could only pray that it truly wasn’t a final goodbye, she was ready to take on the responsibility and challenges that would no doubt come with knowing the unique brothers.
Emma gave one final sigh before closing her window and shutting off the T.V and lights. As she refolded the blankets on the couch she picked up the one that smelled of jasmine and coconut and a light spice. Leo. Emma knew that she was probably acting crazy but she has never felt this way about anyone in her twenty years of life. Shaking her head, she tucked the green blanket under her arm, flicking off the last lamp she walked to her room. Her mind filled with the one and only blue-banded terrapin and his unique family. Usually not one for praying, but she did that morning, prayed that it wasn’t the last time she’d see him. He was her final thought before exhaustion took over her overactive mind. Dreaming of sapphire gems.
——
Leo twisted and landed back on the rooftop as he waited to be interrogated by his nosy brothers.
“SO Fearless…your girlfriend’s nice,” Raphael smirked at his eldest brother, as he slouched against the roof’s shed, twirling a single sai with his three-pronged hands. Leonardo sighed, he knew this was going to happen but hoped that this entire night had gone differently. Leo wouldn’t admit it to his brother’s but he wished that he had gotten to know Emma a bit more on his own before introducing her to his…unconventional family.
“Leave him alooone Raph! Let Leo have some fun!” Mikey quipped, shimming towards his eldest brother with a wink and a large grin.
“It’s not like that…” Leo groaned, he wasn’t going to entertain the idea of courting her. Not that he wasn’t interested, but because he didn’t want her to be in danger because of him and his family.
“Hey man, I saw the way she kept touching you! She even fell asleep on you!” Mikey exclaimed, sitting on the ledge of the roof cross-legged holding his ankles with a shit eating grin.
“She’s just grateful that I saved her life…”
“I don’t know why you’re makin’ up excuses man! She’s hawt!” All his brothers burst out in laughter at his expense while commenting on how hawt Emma is. It bugged Leo a bit on how they so crassly talked about her after she just extended such care and accepted them for who they are. Leo stood, head down and trying to ignore their onslaught of mocking and distasteful comments until Mikey took it too far.
“Shit man, I’d hit that! She could rub up on me any day!”
“Enough!” Leonardo commanded, he came undone and glared at each of his brothers. Their behavior was unacceptable.
“Emma was nothing but nice to you and you talk about her as if she’s an object.” Leo’s words cut through each of them, they’ve seen him mean business before but this time, it was different. He almost seemed feral.
Leonardo took a deep breath, holding the bridge of his snout as he squeezed his eyes closed.
“We’ll split up for the last thirty-minutes of patrol. Mikey you take the entrance on 4th, Raph takes 17th and Don you’ll take the entrance on 32nd street when going home. I’ll take 53rd and meet you all back at 5am. Break out.” Leonardo was the last to leave from the roof, ignoring the mumbled groans and curses as his brothers departed. Leo wanted to check up on Emma one last time before he bid her goodnight. Seeing his brother’s break out, he descended back down the fire escape and saw that all the lights were off and her window was locked. Leo took a relieved sigh as he moved to see that her blinds were pulled over her bedroom window.
After he had dropped Emma off at her apartment that night, he stayed to scope the area. The man that had attacked her was behind bars because he had a few outstanding warrants but you could never be too careful. Leo was able to lift blueprints for the apartment building after sneaking onto Don’s computer after he had finally passed out on a pile of broken experiments and pop tart wrappers. Leo reached down into one of his utility pouches and grabbed the few sensors he got from Donnie and placed one on each of her windows. These sensors were meant to detect any movement and would alert him if any of the windows would be opened from the outside. Yes, it was a possibility that he was being overprotective but…honestly, he couldn’t even reason why he was doing it. He adored Miss Emma Reynolds and she just pulled him in further with how she handled his brothers tonight. Leo let out a small chuckle before he finished his quarter of patrol before heading back to the lair.
——
Unbeknownst to the small, blonde woman and the clan of mutants was that a certain highly-trained ninja stood watch from the shadows deep within the alley across the street. The feminine assassin watched the encounter between the leader in blue and the small blonde woman. She was curious about exactly the nature of the relationship. Right then, Karai decided she was going to find out who this blonde woman was and see if she could assist with the turtle’s undoing.
We’ll see.
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It has been a full seven days. A week has past by since Leonardo had last seen or spoke to Emma and he was getting antsy. Leo had her number, but he couldn’t get the courage to text her, worried that he would become an hindrance to her. What if meeting her and her meeting his brothers was a fluke? What if there wasn’t anything there to be expanded on. Even though Leonardo understands that the fewer people that know of their existence, it is for the best but…He sensed that Emma Reynolds was different. Donnie did a scoop on her and it came back crystal clear, not even a parking ticket or late payment. She was exceptionally organized, and dare he say it…beautiful.
Leo checked the clock for the tenth time in five minutes and scolded at the slow moving hand. He had patrol tonight and he was debating whether or not he should stop by and check in on her. Leonardo sighed again before palming the mask above his eye ridge.
“What is the matter, my son?”
“Nothing father,”
“Leonardo,” Leo squeezed his eyes before turning to meet his father.
“I will ask again…What is troubling you?”
“Sensei…I must confess something.” Master Splinter looked calm and collected but his eldest son’s words troubled him. It was unlike Leonardo to keep things from him and unlike him to be this hesitant when professing his truths.
“Alright my son, let us sit. I have made some jasmine oolong tea.” Leonardo nodded, filling his father into the meditation room.
The room was dimly lit, the intricate blue tatami mat sat in the center, floor pillows surrounded the small table that was in the center of the room. The scent of jasmine-oolong tea wafted and mingled in the air with the dull scent of vanilla and warmth. Leonardo immediately felt calmed by the aroma and essence of the room.
“Sit my son,” Master Splinter motioned as he knelt on a tatami floor pillow before pouring the tea for him and his son.
“Sensei…I saved a woman a few weeks back,” Leo said while he knelt down on his knees in front of his father, across the small table. Sensei hummed for his son to continue as he sat the small tea cup in front of him.
“She was attacked and I happened to be in the area…she didn’t scream, she was kind.” Master Splinter looked at Leonardo, seeing the way his son avoided eye contact and how he fidgeted with his fingers. Splinter smiled at the nervousness that his son was portraying, it was so unlike his character and it made him curious on who exactly this young woman was.
“Her n-name is Emma Reynolds, she lives by herself, she’s twenty years old, she’s a manager at a yoga studio and she lives by herself. She has blonde hair, blue eyes, she’s fit, kind, sweet and has dimples when she smiles—.” Leonardo continued to ramble on about this new woman that he has met and it took all that Splinter had not to smile at his son. He could tell that Leo was struggling with the feelings he has for this woman.
Leonardo finished his ramblings and took a deep breath, his eyes widening as he realized that he sounded like a rambling Donnie.
“Is your turmoil because she was kind or that you let yourself be seen?”
“My turmoil is that I allowed her to cloud my judgment and she has met, not only myself, but also my brothers.” He finished, head downcast and ready to be reprimanded by his wise father. Leonardo has been fighting with himself internally ever since that night a week ago.
“I’m under the impression that she holds no threat and that Donatello has vetted her?”
“Yes…she’s clean, no threat…But you cannot be too careful,”
“But her being a threat is not your worry.” Master Splinter stated the truth. Leonardo knew the reasoning and he felt like a fool to admit it.
“You’re worried that she is in danger of being exposed to you and your brothers.”
“Yes.” Leonardo’s stunning blue eyes were deep, shining in the dim lighting of the room and Master Splinter knew that there would be only one answer for Leonardo at this moment.
“Then you need to decide what is best for her. Is it for you and your brothers to disappear from her life? Or…Is it best for you to stay close and protect her at any cost? Are you willing to accept the consequences that will surely follow about either option?”
“I have told her goodbye Sensei…but I have this…need to be close to her. Like a pull—I sound ridiculous.” Leo set down his tea cup a little harder than anticipated and it just frustrated him more. Why was he acting like this?
“Leonardo, my son…You have always struggled with your feelings, don’t hide from them. Meditate and embrace them. It is not a burden to have feelings or share those feelings with others.”
“Thank you Sensei,” Leonardo made to stand still feeling frustrated yet, before he stood fully, he felt a hand at his wrist.
“Go to her Leonardo, ease your mind.” He knew that Sensei was right, and that helped him make up his mind about his earlier dilemma.
After thanking his father, he left the small room and headed back into the den where he saw Donnie reading at the kitchen table, Mikey playing video games and Raphael lifting weights. Leonardo took this opportunity to make his exit, knowing he could leave without anyone noticing his absence.
Once he exited the sewers he was welcomed by the crisp night air. It was getting colder as it crept closer to winter, the air nipped at his pebbled flesh. While on patrol the night was overall pretty quiet, except for a small burglary here and there, an older woman whose cat was stuck on a fire escape. Checking his watch for the millionth time that night, it was 11:30pm. He wondered if he should see if Emma was home, do a quick check before staking out different parts of the city for the remainder of the night. Leo was only a few blocks away and decided to hell with it. He wanted to see her, make sure she was safe.
After about five minutes of jumping across rooftops, Leo could see the warm glow of her apartment light up the night sky. She was home. Landing on the last rooftop across her apartment he felt a sudden flutter in his stomach. He despised the feeling of butterflies in his stomach but he was going to embrace the feeling like Sensei said. To grow in life, you must accept what is hard and push through obstacles. This was an obstacle. She was an obstacle.
With that final thought, Leo made the jump physically and emotionally. A decision that he would grow to respect and appreciate. Leonardo gripped the small rusty ladder and slowly made his way down to her window.
Tap. Tap. Tap.
Emma was dancing in the kitchen when she heard a quiet tapping on her window. Wait, could it be? She twisted and slowly leaned to look over the small wall separating the kitchen from the den to see a massive, dark silhouette.
Leonardo?
Leonardo waited outside on the small balcony, worried that he had disturbed her, or frightened her. They did say their brief goodbyes last week…Man was this a bad idea? Leonardo shook his head, clearing out his insecurities as he saw the lithe blonde make her way towards her window. Her short green shorts and taupe colored hoodie that said “bad bitch club,” in tiny font spanned across her chest. He chuckled as he saw her smile at him before lifting the old, wooden window. There was no reason to worry.
“Well hello Leonardo,” she smiled, giving him a small wink before tossing her head for him to come inside. She was in a great mood and now that he’s here, it just became the best night ever.
“Hello Miss—,” he watched her turn slightly, her arms crossed over her chest, eyebrow raised as if challenging him to finish his sentence, “Emma.” Leonardo smirked at the snarky blonde before closing the window behind him and turning off the silent alarm on his phone from the sensors on her window.
“What brings you here, not that I’m mad but…I thought we said our goodbyes.” He knew this conversation was bound to happen.
“Yes, we did and I apologize but with you knowing my brother’s and I exist…I am now obligated to keep you safe.”
“Ah, so you feel as though it is your duty to protect me?”
“Yes,” but the way he said it left her questioning if it was the only reason as to why he showed up tonight.
“I don’t need a guard dog…or turtle really,” Emma said, sounding a bit more clipped than what she initially intended but hoping that her intentions were clear. She was forever grateful for him saving her life, but she didn’t want to be a burden and cause him more inconveniences.
“…It is not the only reason,” Leonardo’s shoulders squared and even though they stood about eight feet apart, she felt as if he was looming over her. Something seemed off and she sensed that he was trying to tell her something but wasn’t sure how.
“Then, enlighten me.” Emma mirrored Leo’s stance, her toned arms across her chest, hip jutted and weight distributed to her right side. She wasn’t going to allow this man to intimidate her.
“I wanted to see you,” Oh, she was not expecting that blunt of an answer, “I wanted to see if you were okay and if, by the off chance, you thought about me too.”
The silence echoed loudly between them as she contemplated his words. He was right, she wanted to see him again the second he left her apartment last week. She wanted to reach out to him but was unsure how. She didn’t want to admit it, but he was on her mind everyday, so was his brother’s but Leonardo was the star in each of her daydreams.
“Yes.” Emma spoke with a finality, being honest with herself and with him.
“I wanted to know if you were safe…I wanted to see you again.” Emma’s pose relaxed and she turned to head back towards her kitchen before she called over his shoulder, asking if he’d like anything to drink. But before she could get the words out, she watched Leonardo tense up before he twisted back towards her window. The deafening sound of shattered glass and a scream she did not recognize as her own.
A body dressed in all black and a red bandana was thrusted into her living room, Leonardo grabbed them by their shoulders before throwing them onto her couch.
“Karai.” Leonardo’s stern voice boomed inside the small apartment as he pinned the small woman to Emma’s couch. His mind was locked onto the foot soldier under him but he was temporarily distracted when he heard Emma scream his name. Karai took that moment to knee him in his hard chest plate, thrusting forward until she moved out from under him.
Leonardo refocused and saw that Karai was staring at Emma and was about to move towards the small blonde. No.
“Karai. Leave her out of this. This is between you and me.” He threatened, moving to stand between her and Emma, slowly watching Karai’s every move. He didn’t trust her and he hated himself for putting Emma in her sights.
“Oh Leonardo is protecting his little girlfriend. She’s too sexy for you baby,” Karai licked her blood red lips, her sharp black winged gaze bored into his. Emma didn’t like to judge upon first impressions but this bitch could go fuck herself. Emma growled and hunkered down, and was ready. For what, she wasn’t sure, but she was running through what she’s learned in the boxing classes that she’s done for the past two weeks.
“Enough Karai. What do you want.” Leonardo’s hands gripped his katanas and was ready to take on the Shredder’s spawn.
“You.” Before Leo could comprehend what was happening, Emma’s apartment was flooded with Foot soldiers. He fought five on one as Karai stalked the outskirts of the fight, her eyes flickering between Leonardo and his small female companion.
“Argh!” Leonardo growled as he felt a katana slice open his shoulder before he felt the plunge of a needle in the softer flesh behind his knee and another at his elbow.
“Kar—ai.” He growled, attempting to stand but was quickly detained by the few remaining Foot ninjas that were not fighting for their lives at his feet.
“Oh sweet Leonardo-san…you. Are. Mine.” The next thing he sees is a wall of black before unconsciousness takes him. Emma’s safety being the last thing on his mind.
As Leonardo’s body slumped and he was hoisted up by three ninjas and tossed back out the window, Emma’s heart ached. This wasn’t over. The woman that Leonardo identified as Karai was standing by the window, staring her down.
“Call his brothers. Let them know I have him then speak of this to no one. Or I will return.”
“I’m counting on it.” Emma knew that there was no way she could intimidate the highly skilled woman in front of her but she’d be damned if she didn’t try.
“Feisty. No wonder he likes you.” Karai whistled before tossing a phone towards Emma.
“Make the call. Or die.” Was the last thing she heard before she heard the shattered glass crunch beneath the soldier’s feet before the woman disappeared out of sight.
Emma’s body decompressed, all the events heavy on her shoulders. She clutched the phone to her chest as she tried to catch her breathing. Do it. Do it for Leo. Emma thumbed the cell before she realized that she couldn’t gain access to the small device.
“Ugh! I just need to call Donnie!” She exclaimed. That must have been the magic phrase because a robotic voice echoed out of the phone.
“Calling Donatello.”
Ring. Ring. rin—
“Hey Leo, wher—,”
“Donnie. It’s Emma.”
“…Em—ma…uh…hi…”
“It’s Leo. He was taken by Karai.”
The silence echoed in the ransacked apartment. Emma could hear the thumping of her heart and the blood flow in her veins. Donatello’s voice finally rang from the other side of the line.
Art of 2nd, 3rd, 6th and 10th images by @calista-222 Under the cut : Infos about Metalhead, April, Casey and Splinter.
Colorcoded!Metalhead lore : -Meets for short -They/them -Is mute, communicate through their own invented sign language (3 fingers family)
-Backstory time :
Meets is a self-learning AI, proudly made by Donnie, that then grew scared of it because of superstition and well, movies. He decided to shut him down. Much to everyone’s surprise, Metalhead isn’t really kin on dying, so he fought back and escaped. At that point Donnie believes he created a powerful super-villain and he’s full on having a panic meltdown.
His brothers and friends reassures him and help him go looking for it. They all have a lot of trouble finding it, until they realize it’s with the Mutanimals, hiding.
They took it in thinking it was a really fucked up mutant. The turtle family bust in, explains the situation and the Mutanimals are like “… I don’t know mate they seem pretty cool. Have you tried talking to them before going on a rampage ?”
Donnie is confused (cough cough movies) and looks at Metalhead and they look DOWNRIGHT TERRIFIED. And then the turtle family looks at each other and go : oh. Ohhhhh we were huge assholes there for a hot minute. Anyway, they’re adopted now.
-Tiny metallic version of the turtles -Colorcoded Pink -No mouth but overly expressive eyes. -Raph is the best at learning the sign language, Donnie second, Mikey third and Leo is bad at it but he’s trying. -They’re interested in science for it’s capacity of Explaining Everything -They like the science of people as well. -They love gossiping with Raph, and can be quite obnoxious about it (abilities such as seeing through walls and enhanced hearing) -The reason Raph is the best at learning the language is because he’s very motivated by the idea of gossiping more with his sibling. -Share their room with Shelldon -Interested in “science” in the broad way, they like all fields. -Learn engineering with Don and go get infos about other fields elsewhere. -Donnie is the 2nd most motivated to learn the sign language because of when they work on a project together, he sometimes give a task to Metalhead but they can’t communicate about it and it frustrates Don. -Meets sometimes acts as the Mikey Babysitter tm. When Mikey fucks up Meets is usually the one to clean up. -Mikey is the one that tries his very best to make Meets feels welcome and part of the family. Meets deeply appreciate it. -Leo is put off by the whole situation and it takes him a while to warm up to them, which is why he’s the last at understanding the language, far, far behind Mikey. -Splinter immediatly saw them as the reasonnable spawn, and keeps their brothers away from stupid teen shit. He didn’t expect Metalhead to also do stupid teen shit. -April and Casey thinks the turtles getting a robot brother is hella metal. (Donnie picks up : “it is indeed pretty “metal”, since it’s a bot”
Colorcoded!Casey lore : -Casey is American-Korean -Unofficial korean name (not on papers) is Deok-Su (덕수) -He has a little sister named Hye-Jin (혜진) -Casey’s mom is american and out of the picture (abusive) -Casey’s dad is Jong-Min (종민) -Their last name is Ra -Hye-Jin only speaks Korean, and Casey is bilingual. -Casey has a weird rivalry with Buckle, Raph’s pet dog-mouser. There’s a whole lore about that in Colorcoded Rant Part 2 (recommanded)
Colorcoded!April lore : -April is Canadian -Her dad knows about the turtles, but not that they are a danger magnet. -April has no ninja training but she does help the team by being the Gun Person. -The gun’s name is Cassandra, Casey for short -April can get REALLY intense when talking about things she’s interested about, which got her bullied and left alone until Casey (the Jones), and the turtles. -If her friends gets “bullied” she can and will go into a blind rage and try to deck anyone that hurted them -She’s a stress cleaner
(Not a lot of art of Splintey yet, because he’s scary to draw. I’ll get around it tho)
Colorcoded!Splinter lore : -In his story, Yoshi was actually the greedy and “evil” one, and learned from his mistake -Yoshi’s life is basically : Good childhood ! Good clan ! Bad, leave clan Good, love new clan ! Bad, start war Bad, leave forever Bad, guilt for years Good, learn to live anyway Bad, spiraling back into guilt Good, found turtles Good, made family Good, changed for the better Good, is being the best dad I can be Good, happy :) -Really good dad and pays attention to his sons -He learned to cook food for them -When he noticed their interest in pizza he learned to make it -He encourages all kind of activities outside ninja training -Never closed his bedroom door in case they wanted to sleep with him because of nightmares or just because they wanted to -When they were small, read a story for them before bed. -Splinter took care of the boys’ education, learning more as world evolved to keep them up to date. -During the night Splinter would take them for picnics in an abandonned area when they expressed the desire to go outside -He did the Talk when April started to come by often. It was never a taboo subject and the kids were comfortable about it until Splinter explained the differences between theirs and humans anatomy with pictures. -Heavily respects their privacy. Always knocks on their doors, never go through any of their belongings. -He has a ton of pictures of them in his room. -He often tells them how proud he is -He hangs out with them most of the time unless they don’t want to.
Can he and his sis both speak as much English and they can speak Korean?
His sis can only speak Korean and is homeschooled because of that, while Casey can speak both but usually talk English more, because well he’s in New York. At home tho they exclusively speak Korean
Or were they like, almost forbidden to learn by their mom because she’s a huge bitch asdvdv and once she was gone they got to learn a lot more from their dad?
yeah. She left when Hye-Jin was a teeny tiny baby so she never held any power over her, and since her brother and father only spoke Korean at home, she only learned Korean. Casey tho was punished whenever he spoke Korean in front of his mom, even if he learned it from his dad speaking on the phone when working or other mundane things. Once she was out of the picture he was finally able to speak Korean freely and by speaking it more, learning more.
What does Casey think of his mom? You told me the story mostly from the dad’s point of view so I’m curious dhfbf
She’s a huge bitch but she’s still his mom and he misses her sometimes, but still doesn’t want to see her He misses the few nice moments he had with her, but he knew that if he went back he’d only get the bad
Mikey: “SpIKeY for Raph. rOUnD for Leo. TecHy REcTaNgLy for Donnie. sQUigGLy noNSEnsE for me. :)”
Mikey just went “imma do a character analysis real quick, do you mind?” While taking notes and doodling on a notebook
Raph : “yeah I mind” Mikey, silently : so spike for you
Mikey, pointing at Donnie: “you give me rectangle vibes” Donnie: “what the fuck does that even mean”
Donnie coming out of his lab for the first time in days and that’s the first thing he hears
Mikey, very seriously: "You can’t rush art, Donnie. This is very important research I’m doing right now.“ Donnie: "okay????” Donnie: “Anyone know what’s going with Mikey?” Raph: “No idea, he told me something about character analysis?? And then he said ‘yes. Spikes and mountains. Perfect.’ and then left.” Leo: “He said I was 'happy round cloud shaped’, I have no idea what that means but I’m taking it as a compliment.
also ! Casey’s main embroidery shape is bones, because Mikey came over to test and Casey went. No. Bones. Make bones. Mikey : "but-” Casey : “B O N E S”
Okay so Leo role is leader, Raph would be the tank, Mikey would be the sneaky one (he’s the best at it surprisingly becaude he learned he could freak his brothers out more efficiently) so like a spy-ish role, and Donnie is the healer/support when not in battle. April is the “air support” like a sniper, and Casey is the guy that can punch good
Okay so so as I said before, April is Canadian, and she can speak both English and French fluently. She lives alone with her dad and their family dog (beloved by Raph whenever they’re able to visit). Her mom still lives in Canada and she goes to see her during holidays, since they’re divorced (but on good terms. Rip he took the dog AND the kid in the divorce) Her dad knows about the turtles and is chill with it, because he DOESN’T KNOW they’re danger magnets. He has been aware of the turtles and Splinter since April was around 5, and sometimes comes by to visit Splinter (which is a good friend of his)
zdgvehf Raph is the kind of person who just stays with the pets during family reunions dfhdbfhj Raph: sees a doggo Raph: “I will not leave your side ever.”
Does April’s dad know the turtles she hangs out with are ninjas (I’m guessing yes since he seems to know Splinter well)? That doesn’t really inspire 'safe’ xD (if you learn how to fight, usually that means you feel like you’re in some kind of danger xD) He does ! Splinter doesn’t know they’re hiding the danger magnet fact, so he was honest, he said they started it because he practiced it and they were interested. Literally the truth.
“than just saying Donnie is the medic just because he’s smart (ah yes, once again, scientists know every skill, even medicine for some reason).”
Okay so I know it wasn’t a direct attack (even though I took -40 emotional damage) BUT ! I’ve thought about it before going : Donnie healer Okay so first of all he’s not great Like he mixes up elbows and knees. But since he’s still the best (apart from Splinter) he patches them up until they can get to Splinter. I gave him the medic role with the support role because even though NOW he likes ninjaing, it’s still not his main thing, like Mikey. He’s not as invested as the others in the ninja activity and his main skills lies elsewhere coughengineering and strategycough. He does his best as healer, he’s still learning with Splinter (who is not hospital level but he is pretty good. Which mean that if one of the bois get a REALLY BAD injury, they’re in the shit because no one can heal them) (modifié) [07:53] I made it so Mikey and Donnie were more interested in other fields (even if Mikey IS more invested than Don) because of the capacity gap in 2012 I never understood. So the fact they start late is 1 of the reason, and also the fact they are less invested than Leo and Raph (who are DEDICATED, and REALLY GOOD AT IT) [07:56] Also I have new infos about Colorcoded : -Donnie is turtle hyperlax, which means he can pop in his shell and pop any limbs from any hole (which freaks his brothers out) FIY : this is 100% not a real thing, do not try this on your turtle at home -Donnie, April and Casey are VERY close and besties. I can’t have Capritello but I want incredible bond and friendship -Sara Navidad fight with 2 frying pans that can get electrified. It looks cooler than it sounds
Also do you remember mikey’s role is being sneaky ? Okay so he’s really good at it however problem : he’s a terrible spy because he’s bad at gathering informatio’s
Informations being given : Mikey, bored to death, not listening
Mikey: “I remained unseen :)” Donnie: “ok but what did you see there?” Mikey: “I found a cool bug at some point”
Leo : So, Mike what did you learn ? Mikey : :0 Leo : Mikey : I KNEW I WAS FORGETTING SOMETHING
Mikey, in his head : so I WAS standing above the foot clan for 20 minutes for a reason Donnie: “you were supposed to tale a picture of the foot clan’s headquarters, do you at least have that?” Mikey: “Nope! But wanna these cool pictures of pigeons I took while I was there?”
Donnie : “surprisingly i want the picture of the foot clan headquarters like I asked” Leo : “you should focus more Mikey, however I would love to see these pigeons :)”
Leo: scolding Mikey but also slightly encouraging him in the process dhfbdffd
Leo is VERY supportive in any given situation. Which also means he does have some trouble having authority Leo, very gently : “Mikey, do you think you could focus a little bit more next time if possible ?” Mikey : “yeah i’ll try :)” Raph : “no you’ll succeed because I ain’t doing it so you better get that brain focused got it ?” Mikey : “yeah yeah yep mhmmm okay you know what ? I’m gonna go right now, yes.” Raph : has the authority but not the skill Leo : has the skill but not the authority
Mikey: “I saw a cool painting in one of the foot’s hideouts so I sneaked in for an hour with a notebook to draw it.” Leo: “that was incredibly dangerous of you and very unnecessary.” Mikey: Leo: “Can I see the drawing tho?”
Jumping back but i find it really funny that Donnie is horrible at being a medic but since he IS the medic it does mean that the others are worse
Mikey, who cut his hand slightly while cooking: “ow :(” Raph: “I DON’T UNDERSTAND ANYTHING THAT’S IN THE FIRST AID KIT SO I BROUGHT ICE AND I HOPE THAT WAS THE RIGHT THING”
Donnie: “did you try to treat a cut with ICE????” Raph: “In hindsight, it may not have been very smart”
Mikey: “my hand is cold now :(”
Alternate ending :
Mikey’s hand being infected, him passed out on the floor : Donnie : “YA THINK ???”
Raph : “So now what ?” Leo, pulling a chainsaw : “well obviously-” Donnie : “N o”
Leo or Mikey get hurt but they’re Raph and Donnie aren’t there so they only have one braincell to figure out what to do xDD the disaster the chaos
Donnie and Raph comes back to see Leo and Mikey wrapped in bandages and band-aids with 3 first aid kits open with medical tools on the floor scattered everywhere, there’s a fire in the corner of the room for some reason: “WHAT THE SHELL HAPPENED HERE?” Mikey: “Leo hurt his leg and we tried to fix it :(” Leo: “I think it kinda worked” Donnie: “What”
“did HE BREAK HIS LEG ??” “no he got cut a little there”
Imagine the cut is the 1 (one) part of the body that wasn’t bandaged They failed
Donnie: “THEN WHY IS MIKEY WRAPPED IN BANDAGES TOO?” Leo: “He wanted to feel included”
Donnie the little bro somehow the most responsible : the return Meanwhile, Raph taking pictures, sending them to Casey and April and laughing with them through text
Raph can’t socialize
Leo: Can’t lie for shit Donnie: Is terrible at first aid even if it’s one of his roles in the team Raph: Can’t socialize Mikey: Cant’ focus (adhd go brrrr)
Raph socialization skills extand to first meeting villains. He’s awkward and tries to « make a good first impression » which prevents him from fighting good. After around a week of getting to know the villain he then beat them up properly and turns back to Raph.
YOSHI’S POV :
Alright so as said before, Oroku Saki and Hamato Yoshi are extremely similar, the main difference being the ambition.
Both Yoshi and Saki were in the same clan and grew up together, like brothers. They were much closer and friendlier than most version, not really rivals, and if so, only playfully. They got along great and became ninjas together. Saki inherited the clan in the end, and changed it’s name to the Foot Clan (i have yet to determine why). Yoshi was by his side, his right hand man, and they fully trusted eachother.
However, Saki got ambitious. He wanted to extand the clan’s help to other cities, to other countries. Yoshi was much more traditional and insisted their help should remain in Kyoto. They disagreed and fought over it, openly in front of the clan, because nothing is hidden. Part of the clan were with Saki, part with Yoshi. The clan split, and then was born the Hamato clan. They remained in Kyoto, helping people with the Foot (rivalry being there this time).
The Foot Clan extanded to other major japanese city, such as Tokyo and Osaka. Yoshi was young and impulsive, and was boiling because of Saki’s decision, and attacked the Foot Clan in Kyoto.
War ensued, and deads were counted. Realizing what he had done, Yoshi withdrawed from the war, and, ashamed, exiled himself. He travelled the world with the burden of what he had done heavy on his shoulders. He aged and learned, becoming a wise man. During his passage in New York, he was drawn to a pet store with a giant paper claiming it was closing and every animal not adopted would be sent to animal control (essentially killed). There weren’t much animals left, and the deadline was far. Yoshi past in front of it and continued his way. A few days later, curious and worried, he passed again, a day before the deadline, and all the animals were gone, except for four tiny baby turtles. Yoshi went in, and the employee, desesperate, explained one of their female turtle gave birth to them as she was sold, and the family refused to take the baby with them.
She refused to let them die but couldn’t take them, and begged Yoshi to take them, for free. He looked into these tiny innocent creatures eyes, and he accepted.
He left with his turtles, unsure of what he had done, how it would impact his travels and his life. Maybe he could give them away ? Take care of them until then ? Yes, that sounded good.
He went back to his hotel, but was refused because of the no pets policy. He would not abandon them so he gathered his things and left. Yoshi wandered around the city as night fell, looking for a place to rest and keep the turtles safe.
It was late, everything was closed and rain was starting. Yoshi went to hide in an alley and decided to spend the night here. Unknown to him, but things were happening this very night, and as they did, a canister fell on him and the sleeping turtles.
The excrutiating pain awoke him screaming, as his molecules were being torn apart and put together again in different shape. He blacked out, unable to support the pain.
When he woke up, he felt different. Simply getting up was a challenge, and he couldn’t stand upright, his back messed up. He had a tail and giant ears, whiskers and fur. A rat, it’s what he had become.
Horror and fear downed on him, as he contemplated his new body. What had happen ? How could this be ? Many questions left unanswered. Yoshi was broke out of his terrified trance by tiny hands tapping his leg.
He looked and there was a baby, but quite a peculiar one. Green from head to toes, a hard shell protecting it’s back and front, and big innocent eyes looking up to him, slight worry shining in them.
Yoshi was confused and scared, but he didn’t try to flee or get away. Whatever this was, it was young, pure and kind. He hesitated then patted it’s head, and in doing so looked around. 3 other green babies were fumbling around near him, and the realization hit. The horror he felt for himself shifted to be for them, remembering the pain he went through and feeling his heart ache thinking they went through thz same thing He brought thzm closer to him, impulsively protecting them, hugging them close to him and away from the rain.
A giggle made him jump, and he released them to see 4 bright faces, a wide smile splattered on. Yoshi could feel his hardened lonely heart melt, and he hugged them again, promising to protect those precious smile.
They had to get out of the street, where freaks were never welcome. The roofs were too exposed, and abandonned building too dangerous to raise kids. Yoshi remembered his time in Paris and their incredible catacomb, and wondered if New york got the same.
He put two of the kids in his bag, safely secured, one attached on his torso and the last one in his free arm. He slid into a sewer door unseen, his training, even if old, still effective.
The smell rattled his sensitive nose, but he kept going, hoping to find an opening to a more comfortable place.
Yoshi walked for long, the kids asleep against him, soothed to sleep by his regular sleep, the smell seemingly not bothering them. The longer he walked the desesperate he became. It seemed to have been forever since the last sewer door leading outside.
The tunnels were gigantic and endless, how could there be a place able to host them ? Suddenly he saw a hole in the wall. Not very wide, and clearly not meant to be there, crumbled over time and lack of maintenance. Yoshi climbed in and was surprised to see the giant space behind it. There were rooms, old and unsanitary, corridors and even a kitchen and showers, even if they seemed to be as old as earth itself. Yoshi supposed they must have been the living quarters of the people that built the sewers. Poor people, without homes, given this job and this place to live probably with 40 others. A curse to them and a blessing to him. It looked awful, but it was something. A beginning. A place to rebuild, to make home.
For him, and for them. For his brand new sons.
Yoshi’s life is basically : -Good childhood ! -Good clan ! -Bad, leave clan -Good, love new clan ! -Bad, start war -Bad, leave forever -Bad, guilt for years -Good, learn to live anyway -Bad, spiralling back into guilt -Good, found turtles -Good, made family -Good, changed for the better -Good, is being the best dad I can be -Good, happy :)
SAKI’S POV :
Oroku Saki was raised alongside his not blood brother Hamato Yoshi, in the [redacted] clan. Hamato Yoshi was his best friend and occasionally playful rival and they grew up together. They were stuck together like glue, training, eating, heck showering together (platonically because friendship is good. Great bond can and does mean great friendship)
When the former master died, he appointed Saki as new master, because he saw great potential and an ambition that would lead the clan far.
Once he was master, Saki changed the clan’s name to the Foot clan (I think I’m starting to see why). In the first years, he led the foot as the former master did, learning how to be good at the basics before starting to get ambitious.
Yoshi had always precious advice in the realm of work, and even more precious moments were shared privately (still platonic). Saki trusted him with his life and very heavy secrets, and so did Yoshi.
Saki was proud of the work they did with the Foot, and how many people they were helping. One day he shared with Yoshi his wish to start helping more cities and more people.
Yoshi immediatly violently refused, offended to see Saki would even think about breaking the tradition. He said that Kyoto was the clan’s territory, and it was how it had always been. Doing anything different would disrespect their ancestors. Saki reminded him that he was chosen to lead BECAUSE he wanted things to change, and the former master wanted that. Yoshi refused to hear it and stormed out.
Saki, hurt to see his brother and right arm react that way, acted behind his back, starting to spread the Foot to Tokyo and helping there. He thought if he had concrete proof to show, and how much good they were doing there, Yoshi would change his mind. But Yoshi found out before Saki could present it to him the way he wanted and lost his mind. He stormed into Saki’s home, furious, and declares that a treachrous brother was no longer his and left, taking part of the foot clan with him to create the Hamato clan.
Saki was devastated for a while, having lost his brother in his ambition. He let things roll without him intervening much, causing worry to rise in the clan. One courageous Foot rose up and suggested to their master to go see their progress in Tokyo by himself.
Like a shadow of himself, tired and broken, Saki agreed. When he got there, he saw all the good the Foot had done. They had helped so many people, bringing th supplies and water, protection when needed. He saw children running around, stomach full and smile on their faces. He saw mothers and fathers not worrying over tonight’s dinner. He saw the good that wouldn’t have happened without to Foot and his confidence and happiness and motivation camme back.
He led the Foot again, extanding to more cities, soon having at least part of the Foot all over Japan.
Yoshi heard of this and grew mad. He came to the Foot, stood in front of Saki and declared a war. Saki refused, not wanting to hurt people, trying to resonate with Yoshi. He asked him to be reasonable, to think of the consequencies- But Yoshi didn’t listen, and left angry, claiming that whether he like it or not, the war will be fought
And it did happen. It cost the Foot hundreds of life, both ninjas and civilians. Yoshi’s craze had to end, and Saki went to see him by himself. No protection, no army. Just him and Yoshi. And a blade. Saki won the dual, and finally knocked some sense into his former brother. He showed him the deaths and destruction that was nothing but number to Yoshi until then. He showed him the horror of what he had done, and asked him to stop.
When Yoshi left that day, it was the last time Saki ever saw him. After the dual, he went to look for him in the Hamato Clan but he was nowhere to be found. A new master had been chosen, and they didn’t know either. Saki was worried, scared his friend would hurt himself or hurt other. He knew he felt guilt, and he was there to relieve it, to talk to him, convince him to join him again, to heal what he had caused.
Saki searched, for years, but never found him. He found traces of him, little clues left all over the world, that he held on like a treasure.
Meanwhile, he still led the Foot, not letting his grief crush him like the first time. The Foot had extanded outside of Japan, to new countries but only those that were willing to. And one day the Foot set their first base in New York. Saki just had a baby daughter, but sadly the mother had died during birthing, and it was just him and little Karai.
Japan reminded him too much of hurtful memories, both with his love and his brother. New York was far from Japan and they had trouble settling in, so Saki decided to go live there with Karai.
Of course this constant extension of the Foot is going to become more like an invasion once Karai takes over But Saki never saw it this way
also does Karai know the whole story of the foot clan, like what happened between Saki and Yoshi, and the war and all that? would that mean she agreed more with Yoshi’s actions more than her dad’s?
that could make really cool scenes once she sees what Yoshi has become, like how she’d think he has changed for the worse by choosing kindness over power (since he exiled himself even though he could have technically fought back if he hadn’t been horrified by the deaths he had caused)
In Karai’s arc, there’s also this bit that parallels Raph, where pre-baxter Karai and Raph had the same questions about the no kill policy to their fathers.
Like if someone comes to you with the intent to kill, you should respond with the intent to kill, it’s only fair.
Only that Karai evolved towards the “yeah it’s only fair” post-baxter Whether Raph evolved towards the “what the fuck was I thinking”
So like when they meet they both see the other as “the wrong path”
Raph is like “god I could have become Shredder” Karai is like “I could have become a weakling”
Also I want to make clear that I gave this bit to RAPH not because hoho angry = murder but because I 100% did NOT want to give it to Leo, Donnie and Raph were the most underdeveloped and giving the “murder ?” Bit to the healer of the team seemed off
Also ! Yeah before I forget lol : post-baxter Karai is absolutely fucking unhinged
Also Ima call pre-baxter Karai just Karai and post-baxter Shredder
Mikey : wow something is incredibly disturbing about you Shredder : :D ! I’m deeply traumatized :D !!!
Also i want colorcoded!Shredder to be written exactly like any other shredders, and not changed or downplayed because it’s Karai Like can you imagine The same prestance and pose and threatning aura than 2012 or Rise but it’s a 16 year old girl
Random person: “who the heck is that guy?” Shredder in full armor, helmet an all, ready to fuckin murder: “I AM NO MAN YOU BASTARD, YOU SHALL PERSISH FOR YOU INSOLENCE-”
Okay so you when Casey starts hanging out more often with thz turtles, he talks about the LGBTQ+ and more precisely about the pronous and genders.
It ESPECIALLY interests Mikey who gets very excited and starts asking everyone their pronouns whenever they see them for the first time that day
Okay so they see Shredder again and Mikey is yelling during the whole fight : “WHAT ARE YOUR PRONOUNS” Karai never answers.
When they discuss it afterwards, it goes like : Raph : “I can’t believe he would attack-” Mikey : “They” Raph : “what” Mikey : “when you don’t know someone’s pronouns you use they/them” Raph, teeth grinding : “fine. I can’t believe THEY attacked us-”
Cue to the turtles saying they to refer to Karai
Also she deadass doesn’t answer because she doesn’t care
They learn it’s she/her through a goon that goes like “You’ll never beat Master Shredder ! She’s s-” Mikey : “Oh so it’s She/her ? :D” Goon : “uh… yeah?” Raph, knocking him out : “well that’s settled”
Mikey, for day 20 : “Good morning brothers ! What are your pronouns ?” Leo, usually supportive : “Mikey if I hear this question one more time I’m throwing you out on a road in front of a truck”
KARAI’S POV :
Oroku Karai was born a bit before the turtles got turned, making her juuuuust a little bit older. As in the day of THEIR 16th she’s like 16/2.
Her birth killed her mother in the process, causing her father, Oroku Saki, to leave Japan and go live in New York, where she will be raised. Saki is all for new things and changes, but he still doesn’t want his daughter to lose her root, so her education will still be japanese style.
Their house will be japanese, with japanese rules, they’d eat japanese (occasionally not, when opting for take outs), speak japanese… You see the idea.
Even thought Karai LOVES her dad, she barely sees him because of his Master of the Foot job, even if he does spend all his free time with her, whenever he can. She’s usually being taken care of by a japanese nanny (saki was deadset on the japanese education), which she loves, but still misses her dad.
Whenever their together (usually in evenings and mornings), he taught her about good and kindness, about respecting the others and treating them the way we’d want to be treated.
As Karai grew, and Saki became older, and more importantly as the Foot settlement in New York was better, Saki had a lot more free time to give his daughter. He spent his days with her, playing with her and hanging out. When he saw she had taken interest in his training, he suggested joining him, and taught her his clan’s ninjaing
She loved the training sessions, it felt the closest she ever had been to her dad. She loved the synced moves and the battle 1vs1. It was so much fun and it was just her and her dad.
As she grew older again, she began to question the clan’s values. Why refrain from killing when someone comes to kill you ? It’s only fair to do the same. Why help those in need all the time ? Shouldn’t they be able to help themselves ? And shouldn’t the clan provide help for those in it first ? Saki brushed her concerns off, talking about a once very close friends, that was haunted by similar questions and went against the Foot, causing death and destruction all around. The path he chose was dark and terrible for many, including the Foot and his own clan. Responding killing attempt by another killing attempt would only mean not being better than them, deciding you can choose who lives or dies, regardless to how precious life truly is.
It settled her questions, understanding what her father was saying, and she never asked again.
The year she turned 16, her ninja training was complete and she integrated the Foot as the master’s right arm. He refused to send her to missions yet, claiming they were too dangerous.
Karai was offended, having defeated in training most of his elite ninjas, feeling more than ready to tackle the real conditions of a mission. Despite her pleas, Saki refused, and determined to prove him wrong, she went anyway on a stealth mission, meant to see what Stockman Entreprise was up to
But as Karai would learn, training and on the terrain combat was extremely different, and she quickly found herself overwhelmed by mousers. Despite the other Foots best attempts, they had no choice but to leave her there, in the hand of non other than Baxter Stockman.
Despite his genius, he had no idea who she was, only knowing a bunch of people similar to her were spying on him. And he didn’t like that. He wanted to make this envy pass, by taking her as an example.
He tortured her for 3 days (let’s not go into graphic details), days during which Saki was constantly storming the lab, not giving Stockman a break once. Tired of it, Stockman released Karai with a warning to never cross his path again.
Saki and the Foot were relieved to have their chunin back, but terrified of the state she was in. In merely 3 days, he destroyed her completely.
That very same night, the turtles were allowed out for the first time and Casey Jones decided to rob a bank. It took Karai a month to physically recover, and even then her face had grown sharper, her eyes duller and lifeless, her body dry and tensed at all time.
Saki spent all his time with her, desesperatly trying to cheer her up, to help her in this, until the day Karai asked him to kill Baxter Stockman. Saki, heart aching, refused, saying revenge wouldn’t do anyone any good.
Karai was furious, hearing that her father didn’t love her enough, that she was useless and weak and she had to recover by herself. 3 months later, Baxter Stockman was dead, and his lab destroyed. No one understood what had happened, including the Foot.
What no one knew, was that when Karai pierced the man with her blade, when she felt the blood drench her clothes and face, she felt good. For the first time in months she felt great, the voices in her head had shut, and pure bliss had recovered every part of her body. And then and there, she knew her father lied. Revenge felt great. And it did her a lot of good. The only reason he didn’t was because he was weak and selfish. Killing made her strong. She could feel it.
Back at the Foot, hiding her crime despite the rush still being there, she finally saw all the flaws, the weakness in the clan. A pathetic, weak clan that did nothing else but help the undeserving. It had to change.
She invited her father to the docks for a little talk, and announced her crime to him, pride overflowing her. Horror is all that appeared on his face, as he said : “The Foot doesn’t kill, Karai.” “It does now” Saki barely registered what happened when the blood started flowing from his wound, his daughter’s blades deep in his chest, bursting his heart. He looked up to her one last time, caressing her face and whispering a heart broken “i’m sorry” before letting his last breath go She left his body there, and returned to the Foot, victorious. She told the Foot that Oroku Saki lived as a weakling and died as one. She said he never deserved the title of master but she did. She was their new master, she was now Master Shredder.
Part of the Foot was shocked, and tried to leave to join the Hamatos, to keep healing and helping like they used to but they were promptly killed. Fear began to rule and every Foot soldier fell in line, fearing the wrath of Shredder Meanwhile, the turtles had found the body of Oroku Saki and brought it to their father, who cried all the tears of his body seeing his brother like this. He buried him properly, in a special room in their home, grieving, pain in his chest.
other splinters : distant masters, mysterious and inspire respect Colorcoded!splinter : heheehohoohooiohohoo ima prank my sons
Yoshi : see see on the LEFT -my left, not yours- here, yes ? okay, so there it’s my BLOOD children, okay ? :) and THERE -my right- it’s my not-really-adopted-but-kinda children :)
well the story starts when the turtles get out (or even before), and he’s technically still there for another 3 months after that
do the turtles ever even meet Saki ?
he’s also there when he gets murdered bhfuirehgeuir he gets his own wittle woom in the sewers they meet his corpse
but they knew who he was !
ohh that’s a good point, was Splinter honest about his own story?
splinter hadn’t really talked about him, until they came back from patrol and talked about that weird organization called the Foot Splinter was not honest about his war crimes. He’s ashamed of it and refuses to talk about it. He just says he’s done bad stuff in the past.
Splinter knew the foot clan was there all along?
he didn’t he only knew when the turtles mentionned it
cause you said Karai and Saki went to new york around the same time the turtles got mutated so that would mean that they all lived in the same city for years (a big city tho, I’ll give them that) and never noticed each other were there xD??
nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo they went to new york some time after Yoshi and the turtles got mutated. It took Saki some time to get ready to go and also even THINK of leaving japan. Yoshi mostly stayed underground and whenever he was out on “errands” he didn’t really pay attention to much besides “food. must go home quickly I’ve left 4 toddlers alone oh god what if they accidentally hurt themselves ? what if they accidentally died it’s all my fault I should be there I’ve gotta go home go home come on”
well, Karai was still raised in new york, so they spent a lot of time there xD but yea i can understand why he wouldn’t have noticed dfhdf
yeah but it’s not like she was wandering into the sewers with her dad for funsies Karai and Saki got to see a lot of new york Yoshi ? Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Okay so big brain moment but do you remember when I told you the only reason Donnie wasn’t leader was because he was the youngest ?
So consider that Donnie’s reaction to being told this is to go : “then TELL THEM i’m the oldest” And Splinter goes mmmmh “okay” They go up to them and Yoshi puts on the best acting mask and goes : “well my sons I have news : it seems I was wrong about how old you all were” Leo : “why are we actually a year older ?” Mikey : “if we are i want a birthday right now” Splinter : “no, not really. What happened was that i miscalculated how old your brother Donatello trully was” The brothers, looking at eachothers : “okay…?” Splinter : “it happens that Donatello is actually all of you’s older brother” Ensue shock and D:< SAY WHAT
And like the entire ep would be just Donnie messing with them and getting payback from all the teasing, with 1 argument “but i’m the OLDER BROTHER. And that makes me RIGHT ! at least that’s what you’d ALWAYS TELL ME, HM ?”
but then Splinter is okay with making Donnie the oldest xD?
He just goes “hehehhohoho that’s funny” Also it’s just temporary for the duration of the ep
Like in the end of the ep he’d pass by and see Donnie messing with his bro and innocently enter and go “ahhh I see the lie is going well :)” Donnie : “D: DAD” the others ):< : “what lie” Splinter : “well he’s not your older brother, of course” He then leaves while they run after donnie to make him pay
Donnie: “DAD YOU RATTED ME OUT >:,(” Splinter: “I am a rat, it’s fitting for me to do so”
It looks super cool!! Also I noticed the symbol of the foot clan looks a bit different? Is that intentional? Also does that mean the whole foot clan’s color scheme is green and not red as is usually is?
yeah :D mostly the change of color, not really the shape (i just got lazy for the shape but it’s the same as classic foot clan fhezfhezor) The red was symbol of Saki (colorcoded white with red accent) so when Karai took over, she changed to green
It’s kinda funny because green, compared to red, is a very non-aggressive color in most representations zbdbf so when Karai takes over it’s like 'bwoop, all nice green now :)!’ even though it’s actually a bad sign here ejdbffj
a long time member of the Foot that saw Karai grow : “oh neat, karai is taking over :D ! Sorry for your loss tho, sweetie” Karai, who is very much not the same person : “what did you call me”
imagine that member was the nanny that took care of her when she was a tiny baby (of course the member died)
ohh that’s a good point, was Splinter honest about his own story?
Splinter was not honest about his war crimes. He’s ashamed of it and refuses to talk about it. He just says he’s done bad stuff in the past.
although I guess in the story there’s no way he’s not gonna get confronted about it and it’ll probably be the cause of arguments in the turtle family like oof they won’t take this well
Unrelated but you know how I said I was starting to see why Saki changed the name of the clan when he took over ? Like how the clan had another name before the Foot clan alright so in the clan’s tradition, whenever a new master take over, they must rename it so it is like a fresh start, with no one knowing that name. Saki chose “Foot clan” because of a silly game he and Yoshi used to play as kids. Karai kept the name because she shits on tradition and also to her it means putting her foot on her enemies’ faces.
Aight so I don’t know about them clans yet but : Baxter Stockman is the one to have spread mutagene all over the world. That’s how scientist in the philipines, France or other places got their hands on it
The clan has the habit of celebrating as holidays the days where the clan changes master and gains a new name. They add up overtime, so if there has been 30 masters, there is 30 holidays. The Foot’s holiday is on August 8, and the Hamato’s on December 2. The clan’s main job is to help and protect those in needs. They use their ressources to get and give food, build homes and give healthcare, all for free. They are not mercenaries and can’t be hired to hurt people. They can cooperate with other organizations to help people (if they’re trying to help neurodivergent people but don’t know how to, they can’t cooperate with an organization specialized in that.) The clan is a big family, and they all know eachothers. They have a main building where the members without homes or in need to shelter can come to rest/eat/live. During holidays or special times, it’s usually packed with people eating, talking, all in a joyous mood. Training happens outside, sometimes inside if the weather is really bad (a little rain or wind isn’t considered really bad. If they get wet they are handed dry clothes once training is over so they don’t get sick). Individuality is encouraged, as well as the hive mind. The masters believed these two ideas can and should co-exist Murder is prohibited, and every member is taught why very soon in their training. It’s mostly about the individual that is killed, the refusal that anyone should decide who should live or die, and the idea that every person is their own tiny world, and killing someone is like destroying a world, no matter how fucked up. Hurting is not adviced unless absolutely necessary, especially grave wounds. When protecting, the clan must fend off the aggressor peacefully and with as little damage as possible on the person. If not given any choice, opt more for defense than offense. (modifié) The clan mustn’t be good at one thing, whether it be fighting or helping. The clan has many individuals with many different skills they should all be using to their full potential. So the clan has builders ninjas, artists ninjas, scientists ninjas… All with ninja training and developping their own competence. They all aim at helping people with their different skills Hurting/attacking a member is like attacking the clan and is seen as a declaration of war. War is a path that should only be taken as last possibility, but always be ready for. If a member is attacked/kidnapped, the clan must do anything to rescue them while still avoiding an all out war that would result in more bad than good. Asserting dominance over another group is stupid and futile and shouldn’t be the aim of the clan, unless the group is threatning the security of the clan’s city. Even then, war must be the last possible option.
Women and children are prohibited from entering the clan, as are “abnormal” people. It is to protect them since they cannot protect themselves and are weaker than regular men. The weapons should stay traditional and learn to master these instead of turning to easier tools, which would weaken the clan and make it lazy. White and black people are prohibited from entering the clan and only be helped if they directly ask to be. They are different and the clan might not understand their needs.
When Saki took over, Saki changed and added some new rules to the clan : The clan should try to have at least one person able to speak a different language, so that the clan is able to communicate with anyone Women, “abnormal” people, and anyone else is welcome to join the Foot and leave as they wish. The weapons can and should evolve over time, as should the clan. If they do not, they will become obsolete and old. The master can organize and make weddings, inbetween any members or member and outsider The members are PAID for their work. Until then they weren’t.
So when Yoshi left, unlike Saki he didn’t change anything (ah yes, traditions ) i like the idea that there’s conflict about all his old conservative ideasvdbdvdvdvd Like the members of the Hamato clan are from the Foot and they LIKED THOSE CHANGES. And while they agree completely changing the clan’s code sucks, these little changes were good. Since Yoshi was the worst little shit, he told them to fuck off ahdvbzvd
Much much later when Yoshi became Splinter and he had a good life, although he understood respecting traditions at all costs was a BAD idea, he still wanted to respect them.
Cue April asking to be part of the clan and Yoshi going ):< but u a woman. Woman weak. April probably going D:< EXCUSE ME. Probably conflict and confrontation and in the end Splinter finally understand why Saki changed these points and why some of his hamato ninjas left and how much of a jerk he was being and he regrets and does his best to repent.
And of course he makes April part of the Hamato clan :)
Yoshi 30 years ago : Tradition ™️. If Tradition says something, then Tradition is right. He ISN’T technically racist nor sexist, he just follows the old recipe without thinking AS HE AGES THO HE STARTS USING BRAIN AND GOES “hol'up”
no no I think I know what you’re gonna say dgsvdvd, I get that he’s technically not racist and sexist, I was exaggerating xDD, but like, in being so caught up in respecting tradition and not allowing certain people to join the clan, he kinda is in a way??
ahh yes, going from what you’ve been taught your entire life without questioning it and then getting a huge slap in the face once you start actually thinking about it
Leo, slapping his dad’s head : equality good Yoshi : but- Leo : no but
I like the idea that the bois don’t think like him because they just listened to the good things he said and the bullshit they were like : that’s bullshit. And also April’s influence helped a lot :)
Like imagine hanging out with they girl friend and later splinter goes : girls are weaker And they go : holdup
the turtles, Casey and April, @Splinter: “we about to make u unlearn all the shit you been taught”
And like, YEAH, he sucks on that side, but on the other side, he’s a really present and affectionate father, unlike most of his versions
He tries and want to do better : he will :)
“what, the master of the foot clan is a GIRL ?! My sons what have you been doing, losing against a girl ):<” April, teeth grinding : “why don’t you come with us next patrol” After the patrol : Splinter : “jesus fucking christ” Everyone else : “yeah”
Karai do be as skilled as literally every other Shredders so she’s straight up terrifying
Some good for Splinty : He’s a really good dad and pays a lot of attention to his sons. Now I’ve been saying that a lot without developing so : For example, he always busted his ass when they were small to make good food although he never learned how to do it before (he’s not really interested in good food). He learned to cook and make tasty and good things for them as they grew, trying his best to expand their tastebuds while still staying pretty Japanese since well he is.
As they grew, he spent a lot of time with them and encouraged their activities, never forcing them to do anything they wouldn’t like (beside chores). If they really didn’t feel like doing chores (to a heavy degree and not just complaining), they would watch a movie or play a bit and then do the chores all together as a family activity.
He never closed his bedroom door in case any of them wanted to sleep with him, because of nightmares or simply because they wanted to. Mikey and Donnie did it more than the others, since Leo and Raph were the Older Brothers ™️ and were embarassed.
When they were younger, he’d often take time to read them a story before bed.
When he was a kid, Raph was scared of the dark, but didn’t want to admit it. He’d often have meltdowns in the middle of the night and Splinter couldn’t figure out why. He payed more attention to his behavior before bed and finally noticed his tendency to avoid dark rooms, even for just a second. He innocently suggested putting on lights in the corridor during the night, pretexting that he kept bumping into furnitures (he didn’t), and the kids agreed (because they did bump into furnitures).
Since they couldn’t exactly go to school, Splinter took care of their education, teaching them all he knew and more, going to websites and learning more to teach his sons.
They couldn’t get out much for obvious reasons, but soon enough the bois wanted to see more so Splinter would often sneak them out to go to an abandonned spot he saw during his “grocery shopping”. They’d picnic there in the night, and the bois would play on the roof happily.
As they grew older and discovered pizza, they didn’t want to tell Splinter because they felt like it would be disrespecting his cooking, but Splinter noticed their excitement about it and decided to learn how to make them. There were. Incidents the first times he did so (secrets, of course). But overtime learned to make a basic pizza he innocently presented to his sons (bonus april that had come by). They were absolutely delighted, and Splinter kept making them from time to time (but not ALL the time, because that’s not a good diet)
As April came by more often, and his sons were growing older, he got worried about the Romance™️ and decided it was time for the Talk. He never was really secretive about it before and it wasn’t a tabou in the family so they already had a vague idea of what it was, and weren’t embarassed much about it. He taught them about respecting the partner, and consent… They DID grow uncomfortable when he mentionned their anatomy and the difference with human anatomy and showed pictures.
When they would messed up or do bad he wouldn’t YELL at them or anything, he’d just sit with them and explain why it’s bad, the consequencies and why they shouldn’t do it again and what they should do if they did want to do it again.
He’d respect their privacy, always and at all times, even when he’s worried and he’s missing a bit of information to help, he would never go through their rooms or anything. He would always knock before entering, and never go through their private belongings.
He has a shit ton of pictures of them in his room He always tells them how proud he is of them He hangs out with them all the time unless they don’t want to
splinter : how are you my son you’re so tall Donnie, messing with him : what ? i can’t hear you’re too far down
Mikey: “how’s the weather up here? ” Donnie: “>:(”
if he isn’t, it could be a good occasion for a side story with him or soemthing Casey isn’t present when Yoshi mourns Saki’s death. He’s doing smth else.
imagine mikey tired of drawing a specific member of his family and he just appears in their room at night with a knife : “it’s for character development. My character development”
Donnie: “MIKEY WHY?” Mikey:“FAMILY PICTURES ARE EASIER TO DRAW WITHOUT YOU”
Mikey : “you’re the youngest no one will see you’re gone” Donnie : “THAT MAKES NO SENSE”
Mikey: “Donnie is so hard to draw” Leo: “Well, it’s a family drawing you’re doing, isn’t it? Would be weird if you didn’t draw one of us” Mikey: “lol what if Donnie died, then I wouldn’t have to draw him haha, just kidding…. unless” Donnie, sweating: “what”
Mikey : “What if. Donnie wasn’t part of the family anymore” Donnie : “what” Mikey : “If we kick him out, I don’t have to draw him in the family pictures anymore, right ?” Donnie : “Is nobody going to say anything” Mikey : “Like he’s a reject. We reject him from the family. No one wants to see him anymore.” Donnie : “I feel incredibly loved right now.”
Mikey: “I’ll give you twenty bucks it you exile yourself from our family” Donnie, hearing this without any context: “ I’m sorry what”
Mikey: “I can’t pay you more because I need some money for pizza”
mikey really went : “mmmmh how much is donnie worth” mikey : “mmmh how much money do i have”
Raph, who has context: “wow Mikey, Donnie isn’t worth this little!” Donnie: … Raph: “At least add ten bucks to that” Donnie: D:<
Splinter: “My sons, a life should never be quantified with money as if it were a mere possession” Donnie: :) Splinter, with a smirk: “but if we were to quantify it-” Donnie: “DAD NO-”
imagine him going, really dry : “i already know i’m not worth anything, you don’t have to remind me every five seconds” and then they go “hahaha- wait what”
Donnie, much later: “do you guys really think I’m worth this little :’(?” Everyone, immediately: oh shit what
Mikey: “I will draw you 100 times please don’t think that about yourself ”
imagine, an ep where it starts like that, and Donnie doesn’t voice his hurt, but we can see he got hurt, and then later in the ep, he’s like taking hostage or smth and the bois are offered a huge amount of money to give him up and they’re like “are you fucking kidding me i’m not selling my baby brother what the hell is wrong with you” and then after the rescue donnie is like “so… i’m worth more than that price ?” and they’re like 0.0 “WELL YEA ????”
“Donnie my brother we love you of course we’re not selling you what the fuck” “but you said- ):” “we were messing with you oh my god donatello did you take it seriously”
Leo : “Donnie. Donnie I need you to look at me dead in the eyes. Did you think we really thought you were worth 20 bucks” Donnie : Leo : “Holy shit. Guys. Guys we need a Donnie appreciation day like right now”
Donnie has Self Esteem issues
Has Splinter explained everything to his sons by this point? Or dies he explain after Saki dies?
no by this point they brought back the dude they recognised as the Oroku Saki their dad sometimes talk about, and he just cried
How did they recognize him?
he has a picture of the two of them young in his room
they found his body on the docks and went “oh shit”
Was he already dead when they found him or was there a chance he could survive? No he was very much dead
he died pretty fast, karai is good at stabbin’
they knew it was that one guy their dad really really liked and they kinda went “well. we can’t just. leave him here.”
Well yeah but what where they gonna do after that xD? Burry him in the sewers? Pretty sure that’s not an option jejffb Wouldn’t it make more sense for them to call their dad and have him rejoin them ?
oh they had no fucking clue. to be fair, it’s basically the first ever corpse they ever encountered, and it was that one guy they heard about their entire childhood kinda shocking
it would make more sense yeah. however remember their literal first encounter with casey ? The bois are not great under pressure (at first)
-shock “fuck. what do we do”
oh yeah btw at that point they already KNEW Saki was around in New York, since they saw the Foot clan (good), and talked about it to their dad
they don’t now who killed him at first
From what you said before, Karai didn’t seem be hide at all that she killed him, right?
she straight up told the foot clan
So they probably learn it soon enough zjdbd
Seeing Saki dead was a huge shock for Yoshi.
Yoshi never knew Karai, right?
noooooo she was born long long long after he left she was born like 6 months before the turtles mutation
okay so there would be this recurring background character named steve, and he would always be making comments during a scene (when they turtles are in public) where it’s like “OMG imagine if [insert here an extremely detailed and graphic moment in tmnt 2012] would it be fucked up or what” And there would always be at least one person with him that would say “shut the fuck up steve” and then in universe, there would be on social medias the start of the hashtage : #steve needs therapy
that character would exist for the sole purpose of paying tribute to 2012 while also pointing out how fucked up it was also instead of going to therapy he makes a comic about the turtles
so there’s this #steve needs therapy but they don’t know Steve IS a therapist, and he IS Casey’s therapist and he still made those comments and a comic
turns out Steve is perfectly fine and healthy in his head he just digs fucked up shit
Steve: “It’s just how I cope with stuff”
APRIL can be SUPER INTENSE when she’s passionate about something (i’m talking rise!casey level of intense), and because of that she doesn’t have any friends besides the turtles until Casey comes around.
She was bullied when she was young because of that, and since then she is VERY against bullying when it comes to her friends (or not actually but with her friends more). When it’s about her she kinda regress back and goes into a ball and doesn’t do or say anything (haha trauma go brr).
So if her friends are bullied (in the traditional way like Casey or by super villains like the turtles) she can go mental and try to DECK whoever bullied
Like imagine Shredder messing with them. Do you see how that can be a problem.
Like you know how some villains sometimes are totally capable to killing/finishing the hero and instead they kinda play with them ? April considers that irrespect and bullying and she hates it. Like the idea that “they’re not a threat enough for me to end them” or that they’re simply not taken seriously.
April is a stress cleaner ! So whenever she has a big exam coming up, the turtles ALWAYS invites her to “relax” and she ends up cleaning the whole lair. Splinter disapproves of using her like this, but on the other hand, she does seem more relaxed (BECAUSE SHE’S BONE TIRED) and the lair is shiny after she passes through.
METALHEAD ! My boi, my man, my bot.
Metalhead, or Meets for short, is mute ! They communicates through sign language. However since none of the turtle family knows sign language and that it would be kinda useless since most of them have 4 fingers (including Meets), Metalhead invented a sign language proper to their 4 fingers thing. Everyone is currently learning it but Raph is way more advanced (donnie second, mikey third and leo last) because turns out he and Meets get along REALLY WELL.
Metalhead is interested with science, of course, it created them after all and they thinks science, looks science, I mean you get it. He’s also interested in it because he simply thinks it is interesting. He likes the idea of being able to Explain everything, even the weirdest things. However even if they do like science, they like gossip as well, as it’s the science of the relationship between people, and also it’s really fun and stupid and they love it.
Raph found in Meets the perfect gossip partner ESPECIALLY since they have abilities, such as seeing through walls and enhanced hearing. But to get the gossip, he needs to be able to understand what Meets is saying. So he’s extremely motivated to learn sign langage
I will probably do mistakes because I suck at this (i still don’t know why) but Metalhead is they/them. I might misgender them like an asshole and i’m sorry ):
Like I said, Meets invented a sign language, and he likes and dislikes some things. Turns out Metalhead is a self-learning AI, and if Donnie was super proud of it at first, he quickly grew worried and scared of the consequencies (cough cough movies) and decided to shut him down. Much to everyone’s surprise, Metalhead isn’t really kin on dying, so he fought back and escaped. At that point Donnie believes he created a powerful super-villain and he’s full on having a panic meltdown.
His brothers and friends reassures him and help him go looking for it. They all have a lot of trouble finding it, until they realize it’s with the Mutanimals, hiding.
They took it in thinking it was a really fucked up mutant. The turtle family bust in, explains the situation and the mutanimals are like “… I don’t know mate they seem pretty cool. Have you tried talking to them before going on a rampage ?”
Donnie is confused (cough cough movies) and looks at Metalhead and they look DOWNRIGHT TERRIFIED. And then the turtle family looks at eachother and go : :0 oh. Ohhhhh we were huge assholes there for a hot minute.
Anyway they’re adopted now
Metalhead looks like a tiny metallic version of the turtles. They’re around Splinter size, don’t have no mouth but super expressive eyes. Their colorcode is pink
And purple tinted metal because donnie made him avsvavsb
They DO have the sewer shell because UwU. They might have an upgrade with smth similar to apocalypse!donnie’s ears, but not sure. Depends if the turtles understand their emotions only based on eyes or not I need to design them but yevahdcjavds meets:) They have their own room also. They share it with Shelldon. (Shelldon is a big fan of Meets)
When I said “science” in the broad way it was intentional, because they’re interested in all the fields. They learn engineering with Don and then go search more informations on more fields elsewhere. They quickly becomes more skilled and knowledgeable than Donnie because of their robot brain that can stock info
