Let me introduce you to my newborn iteration of the tuts :)
Underground village of escaped mutants created by the kraang. One of them - a mutated master of ninjitsu who came to NYC to give lessons and so to say adopted the turtles (fought them off in a battle with kraang). Had family back at home. Was killed after a particularly big fight.
My OC (unnamed yet) and Leatherhead: a breach in kraang’s place had appeared, two mutants escaped. One took the power source, he ran off alone. The other was not able to keep up, stayed close and met the turtles (about a year after splinter’s death). Pupper (my GF’s OC) was mutated by accident later.
FAMILY DYNAMIC OF TURTLES AND SPLINTER:
Splinter being a good father, he still could not properly go through being mutated (his self-rejection passed onto kids) and being permanently separated from his family, WITHOUT THE FAMILY KNOWING. Deep depression evolved with time, kids try to be as interesting/good/ noticable as possible).
Leo tried hard to become a copy of his father to better understand him; works hard to be good at ninjitsu and Village’s missions in general, to make father (and the village) proud. Started parenting his sibs after learning about disfunctional families, seeing father’s struggle and wanting him to relax + his sibs to feel supported. DEEP AND RATIONAL THINKING, SELF-IGNORING, GREATER GOOD (consider God complex)
Mikey set his goal to unleash what his father felt. Being not-so-mentally-sound, he finds feelings and emotions really simple. Is always aside his family members, trying to feel their minds, provide them comfort. Becoming unnoticeable with time, starts being loud and funny, also trying to distract everyone from negative emotions (even tho knowing it to be a bad tactic; it had more instant effect). Still not feeling properly seen, separates himself and turns to his minor hallucinations/other from a mental illnes. Hormonal disbalance leads to major behavior swings. IN THE MOMENT, EVERYTHING GOES, ACTIVE INNER CONFLICT (copies personalities of fam members?)
Raph does not have patience for negative emotions (desperation, sadness). Impulsive and short tempered, bonding fast and hard, has the WORST separation anxiety out of all sibs. Initiates most fam activities, has them all together for meals, etc. Tries to get affirmations from his father, that he does the right things to make them all happy. Gets explosive when rejected/unnoticed. With time starts to ignore affirmations, acts in spite, still deeply caring of sibs, hoping for them to read thru his temper. NO PAUSE, INFERIORITY COMPLEX, STRONGEST SURVIVE
Donnie. Being easily overwhelmed, avoids much attention. Feels cared for when sibs take acts of silent attention. Father being too deep in his struggles, didn’t show much attention/acknowledging to Donnie, which made him feel unwanted/uncared for. Feels the least attached to Splinter out of all the kids. Does not take actions towards Splinter. Along with Mikey watches everyone, noticing tons of things, remembering them; sibs turn to him for advice/answer, deeming him the smartest in the world cuz of this. Feels above others since being used to everyone not being attentive to surroundings. Caught a special interest in engineering after hanging out with sum adult mutant. KNOW-IT-ALL, FOLLOWER, NO SETTLED OPINIONS?
Fam never had personal convos aside from spirit training, which led to the kids not being connected to father but naturally dependent on him as a parent figure. Poor communication inside their home, the Village does not have time to develop deeper relations but being a good coordinated community for shared goal, which turned into life goal/the only meaning for almost all of the mutants.
April lives with a dream to be the chosen one, significant. She tries a lot of things, not being too outstanding in any of them, and feels disappointment after every another try. Craves a feeling of being noticed, a star of the news at least for something small (in her view). Has a very active video-blog.
Trying another bunch of activities, she reached a pretty low point mentally. She felt that being the “hard trying underachiever, that had such a brilliant mind, but such bad conditions that she decided not to try anymore” is more satisfying than what she had been. Trying random drugs that were popular in her deep shit school, she intended to overdose in the creepy part of the city, with tons of abandoned buildings, FILMING herself. During this she met the turtles; they had been having a tough fight with the kraang, made some miscalculations, needed help. Supporting team of Villagers had been late; sometime during this, April made a choice to step in (partly out of her dream). The other option was to film everything and report evil robots. She craved to be a part of something big. She acted, wanting to accomplish that, eventually getting mildly hurt but buying turtles time to re-organize and finish the battle. Thought this was a bad-bad high trip, until she lost consciousness, woke up being nursed by mutants, met human allies of the mutants, and spent several weeks in a state of derealization.
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