now it seems that the spirits demand more info on this swap au (specifically foot clan and other villains)
No of course I didn't forget to answer this idk what you're talking about that doesn't sound like me at all 👀
Admittedly, I don't really have a ton thought out. I kinda didn't realize just how many villains the turtles have in 2012 until I got to working on it lol.
The foot were still wiped out by the Hamato back when Oroku Saki was too young to remember. Splinter took over the Hamato and basically made them evil for lack of a simpler explanation.
Stuff went down, and Oroku Saki took in Karai/Miwa and decided to flee to the States. He received aid in his and his adopted daughter's escape from a close friend of his, Takeshi, (a.k.a. Tigerclaw UwU).
In this au, Tigerclaw is still a bounty hunter. However, he's a good man who lives by a strict code. He may be the best of the best, but he refuses to kill a single soul, him seeing the act of taking another's life as horrendous.
Once in the U.S., Tigerclaw returned to Japan, continuing with his line of work while personally keeping an eye on the Hamato as a means to protect Saki. He visits maybe once or twice a year, and is a beloved uncle figure to Karai.
Now, in the states, Oroku Saki didn't really know anyone. He was in a foreign country with a foreign culture; on top of that, he's a single father trying to care for a young girl barely a year old. It's a lot to handle alone.
Until one day, while Saki and Karai were grocery shopping in the big city, (Karai being the adventurous toddler I'm sure she was) decided to wander off when her adopted father wasn't looking.
Saki nearly had a heart attack, searching for what felt like hours before finally finding two men playing with her outside of a russian themed bakery.
They introduced themselves as Anton Zeck and Ivan Steranko (who would later be given the nicknames Bebop and Rocksteady by Raphael)
Ivan and Anton would become close friends with Saki, acting as Karai's adopted uncles.
The russian themed bakery? That's owned by Ivan, using his Babushka's old recipes to recreate what he calls an "Authentic Mother-Russia Experience"
I'm still trying to figure out what Anton does for a living. What I do know however is that he spends way too much of his time trying to sneak into Ivan's kitchen.
The two are a bit eccentric, but they're loyal to the end.
In case it isn't clear already, I swapped Rocksteady with Murakami San, and tagged Bebop along because I didn't dare separate the dynamic duo <3
Hopefully that answers your question!