I honestly didn't know that I missed it, but I feel like I have to do something for it. So here's my new adopted turtle son that I got from an aquarium! Still gotta give him a name so if there are any suggestions let me know 🙏😔
Plus some pictures from the aquarium, of the turtles I saw (I have an obsession)
Mask/Bandana/Headband Color: Very dark grayish blue (hex code: 696b6e)
Significant Other: None (She’s literally a teen lizard. Let her figure things out first.)
(Personality, Bio, SAINW, Other Info below)
Personality: She arrived to Splinter and the Turtles as a skittish, quiet little lizard. She was still shy for a while and the boys, Mikey especially (since he’s the most sociable out of them), helped her break out of her shell. (Figuratively speaking, of course). She’s kind, much more energetic than she once was, intelligent, imaginative, witty, adaptable/flexible, passionate, relentless, and has a strong will and a sense of justice much like her brothers. She is confident most of the time, but there are still times when she feels she’s not enough.
Backstory/Info: On June 18, 1988, she was hatched in an underground laboratory sometime after her older siblings hatched too. For most of her infant years, she was handed off to other staff like caretakers, nurses, etc. One of these staff members would become sympathetic to her.
When she was finally of age, she was sent off to testing. Testing the mind, hoping to use her age to begin absorbing more information. Testing her body and its limits, and her reflexes. What did these tests entail and what was the main goal of the program? Who really knows. She didn’t.
Whatever it all was for, she figured she must’ve upset them cause they were getting frustrated over her not showing much prowess by their standards, hearing things like, “Maybe the next one won’t be such a disappointment.”
And even later she heard, “perhaps when it matures, we can use it for.. other uses.. Find a suitable match…. Combining one with a capable mind and body with a friendlier stature would be more… beneficial.”
Essentially she was seen as nothing more than an unwilling pawn in a game she had no idea she was in.
Later on, a former resident of the laboratory had returned. An older, fawn-colored rat who was seeking her pups, releasing plenty of subjects to do so and one of them was the little gecko. The rat woman picked her up and kept her has a companion for a long while after they escaped the laboratory.
However it was only for a small time and they began catching on. The rat mutant would leave the lizard in the borrow and begin causing a panic with the armed men, tearing through them and leading them far away from the little one.
The lizard girl would be found by four turtle tots and a dark grey rat, who would not only keep her out of sight from the returning forces, but also take her in and name her Isabella after looking through a book on Italian Renaissance history.
And the rest of her story follows the series. However Isabella wouldn’t see the rat woman for a long time.. Not until they all encounter Bishop, but that’s for another day.
SAINW: During a Foot lab infiltration, Isabella would be found by the guys (who’re reunited with Donny and working together to find a way to put Shredder down for good). Tubes and machines were hooked up on her.
She looked so exhausted from all they put her through. She had lost so much, first Donny disappeared, Splinter died, Casey was gone, her brothers fought then separated, and Zephaniah and his group would be lost sometime after a fight with Shredder’s space fleet. Isabella was only captured because of a mission that went awry and she forced April to get out before she could get captured too, insisting the rebels needed a headstrong person in charge. When she failed to do her part in providing a decent service to Shredder's forces, she was kept alive to suffer for causing so much trouble for him back her youth.
There’s a mix of disbelief and shock when she saw the guys together after she gained consciousness. She believed her will to fight died after all the loss but Don pointed out one thing. (“Isa, sis… if your will was really gone then you would’ve been long gone too. I think you know that… And I know underneath all that’s happened, you’re still the same person as I knew years ago.”) It might not have had her up and running but it did reignite something in her and she helped all she could.
When the final fight with Shredder would take place, Isabella would take it upon herself to go through the human forces with April. She would find the lead scientist of that laboratory (who had arrived with a report for Shredder) and attacked him before he could get away. There was only one thing she said to him. (“You took them from me…. My sons… I won’t let you take anyone else..”) She had snapped that man’s neck with her tail and left him to rot while her brothers were handling Shredder and the Karai bots.
She did find the other three dead and watched Don disappeared, but she had a new goal in mind. Find out just where exactly her sons were sent and what did the Foot tech find in a message they intercepted from space?
Other Notable Stuff:
Isabella is named after Isabella d'Este, a Marchioness of Mantua and one of the leading women of the Italian Renaissance as a major cultural and political figure.
Her MBTI personality type would be ISFJ (aka the Defender) along with an enneagram of 6w5. (I put myself into Isabella’s point of view while going through the tests. I will get a much more accurate version of personality tests at a later date).
She received some scars across her chest from the first fight with Shredder.
Just like her brothers, she is a practitioner of Qi Gong, something that is shown in the Space arc. (Raph does it the best though).
Raph will never let her live down the fact that she had a childhood crush on Gex the Gecko. Of course, she'll never let him live down the fact that he crocheted a teddy bear for her.
Later in life when she’s an adult, she’d live in an old lighthouse that’s renovated and would eventually have Inizio (aka baby Drako) in her care.
