That’s right. I made my own iteration of TMNT called “Teenage Mutant Spirit Hunters”. I have been on a drug high for these turts for the past two years so I decided to give a proper introduction to this iteration I’ve been working on since then.
This spirit hunters iteration is heavily inspired by the anime demon slayer and on the Japanese religion known as Shinto (a religious belief based on the worship of ancestors, nature spirits, and sacred power in both animate and inanimate things).
Spirit hunters takes place in the city of New York (duh) and the story begins where a series of mysterious disappearances occur in a subway. The person investigating this story is none other than April O’Neil. While investigating these sudden events she, of course, stumbles upon the turtles and their father master splinter. Splinter then has the idea to train all four of his sons in ninjutsu combat and to work with Ms. O’Neil to track down the people who disappeared and attempt to save them.
I will try to put this story together properly later on for, at the moment, I’m trying to put together their origin story and am currently not sure if I should write this story, make it into a comic, or write the story out as a blueprint and then make a comic. For now I have the main character’s designs and some world building explanations.
Relics and their power explained :
In this iteration, the turtles have these items known as relics. These relics give the turtles a transformed form and have two known categories, Division Relics and Conduit Relics. Conduit relics work as a way to synchronize a powerful spirit mortal’s (the turtles) power and can be summoned in the bearer’s desired second form (like a bracelet turning into weapon for example). A Division relic works the same way, but instead of synchronizing a spirit mortal’s power, it suppresses a memory that causes spiritual corruption. If said relic is broken then what occurs is called a Spiritual Divide, which is the equivalent of death. Leonardo is the only turtle of the four that has this relic.
April O’Neil full body line up :
Master Splinter (Hamato Yoshi) full body line up :
I hope to expand on this fan iteration and the characters more and if anybody wants to ask questions about this iteration, I will gladly answer them!❤️