Princess of darkness and crows.

2003 Leo->Leonardo

2012 Leo->Leo

I mean he:

Gets his home invaded by the Kraang

Has to abandon his Master Splinter to lead his brothers away from danger

Gets separated from his brothers during an alien invasion

Gets jumped by the footbots, Shredder’s henchmen men, and the Shredder himself while separated from his brothers.

Fights tooth and nail to get away, ends up slipping and taking a plunge into cold water, and then gets shredded by the shredder

Is finally flung through the window but is knocked out cold

Is in a coma for THREE MONTHS because of this incident

Wakes up with NYC effectively taken over by aliens, Master Splinter is MIA (possibly dead), has an absolutely shattered foot (F- the ‘it’s all in my head crap’), and he can’t even recognize his own voice.

AND on top of ALL THAT. He has to go through all the creepy/weird stuff (which was basically just horror movie plot after horror movie plot) that happened during the farm arc while recovering from his injuries.

I mean he:

Gets his home invaded by the Kraang

Has to abandon his Master Splinter to lead his brothers away from danger

Gets separated from his brothers during an alien invasion

Gets jumped by the footbots, Shredder’s henchmen men, and the Shredder himself while separated from his brothers.

Fights tooth and nail to get away, ends up slipping and taking a plunge into cold water, and then gets shredded by the shredder

Is finally flung through the window but is knocked out cold

Is in a coma for THREE MONTHS because of this incident

Wakes up with NYC effectively taken over by aliens, Master Splinter is MIA (possibly dead), has an absolutely shattered foot (F- the ‘it’s all in my head crap’), and he can’t even recognize his own voice.

AND on top of ALL THAT. He has to go through all the creepy/weird stuff (which was basically just horror movie plot after horror movie plot) that happened during the farm arc while recovering from his injuries.

It still wouldn't surprise me if every once and a while he’d lie awake at night staring at the ceiling just thinking:

While most people would be unable to shift back and forth, Karai can simply because she was exposed to mutagen before her mutation by being in constant close proximity to the turtles. Making the turtles a bit like poison, the more humans are exposed to them, the less the mutation affects humans. So unbeknownst to Casey, he’s slowly built a slight immunity to mutagen.

Additionally, people from the Hamato clan are slightly resistant to mutagenic effects (which they possibly got from a Kraang experiment with humans in the Hamato clan way, way back in the clan’s history—kinda like April). It isn’t that much of a resistance, but it was partly why Splinter’s mutant form and the turtle’s mutant form are so stable. They had a slight edge above other individuals like Timothy, allowing them to keep more stable, humanoid forms.

That’s 2012 Splinter, in a nut shell.

The last three here are submissions, thank you very much to @sabyfangirl for those!

It is highly reminiscent of Trump voters who can't comprehend why people who do not support Donald Trump no longer wish to maintain those relationships. "It's just politics; I can't believe they'd end a friendship over politics" is the refrain, with no comprehension of the impact those "politics" are having on ordinary people.

I suppose there is some psychology of authoritarianism etc here, but, woof.