#ember(oc)

Ember, just a normal teen Yokai, living in the hidden city, one day crossed path with two mutant turtles. 

Being the youngest of a litter of 5 he enjoys many advantages of being the littlest and knows how to use them. Due to the exceptional good hearing of his family, they all learned using ASL at a very young age to prevent unnecessary noise while being home. 

His parents are proud about their familys well known hearing but not all of their children are sharing that feeling. Some of Embers siblings deliberately damage their hearing capacity to be less sensitive to the loud noises of the world. His oldest brother, who was looking after the youngest when being himself quite young, at some point just couldn't handle the high pitched cries of his tiny baby siblings anymore and made a desperate, rash and not well thought thru decision which ended with him now being deaf on his right ear. 

Even if their parents are strongly against these tactics, they accepted their decisions and provided help to prevent the same happening to the rest of their children who decided to decrease their hearing. Together with the use of spells found in Witch Town, buying enchanted talismans from scryers or finding gadgets from the humans above, they try to bring as much relief to their children as it is possible for them without actually harming themself.

Ember is one of the few who had denied that "procedure" and is still capable of hearing every little sound in a 15 miles radius. He is experiencing regular meltdowns and gets overwhelmed hard from time to time but he is still gloating with his capability to catch all the tea going around in their neighborhood. 

After meeting and getting to know Mika and Oron a bit better he spends a lot of his time with them, roaming thru human trash or just adventuring the nature around the hidden city. He even tries to teach Oron some ASL due to him denying to learn speaking, so they can have little conversations. 

Seing Mika handling being alone with Oron and doing quite well for what he's having, Ember is quite fascinated by him. He loves hearing him tell story's about fights and dangerous situations he tumbled into. After endless begging and pleading Mika eventually even teaches him some fight moves and tactics he learned over the years on the streets and in no time Ember found himself crushing head over heals for the red turtle mutant.

After Mika and Oron met the Hamato brothers and finding a more stable home among them, they invited Ember to lessen his worries of them being so close to humans.

Ember, who never ever left the safety of the hidden city since being a pup, needed a bit time and some self convincing pep talk to himself to eventually make his way up and into the sewers of New York.

In the depth of the night he made his way into the lair, having no problem to follow the faint sound of Mikas snoring and Orons little thrills to guide his way thru the labyrinth of the tunnels. Avoiding an insomniac Leo cooking tea in the kitchen and making a big sidestep around the metal doors with the obnoxious dub step seeping thru, he found his way between the two turtle mutants he knew and spend the rest of the night just listening to all the new sounds around him.

The next day he eventually got the meet the Hamato Brothers properly and apologized for his secretive invasion.

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That's all I got without extending this even more! I hope you enjoyed reading that and thank you for hanging on till the end!

Next up will definitely be Mika! >:D

Here are some close ups for the better quality!