#raphaela hamato

TEENAGE MUTANT SIBLINGS: THE BEGINNING

Mikey is the oldest at age 17, and is a Scorpion mud turtle.

Donnie is the second oldest at age 15, and is a Black softshell turtle.

Raph is the second youngest at 14 (and ten hours!!), and is a Black knobbed map turtle.

Leo is the youngest at 14, and is a Blanding's turtle.

^ in age order

They all have human designs because of cloaking magic, and Splinter is still a human named Hamato Hiroshi.

Mikey is a trans man (he/him, 6'1)

Donnie is agender (they/them, 5'7)

Raph is a trans girl (she/her, 5'1)

and Leo doesn't care about gender (any pronouns, 5'5)

Mikey is bi, Donnie is a lesbian, Raph is bi with a preference for women and Leo is aroace.

The main villian is not shredder, nor Karai.

It is a very powerful yōkai who found out that the american government experimented on a human and four baby turtles, before the lab "mysteriously" blew up and the results were deemed inconclusive.

Hamato Karai is Hiroshi's older sister, and is the person he called after being experimented on by the american government in an attempt to make indestructible supersoldiers. He moves back to Japan and lives close to her in Osaka. She is the cool aunt. It is her.

Hiroshi is a single dad raising four mutant teenagers, and teaches them ninjustu in case anything bad happens in the future. (Which. It will.)

Mikey uses nunchaku as well as a kusari-fundo, Donnie uses a metal bō staff outfitted with hidden blades that's painted to look uncannily like wood, Raph uses tonfa as well as sai, and Leo uses dual katanas with hidden tantō in his belt.

Mikey's fashion sense is very bright and flowy, taking inspiration from harajuku streetwear. He loves anything bright and comfortable, with as much freedom to move in as possible. His fashion icons are Myspace Scene Kings/Queens, A Certain Kpop Idol (Jung Hoseok.), and Lil Nas X.

Donnie's fashion sense is basically just goth, techwear, and cybergoth in various shades of purple, black, and maybe sometimes indigo. Their fashion icons are Ye Olde Myspace Cybergoths, Vkei idols, and young Donatella Versace.

Raph's fashion sense is deceptively cutesy. Anything pink, fluffy, comfy and lolita-inspired. She wears bike shorts under every outfit, and is adept at fighting in any kind of outfit, though she's always sad if one gets ruined. And then she beats up the person who ruined it. Her biggest style icons are Princess Peach, Strawberry Shortcake and Kyary Pamyu Pamyu.

Leo's fashion sense is very androgynous, with inspirations from mode fashion, academia and classic 2000's aesthetics. Their fashion icons are David Bowie, Yohji Yamamoto, and (according to Raph) "Every librarian ever."

All of them are blasian, and ended up moving to New York with their father and aunt when Mikey was 15. They currently live in Brooklyn.

the turtles ^

karai (46, she/her)