Rise Roulette: Mill
I had a lot of different ideas for what to name this one. Something about cousins or pizza, but in the end I decided to name it after Senor Hueso’s place, Run of the Mill, since that’s where a lot of things in this AU converge.
Leo & Mikey are together in this one, both sons of Senor Hueso. They both work at Hueso's restaurant as waitstaff and can get really competitive with one-upping each other. Excellent customer service, but they need some ground rules and a referee to keep things from getting out of hand. They have a tally on a whiteboard in the kitchen and frustratingly have been evenly matched for months. Hueso wishes they would take this energy somewhere other than his restaurant sometimes. He is very glad to see that aside from their competitiveness, the brothers are very close.
Raph grew up with Sunita's family. After being lost in the lab explosion, he ended up being brought to a yokai orphanage. He and Sunita went to the same playgrounds as kids and became best friends and eventually Sunita's family adopted him. He had an average yokai childhood in the Hidden City, went to school, learned about Googlyschmootz culture, got a part-time job at a small grocer to save up for his own cloaking brooch. Sunita is his best friend and biggest supporter, and when she goes up to the surface and befriends April he has to admit he's a little jealous.
Meanwhile, Donnie is raised by Capitan Piel, and that's where the cousins part comes in. He is distantly aware that he has an uncle and that uncle has children, but knows that this uncle and his dad are estranged. Capitan Piel has told Donnie a lot of stories of their younger days and that he wants to make up with his brother one of these days. Donnie doesn't understand why. His role on the ship is mostly to help keep things running, he's good with his hands and he doesn't get to do any actual pirating stuff until he's older. He ends up being one of the few on the crew with a covert enough reputation that he can wander the Hidden City unnoticed by the police, so he's one of the ones that runs errands and gets supplies, along with some trinkets and parts he doesn't exactly pay for.
Mikey & Leo & Raph all met when they were younger, the first time Raph visited Exploding Frankie at work with Sunita. Donnie & Raph would meet after Raph gets his job at the grocer, when Donnie's out on errands and dips into the store to slip past a street patrol. Donnie & Leo & Mikey would probably meet after Donnie seeks out Run of the Mill for something unrelated to them and get sidetracked with the discovery of even more turtles.
