#anyway i know the fandom loves the 'never married but definitely divorced' idea for draxum and splinter

[bambiraptorx]

I love the idea that Draxum KNEW about the Hamato Legacy. I can imagine after the Shredder is defeated and the turtles maybe want to know more about their ancestry and so ask Splinter… and he just tells them to go ask Draxum.

The funny part of this is that, depending on where Draxum got his information, it might not be entirely accurate. Like primary sources versus secondary sources versus people summarizing secondary sources can get messy when looking for accurate information. Not to mention that sometimes things get translated wrong, or the details aren't written down, or the real meat of the history is preserved orally and not recorded. And especially if the Hamato Clan developed a secretive/isolationist streak at one point (up to interpretation), there's probably a lot of stuff that they never wrote down at all.

And Draxum is probably aware of this but hey, his kids the turtles want to know more about their family history, so since Splinter can't tell them, he might as well step up to the plate and actually tell the kids about their family. So he does he best to share the legends and the stories as best as he remembers them, maybe even showing them the original scrolls and whatnot if they've been preserved. He probably gets into it too, showing them the art, the pottery, the coinage, anything and everything that he gathered or recorded in the process of finding out about the secretive Hamato Clan.

So Splinter lets Draxum go on and on about everything he knows, and then calls up the Hamato Ancestors to fact check it. Like "hey my kids' bitchass other dad was talking shit about you" and then proceeds to correct Draxum on every single detail he got wrong.