so yknow how big mama's nexus hotel employees all have cloaking brooches, at least the ones who work around humans? Yeah. HUMAN RAPH TIME BECAUSE I SAID SO BOOIII
She's a northern red salamander...alien? Yeah, I didn't think about the backstory,, eeh, but let's make her an alien, maybe the turtles met her in Triceratons prison or among the Arena fighters.
No wait,, actually, the idea of this sweet, petite girl SoMEhoW being in prison is hilarious, ok, let's put her in jail
But anyway,, she's very bubbly and affectionate and decided to cling to Raph lol
Later idk,, maybe she helped the boys escape the Triceratons and then she was yoinked with everyone else back to the Earth :]
No but like every time I think about Splinter and what he had to go through just to keep the boys alive, my heart hurts for him so badly. Is he perfect? No not at all, but none of them are and by god does he love his sons.
The fact that all of them are alive, and grew to thrive despite the circumstances surrounding them is a testament of how much Splinter loves his boys. He raised four babies following the most traumatic time of his life, all alone with nothing but the sewers to house them (to hide them.) I feel like he’s not given the credit he deserves for all he’s done.
And I get that it’s easy to hold up his flaws and faults when it comes to parenting, I myself like looking into them because flawed characters are super interesting and said flaws make them more realistic and engaging, but he tries, and again, so many others would have given up on the boys or failed along the way but Splinter didn’t.
He’s their father, for all his faults he did his damndest to make sure they survived.
I was rereading one of my favorite turtle fics with a friend recently ("Like Father, Like Son" by @eternalglitch ), and I just got bitch slapped with animatic-based ideas. This is a WIP because the entire song would be perfect for a LFLS animatic, I just couldn't draw it all at once.