#2012 splinter really just let those boys risk their lives and only came out to help APRIL
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Can we all agree that Raphie needs a mother figure the most?
Why would he need a mom when there's a perfectly good Leo right there?? Basically the same thing
Jokes aside, yeah most continuities I can agree. The one that needs an extra parental figure most is usually Raph. Though I believe all of them would've had a higher quality life/childhood if they had a mother. Mikey, Donnie, and Raph would be such momma's boys, and I think that would be so sweet.
But context and character dynamics are important, it really only works in theory. So most likely a continuity with a healthy relationship between Yoshi/Tang Shen and they got mutated together or they stay together after only one gets mutated. All things considered a single mom wouldn't fare much better then just Splinter. But a Splinter that falls in love after mutation could work well too. An unhealthy/toxic dynamic wouldn't help in the slightest.
April often "sort of" fills the mom role, mom role adjacent like older sister or loving Aunt, and is usually the best at nurturing Donnie more then anyone else. Casey is often helpful giving Raph a mirror and helping him regulate his temper, but he's not much a parental figure and usually an honorary turtle sibling. Plus the lesson is usually Raph teaching an adult to control themselves which isn't fair to Raph who is always a child. They all need one-on-one time with a parental figure that isn't meant to further their ninjutsu.
2003 Splinter is exempt, he's not perfect but the literal "has always been a rat, never human" Dad is the only one that regularly just hangs out with his kids and watches them play games or just watches movies/tv with them for fun. And if his kiddos are in danger he's absolutely right there trying to protect them.
#ask me anything#tmnt#tmnt raph#teenage mutant ninja turtles#Leo is always a daddy's girl and I love that for him#mutated Shen and human Yoshi sounds like a neat au now that I think about it#but i dont trust anyone to just NOT KILL their parents#idw and nick IM LOOKING AT YOU#why give them two parents if the boys are just going to be orphans anyways#oh yeah i have BEEF with idw and 2012#at least my beef with rise and bayverse they're bad at being dads#2012 splinter really just let those boys risk their lives and only came out to help APRIL#rise splinter also refused to train his sons and blamed them for not knowing everything much later plus he trained APRIL and taught her#things he outright refused to teach his own sons#yeah i get she's family blah blah but both 2012 and rise splinters are blatantly nicer to April then their own kids#people keep saying “Leo is Splinters fave” and they're WRONG it's April#rise April did nothing wrong despite the rant I adore her#sorry I ranted in the tags
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