#in my case i would not let that slide but i feel like ronin mikey specifically would still love him somehow

[turrondeluxe]

I must also ask... Do the turtle tots know about their grandpa Splinter? And how do they see him? I assume they don't view him in a very good light, but I wouldn't blame Michelangelo for not telling them the more disturbing details at first

They do know about their grandpa since a kid's curiosity is Vast and the kids asked Mikey if he also had a papa himself. Mikey didn't negate the fact but also didn't exactly gave them a lot of info about Splinter in the first place.

I feel like Mikey would honestly have a hard time talking about Splinter to the kids, specially when small so when younger the kids just got told that their grandpa was, like their uncles, no longer with them.

If the kids asked about their grandpa Mikey would answer but mostly he just never truly talked about him unprompted and he made sure that the info he gave out about Splinter to the kids came from good memories. Because of this the kids grew up seeing Splinter in a good light. However. Since very young they noticed that Mikey seemed sad whenever he talked about Splinter, and it was in a different way than when he talked about his brothers. So, not wanting to make their dad sadder the kids actually promised between themselves to talk or ask the less they could about their grandpa, just because they didn't want their dad to be sad in that way.

When older though, and after learning the whole Family Lore, they kinda grow bitter towards the memory of Splinter and finally understand why Mikey looked so sad when talking about him.

Splinter doesn't stay in their minds for long. They don't like to even remember him.