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★ Character Information ★

Character Name: Donatello Hamato
Character Age: 16
Character Species: Mutant humanoid turtle (softshell)
Current Health: Fit as a fiddle
Outfit: NAKED Example! Black wraps around legs and arms, partially around feet and hands, and purple mask that covers his head, tied in the back. Goggles on top of his head (infrared, syncs up with his wrist computer/ninpo tech). He will not have his belt and backpack-lookin' thing, since that's his battle shell and has built in weapons.

Character Canon: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Rise of the TMNT for short)
Link to History: Link here, but this is more about his personality and abilities than his history. A quick summary below:

Like most iterations of the Ninja Turtles, Donatello, his three brothers, and their father Splinter live in the sewers of New York. However, unlike many of the other iterations, the turtles were purposefully created by a yokai warrior alchemist in an effort to combat the 'human threat' that drove yokai to live underground in the Hidden City. The experiment was botched and the turtles emerged prematurely when the lab was destroyed as Hamato Yoshi escaped, taking the baby turtles with him to protect them from a life of fighting and pain before succumbing to his own transformation. The turtles grow up without learning much by the way of ninjitsu, spending most of their lives dicking around and getting into all kinds of trouble. They fall back into the world of the mystic by accident to save their friend April and a magical creature called Mayhem, and slowly uncover the truths about their father, their origins, and their destiny along the way.

The Hamato family are particularly skilled in secret techniques that also seem a lot like magic that they call ninpo, which give them extraordinary abilities and the manipulation of various forms of mystic powers (more about Donnie's below). It's thanks to their combined strength and sheer determination to be themselves that they put down not one, but two world-ending threats in the form of the Shredder demon and the Krang invasion.

Canon Point: Post-movie
Canon Iteration: CRAU

Canon Iteration Explanation: CRAU - from Apocalypse How (apocalypsehowcomm). Donnie spent almost a year in this world without any connection to his ninpo. His brother Leonardo arrived one month before he did, and they were the only two from their world in this place. Donnie struggled against limitations he hasn't had to in a while, such as an extreme lack of available resources that he can find and/or steal, and a different world with a different way of acquiring those resources. He also had a hard time with the supernatural Entities of that world, whose powers created supernatural environments and effects ranging from the absurd to the horrific. As a result of getting caught up in some of these instances Donnie is a little bit more ruthless/guarded with regards to getting his family to safety, but he's also gotten more accustomed to interacting with people of all walks and has worked on how to socialize with individuals a bit better. He's more or less the same to his original canon personality, but both a touch more traumatized and a touch more mature.

★ Folkmore Roles & Attributes ★

Skills:

• Ninjitsu (hand-to-hand, bo staff)
• Engineering (chemical, mechanical, electrical, computer, industrial, nuclear are the main ones with probably a passing in biomedical)(like, hella. think masters/doctorate-level, though only in things he finds interesting)
• Math, science, self-appointed minor in theater
• Prowess with driving/piloting myriad vehicles
• Computer programming and advanced software development

Canon Abilities: Donnie has a few abilities tied to his physiology as a mutant; he can hold his breath for a very long time, is an excellent swimmer, has enhanced durability and reflexes, and accellerated healing and pain tolerance (he can't like regrow an arm, but a broken leg might take two weeks to heal as opposed to six). The turtles in this universe were engineered to be WMDs so he and his brothers can both take and deliver a good beating, though arguably Donnie's physical stats are the weakest of the four.
His biggest ability not tied directly to a 'learned skill' is his Ninpo, which is kind of like a magic people of his clan can perform; its potency varies depending on how connected spiritually/emotionally he feels to his family members. Don's particular powers manifest as his ability to build anything out of light/magic that he already knows how to construct by ordinary physical means, which is quite a bit. He uses this mostly to make various tech such as rockets, jetpacks, and extremely big huge guns. It can be very OP so I'm open to nerfing as determined. Even if his powers are OP tho, he usually doesn't have the will/connection to just go hog wild with them like his brothers do. Donnie has the hardest time connecting to his spiritual side since until very recently, it was all a bunch of ridiculous mumbo jumbo to him.

Role: Myth

Role Qualities/Attributes: His physical traits will manifest as a set of metallic-looking horns, all sharpened teeth, and glowing purple/pink eyes on darker sclera. These physical traits won't be constantly visible, but will appear as he uses his Ninpo and/or behaves in a particularly "Mythic" way.

As for abilities, Donnie's already got enhanced speed/strength thanks to his mutant physiology. Maybe just the ability to see in the dark, and a resistance to poisons/toxins.

Role Reasoning: The characteristics don't fit him perfectly (he's not really a sneaky/liar type), but he is very emotionally distant to most people, can be arrogant (and horrifically insecure simultaneously), inconsiderate, and sometimes borderline cruel. It's a common fandom joke that this iteration of Donnie is a bad day away from being a supervillain but it's legit not that far off base.

The whole 'reaching your full potential' thing will resonate VERY STRONGLY with Donnie, as he literally mentions wanting to do this in canon and even sometimes (jokingly) complains about his brothers stopping him from performing dubiously ethical experiments as stifling his creativity or potential. I would like to explore this in Folkmore and maybe have Donnie continue to struggle with achieving his own dreams VS being 'good' and sticking with his family. At Donnie's very, VERY center, he's a good boy, but honestly he does a bang up job of ignoring it for the sake of having fun and being Cash-Money.

★ Personality ★

Option 1. Summarize your character's personality in general and what their full potential would look like to them and what they would be willing to go through to meet that potential and what gaining that potential would mean to them. 400-800 word requirement.

• INTELLIGENT DUMBASS - Probably the first thing that comes to mind when someone thinks of Donatello from any ninja turtles show is that he's the smart guy, the brainy one with the tech, the one who does advanced calculus for fun. This is all true, of course; if he were in normal society, Donnie would likely be on the fast track to NASA engineering at the tender age of twelve, but alas, he is a mutant turtle who has to live in the sewers. That just means that he can build and operate whatever he wants with impunity though, so maybe that's a good thing? And as for the 'dumbass' part, Donatello tends to take a 'hail mary' approach to his work, with an emphasis on style over function. Why would you make a gigantic earth-shattering drill effective against enemies when it is far cooler to just pose in front of it and then make it blow up?
  
  

• DEDICATION - Never let it be said that Donatello doesn't know how to finish a job. Some people may even call it a hyper focus or an 'unhealthy lifestyle,' but those people have never overhauled a movie prop moon buggy into a gigantic turtle-shaped tank complete with like eight hundred weapons and a soft serve machine, so what do they know? That dedication extends to things he's not naturally good at, as well. When there's a problem before him of a more interpersonal nature Donnie's first instinct is to avoid it entirely or gloss it over in favor of something else, but when it comes to his loved ones he makes the effort. He talks about his feelings, which he HATES to do. He tries to see a problem from another angle to understand his brothers' concerns, despite that being the last thing he wants to do. He even practices and trains hard using his mystic powers, which falls firmly into the 'woo woo' magic/mystic category that he's not particularly fond of, if only because he wants the togetherness with his bros and wants to be helpful.
  
  

• OVERCONFIDENT INSECURITY - So while he's fully aware that he's the smartest guy in the room and he won't have a problem acknowledging (read: bragging about) that, Donatello isn't without his own hangups. Sure, he's a tech genius, sure, he always knows what he's talking about, sure, his plans are obviously foolproof and the only reason his inventions blow up is because some component was of poor quality or something something excuses something... But what good is he if he can't keep doing what he does best- well, the best? Donnie canonically struggles with finding his worth amongst the team without his inventions and his tech, and desperately seeks the approval of the adults around him, scrabbling for the tiniest indication of praise. He may demand attention and gratitude for yet another cool thing he's invented that totally won't blow anybody up, foot stomps and dramatic hand gestures and all, but if someone genuinely thanked him? Offered him sincere recognition for his efforts? Donatello would probably cry.
  
  

• STICKLER FOR PARTICULARS - The devils in the details, and so is Donatello. Specifically, Donatello likes everything to both have and be in its place. Words must be chosen carefully because definitions are specific. Objects to be used for their intended purpose. People, places, things, animals, and even concepts should be neatly categorized. He should be able to carry his phone to every corner of this earth and if you take it from him, he will burn down some houses. -that is to say, Donatello doesn't do well with change or with loose concepts and ideas. When things don't make sense he can get anywhere from mildly perturbed to absolutely unhinged.
  
  

• GENEROUS, ACTUALLY - Donnie isn't particularly generous in the way people are used to. He won't give away his time or attention very freely, and he doesn't really try to engage in sympathy/empathy without extremely due cause. However, whenever Donnie is spending sleepless nights or long days working on something, odds are it's for the benefit of his family. He makes them gifts, he calls some of his most precious inventions "ours" when talking to his brothers. He slaves over a high-tech security system for their home to keep everyone safe. He upgrades his tech with the comfort or compatibility of others in mind (making a seat on his hovering battle shell for April, making manuals for his brothers for his other tech that they never read). This generosity doesn't usually extend to strangers or even acquaintances (and DEFINITELY not enemies or frenemies), but once you're in the circle, Donnie will risk it all for you.

★ Player Information ★

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