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In Shredded Scutes, Tokka isn’t a baby alligator snapping turtle, or a giant alien planet protector, but she is a common snapping turtle, and a mother, if you can really call her that.

Turtles don’t have a tendency to take care of their young, and the human want to do so doesn’t quite make her a better mother, if anything it makes her worse.

Donatello is mutated after their adopted parents and siblings are, and is mutated by a young Raphael(see here for more on that). Raphael is somewhat careless(though she manages to not double mutate himself), and in mutating a baby Don, he also mutates other nearby snapping turtles: Donnie’s bio mom, Tokka, and his sister, Venus.

When Raph realizes this she doesn’t notice Venus at all, only the giant angry turtle woman suddenly gaining the human emotional capacity to be protective of her young.

Raph escapes, and Tokka doesn’t find the turtles’ lair for a while yet.

You’d think a mother hell bent on getting her kid back would be a caring parent, but she often leaves Venus and her unmutated kids alone in a certain nook of the sewers, while she tries to hunt down Don.

When she finds them she doesn’t quite get what she wants, she’s only one turtle, and an untrained one at that.

But even when Donnie scorns her and tells her flat out that “you may be my mother, but you’re not my mom,” she simply becomes bitter towards the mutants who “stole her child from her.”

Eventually she meets Krang and Oroku Saki, and bonding over a hatred for the turtles and their parents, Leatherhead and Splinter, she turns her children into the foot’s own ninja turtles. She doesn’t stop at making them just mutated into humanoid turtles though, they’re double mutated, and have surgeries put on them to make them more “fine tuned.”

she only has three children with her anymore, and the Shredder insists on making a fourth dark turtle to match Splinter’s kids, and offers up one of his ninjas, Jennika, to be thrown into the mix.

Venus is mixed with a dainty green tree frog, to make use of her thinner figure, turning her into a graceful warrior. Lita is mixed with a torafugu(tiger pufferfish), discouraging her affectionate demeanour by making every spike and spine on her body laced with poison. Slash is mixed with a bull shark, to make him the tank of the team, and while Venus and Lita have painful surgeries and mutations, Slash is put through more- Krang is not the most stable or predictable of warlords, he created the mutagen initially simply to cause mayhem, so he takes joy in adding random teeth to Slash’s body just for shits and giggles, even(especially) if it isn’t especially smart or reasonable.

Jennika goes through the least surgeries, mostly because the way the echinocyamus scaber urchin and smooth softshell DNA mutates her produces a result that Saki is pleased with, but also because being able to make a new mutagen and pick a new type of turtle chills Krang out enough to make him calm down a little with playing god.

#tmnt #tmnt au #teenage mutant ninja turtles #venus de milo tmnt #tokka tmnt #shredded scutes #jennika tmnt #slash tmnt #lita tmnt #they’re kind of like the dark turtles from 2003 in a wat #*way #they’re meant to parallel the Hamato turtles #traditional art #character design

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