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⌈ CHARACTER SECTION ⌉Character: Hamato Donatello
Age: 16
Canon: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003 series)
Canon Point: Immediately following the events of The People's Choice (Season 4, Episode 2)
Background: From the day on which the course of his life was forever changed in a serendipitous exposure to a glowing ooze to his first day in Nautilus, Donatello had lived a sheltered life. Raised by Master Splinter beneath the streets of New York City, Donatello was one of four turtle brothers, and all of them were initiated into the art of ninjutsu from a very early age, though none of the four could remember receiving their bandanas in the process. The five of members of this unusual family had been changed in an accident by the mutagenic ooze that had come from a canister labelled with the initials TCRI, and the shattered glass container was kept as a clue to a past they could not yet understand.
( Read more... )Personality:Donatello is the most gentle and soft-spoken among his teenage brothers, preferring reasoning to fighting. Gentle as he can be, Donatello will fight for what he feels is right when necessity requires it. At times he can be shy with meeting new people, sometimes merely observing quietly, but he has grown much more assertive than in his youth. Any new technology of course will draw him out of that shell. Of course, that old shyness surfaces whenever Donatello receives praise, as seen in the way he becomes briefly flustered as a result.
Level-headed, he isn’t easily riled up or angered, and his ability to stay calm allows him to act as a peacemaker between his brothers when there is need. Donatello is naturally caring, always keeping the wellbeing of his family and friends in mind even while he tends to neglect his own needs. It is only because of his brothers and father holding a regular routine that he ever realizes when he has missed sleep or meals while wrapped up in yet another project in his lab.
While keeping things in balance and peaceful is important to Donatello, making things better and finding ways to improve are just as driving for Donatello. Almost compulsively, the teenager seeks new knowledge and pushes the limits of what he has proven himself capable of creating previously. Despite his limited sources of material, Donatello manages to build incredible machines. At times, he gets caught up in trying to study the details of new technology or information encountered out of the lair and needs a reminder to redirect him to the situation at hand. Absorbing all he can learn, Donatello has focused his attention away from simple studies in his youth to invention as a result of his desire to improve life for his family. His inventions not only serve to make their harsh life easier, but to keep them safer.
Given his tendency to ignore his most basic needs in favor of his technological and scientific pursuits, Donatello also shows the habit of burying his own troubles under his work. Rather than face emotional strain, he prefers to place disturbing experiences and memories to the back of his mind. For the teenager, he usually manages to work through the stress quietly without addressing the causes. He has not learned to openly share his personal burdens in the way his brothers can express themselves. He does not want to hinder his family, and at times, requires that same family to intervene for his well-being in the long term.
Donatello is as much defined by his habits and behaviors as he is by the way he relates with each of his three brothers.
To Leonardo, he remains a steady support with reason and generally causes him the least worry. When facing tough odds, he provides Leonardo with the knowledge and guidance to manage otherwise impossible situations. He offers options and lets him know what possibilities they have available as potential courses of action. In turn, Leonardo gives Donatello focus and encourages his further development as a ninja while also limiting interference when Donatello really requires solitude.
To Raphael, Donatello is the gentle presence that does not shy away after a spell of anger, and is always assisting in protecting the home. He is, if nothing more, a point against which Raphael can reflect as his opposite in temper. While Raphael is on constant guard to keep his family safe from immediate danger, Donatello is the sentry that warns them of incoming danger using his security systems and extensive understanding of cause and effect.
To Michelangelo, Donatello is the most tolerant of his antics and allows him to expend energy pestering him without any threat of training or tackles. The two share a similar caring nature that drives them to reach out for affection, if in very different ways, while their two other brothers tend to share affection at more of a distance. In turn, Michelangelo is the most successful in inspiring that gentle, quiet turtle to be more expressive and playful.
Abilities: From simple mobile phones to be shared among his family members to always keep them in touch through the tunnels and on the surface, to a tunneling machine capable of briefly withstanding a dive into magma, Donatello harnesses his understanding of technology in amazing ways as an inventor. Even new technology developed by more advanced races doesn’t take long for him to figure out enough to utilize. His intelligence is not only limited to the mechanical however, and he quickly adapts to new information with any scientific bearing, constantly and rapidly analyzing the situations in which he and his brothers find themselves. Additionally, he shows the ability to teach himself new languages, including Italian and deciphering alien symbols.
Like his brothers, Donatello has been granted abilities far beyond that of any normal turtle by that glowing ooze, and his training from his father has enhanced his skill sets. As a ninja-in-training, Donatello has already been trained to use a bo staff as his weapon and to fight with various hand-to-hand techniques. He has also been trained in the art of stealth, and can hide himself very quickly. Capable of scaling a 5 to 6-story building with use of a fire escape in seconds, Donatello has become used to traveling over rooftops and leaps with ease over the expanses between. As a shadow warrior, Donatello has also been taught a form of internal breathing that allows him to survive loss of atmosphere for a short time if he maintains a calm state.
Additionally, due to the mutation, Donatello and his brothers show better thermoregulation than the typical reptile. While still cold blooded by definition, in extreme heat, mechanisms to maintain homeostasis kick in as seen when Donatello was profusely sweating in the episode ‘Return to the Underground’ when exposed to baking levels of heat. The turtles also tolerate winter conditions far better than a normal reptile as seen in ‘Tales of Leo’ and ‘Monster Hunter’.
Alignment: Peromei - Donatello is a source of hope for his family as he actively searches for all possible solutions no matter the desperate situations they find themselves in, and he persists against all odds.
Other: Donatello will arrive with his bo staff, his watch, and his Shell Cell.
⌈ SAMPLE SECTION ⌉General Sample: TDM top level sampleEmotion Sample: TDM emotion with additional emotional effects above in the same thread.
Questions: Given Donatello's level of genius, I wonder if, with sufficient work, he might be able to eventually adapt to magitech and start inventing again at a relatively modern level.
