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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Player Name: Ni
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Age: 29
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IN CHARACTER INFORMATION
Name: Donatello Hamato
Canon: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003)
OU/AU/OC: AU (with![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
konran and thegames histories)
Canon Point: Post-infection in 4x17, "Outbreak" (canon); Post-game (Kon Ran); The start of Arena 06 (The Games)
History: General canon history, Episode history and some more Donatello-specific info | Donatello's The Games history
In between canon and The Games is Kon Ran, which doesn't have a history wiki, so I will do my best to summarize. Basically (and even a basic explanation of the Kon Ran universe is complicated), Kon Ran is a Chinese city in a universe where China's monarchy never fell, and in fact evolved into the Imperial Qing Republic, one ofthe two main constitutionally-based-but-also-imperialistic powers in the world (the other being the United States of Columbiana, aka the US never let go of any of its overseas territories and even expanded a few of them). Kon Ran was China's second most important city in this world, and was ruled autonomously by a transgender member of the imperial family, Viceroy Jinan Aisin-Gioro, with the help of the KRIMP, the city's miltary police force.
In January of 2012, Donatello woke from a coma and was informed that he was not a ninja turtle from New York, even though he himself saw himself and remembered himself as such - according to the doctors, it was due to a dissassociative psychotic break brought on by his coma and by the traumatic effects of an event known only as "The Incident", which affected hundreds of others. It was later alleged that The Incident was a terrorist attempt to destroy Nuwa Tower, symbol of Kon Ran's prosperity and the largest tower in the world, with a neutron bomb that improperly detonated, but more on that later.
Anyhow, according to the doctors, he was not Donatello Hamato at all, but rather, Tristan Carino, a law student and Kon Ran citizen of Portuguese descent whose uncle, Eduard, owned one of the most prolific brothels in the city. Tristan himself was known to be a playboy who only enrolled in law school to sleep with girls, a tidbit which horrified Donatello to no end. The fact his uncle constantly berated him for not being 'manly enough', for not going on dates with his many paramours, and for pretending to be such a 'girly' animal grated him, and this Don didn't develop a good relationship with his assumed family at all.
He eventually retreated to the sewers, making himself a lair where he could work on solutions to the patients' plight and also to help make new communication channels not monitored by the authorities. Along the way, he became good friends with Iron Liz (who he had a small crush on that he would never ever admit to), Xion, Pinkie Pie, the Eighth Doctor, Sara Sidle, Hild (though she was always hitting on him for some reason) and quite a few others. His main goal was to see if their memories really were false, and if not, how to get home. Several red flags, such as animals native to patients' universes appearing and being treated as native to the world, came up rather early. Strange pulses would also, on occasion, come from Nuwa Tower, which seemed to alter reality when they did so, though only the patients seemed to notice it.
He managed to accomplish making a new communication channel that was patients-only fairly easily, using discarded iPods as their base. Unfortunately, his quest for truth was side-tracked when, several months after he woke up, Iron Liz disappeared. He was brought in for questioning as one of her closest friends, and was beaten severely in an attempt to try and force him to confess to the crime. He might have died in police custody from further interrogations had the real culprit - Mechakara - not been caught thanks to Casey Oppenheimer. He then had to deal with the return of the Viceroy and the simultaneous return of the terrorist group called the KIM, who proceeded to blow up Hild's house and nearly blew up several others as a 'test'. The injuries from both incidents (the interrogation way more than the bombings) were pretty bad and forced him to take it easy, but it also had another, unintended side effect: it allowed the viral mutagen that he had in his body to begin making him very sick after a progressive period of time.
Unknown to Don, he'd been infected in canon with a mutagen which would interact with his already mutated body and turn him into a horrible monster. Eventually, his strain of the virus that he carried would turn his DNA into mush and kill him. Worse, he was unknowingly spreading the virus into the city's sewage system through his fluids and feces, which eventually caused flu-like symptoms in those infected before they turned into mutant abominations. The city's attempts to pass it off as a normal flu not only didn't help, it threatened the entire world because people passed out of the city before the authorities realized the full extent of the problem. Don himself mutated and rampaged through the sewers, but was stopped after Sara Sidle shot him repeatedly and administered the vaccine to him.
As a result of that, Don - who blamed himself for so many people being hurt and him pushing himself so hard to the point where it got so bad (it didn't help that his brother, Leonardo, had been in the city and had disappeared around that time, allowing him to assume the worst) - was forced by his friends to stay out of the sewers and had to move back in with his maybe-uncle, who was a little less hostile and insulting to him after everything that had happened. Unfortunately, Don would be killed while defending Eduard from the Gentlemen, who had been brought to Kon Ran by the KIM, only to be mysteriously revived later. He was then part of the group which stormed Nuwa Tower to try and save the world leaders that were held hostage by the KIM; to his surprise, the Viceroy gave people some of their powers back to accomplish this.
Even more to Don's surprise, Neku, Xion, and Jan Kandou revealed the existence of a huge facility beneath the tower which housed hundreds of pods with hundreds of people. They wouldn't be able to question the Viceroy, however, because the Viceroy suffered a stroke and was near death within Nuwa Tower. Instead, the head of the KIM, Gang Kwan, hacked into the patients' network, mocking the dying Viceroy and another NPC, Fay, who he revealed to be the Emperor of China and a 'freak'. He also revealed to the patients (albeit in a vague way which only caused everyone, including Don, to become more infuriated with him) that inside Nuwa Tower was an energy core made from energy taken from the center of the universe, and that the Viceroy had used it to manipulate the truth.
Gang Kwan then used his own control over the Tower to summon all of the dead of the Yihetuan Movement and the KIM back to life to finally take over Kon Ran and declare its independence from the IQR, but then had a stroke himself, died, and became a mindless, hungry zombie as well. Unfortunately, this use of power also had another, even worse effect: it got the attention of the real Big Bad of Kon Ran, known only as "The Others". It was only after the Viceroy used her dwindling lifeforce to manipulate Princess Luna into bringing some of the patients into her dream of the future - a bad-end where reality was collapsing and a SAINW-fashion-maimed Don was among the last survivors - that the truth was revealed.
It turned out that the reason the patients were brought in was to fight The Others with the aid of the power inside Nuwa Tower. The Others were a part of a quark-and-dark-matter alien race from the center of the universe that wished to destroy swaths of the multiverse, because they wished to replace their inhabitants with more creatures like themselves. They were stripped of their power, and thus want to regain that power to carry out their destructive mission. The energy core in the tower is actually a graveyard of these dead aliens, and absorbing it would restore their powers. However, standing in their way are the aliens who stripped The Others of their powers, called "The Visitors", who were protecting and helping the Viceroy select people who could fight The Others. As for Don and all of the other patients, the identities the doctors had claimed them to be were, in fact, their alternate reality selves. So, in a sense, Donatello always was - and yet at the same time, never was - Tristan Carino.
The game unfortunately died at this point, but it can be assumed that the Viceroy died to restore everyone's powers, the patients won and learned how alter reality and travel dimensions with the core, and they all were sent back to their worlds. In Don's case, he was returned to his world, but mere minutes later was transported to Panem - and to The Games. His memories of how to alter reality - and of Kon Ran - were suppressed, as was the vaccine which kept the virus in full check.
Personality:On first impression, Donatello, in comparison to his brothers, might seem to fall short. In between Leonardo's take-charge attitude and sense of honor, Raphael's short temper, and Michelangelo's...being Michelangelo, Donatello's own personal qualities may not seem as noticeable. Indeed, on the surface its easy to dismiss him as just another tech-obsessed nerd, given that he seems to prefer spending time tinkering with technology rather than perfecting his ninja skills or going out and doing things like his two go-getter older brothers and his sometimes annoying rambuctious younger brother.
This type of assessment, however, completely ignores many of the things that make Donatello who he is. Donatello, while a more than capable fighter, simply does not find the same kind of fulfillment that his brothers get from fighting of any kind - he finds his passion in making and studying things. He is the turtle closest to being a pacifist out of the four. Among his brothers, he rarely gets into any major arguments. In many cases, he doesn't even fight his enemies if it isn't necessary, looking instead to find other solutions to problems that his brothers would normally resort to fists for. If fighting is the only solution, or must be part of the solution, Donatello tends to try to take into account a way where the least amount of hurt, though he will stand with and defend his brothers without question if they are in danger, regardless of the situation. His tendancy towards more peaceful solutions is even seemingly reflected in his weapon, the bo. His is a weapon that lacks the lethality that the sai, nunchaku or katana can potentially offer to an opponent, but nevertheless can be used with greater tactical purpose by shifting an opponent's strengths against them.
He is what his friend Leatherhead calls a 'kind and gentle soul', intelligent, easygoing, contemplative and inquisitive, always fascinated by everything around him (even at times when his brothers are utterly freaked out by things they see), and always looking to understand and solve a problem no matter how long it takes. He can be quite optimistic, excited and even exhibit child-like awe about some of his projects and theories, and believes that every problem has a solution. Though his brothers sometimes make fun of his propensity to focus so often on machines and technology and science, they are well aware of how much they owe to his inventions and his work, and how his work has helped improve their lives in the sewers, as well as improve their odds in battle. On his end, Donatello almost never lets hiswork go to his head, as by the time he's finished one invention or fixed one thing, he's already off and starting on something else.
Not that Donatello is perfect or completely without darker impulses or secrets. He can become obsessive, impatient and frustrated easily over problems he cannot solve, especially problems that, in his opinion, require an immediate resolution. When this happens, he tends to shut himself in and spend days on a problem with little sleep or food, letting his desire to figure out the solution to whatever is bothering him control him and ignoring everyone and everything happening around him until its solved - or until said solution or problem has gone beyond his control and he can do nothing more. And while he rarely gets enraged, pushing him all the way to that point is a particularly bad idea - to give an example, at this point in his canon, he is the only character who has been able to permanently kill any version of Shredder due to said anger.
Most troubling is Donatello is far less inclined to speak up about anything bothering him. Unlike his brothers, if its not a project he is working on or a threat that the brothers are facing, he is least likely to voice any personal problems, doing his best to keep an optimistic disposition, deeming his own problems and struggles as unimportant in comparison and devaluing his own worth on the team and to his family as a result. In particular, while Raphael's anger issues, Michelangelo's tendancy towards immaturity, and Leonardo's struggles with his own shortcomings (imagined or otherwise) are known to the family, most of Donatello's true insecurities, feelings of guilt and fears are implied to not even be known to his brothers. Events such as the Triceratons ripping his mind open - and the resulting trauma from it, which almost killed him - he only shared with Master Splinter, and only because he cried out to him through their psychic bond. Even after finding out just how important he truly is to his family due to a certain time-traveling event, after he is reunited with his family (and save for one remark that is almost immediately dismissed by the others), he is never shown talking about what happened to him, even to Master Splinter. Whether he is worried about being judged (not unlike how many in the outside world would - and already have - judged him based on his appearance), or whether he feels he failed his friends and family and is too ashamed or scared to talk of it, isn't entirely certain. However, it would not be a surprise if both points turned out to be the truth.
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Kon Ran has changed Donatello. He's still himself, thankfully, but the city made him question many things. He was already distrustful of governments in general beforehand, thanks to Agent Bishop's machinations and the experiences he had in deep-space, but the fact that the powers that be of Kon Ran, particularly the Viceroy, not only had great cosmic power, but used it to do incredibly questionable things shook him deeply. The fact she had no problem with the KRIMP beating him close to death to make him confess to something he didn't do, erasing Lovino's memory without a second thought, lying to the patients about who and what they were and why they were there, and condemning a man to a fate worse than death for having the audacity to treat a patient he didn't know was an 'enemy' - all for the sake of 'order' - doesn't make for a beneficial outlook on authority figures like her.
The fact he was told he was another person entirely and that his memories as Donatello were fake weighed heavily on him as well. It caused Donatello to question if everything he'd done up to the time he'd awoken had really happened. Even if the majority of people who woke with him were adamant that it wasn't possible, that they were who they always were, that they were kidnapped, Donatello wasn't so sure. The world of Kon Ran certainly had more to it going on than met the eye, certainly. And yet a lot of things pointed to him being who people said he was. It certainly messed with his mind, especially with the answers being vague and contradicting.Not to mention the fact all his supposed 'girlfriends' kept blowing up his cellphones and his 'uncle' kept complaining he wasn't being 'manly' at all just made him not want to be around non-patient girls in Kon Ran. Ever.
The mutagen outbreak made him realize that maybe the kidnapping theory was true after all, but it also meant that Donatello's own actions had contributed to an event that nearly destroyed the world. And then of course there was the fear that the future he'd experienced before - where he'd disappeared and his world went to Shredder, which seemingly (at first) reinforced that he was a horrible person, as horrible as the Viceroy. Thus, Donatello was also forced to face the fact that he really, really, really needed to talk more about things that were bothering him to people. And that not everything is his fault, and blaming himself for things beyond his control will only cause more damage to himself and to others that he cared about. And that also, maybe he should stop working himself to death on things that won't be answered the next day and take care of himself.
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Meanwhile, the effects of the Hunger Games (as the memories of and events of Kon Ran were suppressed during his time in The Games) on Donatello has been outwardly subtle, but in truth, Donatello is even more terrified here than he was in Kon Ran. While the Viceroy of Kon Ran did completely amoral things with her power, even Don would have to admit that she did it to further a definite, positive end of defending Earth in ways she felt were the most effective due to her experiences, and that she would die giving the patients their chance to save everything. The Gamemakers, meanwhile, have no end goal in mind save one: perpetual control.
He's still himself, thank goodness, but he wonders how long this will be, and how long it will be before he runs down and snaps and there really is no turning back. Or how long it will be before the powers that be decide to kill him. Or even if what he's experiencing is what he's really experiencing, and he's just not gone crazy already. Especially after certain events which have shaken him to his very core.
His loss of temper in Arena 03 which caused him to practically eviscerate another Tribute. transformation in Arena 04, where he went on a rampage that killed half of the Tributes, several of them permanently, and caused several of his friends to question his reliability. The flashbacks from the episode that are becoming more and more disturbing and real as time goes by (such as flashing to him eating the decaying remains of other Tributes who are clearly alive). His Mentor being turned into an Avox. His increasing indifference to his own death and his fear of transforming - or worse, losing his mind completely. His conspiracy theory about the attacks on the Capitol, and the fact that there aren't many people contradicting him.
And - worst of all - the knowledge that it will repeat over and over again, and that he has to smile for people who find him entetainment even as some revile the fact he's little more than a mutant freak, a "muttation" in Panem terms, and even as the threat of the Capitol bringing others he cares about into the Capitol hangs over his head. And he does it while trying to help people out of the Arenas, to give them something that is somewhat less dangerous than killing and dying repeatedly.
Is it any wonder he is so paranoid? That he fears the loss of his mind, even as he worries that he's already losing it?
But wouldn't anyone else be?
Strengths: Ninja/ninjitsu: He isn't called a 'ninja' turtle for nothing, after all. Donatello is skilled in the ways of the ninja due to his training with Master Splinter since childhood. Said training involved not only physical training to hone his body for battle, but also an understanding of a combination of philosophies and fighting and schools, military and esoteric, from various Asian writers (predominantly Japanese), as well as the Japanese code of Bushido and aspects of Zen. As such he is not only an expert in martial arts, but also in a variety of different techniques for infiltration, sabotage and stealth, as well as the art of battle both with and without a variety of weapons. In terms of ninja weaponry, Donatello is most efficient with a bo.
Also important to his training were methods of perfecting control over the body and mind. Among those Donatello is shown performing include a form of meditation and psychic bond which allows him some contact with his family, even at a distance, and the ability to harness a method of internal breathing, which, in a vacuum situation, allows him to survive for a period of time without needing to breathe.
Mechanical/technological/medical expertise: Donatello is an expert at building advanced technology, and learning and applying various advanced theories from multiple fields of science into practice, usually from scratch. He's built a cell network for his family, knows how to outfit cars with hi-tech weaponry and computer systems, has hacked into various computer systems with his expertise, has shown the capability to defuse a nuclear device, is able to decipher some forms of alien technology and has devised a vaccine for certain types of diseases and even other mutations similar to his own.
Above-average Intelligence: While Raphael's claim of his IQ being in the 600s is likely an exaggeration, there's no denying that Donatello is one of the most intelligent beings known in his universe - he's able to match and beat the likes of Baxter Stockman, who is considered by most people to be the smartest person on Earth, for example.
Above-average physical traits: Due to his mutation and his training, Donatello has agility, speed and strength comparable to an Olympian athlete.
Code of honor: Like the other turtles, while not as studious on this particular aspect as Leonardo, Donatello does his best to follow the code of Bushido and live his life with a sense of honor and loyalty to his family, as well as to keep his skills honed and to abstain from attacking innocents or involving innocents in battle, among other things.
Weaknesses: Naive: Donatello - and really all of his brothers - were not raised to be social creatures, and thus do not always pick up on certain nuances with people. Anyone who is not blatantly evil or who very clearly works for a bad guy organization, with the right wording and methods, can manipulate and trick him into becoming their friend. Even now Don has problems with this.
Injury/Infection: Donatello has a mutagen virus which in canon, Kon Ran and in The Games, turned him and those who became infected into an uncontrollable monster with gradually degrading DNA. Become sick, stressed, or overexposed to radiation - basically, anything which seriously compromises his immune system - can trigger the mutation into a monster.
Though he got a vaccination in Kon Ran, The Games messed around and suppressed it. The good news is, the vaccination is no longer suppressed in Equestria and thus it prevents Don from passing it as easily. The bad news is, because the vaccine was messed with, Don can still mutate. But because this is Equestria, the effects will be very, very different. The best equation to the horrific bodily changes which occur in other universes that I can think of is...basically Liefeldisms. Youngblood's disease, swelling of muscles and ribcage, random lasers and guns protruding out of the body, his face randomly floating awat from the rest of his head, babies on the forehoofs, etc. etc.
Paranoia: Donatello has become incredibly paranoid, especially regarding authority figures. He doesn't trust them and certainly no longer believes what they say at face value.Not even Celestia, sorry. He's also constantly fearful that his distrust of said authority figures will become too obvious and get his friends killed.
Memory Confusion: Due to tampering of memories in Kon Ran, the known mental tampering of Tributes and Don's own memory being tampered with, Don has several sets of memories - some which clash chronologically with others.
Easier to anger: Donatello has become easier to anger as of late due to his time in Kon Ran and The Games, more frustrated.
Overprotectiveness: Since The Games, he's become a little bit overprotective of people he doesn't want to be harmed. He literally wouldn't let one of them outside for weeks during an Arena and rarely let her out of his sight.
Possessions: His purple bandanna, a tracker embedded deep in his arm (still active and beeping, but otherwise worthless), and...he's wearing a bright yellow princely ensemble.
Pony/Animal Type: Unicorn.
Cutie Mark: A computer!
Pony Picture:
He is a shorty.
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First Person: Don meets a Pinkie Pie
Third Person: A normal Tuesday in Panem
Player Name: Ni
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IN CHARACTER INFORMATION
Name: Donatello Hamato
Canon: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003)
OU/AU/OC: AU (with
konran and thegames histories)Canon Point: Post-infection in 4x17, "Outbreak" (canon); Post-game (Kon Ran); The start of Arena 06 (The Games)
History: General canon history, Episode history and some more Donatello-specific info | Donatello's The Games history
In between canon and The Games is Kon Ran, which doesn't have a history wiki, so I will do my best to summarize. Basically (and even a basic explanation of the Kon Ran universe is complicated), Kon Ran is a Chinese city in a universe where China's monarchy never fell, and in fact evolved into the Imperial Qing Republic, one ofthe two main constitutionally-based-but-also-imperialistic powers in the world (the other being the United States of Columbiana, aka the US never let go of any of its overseas territories and even expanded a few of them). Kon Ran was China's second most important city in this world, and was ruled autonomously by a transgender member of the imperial family, Viceroy Jinan Aisin-Gioro, with the help of the KRIMP, the city's miltary police force.
In January of 2012, Donatello woke from a coma and was informed that he was not a ninja turtle from New York, even though he himself saw himself and remembered himself as such - according to the doctors, it was due to a dissassociative psychotic break brought on by his coma and by the traumatic effects of an event known only as "The Incident", which affected hundreds of others. It was later alleged that The Incident was a terrorist attempt to destroy Nuwa Tower, symbol of Kon Ran's prosperity and the largest tower in the world, with a neutron bomb that improperly detonated, but more on that later.
Anyhow, according to the doctors, he was not Donatello Hamato at all, but rather, Tristan Carino, a law student and Kon Ran citizen of Portuguese descent whose uncle, Eduard, owned one of the most prolific brothels in the city. Tristan himself was known to be a playboy who only enrolled in law school to sleep with girls, a tidbit which horrified Donatello to no end. The fact his uncle constantly berated him for not being 'manly enough', for not going on dates with his many paramours, and for pretending to be such a 'girly' animal grated him, and this Don didn't develop a good relationship with his assumed family at all.
He eventually retreated to the sewers, making himself a lair where he could work on solutions to the patients' plight and also to help make new communication channels not monitored by the authorities. Along the way, he became good friends with Iron Liz (who he had a small crush on that he would never ever admit to), Xion, Pinkie Pie, the Eighth Doctor, Sara Sidle, Hild (though she was always hitting on him for some reason) and quite a few others. His main goal was to see if their memories really were false, and if not, how to get home. Several red flags, such as animals native to patients' universes appearing and being treated as native to the world, came up rather early. Strange pulses would also, on occasion, come from Nuwa Tower, which seemed to alter reality when they did so, though only the patients seemed to notice it.
He managed to accomplish making a new communication channel that was patients-only fairly easily, using discarded iPods as their base. Unfortunately, his quest for truth was side-tracked when, several months after he woke up, Iron Liz disappeared. He was brought in for questioning as one of her closest friends, and was beaten severely in an attempt to try and force him to confess to the crime. He might have died in police custody from further interrogations had the real culprit - Mechakara - not been caught thanks to Casey Oppenheimer. He then had to deal with the return of the Viceroy and the simultaneous return of the terrorist group called the KIM, who proceeded to blow up Hild's house and nearly blew up several others as a 'test'. The injuries from both incidents (the interrogation way more than the bombings) were pretty bad and forced him to take it easy, but it also had another, unintended side effect: it allowed the viral mutagen that he had in his body to begin making him very sick after a progressive period of time.
Unknown to Don, he'd been infected in canon with a mutagen which would interact with his already mutated body and turn him into a horrible monster. Eventually, his strain of the virus that he carried would turn his DNA into mush and kill him. Worse, he was unknowingly spreading the virus into the city's sewage system through his fluids and feces, which eventually caused flu-like symptoms in those infected before they turned into mutant abominations. The city's attempts to pass it off as a normal flu not only didn't help, it threatened the entire world because people passed out of the city before the authorities realized the full extent of the problem. Don himself mutated and rampaged through the sewers, but was stopped after Sara Sidle shot him repeatedly and administered the vaccine to him.
As a result of that, Don - who blamed himself for so many people being hurt and him pushing himself so hard to the point where it got so bad (it didn't help that his brother, Leonardo, had been in the city and had disappeared around that time, allowing him to assume the worst) - was forced by his friends to stay out of the sewers and had to move back in with his maybe-uncle, who was a little less hostile and insulting to him after everything that had happened. Unfortunately, Don would be killed while defending Eduard from the Gentlemen, who had been brought to Kon Ran by the KIM, only to be mysteriously revived later. He was then part of the group which stormed Nuwa Tower to try and save the world leaders that were held hostage by the KIM; to his surprise, the Viceroy gave people some of their powers back to accomplish this.
Even more to Don's surprise, Neku, Xion, and Jan Kandou revealed the existence of a huge facility beneath the tower which housed hundreds of pods with hundreds of people. They wouldn't be able to question the Viceroy, however, because the Viceroy suffered a stroke and was near death within Nuwa Tower. Instead, the head of the KIM, Gang Kwan, hacked into the patients' network, mocking the dying Viceroy and another NPC, Fay, who he revealed to be the Emperor of China and a 'freak'. He also revealed to the patients (albeit in a vague way which only caused everyone, including Don, to become more infuriated with him) that inside Nuwa Tower was an energy core made from energy taken from the center of the universe, and that the Viceroy had used it to manipulate the truth.
Gang Kwan then used his own control over the Tower to summon all of the dead of the Yihetuan Movement and the KIM back to life to finally take over Kon Ran and declare its independence from the IQR, but then had a stroke himself, died, and became a mindless, hungry zombie as well. Unfortunately, this use of power also had another, even worse effect: it got the attention of the real Big Bad of Kon Ran, known only as "The Others". It was only after the Viceroy used her dwindling lifeforce to manipulate Princess Luna into bringing some of the patients into her dream of the future - a bad-end where reality was collapsing and a SAINW-fashion-maimed Don was among the last survivors - that the truth was revealed.
It turned out that the reason the patients were brought in was to fight The Others with the aid of the power inside Nuwa Tower. The Others were a part of a quark-and-dark-matter alien race from the center of the universe that wished to destroy swaths of the multiverse, because they wished to replace their inhabitants with more creatures like themselves. They were stripped of their power, and thus want to regain that power to carry out their destructive mission. The energy core in the tower is actually a graveyard of these dead aliens, and absorbing it would restore their powers. However, standing in their way are the aliens who stripped The Others of their powers, called "The Visitors", who were protecting and helping the Viceroy select people who could fight The Others. As for Don and all of the other patients, the identities the doctors had claimed them to be were, in fact, their alternate reality selves. So, in a sense, Donatello always was - and yet at the same time, never was - Tristan Carino.
The game unfortunately died at this point, but it can be assumed that the Viceroy died to restore everyone's powers, the patients won and learned how alter reality and travel dimensions with the core, and they all were sent back to their worlds. In Don's case, he was returned to his world, but mere minutes later was transported to Panem - and to The Games. His memories of how to alter reality - and of Kon Ran - were suppressed, as was the vaccine which kept the virus in full check.
Personality:On first impression, Donatello, in comparison to his brothers, might seem to fall short. In between Leonardo's take-charge attitude and sense of honor, Raphael's short temper, and Michelangelo's...being Michelangelo, Donatello's own personal qualities may not seem as noticeable. Indeed, on the surface its easy to dismiss him as just another tech-obsessed nerd, given that he seems to prefer spending time tinkering with technology rather than perfecting his ninja skills or going out and doing things like his two go-getter older brothers and his sometimes annoying rambuctious younger brother.
This type of assessment, however, completely ignores many of the things that make Donatello who he is. Donatello, while a more than capable fighter, simply does not find the same kind of fulfillment that his brothers get from fighting of any kind - he finds his passion in making and studying things. He is the turtle closest to being a pacifist out of the four. Among his brothers, he rarely gets into any major arguments. In many cases, he doesn't even fight his enemies if it isn't necessary, looking instead to find other solutions to problems that his brothers would normally resort to fists for. If fighting is the only solution, or must be part of the solution, Donatello tends to try to take into account a way where the least amount of hurt, though he will stand with and defend his brothers without question if they are in danger, regardless of the situation. His tendancy towards more peaceful solutions is even seemingly reflected in his weapon, the bo. His is a weapon that lacks the lethality that the sai, nunchaku or katana can potentially offer to an opponent, but nevertheless can be used with greater tactical purpose by shifting an opponent's strengths against them.
He is what his friend Leatherhead calls a 'kind and gentle soul', intelligent, easygoing, contemplative and inquisitive, always fascinated by everything around him (even at times when his brothers are utterly freaked out by things they see), and always looking to understand and solve a problem no matter how long it takes. He can be quite optimistic, excited and even exhibit child-like awe about some of his projects and theories, and believes that every problem has a solution. Though his brothers sometimes make fun of his propensity to focus so often on machines and technology and science, they are well aware of how much they owe to his inventions and his work, and how his work has helped improve their lives in the sewers, as well as improve their odds in battle. On his end, Donatello almost never lets hiswork go to his head, as by the time he's finished one invention or fixed one thing, he's already off and starting on something else.
Not that Donatello is perfect or completely without darker impulses or secrets. He can become obsessive, impatient and frustrated easily over problems he cannot solve, especially problems that, in his opinion, require an immediate resolution. When this happens, he tends to shut himself in and spend days on a problem with little sleep or food, letting his desire to figure out the solution to whatever is bothering him control him and ignoring everyone and everything happening around him until its solved - or until said solution or problem has gone beyond his control and he can do nothing more. And while he rarely gets enraged, pushing him all the way to that point is a particularly bad idea - to give an example, at this point in his canon, he is the only character who has been able to permanently kill any version of Shredder due to said anger.
Most troubling is Donatello is far less inclined to speak up about anything bothering him. Unlike his brothers, if its not a project he is working on or a threat that the brothers are facing, he is least likely to voice any personal problems, doing his best to keep an optimistic disposition, deeming his own problems and struggles as unimportant in comparison and devaluing his own worth on the team and to his family as a result. In particular, while Raphael's anger issues, Michelangelo's tendancy towards immaturity, and Leonardo's struggles with his own shortcomings (imagined or otherwise) are known to the family, most of Donatello's true insecurities, feelings of guilt and fears are implied to not even be known to his brothers. Events such as the Triceratons ripping his mind open - and the resulting trauma from it, which almost killed him - he only shared with Master Splinter, and only because he cried out to him through their psychic bond. Even after finding out just how important he truly is to his family due to a certain time-traveling event, after he is reunited with his family (and save for one remark that is almost immediately dismissed by the others), he is never shown talking about what happened to him, even to Master Splinter. Whether he is worried about being judged (not unlike how many in the outside world would - and already have - judged him based on his appearance), or whether he feels he failed his friends and family and is too ashamed or scared to talk of it, isn't entirely certain. However, it would not be a surprise if both points turned out to be the truth.
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Kon Ran has changed Donatello. He's still himself, thankfully, but the city made him question many things. He was already distrustful of governments in general beforehand, thanks to Agent Bishop's machinations and the experiences he had in deep-space, but the fact that the powers that be of Kon Ran, particularly the Viceroy, not only had great cosmic power, but used it to do incredibly questionable things shook him deeply. The fact she had no problem with the KRIMP beating him close to death to make him confess to something he didn't do, erasing Lovino's memory without a second thought, lying to the patients about who and what they were and why they were there, and condemning a man to a fate worse than death for having the audacity to treat a patient he didn't know was an 'enemy' - all for the sake of 'order' - doesn't make for a beneficial outlook on authority figures like her.
The fact he was told he was another person entirely and that his memories as Donatello were fake weighed heavily on him as well. It caused Donatello to question if everything he'd done up to the time he'd awoken had really happened. Even if the majority of people who woke with him were adamant that it wasn't possible, that they were who they always were, that they were kidnapped, Donatello wasn't so sure. The world of Kon Ran certainly had more to it going on than met the eye, certainly. And yet a lot of things pointed to him being who people said he was. It certainly messed with his mind, especially with the answers being vague and contradicting.
The mutagen outbreak made him realize that maybe the kidnapping theory was true after all, but it also meant that Donatello's own actions had contributed to an event that nearly destroyed the world. And then of course there was the fear that the future he'd experienced before - where he'd disappeared and his world went to Shredder, which seemingly (at first) reinforced that he was a horrible person, as horrible as the Viceroy. Thus, Donatello was also forced to face the fact that he really, really, really needed to talk more about things that were bothering him to people. And that not everything is his fault, and blaming himself for things beyond his control will only cause more damage to himself and to others that he cared about. And that also, maybe he should stop working himself to death on things that won't be answered the next day and take care of himself.
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Meanwhile, the effects of the Hunger Games (as the memories of and events of Kon Ran were suppressed during his time in The Games) on Donatello has been outwardly subtle, but in truth, Donatello is even more terrified here than he was in Kon Ran. While the Viceroy of Kon Ran did completely amoral things with her power, even Don would have to admit that she did it to further a definite, positive end of defending Earth in ways she felt were the most effective due to her experiences, and that she would die giving the patients their chance to save everything. The Gamemakers, meanwhile, have no end goal in mind save one: perpetual control.
He's still himself, thank goodness, but he wonders how long this will be, and how long it will be before he runs down and snaps and there really is no turning back. Or how long it will be before the powers that be decide to kill him. Or even if what he's experiencing is what he's really experiencing, and he's just not gone crazy already. Especially after certain events which have shaken him to his very core.
His loss of temper in Arena 03 which caused him to practically eviscerate another Tribute. transformation in Arena 04, where he went on a rampage that killed half of the Tributes, several of them permanently, and caused several of his friends to question his reliability. The flashbacks from the episode that are becoming more and more disturbing and real as time goes by (such as flashing to him eating the decaying remains of other Tributes who are clearly alive). His Mentor being turned into an Avox. His increasing indifference to his own death and his fear of transforming - or worse, losing his mind completely. His conspiracy theory about the attacks on the Capitol, and the fact that there aren't many people contradicting him.
And - worst of all - the knowledge that it will repeat over and over again, and that he has to smile for people who find him entetainment even as some revile the fact he's little more than a mutant freak, a "muttation" in Panem terms, and even as the threat of the Capitol bringing others he cares about into the Capitol hangs over his head. And he does it while trying to help people out of the Arenas, to give them something that is somewhat less dangerous than killing and dying repeatedly.
Is it any wonder he is so paranoid? That he fears the loss of his mind, even as he worries that he's already losing it?
But wouldn't anyone else be?
Strengths: Ninja/ninjitsu: He isn't called a 'ninja' turtle for nothing, after all. Donatello is skilled in the ways of the ninja due to his training with Master Splinter since childhood. Said training involved not only physical training to hone his body for battle, but also an understanding of a combination of philosophies and fighting and schools, military and esoteric, from various Asian writers (predominantly Japanese), as well as the Japanese code of Bushido and aspects of Zen. As such he is not only an expert in martial arts, but also in a variety of different techniques for infiltration, sabotage and stealth, as well as the art of battle both with and without a variety of weapons. In terms of ninja weaponry, Donatello is most efficient with a bo.
Also important to his training were methods of perfecting control over the body and mind. Among those Donatello is shown performing include a form of meditation and psychic bond which allows him some contact with his family, even at a distance, and the ability to harness a method of internal breathing, which, in a vacuum situation, allows him to survive for a period of time without needing to breathe.
Mechanical/technological/medical expertise: Donatello is an expert at building advanced technology, and learning and applying various advanced theories from multiple fields of science into practice, usually from scratch. He's built a cell network for his family, knows how to outfit cars with hi-tech weaponry and computer systems, has hacked into various computer systems with his expertise, has shown the capability to defuse a nuclear device, is able to decipher some forms of alien technology and has devised a vaccine for certain types of diseases and even other mutations similar to his own.
Above-average Intelligence: While Raphael's claim of his IQ being in the 600s is likely an exaggeration, there's no denying that Donatello is one of the most intelligent beings known in his universe - he's able to match and beat the likes of Baxter Stockman, who is considered by most people to be the smartest person on Earth, for example.
Above-average physical traits: Due to his mutation and his training, Donatello has agility, speed and strength comparable to an Olympian athlete.
Code of honor: Like the other turtles, while not as studious on this particular aspect as Leonardo, Donatello does his best to follow the code of Bushido and live his life with a sense of honor and loyalty to his family, as well as to keep his skills honed and to abstain from attacking innocents or involving innocents in battle, among other things.
Weaknesses: Naive: Donatello - and really all of his brothers - were not raised to be social creatures, and thus do not always pick up on certain nuances with people. Anyone who is not blatantly evil or who very clearly works for a bad guy organization, with the right wording and methods, can manipulate and trick him into becoming their friend. Even now Don has problems with this.
Injury/Infection: Donatello has a mutagen virus which in canon, Kon Ran and in The Games, turned him and those who became infected into an uncontrollable monster with gradually degrading DNA. Become sick, stressed, or overexposed to radiation - basically, anything which seriously compromises his immune system - can trigger the mutation into a monster.
Though he got a vaccination in Kon Ran, The Games messed around and suppressed it. The good news is, the vaccination is no longer suppressed in Equestria and thus it prevents Don from passing it as easily. The bad news is, because the vaccine was messed with, Don can still mutate. But because this is Equestria, the effects will be very, very different. The best equation to the horrific bodily changes which occur in other universes that I can think of is...basically Liefeldisms. Youngblood's disease, swelling of muscles and ribcage, random lasers and guns protruding out of the body, his face randomly floating awat from the rest of his head, babies on the forehoofs, etc. etc.
Paranoia: Donatello has become incredibly paranoid, especially regarding authority figures. He doesn't trust them and certainly no longer believes what they say at face value.
Memory Confusion: Due to tampering of memories in Kon Ran, the known mental tampering of Tributes and Don's own memory being tampered with, Don has several sets of memories - some which clash chronologically with others.
Easier to anger: Donatello has become easier to anger as of late due to his time in Kon Ran and The Games, more frustrated.
Overprotectiveness: Since The Games, he's become a little bit overprotective of people he doesn't want to be harmed. He literally wouldn't let one of them outside for weeks during an Arena and rarely let her out of his sight.
Possessions: His purple bandanna, a tracker embedded deep in his arm (still active and beeping, but otherwise worthless), and...he's wearing a bright yellow princely ensemble.
Pony/Animal Type: Unicorn.
Cutie Mark: A computer!
Pony Picture:
He is a shorty.
SAMPLES
First Person: Don meets a Pinkie Pie
Third Person: A normal Tuesday in Panem