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Dammmnnnnn daddy. Literally. Daddy. Splinter looking fine here.

Splinter, Donnie, and Mikey!

Fullbody draft of Gene Spliced AU Splinter. Wanna work on his colors and uniform a little more but I still like him! Timeline for the AU isn’t finalized just yet but here’s what I wrote about him -

Splinter was going to be a gift for April from Stockman. He'd often take young April with him when he'd go to pet stores to collect possible test subjects. She probably would visit his cage everytime they went and Baxter noticed. Bad luck that the day he does get Splinter for her is when his wife decides to leave and take April. So now he's stuck with him. Tests are yielding nothing so out of desperation and just kind of goes "may as well! what's the worst that could happen", he tests the mutagen on Splinter and is gagged when it actually works.

He was most likely like a young adult in rat years when he was mutated. The mutagen boosts biological aging quite like how they speed up the aging process for chickens in some meat farms however the mutagen he was affected by was from an older formula. He aged but not as fast as the turtles had when they were first created. Seeing them grow and develop so much faster messes with him. Just more proof for him that soon he'll be considered obsolete.

Splinter probably has strong loyalty to The Shredder cause he's convinced himself that he's valued and more than just another soldier. He probably has romantized (I don't know another word for this thrhfhhdu, but Shredder ain't your family Splinter) memories but his actual experience growing and training under him and his goons was indeed pretty horrible. He feels threatened by the existence of the turtles. After all he was just the prototype.

The turtles care for him and aren't very aware that their affection isn't reciprocated back (atleast not yet). They probably poke, prod, and climb all over him when they're not training or getting vitals. He has to constantly hear them complain about the food. Mikey teases the notion that Splinter himself makes everything and just sucks at cooking. Overall, we’ve got a slowburn father figure Splinter here.