Raphael

Raphael Hamato (a.k.a. Raph, Raphy, Phae)

Raphael is the second eldest brother in the family, and is the strong, fiery second in command.

Physical Description

General Physical Condition

Physical Features

Raph appears as a humanoid wood turtle. Like his brothers he stands upright like a human and has three digits on his hands and feet. His skin is a dark, forest green with vivid orange spots/markings and a yellow plastron with stirpes. His shell is a mix of browns and reds with scutes that jutt out like spikes. He has a claw shaped scar on his left shoulder and plastron. He also has a small snaggle tooth fang in his mouth.

Apparel & Accessories

Raph wheres a red mask that is tattered and torn at the edges, and an equally torn red belt. Unlike his brothers only his feet are wrapped with white cloth, as his hands are wrapped in red.
Raph likes Red and black so when here wears human clothes those are his go to colors. He tends to prefer punk style clothing, like leather jackets or clothes with edgy phrases or logos on them.

Human Form

When wearing a Cloaking Brooch, Raph appears as a freckled asian boy with tan skin and dark hair that's dyed red and shaved into a mohawk. He wears a varsity jacket over a hoodie, basketball shorts, and black boots. He is covered in bandages from getting hurt frequently.

Specialized Equipment

Raph started out using wooden juttes when he first started training, but when he lost those, he gained a set of Yokai Weapons in the form of sais. The sais are made from a red metal that glows like fire and can morph into brass knuckles for punching.

Special Abilities

Raph's mutation makes him super strong and resilient. He take hits and hits harder, which makes him a powerful enemy to stand against. After he gets his Yokai weapon he learns to use Godai, specifically the element of FIre, represented by the traits of motivation, desire, intention, and passion. Next to Mikey he has the easiest time using the ability cause he is so quick to anger, but in his case he can often lose control of it. It allows him to manipulate fire which can be dangerous of left out of control.

Mental characteristics

Personal history

Before mutation Raph was a normal adolescent wood turtle when a bunch of strange turtles entered his territory pinned by a canister of Mutagen. In an attempt to fight the intruders he fell into the mutagen contaminated water and was eventually rescued by Hamato Yoshi. Yoshi took the turtles and cleaned them up in his bathtub and nursed them back to heath before they began mutating.
Raph quickly mutated into a half human, half turtle toddler, around the same age as his brother Leo. He quickly became an explorer, constantly making attempts to escape the tub and the bathroom, but he was in fact very small and Yoshi would always put him back. After Yoshi mutated and renamed himself to Splinter, he began raising the turtles as his own children. Raph was always a feisty child and a bit of a trouble maker. He was quick to frustration and had a habit of hitting and biting people, and he would get into fights with his brothers a lot.
Eventually Splinter decided that martial arts would be a productive way for Raph to get out all of his extra energy and frustration, so at 8 years old he started training in Ninjistu with his brothers. He was good at it but was always trying to compete with Leo, and he would let his emotions get the better of him when sparring with him.
One day, while looking to explore outside the cabin more, Raph snuck out of the house in a storm to play outside, but quickly got lost in the woods. That's when a large mutant came out of the trees and attacked him. He was lucky that Splinter had noticed he was missing and when out to look for him in time, as he was able to scare off the beast and get Raph safely back home, but the attack lead to a nasty gash which became the scar he has now.
As he got older he tried to cool off by learning more domestic skills like cooking and knitting. He is currently the household cook, as he enjoys cooking food for the family.

Education

Raph was home schooled like his brothers and has never seen a human school, but he always found school boring compared to other things he could be doing. He has imagined himself playing on a sports team if he ever did go to a real school.

Mental Trauma

Raphael deals with pretty intense anger issues. He has a hard time regulating and managing his emotions and has a tendency towards explosive episodes of rage. He can lose control of himself when he has these episodes and can say mean things and be violent at their worst.

Intellectual Characteristics

Raph leans more into street smarts than book smarts. He doesn't like studying but he's not a stupid person. He's not easily fooled or tricked by people and remains skeptical about most encounters. In a pinch he can figure out a quick solution to a problem and catch an enemy off guard.

Personality Characteristics

Motivation

Raph's main motivation for fighting is to kick the butts of people he believes wronged him or someone else. He has a strong sense of justice, but also just wants an excuse to beat up some jerks.

Likes & Dislikes

________	Likes	Dislikes
Color	Red	Pink
Food	Pizza, Strawberries, Cereal, Chinese food.	Mushrooms, Green Olives
Music	Metal, punk, Hardcore, breakcore, phonk	Jazz, Country
Activities	Sports, cooking, training, reading.	Meditating, sitting still, art, talking about emotions, watching news.
Book	Wizard of Oz, Ilse of Dr. Moreau	Donnie's 'Big Book of Bugs'
Game	Super Smash Brothers

Virtues & Personality perks

Raph is a very strong and passionate individual. He knows exactly what he wants and will brute force his way into getting it if he has to. He is fierce and endlessly loyal. While he doesn't openly express softer emotions, he does care a lot about his brothers and would stop a bullet for them. He has a side of him that can be gentle that he only shows to people who are the closet to him.

Vices & Personality flaws

Raph's anger issues are his biggest downfall. It causes him to be reckless and not think through his actions all the way through. He can get carried away and hurt people he doesn't mean to, and often times it's hard for him to take accountability for this behavior. He'd rather blame the world around him for why he is so angry all the time. He can be brutish and rebellious, jumping to violent and rash decisions against the better judgment of his team.

Social

Family Ties

He loves his family to death, as he hasn't known anything else, but he can get emotionally distant from them a lot, especially with Splinter and Leo, both of whom he feels like he struggles to impress and straddle him with harsh rules and criticism. He often fights with Leo bossiness and their big fights can put a strain on the rest of the household.

Mannerisms

Raph is a cool dude, or at least he tries to be. He puts on a persona of a edgy guy who takes no shit from anyone. He makes himself big and menacing looking and gives people the death glare, but if you break down that shell, he is a big softie that's easily flustered.

Relationships

Raphael

Brother

Towards Leonardo

5

4

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Leonardo

Brother

Towards Raphael

5

4

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History

Leo and Raph grew up together ever since they mutated. Being the two eldest children and being so close in age, they treated each other more like twins than a older/younger brother situation. Though to this day, there's many arguments on who the true eldest is. Most of the family agree that it's Leo, except for Raph who will defend his theory that he is the eldest till the end of his days.
Being so close in age, they were often given the same level of responsibility growing up, but Raph's volatile personality would mean that Leo ended up taking most of those responsibilities and bossing him around. Despite still enjoying each others company on a good day, Leo and Raph grew up fighting the most. They're personalities were very different but they both wanted the same thing; independency and being in charge. Leo always got upset with Raph for being so rebellious, and Raph would be upset with how bossy and demanding Leo could be.
When they started training in ninjutsu, the two of them started to become very competitive with each other, despite Splinter's efforts to discourage this mindset. It would happen anyway due to the amount of praise Leo would get compared to the amount of criticism Raph gets.

Relationship Reasoning

Leo and Raph have a complicated relationship. They obviously love each other a lot, but they also have the most trouble getting along of anyone in the family. Raph finds himself being compared to Leo a lot, which crushes his self esteem and makes him bitter about Leo's successes. In return, Leo finds himself fed up with Raph's inability to cooperate or listen to him. Raph often insists that he should be leading the team, or questions Leo's leadership and strategies. Raph often wants to do things his way which is directly contradictory of acting as a team.
A fight between Leo and Raph can often turn into a screaming match and occasionally get physical. Afterwards they won't talk to each other for an extended period of time. Usually it requires an intermediary like Mikey to get the two to reconcile.
At the end of the day though, Leo and Raph love each other, and have a twin bond with each other that none of the others quite have. When things get genuinely serious, the two will put their differences aside to protect each other and their family.

Raphael

Brother

Towards Donatello

5

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Donatello

Brother

Towards Raphael

5

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History

Raph and Donnie grew up together. They bonded over being the middle children, while Leo got attention for being the perfect eldest child, and Mikey was the cute youngest, Don and Raph stayed in the background with each other. Raph never really understood Donnie's nerdier interests, but was always impressed by how smart he was, and Donnie was always the one to help him understand things when he was struggling with their homeschooling.
Donnie eventually got Raph interested in reading by showing him some of the fiction books he liked.

Relationship Reasoning

Donnie is probably the brother he get's along with the most, in the sense that he rarely has an issue with him. This is likely cause both of them tend to keep to themselves, not sharing a lot in common. Raph will often tease Donnie for being a nerd, but its also the one who gets the most excited about his inventions, being more impressed by his brains than he'd admit out loud.

Commonalities & Shared Interests

They don't have a lot in common on the surface. Donnie is someone Raph will hang out with when he needs someone to just vibe and chill out with. He makes a decent reading buddy, even if Donnie is reading about quantum mechanics while Raph is reading about an elven war with orcs.

Raphael

Brother

Towards Michelangelo

5

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Michelangelo

Brother

Towards Raphael

5

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History

Raph and Mikey grew up together. While Leo played the role of responsible older brother, Raph got to be the cool older brother. Growing up Mikey and Raph where a tag team of trouble makers. Raph would often put Mikey up to doing stunts that would break the rules, like stealing snacks from the top of the fridge or sneaking out in the middle of the night.
Mikey became a little harder to manipulate as he got older, but instead he started coming up with the new plots, which would often turn into prank wars between him and Raph. These wars would get heated and turn into all out brawls that they had to be physically separated from.

Relationship Reasoning

Mikey and Raph has always had a teasing relationship with each other. Mikey has a tendency to annoy Raph and push his buttons on purpose, and Raph will usually retaliate by smacking him or snarking at him back. Mikey only teases Raph because he feels like he needs to lighten up a little, but sometimes he can take things too far, and really upset Raph and get into a fight with him.
Despite not getting along all the time, and Mikey constantly getting on his nerves, Raph is very protective of his little brother and will get very angry if anyone hurts him. He just has a hard time openly expressing his love for his brothers outside of agression.

Commonalities & Shared Interests

Mikey and Raph both love being active. They will often be found wrestling each other in a turtle ball on ground. Whenever Mikey wants to go exploring he'll usually take Raph with him.

Casey Jones

Friend

Towards Raphael

4

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Raphael

Friend

Towards Casey Jones

4

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History

Casey met Raph for the first time after getting caught in a trap in the woods set up by Donnie. Raph was initially suspicious of her, as she came of very aggressive when they first met, but once everything was explained they both calmed down.
When Casey found out that their stuff had recently been stolen by Stockgen, Casey was determined to help them get their stuff back despite only knowing them for a few minutes. Raph also immediately impressed by her passion and fight skill. He was also the most startled when it was revealed she was a girl.
Raph started hanging out with Casey a lot after that, as they had a lot in common, and they quickly became good friends.

Relationship Reasoning

Casey and Raph mesh really well together. They are both strong and passionate and love to fight. Raph will often go to Casey when he feels like he needs to escape his family and blow of steam. Casey is one of the few people who can understand him and his anger issues, and one of the few people he'll open up to about it.
Similarly, Raph was one of the only people Casey has opened up to about her time in the Purple Dragons and what happened to her friend.

Species

Mutant

Mutant Type

Wood Turtle

Year of Birth

2007 15 Years old

Parents (Adopting)

Splinter

Spouses

Siblings

Leonardo (Brother)

Donatello (Brother)

Michelangelo (Brother)

Gender

Male

Eyes

Gold

Skin Tone/Pigmentation

Dark Green

Height

5'3

Known Languages

English

Japanese

Related Historical Events

• 2015
  Badger Hawk Attack
• 2009
  Turtle's and Splinters Mutation
• 2007
  Raph Hatches

Friends

April O'Neil

Casey Jones