Lemming OOC Babbling

I like this bandwagon.

People are putting up rules, regulations, and histories for their characters, and I shall do the same. Why? Cause I'm a lemming, and just maybe, if I do this, I won't be constantly thinking about it on the the bus.


Raph is from 1995. In my mind that's two years after the City At War story arch. This would be Mirage Volume I. None of that robot Donatello, or half mutilated face Raph crap. Though, admittedly, those would make some pretty fun action figures. But I digress.
The Shredder has been totally defeated. He's not coming back. EVER. Our heroes have survived teenager-dom, and are now roughly 20 years old. Yeah, go ahead, try to card 'im.

Initially, I had Raph coming to Milliways after rather large fight with, well, everyone. I even had him return to New York for some personal belongings. He didn't interact with anyone at home, and thus assumed that everyone was avoiding him. That's when I got to thinking, maybe it should have been something more. So I've kinda lifted some events from Raphael #1, a one shot that Mirage put out during the early days. It's really cool, the printer didn't know how large comics should be, so it's roughly the size of a Rolling Stone magazine, ... you really don't care about this do you? Anyway, in this comic Raph gets into a fight with Mike, and almost beats him with a Monkey Wrench, one of the really huge ones. He storms off and runs into Casey Jones.

My Raph actually followed through. He hits Mike with the wrench, and before he calms down enough to realize what he did, Leo jumps him. Raph overpowers him, because he's angry, and you wouldn't like him when he's angry .... and basically beats the bloody pulp out of Leo. Imagine, if you will, that scene from Fight Club where "Jack" beats up the blonde guy for no particular reason. Don, who has always been more of a pacifist anyway, tends to Mike while Splinter tries to break Raph and Leo apart. Splinter gets tossed across the room for his trouble. That's when Raph starts to calm down slowly. He's ashamed and confused, and in true Raph fashion, he runs .... I mean regroups. Violent, yes it is. I've always been fascinated by this one scene from "Age of Apcolypse" where Colossus kills Kitty Pryde. She doesn't expect him to step down on her head, and he expects her to phase out of the way. Both of them are wrong. It's kinda like that. No one tries to stop Raph from doing stuff, because they think he won't do it. And in turn, he does it because no one's stopping him.

That's where Milliways finds him, as he's fleeing The Den. When he goes back, he assumes that everyone is just avoiding him, so he doesn't go looking for them. When in reality, they're all still frozen in time just as he left them. This isn't something Raph even considers until talking to Death. What's great is that while I was figuring all this out, Death made some offhand comment about how she was always there, and Raph takes it to mean he's killed his whole family. Which is why he's taken root at Milliways. People are more open minded about all sorts of things, but he figures if Pete and Bartleby can get a second chance, maybe he can too.

As for why Raph hasn't really been overly affected by his actions at home, well, he's not one for talking the dramatic talk. It's easier for him to just ignore that it happened at all. Pretend that this is home now. He's afraid to go back to New York, and so to cover for that, he's making sure he has a grand ol' time at Milliways. Still a city boy at heart, he's taken to living on the roof of the building. Thanks to a successful shopping trip to Diagon Alley, he now has a wizard tent, new clothes, and fun stuff from the Weasley Twins.

Oh, and he gets to fight a tree. How awesome is that?

I have to admit, I find it ever so funny that Raph hasn't really done anything physically violent, yet everyone seems to step around him knowing it's gonna happen sooner or later. Which, I'm sure it will.

I'm very much looking forward to Raph interacting with Bartleby. Why? Raph's a murderer. An unrepentent murder at that. Sure Bartleby killed his best friend. But Raph beat the snot out of his family with a monkey wrench, and you don't see him curling up in the fetal position crying like a wussy, do you?

In closing, this isn't nearly as well written as I'd hoped it would be. I'm not a fantastic writer, so you're gonna have to bear with me.
I'd love comments and feed back. Won't be posting this to the main list on account of the lacking fantastic writing skills. Again, this isn't nearly etched in stone.

(no subject)

*Up on the roof top, in a brandy new tent that is significantly larger on the inside than on the outside. It might even be said that the inside of the tent is actually larger than the room Raph used to occupy in the bar proper. Every now and again Raph pokes his head outside just to remind himself that he's in a tent at all. The thing looks more like the studio apartment Casey used to rent, only minus 50,000 uninvited roommates. His money is running a bit lower than he'd like it to be, but the exchange rate from US Dollars to ... um the little gold coins what ever they're called ... was really good.

The trip to Die-gun Alley went better than he'd hoped it would. He wore his oversized trench coat and fedora hat in an attempt to blend into the RenFaire crowd that populated the market place. Most people didn't give him a second glance, once he finally buckled down and admitted that he was actually an animagus stuck between forms. In fact, some people felt so bad for him they slipped him coinage when he wasn't looking. And for someone trained in stealth, that's quite a feat.

While the tent and other special camping supplies supply no end of amazement, it's really what's in the old bowling bag that he's the most excited about. Sure, it felt akward walking into the shop without Mike at his side bouncing like a kid who's just learned it's a snow day, but he'd been getting at indifference. Raph couldn't believe his eyes, the store was truly amazing. He'd never seen anything like it before. And boy, was Cap'n Quibitch going to be surprised when she threatened him with transformation again. That is, if Greg and Forge had anything to say about it.