64 prompts Chapter 4: 4 Lost Scene, a ninja turtles fanfic

The next installment in my little series. I think this one is fairly interesting to think about. Sorry about the shortness, I'll try to lengthen the next one.

Disclaimer: I don't own the turtles.

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Abby

4. Lost scene

Sometimes Don viewed their lives like some kind of twisted TV show. A reality show where the director had the ability to cut scenes out and manipulate the events that occurred. They were like puppets on a string that, when the puppeteer got tired of them, could be cut and they would be no more.

The more he thought about it the more he categorized all the people he met and what their roles in the show would be.

Obviously Leonardo was the eldest brother and the leader of their group. He was protective, loyal and lived and breathed his family and ninjitsu. He was one of the four most important characters of the show, though that also left him open to so many episodes where he was pushed to the brink of what he could stand. He was hurt both physically and mentally in order to test how strong he was, but then the moment the director realized that Leo was starting to show some signs of wear and tear he put him away for a while and played around with the rest of the characters until Leo was fixed once again.

Then there was Raphael; the second eldest and the one labeled as a hot head. With his always temperamental mannerisms he could have easily become a least favorite character and been disposed of, however due to how loyal and protective he could be when they were in trouble he was easily favored as misunderstood. For these two reasons and his lack of restraint when expressing his opinion, he could become quite the popular character with viewers. The director seemed to enjoy toying with his emotions, continually keeping him in a limbo of ignoring the emotions and full out acting rashly on them.

Donatello easily categorized himself as the techno geek of the family and the resident doctor. He was supposed to be the voice of reason in the mixed up family, a calming force in stark contrast to his immediate older brother. His personality traits were of compassion and calmness. He wasn't supposed to be particularly good at fighting as that was what Raph and Leo were known for; he was to use his brains to help them out. The director left him mostly to himself, showing little interest in making him out to be anything particularly important, only when all else fails or there's a new invention that needs to be used was he really pulled into the lime-light. Not that he was complaining; it wasn't in his nature to want all that attention.

Michealangelo was the easiest of all the characters in this show to categorize, he was the comic relief. He was never allowed to be sad or disappointed, they weren't warm emotions. Even when the youngest was scared he was still manipulated into being amusing through his dialect or even his scream being girly. With his overdramatic personality and ability to shrug things off he was the perfect way to defuse tense scenes or make awful things seem less terrible. The director had needed someone to appear completely innocent of everything bad in the world and thus, Mikey was born.

Their father, Splinter, was the directors' way of communicating with the four turtle brothers. Splinter was the one who set the boundaries, the one who controlled what they did and didn't venture into, the one who controlled their lives in essence. Considering how much of a major role the aged rat played in their lives, he probably wouldn't have that many scenes as he was exactly that, ageing. The director was truly cleaver putting him as only having the occasional scene; he didn't need to worry about him doing anything unexpected then.

April and Casey were the do-gooders of the human race. As most of the enemies the turtles found themselves facing were human the director needed to have some kind of example of what 'good' humans looked like. Also by having an element of romance between the two humans, he was sure, offered a wider audience for their show to appeal to.

Then there were people like the Shredder, the ultimate bad guy who the turtles, the heroes, dedicated their lives to trying to defeat. It was all so plainly laid out.

The question that Don wanted answered though, was how much of their life, how many treasured memories of theirs, didn't make it into the final cut. How many events did the director deem worthless, but if they were asked, they wouldn't change for the world. How many scenes were lost?

Sometime, Donnie hated the director; because if he didn't, he'd be forced to admit that their lives were really this hard and that thought alone was just too painful.

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