Full name: Menina Nova Luck, Arianina Nova Luck (formally)

Nickname: Nina

Age: 14

Species: Human (formally), mutant turtle

Nationality: Filipino-American

Personality: kind, caring, compassionate, faithful, gentle, Sarcastic, sassy, Insecure, Understanding, blunt, confident, friendly, adventurous, outspoken, insensitive, quick thinking, strong, clever, self-conscious, soft and smart

Like: Turtles, animals, Donnie and his brothers, gymnastic, mushroom pizza, her new family, dancing, music, her pet turtle Bello, practicing Chaquan, books, her new friends, video games, cosplay, hanging out with Donnie, veggie Raman, her father Benjamin, Fall season, anime shows and listening to Donnie and his Inventions.

Dislike: her mother and step-father, bullies, clowns, being abused, genophobia, Donnie getting hurt, her past life, meat, hurt animals, pollution, homeless pets, her half sister, April getting Donnie's attention, losing her new family and friends, Prim's teasing, The Foot, danger to herself, losing Donnie forever and getting competitive.

Weapon: Naginata

Love Internet: Donatello

Sexuality: Asexual

Family: Benjamin Luck (father, deceased), Abigail Luck-James (mother), Henry James (step-father), Olivia James (half sister)

Allies: Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello, Michelangelo, Master Splinter, April O'Neil, Casey Jones, The Mighty Mutanimals, Ginevra, Primavera, Judith, Julian, Mona Lisa, Mondo Gecko, Baron Draxum, Sunita

Enemies: The Shredder and his Foot Clan, The Kraang, Karai (formally), The Purple Dragons, Eric Sack, Bebop and Rocksteady, Tiger Claw, Trierantons, Baxter Stockman, Hypno-Potamus, Meatsweat, Repo Mantis, Big Mama (briefly)

Backstories:

2012

Formerly Arianina, she was abused by her mother and step-father at home.

Her mother blamed her for ruining her life, it made her self-conscious but cruelly worse. Her step-father never like taking care of her when her mother is not around, he would lock her in the basement and leave her, and they would hit her for taking out of turns.

When her half-sister is born, the abuse got more wrose, she be straving to death, force to sleep outside and be beaten. She even been pick on by the kids in her school.

When she was in school, she tried to committ suicide by overdosing on valium, but she got knock out in a shelf of chemicals in the lab and got splashed by a mutagen one of the teacher found, causing a fire. Her classmate was killed except her, she was rescued by Donatello and he took her to the sewer for treatment of the mutagen she is covered and tranformed into a turtle.

She become a loner and reject everyone, til she start to realized that the turtles, Master Splinter as well as April O' Neil and Casey Jones care for her more than her family. She started to have all the love no one gave her and turn nice and friendly and changed her name to Menina.

2018

When Arianina was four years old, her father Benjamin died from Alzheimer's disease. Shorty after, Abigail begin to hit her and punish, blaming her for her husband death. The cause of it cause Arianina to get self-conscious but in a worse way, she never get along with her classmates during kindergarten and kids would make fun of her. By the time she is five years old, Abigail married Henry James. But just like her, he never liked Arianina for being born from another man, so he abuse her as Abigail let it happen.

During the last eight years, they would abuse her, beat her and take turns hurting her. Even when Abigail is away, Henry would beat her and locked her up in their basement for the whole day. But the worse is, her own mother let him do it to her own child. He never like taking care of her, still hating her. She was bullied a lot during her school years, just cause she have poor clothes choices and never take care of herself, they all called her 'Unluck'.

When she was only thirteen, her half sister Olivia was born and it have make the abuse more worse. They let her starved, force her to sleep outside even when it rained and gone cold, and mostly get beaten outright. She was never allowed to go to any doctors or speak her family members, Abigail fears that it will give out her secret so she hide the truth by lying. Due to her low self-esteem, Arianina never have a good high school year thanks to the bullying. During her free periods, she would take gymnastics classes and martial art classes to learn how to protect herself. But they prove to be useless cause of her poor health. Her only friends are the animals she saved and rescued from abusive families, but sadly Abigail order her to get rid of them for being dirty. The only animal she didn't get rid of is her pet wood turtle, Bello. She take him anywhere she goes, to school even.

When she become fourteen, the abuse got even more serious. Sometimes she would even have to do their own chores and have to take care of her little half-sister due to their family laziness, and get beaten for one single mistake. Soon her health started to get more worse and have to wear shaggy clothes to hide her poor figure.

Then her chemistry class took a field trip to the TCRI, unknown to her that April took the turtles in secret. Arianina was horrified that the workers was using turtles a test subjects, she feels that she have to free them. Once she was sure she wasn't being seen, she sneak into one of the rooms with a tubes of mutagen and she find out that the scientists are making them after capturing one oozequitos. Foolishly, she confronts them of it and telling them it's wrong to use endanger animals for their sick research. But it didn't go as she hoped. The lead scientist, Eric Sacks, order them to take her away to prevent her from telling their secrets, but with her material art skills she manage to stop them one by one. But due to her poor health, she accidentally hit one of the tubes, causing it to break and release the mutagen. She manage to save Bello, but she herself got caught in it and mutated into a wood turtle, along with three students and a worker that got caught.

Luckily she was saved by Donatello who caught sight of her and fished her out. She along with the other mutated students and the worker was taken to the turtles new home, where they will stay till Donatello can get a cure for their mutation. During her stay, she refuse to come out of her room due to her hatred on humanity for ten years of abuse. The only person that ever show her true kindness was Donnie himself, trying to help her after he learned of her sad past. Over the months of staying with them, learning of them and getting to know more of her former classmates, she grow to start being kinder and caring. With Donnie's training, she start learning to become a kunoichi. She slowly starts being more friendly and turn nice thanks to Donnie's love and the love and support of her new family, Arianina changed her name to Menina.

Voice Actress:

Ashleigh Ball (2012)

Jennifer Paz (2018)