Chapter 3: Thoughts
It had been a week since his sons children had been sent from the future and Master Splinter had noticed distinct personalities between each of the five children.
Jackson had a rather dark personality almost gothic and preferred to stand back and not interfere until necessary. But he also had a sense of leadership and intelligence (Splinter assumed it was because he was the oldest) which was proved when he explained to Donatello the extent of the damages to the Time Machine. Donatello was so shocked of his intellect that he fainted. Unfortunately, everyone has their faults, and Jackson's was that he had a rather bad habit of saying threats that he almost never carried out. If it hadn't been for his sister then Splinter would have thought that he was Leonardo's or Raphael's. Jackson had dark brown hair, almost black and deep chocolate coloured eyes. He wore long black jeans, a black T-shirt with a white skull on, trainers and, of course, his dark green cap. Jackson seemed to prefer reading and writing to comics and video games and he seemed fascinated by astronomy and always had at least two books in his backpack, all of which he got from his mother. One of the books was very thick and designed beautifully but he never let anyone see it or let it out of his sight.
His sister, Evelyn, was almost exactly like Michelangelo in personality. Her looks were long blonde hair and her father's bright blue eyes. She wore an orange skirt and a yellow top with yellow sequins and donned sunshine yellow sandals. She was almost always with her father and seemed very close to him, either playing video games or attempting to cook. Although she occasionally said random things in Spanish that no one could understand and sometimes Jackson would have to translate. Donatello had once asked her how she knew Spanish, her eyes had glazed over and she had locked herself in the bathroom, crying, until Jackson claimed her down. She never spoke Spanish in front of Donatello again. She also seemed to be a very skilful artist and once drew a very detailed image of her family (without her mother) by pure memory.
Magdalene was an almost perfect cross between her father and mother at first glance, but if you looked closely you could see that she wanted to be exactly like Donatello. She was a brown-eyed red head with a light dusting of freckles. She wore purple jeans with a white top and her pushed back by her purple headband. She had tried to help Donatello and Jackson with the Time Machine, but she had no talent for complicated mechanics and was quietly removed my April with a promise of borrowing Donatello's Bo staff.
Splinter wasn't even sure James had even a droplet of human blood in his veins. He looked like a strange cross between and turtle and a lizard. He had what looking like the formations of a shell on his back, a long green tail that was forever knocking things over and his stomach was a dull shade of yellow. He had no hair, but had forest green eyes and it was clear that he worked out, with muscles that rivalled Raphael's. He had a tough outer attitude but was really quite emotional as Splinter had seen when he was crying over a picture of a younger sister he apparently had back him called Pandrorica. James had sworn Splinter to secrecy.
Miwa was exactly as a young five year of girl should be. Always smiling and giggling and playing with her favourite doll who she affectionately called Annie. Miwa had very long black hair and bright blue eyes. Her light blue headband seemed to be more of a suggestion than an Oder as her hair was very frizzy and kept falling over her eyes. Leonardo had said that she was very...bouncy. He had tried many times to get her to calm down but always failed as she seemed to prefer dancing and singing to meditating. She also seemed to get into fights a lot with James, much like Leonardo and Raphael.
At first, Splinter had thought had thought that Jackson and Evelyn had escaped the dreaded turtle look until Michelangelo had thrown a water balloon at Evelyn during a water fight and her skin turned green and scaly. Jackson had admitted that 'something' (he refused to say what) had happened to their father that caused his and Evelyn's skin to turn green when in contact with water, and had jumped into the small swimming pool to prove it. It was then that Splinter had realised that Jackson was Michelangelo's son.
Magdalene and Miwa had a more noticeable difference in their appearence. Magdalene had four fingers in each hand and looked more green than pink in bright light. While Miwa had a total of six fingers and looked a little green around her eyes. James didn't look human at all!
Master Splinter looked around the lair at his children and grandchildren and smiled. Jackson was in the lab with Donatello while his twin was playing video games with Michelangelo. Magdalene had finally accepted that she couldn't help her father and had decided to let her mother help her with her trainimg. Leonardo was trying to meditate while fighting his fatherly urges to keep an eye on Miwa, who was playing with Annie in the middle of her father's yet another failed lesson. James was sparring with his father but Splinter could see that Raphael was going eay on him.
Master Splinter smiled as he went to his room. If this was the life his sons had then maybe the future wasn't too bad after all.