Hamato Pepper
Nickname(s)
- Sis/sister/big sis/big sister (the turtles)
- Dudette (Mikey)
- Daughter or child (Master Splinter)
- Warrior Princess (Karai)
- Whiskers (Casey)
- Snake Cat (Ivan Steranko/Rocksteady) (future)
Gender: Female
Species:
- Mutant Cat (currently)
- Mutant Cat-Snake (Future)
Sexuality: Straight
Reason for Mutation: Born with it (currently). Attempting to save Karai from falling into the mutagen (future)
Birthday: Unknown
Age: 17 going on 18
Height: 6' 2"
Hometown: Barcelona, Spain
Occupation: Kunoichi
Current Residence: Lives in the sewers of New York City with adopted father and adopted brothers
Hair Color: Dark blue
Hair Length: Waist
Hairstyle: Braided
Eye Color: Emerald green
Fur Color: Primarily white
Weapons:
- Twin swords
- Forearm crossbow
Clothes:
- Black leggings
- Black torso vest
- Knee-high black combat boots
- Black bracers
- Fingerless black gloves
- Emerald star pendant on gold chain
- Black hooded shoulder cloak
Personality:
Pepper is very loyal and kind to everyone she loves. She can, at times, be almost as hot-tempered as her third-oldest younger brother, Raphael, but she can control her temper better and channel it into anger not directed at her brothers. She's mostly calm and peaceful, like her oldest younger brother, Leonardo, and respectful to Master Splinter. She's smart like her second-youngest brother, Donatello, and enjoys learning new things and helping him in his lab. And she can be hyper and energetic like her youngest brother, Michelangelo. She's intelligent and strategic, with more sass, sarcasm, and snark than a 17-year-old should have, but she's also helpful and caring, and helped Splinter take care of her brothers when they were younger. She's very protective of her little brothers. And although she can be forgiving, she can also hold grudges when it comes to someone hurting some she loves. This causes a rift between her and Slash after he attacks Donnie, Mikey, and Leo when he's first mutated, despite the fact that, aside from Raph, she was the person closest to Slash when he was still Spike.
Hobbies: Pepper loves doing anything with her brothers, and is eager to learn more about being a kunoichi. When she's not helping her brothers save the world, she enjoys the peace of her room, engrossed in a good book while listening to music through her headphones (specifically crafted for her cat ears)
Physical Description: Pepper is a tall, 17-year-old cat mutant with snow-white fur with dark specks like freckles across her face, shoulders and arms. In place of human ears, she has white cat ears with black-tufted tips. She has a fluffy white cat tail with a black tip, retractable claws (hence, the fact her gloves are fingerless), a muzzle, sharpened teeth (complete with a pair of fangs among the top teeth) a pink cat nose flecked with black, long, translucent whiskers, wavy, dark blue hair falling to her waist and usually bound in a braid, and striking green eyes. Her outfit consists of a black, sleeveless torso vest, black leggings, black combat boots reaching to her knees, fingerless black gloves, a hooded black cloak, and black bracers, one of which contains her forearm crossbow. A brown leather belt encircles her waist with her twin swords at either hip along with a pouch containing the quarrels for her crossbow.
Rank: Leader
Family:
- Unknown father
- Unknown mother
- Hamato Yoshi/ Master Splinter (Adopted father/Sensei)
- Tang Shen (Adopted mother, deceased)
- Hamato Yuuta (Adopted grandfather, deceased)
- Unknown adopted sister
- Unknown adopted sister
- Unknown adopted sister
- Unknown adopted sister
- Unknown uncle
- Unknown twin brother
- Hamato Miwa/ Oroku Karai (Adopted younger sister)
- Leonardo (Adopted younger brother)
- Raphael (Adopted younger brother)
- Donatello (Adopted younger brother)
- Michelangelo (Adopted younger brother)
- Ice Cream Kitty (Pet) (Future)
- Chompy Picasso (Pet) (Future)
Friends/Allies:
- April O'Neil (Best Friend)
- Kirby O'Neil
- Mr. Marakami San (Future)
- Metalhead (Future)
- Casey Jones (Future)
- The Mighty Mutanimals (Future)
- Jack J. Kurtzman (Future)
- Sir Malachi (Future)
- Renet Tilley (Future)
- Lord Simultaneous (Future)
- Fugitoid (Future)
- Mona Lisa (Future)
- Sal Commander (Future)
- Aeons (Future)
- Vrax Belebome (Future)
- Zog (Future)
- Zeno (Future)
- Hiidrala (Future)
- Daagons (Future)
- 1987 Turtles (Future)
- Tokka (Future)
- Utrom High Council (Future)
- Salamandrian Air Fleet (Future)
- Shinigami (Future)
- Foot Clan (Future)
- Wingnut (Future)
- Screwloose (Future)
- Alopex (Future)
- Miyamoto Usagi (Future)
- Kintaro (Future)
- Akemi (Future)
- Sumo Kuma (Future)
- Tanuki (Future)
- Dr. Frankenstein (Future)
- Vulko (Future)
- Frankenstein's Monster (Future)
- Igor (Future)
- Earth Protection Force (Future)
Enemies:
- Shredder/ Super Shredder/ Zombie Shredder
- Foot Clan
- Karai (For now)
- Chris Bradford/Dog Pound/Rahzar
- Xever/Fishface
- Tigerclaw (Future)
- Ivan Steranko/Rocksteady (Future)
- Anton Zeck/Bebop (Future)
- Kraang
- Kraang Hive Mind
- Kraang Prime (Future)
- Kraang Subprime (Future)
- Dr. Victor Falco/Rat King (Future)
- Snakeweed (Future)
- Spider Bytez (Future)
- Justin (Future)
- Newtralizer (Future)
- Spy-Roach (Future)
- Squirrelanoids (Future)
- Mutagen Man (Future)
- Fungus Humungous (Future)
- Mushroom Men (Future)
- Pizza Face (Future)
- Parasiticas (Future)
- Purple Dragons (Future)
- Dream Beavers (Future)
- Ho Chan (Future)
- Hun (Future)
- Don Vizioso (Future)
- Italian Mafia (Future)
- Son of Snakeweed (Future)
- Creepweed (Future)
- Triceraton Empire (Future)
- Spasmosaur (Future)
- Lord Dregg (Future)
- Insectoids (Future)
- Astro Zombies (Future)
- Ice Dragons (Future)
- Wyrm (Future)
- Armaggon (Future)
- Overmind (Future)
- Demon Bats (Future)
- Skeevix Virus (Future)
- Za-Naron (Future)
- Hattori Tatsu (Future)
- Kavaxas (Future)
- Jei (Future)
- Joroguma (Future)
- Savanti Romero (Future)
- Count Vlad Dracula (Future)
- Mummy (Future)
- Werewolf (Future)
- 1987 Foot Clan (Future)
Likes:
- Her Family
- Listening to music
- Training with her brothers
- Meditating with Master Splinter
- Hanging out with April
- Pizza (Obviously)
- Reading
Dislikes:
- Shredder
- Kraang
- Bad guys in general
- Jerks
- Liars
- Seeing her family in danger
- Bullies
Abilities:
- Retractable claws
- Enhanced strength, speed, agility, and reflexes
- Strong senses of hearing, sight, and smell
- Ninjitsu
- Swordsmanship
- Bowmanship
- Technological knowledge
Fun Facts:
- Pepper didn't have an experience with mutagen to make her a cat mutant. She was born that way, suggesting that one or both of her parents were mutants, and passed on the genes. Mutagen is in her blood
- Given the fact that she was adopted by Hamato Yoshi/Splinter, Pepper's full name could be "Hamato Pepper", or, in Western naming order, "Pepper Hamato"
- Pepper became a kunoichi at the age of 8
- Pepper's favorite brothers are in this order: Michelangelo, Donatello, Leonardo, and Raphael, but she loves them all equally
- She is ambidextrous
- Her favorite colors are black and green
- She is very good with any bladed weapon, but her favorite is any kind of sword. She uses twin swords as her main weapon when in close combat, but will use her crossbow for long-distance, or to create a zip-line or rope-line she can swing from. This helps her save Karai from the mutagen
- As her cat-snake mutant hybrid form, she has venomous, retractable fangs, enhanced strength and speed, enhanced swimming abilities, enhanced endurance and agility, snake communication, super hearing and stealth, increased flexibility, and enhanced reflexes
- As a regular mutant, she has cat-like tendencies, including purring, increased senses, and dislike of water.
- She doesn't know who her birth family is, but she'll soon discover who her parents, adopted sisters, twin brother, and uncle are
- Since she was raised by Master Splinter, she can read, write, speak, and understand Japanese
- Since she was raised by an Spanish caretaker until she was almost five, she can read, write, speak, and understand Spanish
Relationships:
- Leonardo: Leonardo is the oldest of her four younger brothers. They love to watch Space Heroes and train together. Pepper is Leo's only older sibling, and the only one he feels he can let his guard down. He has to act stoic around his younger brothers, but when they were younger, he would let down the tough act around Pepper and sometimes sleep with her at night.
- Raphael: Raphael is the second-oldest of her brothers. They spar with, hang out with, and tease each other. Raphael even got his anger attitude from her, but she controls it better than him. Pepper is the one who gave Spike to Raph. She found the turtle in the sewers one day while exploring, and brought him back to the lair as a present to Raph for his birthday.
- Donatello: Donatello is the third-oldest of Pepper's brothers. They love to hang out and spar together. Since the turtles weren't allowed to go to school (for obvious reasons), Pepper is the one who taught them basic lessons like math and science. Pepper enjoys helping Donnie in his lab, and when he was younger, she made it a rule that he needed to have her supervise if he was going to invent or experiment with something that could potentially explode in his face or get him hurt. Pepper loosened the rule as he got older, but he still asked her to help him because he genuinely enjoyed having her around to help.
- Michelangelo: Michelangelo is the youngest brother of Pepper, so she is very protective of him. Ever wondered where his cooking skills came from? Pepper taught him. When the turtles were younger, she helped Splinter cook for them, and taught Mikey when he showed an interest. She loves playing video games with him (and lets him win a lot because she loves to see his happy grin). She enjoys pulling pranks on the others with him, and is willing to be a good sport if he manages to pull one on her. Luckily for her, her cat-senses usually make her aware that something's off before she gets pranked. But she did let him prank her once when they were young, letting him sneak up behind her and dump what she thought was a bucket of water on her head. (It was paint, and turned her fur bright pink for a week afterwards.)
- Master Splinter: Master Splinter (aka Hamato Yoshi) is the adoptive father and sensei of Pepper. If he had to pick a favorite child, it had to be Pepper. She reminds him a lot of his other baby girl he lost, but she will never replace Miwa (a fact she knows). Splinter and Pepper have a special father-daughter bond that can never be broken, and are extremely close. Pepper would love to listen to his stories about Japan and his old life. Because of what happened to his other daughter, and not wanting a repeat, he is SUPER protective of Pepper, but because she is older than her brothers by three years, he's more willing to let her out of the lair. He even let her up to the surface once when she was fifteen.
- April O'Neil: April and Pepper are best friends, practically sisters. Pepper is really glad to have another girl, because as much as she loves her brothers, staying in the sewers with five guys for fourteen years gets tiring. April is like a younger sister to Pepper.
- Casey Jones: When they first meet, Pepper and Casey are immediately at odds. When he met her and Raph in the alleyway with the Purple Dragons, Pepper and Casey got into a bit of a disagreement about how he'd handled the bad guys. When they officially meet later in the lair, they recognize each other from the alleyway and proceed to get into another disagreement, where Pepper got her new nickname 'Whiskers' from him. During the fight with the Foot, they shock the others by actually getting along and fighting side-by-side, like they'd done it for ages. Casey becomes like a little brother to Pepper when he officially joins the team. And despite her vehement corrections and protests whenever he calls her Whiskers, when Mikey tries to call her by the nickname, she firmly announces that only Casey call call her that.
- Karai/Miwa: Even though they're enemies, Pepper clearly thinks there is good in Karai. When he finds out Karai is technically her sister, Pepper tries to tell her, but is unable. When Karai joins them, they begin to have a close sister bond, and Pepper is very protective of her younger sister.