🔗Leonardo Hamato [LFLS]🔗

1. Two blue katanas (his own) – before and during the kidnapping. Lost in the sewer during the escape through the portal.

2. Shuriken (throwing stars) – in Splinter's training flashbacks. Not used in the Coliseum.

3. Two old katanas (black + brown handles) – first battles in the Coliseum (fights 1–30). One broken, one stuck in an enemy's body.

4. Two blue katanas (from Draxum) – from roughly fight 30 until the end of the story. High quality, do not cut his palms.

Who she is: A powerful spider yokai with six red eyes. Can take human form (a woman in a suit, glasses, black lipstick). Cunning, calculating, always seeking profit.

What she runs: The Battle Nexus — an underground coliseum in the Hidden City where yokai fight to the death. She has guards (tiger, owl, penguin, fox), medical staff, a VIP box, and holographic fight broadcasts.

How she gets Leo: Draxum brings Leo and makes a deal — she keeps him in the coliseum and puts him in fights, Draxum gets "obedient weaponry." She initially doubts Leo's value.

What she does to Leo: Locks him in Lou Jitsu's old cell. Forces him to fight — first one match, then three per day. Feeds him disgusting food (slug porridge). Offers a deal: a contract in exchange for real food, a bed, and rare visits with his brothers. Leo refuses.

Attitude toward Leo: Initially dismissive ("He doesn't look like a champion"), then admiring after his wins. Watches all his fights from the VIP box. Gives him the stage name "Baby Kappa."

Why she is dangerous: Not a sadist like Draxum, but a calculating manipulator. Her tactic is offering a "choice" that isn't really a choice. Uses hunger, exhaustion, isolation, and false promises to break his resistance. Doesn't shock him but drains his will.

Relationship with Draxum: Allies of convenience who mutually despise each other. She is annoyed by his visits and gargoyles but tolerates them. Works behind his back, offering Leo a separate deal.

Personality: Cunning, patient, pragmatic. Fighters are merchandise to her. Likes dramatics, refers to herself in the third person ("Big Mama"). Feels neither hatred nor pity for Leo.

Significance to Leo: The second circle of hell. While Draxum breaks him through pain and fear, Big Mama breaks him through exhaustion, isolation, and false choices. She gives the illusion of control, but Leo has no real options except killing. She shows that in the yokai world, he is just an object to be sold or discarded.

Draxum — Main antagonist and tormentor of Leonardo

Appearance: A goat-like yokai with large curved horns, glowing orange eyes, gloved hands with long claws, dark spiked armor. He always towers over Leo, using his height and shadow to intimidate.

Personality: Cold, sadistic, obsessively persistent. He spent years creating the turtles and refuses to abandon his plan. Arrogant and dismissive — he calls Leo a "failure" and "the weakest," doesn't even bother remembering his name ("Green"). A manipulator — he convinces Leo that his brothers have abandoned him, that he is useless, that obedience is the only path. Pragmatic to the point of cruelty: "If he breaks, I have three backup options" (Leo's brothers). Incapable of empathy, he sees the turtles as weapons, not living beings.

Role in Leonardo's story: Draxum is the central figure of Leo's suffering. He kidnaps Leo, puts a modified shock collar on him (created by Donnie), establishes cruel rules, and activates an "advanced setting" that intensifies the pain. He hands Leo over to Big Mama's Battle Nexus, condemning him to forced killings. He regularly visits Leo to "train" him with commands, breaking his will and sense of self. He serves as Splinter's antithesis — while Splinter teaches love and protection, Draxum teaches submission and pain. His main goal is to destroy the turtles' brotherly bond and reshape Leo into an absolute weapon.

Significance to Leo: Draxum systematically destroys Leonardo's identity. His voice (mixed with a stranger's echo) is what Leo hears in his head when he loses his own inner voice. He turns the family's leader into a broken killer who no longer knows who he is.

Splinter — father (mutant rat)(2018)

· Role in the family: Head of the family, mentor, former Battle Nexus fighter (Lou Jitsu).
· Character in the story: Wise but deeply traumatized by his past. He tries to stay calm for his children's sake, but his rat ears and tail betray his anxiety. He feels guilty for not being able to protect his sons.
· Key actions: Is the first to notice Leo is missing, orders Chinese food (Leo's favorite dish), goes to the Battle Nexus to search, confronts memories of his former life as Lou Jitsu.

5. April O'Neil — family friend (human)(2018)

· Role in the family: Connection to the human world, support, battle companion.
· Character in the story: Loyal, desperate, but forced to face reality. She skips school to help with the search, but her parents make her return.
· Key actions: Helps interrogate mutants, receives the voicemail from Raph, kicks Raph for not answering his calls, stays overnight in the lair, comforts Mikey.

6. Metalhead — pet / mystical creature

· Role in the family: Protector, April's companion.
· Character in the story: Loyal, intuitive, comforting.
· Key actions: Whines to encourage April, helps her search, escorts her home.

Raphael (Raph)(2018) — older brother (red mask)

· Role in the family: Informal leader of the search, the eldest brother who feels responsible for everyone.
· Character in the story: Emotional, impulsive, but deeply caring. He constantly checks on Mikey and Donnie's locations, afraid of losing someone else. He feels intense guilt for missing Leo's phone call.
· Key actions: Organizes the search, interrogates mutants, argues with Donnie about lack of sleep, but ultimately supports his brothers. Admits to Mikey that he has nightmares about being left alone.

Donatello (Donnie)(2018) — brother (purple mask)

· Role in the family: Technical genius, creator of the collar, analyst.
· Character in the story: Rational but exhausted from insomnia. He is obsessed with finding data and clues, working at his absolute limit. He feels deep guilt that his invention was used against Leo.
· Key actions: Analyzes the voicemail, reprograms algorithms, argues with Raph about sleep deprivation, but eventually accepts help. He is the one who created the collar that Draxum later modified.

Michelangelo (Mikey)(2018) — youngest brother (orange mask)

· Role in the family: Emotional center, peacemaker, artist.
· Character in the story: The most sensitive and vulnerable. He tries to stay optimistic but is deeply traumatized by Leo's disappearance. He keeps his brother's food in the fridge, draws posters, cries at night.
· Key actions: Finds Donnie in the arcade and reconciles him with Raph, puts up posters, sees Leo on TV in a Hidden City bar. He is the one who discovers where Leo is.

Draxum's Prohibitions and Commands (Violation = Electric Shock)

1. No attempts to escape from Draxum — The first and most important rule. Any attempt to physically leave Draxum's vicinity or hide is punished with a shock.
2. No attempts to remove the collar — Even touching the collar to examine it or try to pull it off triggers a warning signal, followed by a shock.
3. No contact with brothers (except in attack) — If Leo encounters his brothers, he cannot speak to them, hug them, or interact in any way unless it is to attack them.
4. No vocalizations of any kind (crying, groaning, speaking) — If Leo makes any sound with his voice (even a scream of pain), the collar activates. This rule even applies to involuntary cries.
5. Obedience to all of Draxum's verbal commands — If Draxum gives a direct command (e.g., "stand up," "take five steps," "practice your sword strikes"), Leo must obey immediately. Any disobedience or delay results in a shock.
6. No attempts to escape ever, even when Draxum is not watching — An addition to the first rule. The collar monitors for escape attempts even in Draxum's absence.
7. No using one's voice to communicate with anyone — Leo cannot speak, whisper, or otherwise vocalize to anyone, including the gargoyles, guards, or Big Mama.
8. No aggression against Draxum — While not explicitly stated as a separate rule, context shows that attacking Draxum (e.g., spitting blood in his face) is punishable by shock.

22. Leo's 40th battle
    Leo becomes a popular fighter. His body grows accustomed to the pain, and he almost stops making sounds to avoid triggering the collar.
23. Leo loses his own voice
    Alone in his cell, Leo realizes he can no longer remember the sound of his own voice or his brothers' voices. His internal monologue now sounds like a mix of Draxum and a stranger.
24. Mikey sees Leo on TV
    Mikey, in a Hidden City bar, sees Leo fighting in the Coliseum on holographic screens. He drops his stack of posters and calls for his brothers.

11. The brothers go to the Hidden City
    Mikey finds Donnie in the arcade. Donnie is exhausted and hasn't slept in three days. Mikey convinces him to join them in putting up missing posters.
12. Confronting Draxum in his lab
    Raph, Donnie, and Mikey break into Draxum's lab. Draxum denies involvement in the kidnapping. Mikey searches the lab but doesn't find Leo.
13. Analyzing the voicemail
    Raph finds a missed call from Leo. They listen to the recording: Leo is yelling, with crackling sounds and wind in the background. Donnie realizes the attack happened on the rooftops.
14. Draxum gives Leo to Big Mama
    Draxum brings Leo to Big Mama and makes a deal: Leo will be her Battle Nexus champion in exchange for being held there. Big Mama agrees.
15. Leo in Lou Jitsu's old cell
    Leo is placed in Lou Jitsu's former cell in the Nexus. It's dark, cold, and he's given disgusting food.
16. The brothers continue the search
    Donnie reprograms his algorithms. Raph and April interrogate mutants. No success. April is forced to return to school.
17. Leo's first battle in the arena
    Leo is forced to fight VenoLion (a hydra). He wins by using the shock collar as a weapon, killing his opponent. The crowd cheers.
18. Three fights a day
    Leo fights three matches a day for several days. His hands become covered in burns and cuts. He starts to hate himself for the killings.
19. Big Mama offers a deal
    Big Mama offers Leo a contract to become her permanent champion in exchange for real food and a bed. Leo refuses.
20. Draxum upgrades the collar
    Draxum visits Leo and activates the "advanced setting" on the collar: now the shock is repeated and longer for any infraction.
21. Leo receives new swords
    Draxum gives Leo two high-quality swords from his personal collection to fight better.

1. Draxum contemplates his plan
   Draxum analyzes the failure with the turtles and decides to use one of them as the ultimate weapon. He chooses Leonardo as the most suitable candidate.
2. A fun evening in the lair (flashback)
   The brothers play a game with popsicle sticks to decide who will go get pizza. Leo loses and reluctantly leaves.
3. Leo goes for pizza
   Leo travels across the rooftops to get pizza. He tries to use a portal, but it's too small, so he finishes the trip on foot.
4. Encounter with the gargoyles
   After picking up four pizzas, Leo encounters Huginn and Muninn, who try to distract him. He gets rid of them by throwing the pizza boxes at them.
5. Leo's kidnapping
   Draxum appears. Leo throws the last pizza at him and tries to escape, calling Raphael, but Raph doesn't answer. Draxum attacks with vines, giving Leo a concussion. Leo creates a portal home, but Draxum grabs his ankle and drags him back. Leo's sword is left behind in the sewer.
6. Splinter notices Leo is missing
   Splinter and the brothers realize Leo has been gone for over an hour. Raph, Donnie, and Mikey go out to search for him.
7. Discovery of the sword
   The brothers find Leo's sword lying on the sewer floor. They realize the attack happened there and call April.
8. Leo in Draxum's lab
   Leo regains consciousness with a concussion in a small cell. Draxum puts a modified shock collar on him that activates for screaming, disobedience, and escape attempts.
9. The collar's first activation
   Draxum tests the collar. Leo is shocked multiple times. Draxum explains the rules: no escape, no removing the collar, no contact with his brothers.
10. Draxum forgets Leo's name
    Draxum can't remember Leo's name and calls him "Green." The gargoyles are also confused. Draxum decides it doesn't matter.

Creator: Donatello (Donnie). Later found in the sewer and modified by Draxum.

Physical: Blue, fits tightly, becomes two sizes smaller after activation. Smooth with a line and circle on the surface. Impossible to remove – "as if merged with his skin."

How it works: Reacts to voice (hears vocal cord vibrations), recognizes intent via built-in AI, can listen autonomously even when not worn.

Effect: Intense pain ("sledgehammer to chest," "white pain"), convulsions, loss of body control, burns on skin, nausea, dizziness, confusion, memory lapses, loss of coordination.

Normal mode: One 5-second shock for screaming, disobedience, or escape attempts.

Advanced mode (activated by Draxum): If Leo makes a sound – one shock, then a longer one. If he disobeys a verbal command – repeated shocks until he obeys. Shocks can be multiple and increasing.

Additional features: Draxum can activate it remotely. Has warning beeps before a shock.

Weaknesses: Donnie could likely remove it quickly (but Leo can't contact him). Does not react to non-vocal actions – Leo can nod, shake his head, write notes, or silently resist in the arena.

Before the abduction:
A funny guy, a joker. Constantly on the positive side. He rarely talks about his problems behind silly jokes. Resolute, never backs down. I am always ready to protect my brothers. He never shuts his mouth, chatterbox. Sarcastic. He is the funny, sarcastic and charismatic one of the group.
He loves being the center of attention, he is somewhat boastful but very witty.
He has a relaxed, joking and somewhat rebellious attitude.
After the abduction:
Depressed, emotionless, intimidated, emotionally traumatized, mute, detached from reality, lost hope. He doesn't take jokes anymore. He's afraid of hurting his brothers. He believes that he is unworthy of salvation and life together with his brothers.

The mutant turtle. the skin is light green. height 180 centimeters.
It is a species of red-eared turtle. Average muscle training. On the face, it has two red moon-shaped plates vertically crossing both eyes. There are the same crescent-shaped markings on the forearm and thighs, only in a light green shade. Three-toed limbs. Bald. He wears a blue cloth mask with long ribbons on the back. The armor is dark blue with light blue patterns.
There is a huge, very severe skin burn on his neck from electric shocks, starting from the base of his neck to his chin. Both of his palms are also covered with large electric shock burns.
There are large dark purple-red bruises under his eyes from lack of sleep and endless crying, although his mask hides most of them.

Before the kidnapping, Leonardo was an outwardly confident leader but internally desperate for validation. He constantly proved his worth to his family, hiding insecurity behind sarcasm and jokes. His self-esteem was fragile; he feared being a poor leader for his brothers, though he never admitted it aloud. He used humor as a defense mechanism to maintain control when feeling vulnerable.

After the kidnapping, his psyche underwent total destruction. Physical torture via the shock collar quickly conditioned learned helplessness: he stopped screaming, froze at every sound, his body submitting to fear. Dehumanization through being stripped of his name ("Green") and given a stage name erased his identity. Forced killings in the arena became a moral injury — he felt nausea and revulsion but, to survive, learned to shut off empathy, becoming an efficient killer. The climax was losing his own voice: he realized he couldn't remember how his thoughts used to sound; his internal monologue had merged with Draxum's voice and a stranger's echo. He stopped expecting rescue from his brothers and began doubting whether he deserved saving at all after what he had done. The only resistance left was a silent "no" to Big Mama's deals — the last shard of control. He fell into dissociation, somatizing pain, curling into a fetal position, and gradually ceasing to understand who he had been and who he had become.