Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-29657114-20170222003316/@comment-26062541-20170429185145

I really disagree on that for a lot of reasons. For one, in season 3 Raphael learned to control the fire with-in him, making him more stable and less passionate. As the show went on, he did this a little TOO well, such as when they went to the planet of the Aeons and showed the same kind of anger he had in the first 2 seasons, implying he's more repressing his feelings than dealign with them. AND in the latter half of season 4, when Raph comes face to face with his worst fear in giant bugs, he flashes back to not JUST the bug planet, but horrifying visions of Mona Lisa betraying him. Raph is ultimately the perfect example of over-training, in his case mental solidarity, where he controlled his emotions SO much, that they became volatile at the beginning.

The more I read this, the more it feels like you just couldn't except change in the character at all, that you wanted him to stay the same forever. What you call character regression, I feel is character development. Also...have you ever considered you and your friends MAY be the minority in thinking Raph was gay? I go on several forums, its not the most common head-canon, and when it is its usually just in cutesy fan-art. I can see why you'd think that, but I really think it was unlikely that that was what they were going for. Not trying to say it couldn't be interpreted like that, but I feel its more than likely that he wasn't meant to be gay.