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I don't mind some variation. But you don't mess with Triceraton perfection. XD

Also, there have been younger Aprils before. In the Palladium RPG back in 1986, her profile listed her as 19 years old (only 4 years older than the turtles). And her IDW comics version is a young college student who worked for Baxter Stockman as an intern, and met Casey as a fellow college student to tutor him in academic classes so he wouldn't lose his college hockey scholarship. (I know the IDW turtles are actually much younger as mutant turtles, but they reincarnated from human teenagers who had died centuries before, and retained their personalities and maturity level from back then, so they're still teenagers in the social sense.) And this isn't a radical departure from April being 2 years older and Casey 3 years older than the turtles. The assumption of April being significantly older than the turtles didn't really germinate until the first cartoons and movies, where she could have easily been in her late 20s or early 30s.