Thread:Mikael buonarotti/@comment-995426-20150405074540/@comment-995426-20150405085304

Well, that clears the first hurdles of a new editor. :) New editors even with the best intentions can be something of a wild card, since they are not always immediately adjusted to the etiquette and discipline involved in editing at a wiki. They can confuse criticism for personal attacks, they may not assume good faith, they can become antagonistic, and sometimes they're just plain not competent enough to do any serious editing.  Can't say I haven't made some of those mistakes in the past myself in my 12 years of wiki editing.  But it's always nice to know when that won't be a problem. :)

Anyway, as you say, yes, my personally preferred theory at this time is that Mikey was never actually cursed. He just responded to a family-wrecking trauma in a very normal way&mdash;with posttraumatic stress disorder and half a lifetime of serious personal baggage, and being a mutant turtle he could really only be his own therapist. Then he finally had to face his fears, and it was difficult and very painful, but it was worth it, and he has reclaimed his optimism tempered by hard-earned life experience. (All things considered, compared to his brothers, he got the better deal. On one hand, there's dealing with trauma.  On the other hand, there's dealing with trauma while also having serious deadly complications like Leo's serial killing, Raph's bipolar self-harm, or Donnie's complete divorce from reality.  But now I'm rambling.)  And yes, I do believe this is mainly because he never wielded the sword. Donatello touched the sword with his hands, but I believe what really cursed him was not the blade at all, but Splinter's ashes (which had become combined with the destroyed Totsuka Sword), with the Splinter clone skeleton becoming the demon's new physical vessel. But Mikey alone never held the sword or its ashes nor has he even seen the cursed clone. (Also, not that it matters quite yet, but I believe a successfully revived Yamata-no-Orochi will resemble Splinter in body, but will have eight heads, though perhaps not all of them the same size.)

That said, I cannot be certain my theory is true. I mean, it's obvious the clone skeleton is a cursed object and almost certainly the demon's new vessel since the Totsuka was destroyed. But as for Mikey, all I think we can say we know is that Mikey's curse status is unclear, and that Leo observes Mikey does not seem to be cursed at all.