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This is only tangentally on-topic, but considering Karai is expected to play a major role in the next plot arc which, considering the original City at War, will tie up as many loose ends for Karai as it will for the turtles. And there's been that whole Leorai tension going on. So with that in mind, what does everyone think of this decade-old reference I recently dug up?

In Mirage TMNT's Tales of Leonardo: Blind Sight, Leonardo experiences a vision of living another life where he is a samurai in feudal Japan. In this life he wasn't raised by Splinter, but instead by the rat zodiac god Kubira (who strongly resembles Splinter). More than this, despite being a turtle and recognized as as a turtle even in his vision, Leo managed to have a human wife, and together they had a daughter named Yumi who was trained as a ninja.

Now, here are three pictures:



From left to right, they are Leonardo's human wife, then Hamato Miwa, then Leonardo's daughter Yumi. Leo's wife and Miwa have the same facial structure and very similar hairstyles, though the wife is decidedly less "evil"-styled and has a higher-positioned (less "villainous") widow's peak. And Yumi also has a somewhat similar face and hairstyle, but her sidebangs are even more like Miwa's than her mother's are. I like to think that these two Mirage characters may have directly inspired the design of Miwa's appearance, but that Miwa was made to appear more "evil" because she had been raised by Oroku Saki.

I can't help but think, that if Karai can come home, and if she and Leo can somehow move past the uncertain tension and find out whether they actually both have feelings for each other, and if then they form a relationship and get married, and somehow have a daughter together, their family could look as wholesome and content as this one.



Of course, even Mirage Leo was reluctant to believe the life this vision was showing him. But 2K12 Leo? Such a life may be perfectly suited for him. This is a vision of Leo and Karai's possible future that fans can hope for.