Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25528126-20141013004032/@comment-995426-20141116030653

In the 1980 TV series Beauty and the Beast, he remains a beast for the entire story, and they have an interspecies child together. Besides, one of the big (modern) morals of the fairy tale is not judging by appearances and accepting people for who they are. Note that the fairy tale beast didn't turn back into a human until after they fell in love.

And believe it or not, but I do see the turtles as human in all the way it counts. So they don't have hair, or their nostrils come out in a different way, or their ear drums don't have ear-shaped exits, etc. They still have thoughts, feelings, emotions, intellect, and socialize the same way people do. I've always thought it silly for people to get caught up on someone's superficial appearance not being "human" enough, when it has very little to do with what makes them human. Keep in mind that even these turtles are technically half-human because the mutagen changed them that way. So there is still an integral part of them that is human. But even if they had no genetic similarity whatsoever, they're still sentient, and a sentient with emotions can fall in love with a sentient with emotions, easily.