Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-2239501-20160424224018/@comment-995426-20160430043401

Well, Blind Faith and Blind Sight were written entirely by Jim Lawson, so he would be the one to ask any questions about it what happened in their pages. Also, I think Laird may have only been able to approve because this was a vision of a different life Leonardo could have had or may have had in feudal Japan, and his family doesn't exist in the present day. Still, that feudal era Leo was still an anthropomorphic turtle, was still adopted and raised by an anthropomorphic rat (though not Splinter), and still specialized in fighting with twin katana, but his primary occupation was samurai rather than ninja. We also don't even know what his feudal era name was&mdash;no one in the vision ever actually calls him "Leonardo." Though if I had been in Lawson's shoes, I'd probably name him "Shitan," which is the Japanese calque of "lion-bold" and also an actual Japanese men's name.

Anyway, you seem hung up on wild and crazy mutant superpowers. I wouldn't mind if Leo and Karai had one or more perfectly ordinary mundane children...who could be trained in ninjutsu, perhaps, but wouldn't necessarily have superhuman powers. The idea of Leo having a fully human-looking daughter like Yumi is an also interesting though&mdash;perhaps even a mutant turtle who remains on the full human side of the appearance scale ("looks: full" like in that Palladium diagram). And maybe not a first-hand mutant, but a multi-generational mutant who was born into the condition from one or both mutant parents, like April's mother who herself was also implied to have been born into the condition.