Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-16581186-20151227004739/@comment-995426-20160126190455

April doesn't need to bond with Mona. Mona needs to be erased from the multiverse. Perhaps after being dropped in a volcano first.

To be honest, it was always more interesting when April bonded with Raph. The sister-like way they competed, and their few brief moments of gurltalk and camaraderie. And he and Karai had some of the best catfight moments. Raph may be a dude, but he was always best as a b*tch. (Sorry, I don't really know another word for this particular highly-nuanced sense of the word. It's not necessarily an insult in his case, because he's actually a lot more fun that way.)

When they retooled Raph's personality over time, they made him incredibly dull and unsympathetic (in the sense of being hard to sympathize with). He's never had any real friendship chemistry with Casey, either, and most of their "buddy" scenes together feel forced and unnatural. (Casey is better as a foil for Donnie, but the two of them repeatedly fighting over April got really old really fast.) Mona Lisa is just the bottom of the Raph character derailment barrel.

The interesting thing about April and Raph, is that April is herself also very boyish. So they can hang out as two of the guys, and they can effortlessly gurltalk and dish as two of the sisters. And Karai and Raph, with their very similar personalities, can have the kinds of arguments and putdowns between well-inflated egos that can make the walls curdle, and anyone listening in can bring popcorn. :)