Tina

Tina Girder

Age: 15

AKA : Turtle Power. sometimes The Mutant Ninja around school

Fav Thing: energy drinks. doesn't need em, don't affect her much, but she loves the taste.

Appearance : a very lean and sporty girl, shortish dark hair and standing about 5’3. Faint Asian ancestry (great grampy banged a hooker style, not fresh off the boat), always likes to wear arm and wristbands, as well as a bandana everywhere she's allowed. Likes to go with shorts, belly shirts, and scandals under weather forces otherwise, usually of ninja theme (no matter how inaccurate; shuriken t-shirts, useless bandana around her neck or arm, Deadpool buttons...). Known to raid Hot Topic for accessories and cartoon t-shirts, especially the pre-faded 80s ones (most of which she hasn’t seen).

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Personality : athletic, hyperactive, and enthusiastic. Cheery and spunky to a point of minor obnoxiousness. If left alone long enough, she'll start doing push-up or running in place to keep her pep up. Seen as odd but harmlessly so, and not enough to get picked on (never for long...). She’s focused once she gets something in her head, and likes to arrange ways to punish those deserving, but her moral compass isn’t especially accurate or consistent. Doesn't help that half her time is spent with antisocial turtles...

Weirdness : Tina is odd, but not freakishly so, at first. She's genuinely athletic and tough, but when she applies her turtle-style martial arts, it becomes clear that her agility, flexibilty, and abilities are well beyond a normal human's limits. When she starts clinging to ceilings, punching holes in stone walls, and running up walls, there's clearly something up. She herself is technically not superhuman, just that her power and strange form of kung fu has been awakened by her irradiated teachers.

Feet: 5. PE (4), Kicking (1), *Turtle Ninjitsu (3) Guts: 2. Courage (1), Wind (2) Hands: 4. Punching (1), Shop (1), **Turtle Karate (2) Brains: 2. Notice (3) <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Face: 2. Charm (2)

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Relationships <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">: Ma 'n' Pa Girder (2), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2) <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Weird Relationships: Actual Mutant Turtles (2)

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">*Turtle Ninjitsu: incredible feats of quickness, such as leaping, dodging, contorting, or stealth, as taught to her by her hideously mutated masters. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">3d. Defends, Wicked Fast x1, Useful (inhuman acrobatics)

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">**Turtle Karate: elaborate and powerful kung fu strikes taught to her by the strange mutated turtles of the sewers. Fighting things with shells means you have to hit a lot harder, and if some of the sewer freaks’ training was discreet attempts at assisted suicide, she is fully unaware. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">2d. Attacks, Awesome x1, Gnarly x1

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Story <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">: Tina is and has been a weird little girl, always on the hyper and playful side. At some point in the curiosity of her early teens, she went exploring in the sewers. There, she found that radioactive waste had been dumped on a group of pet turtles, horribly mutating them to a point beyond recognition, but granting them human level intelligence and a natural talent for martial arts. Tina struck a chord with them, and she liked their company so much that she visited them regularly, until they took her on as a personal pupil of their brand of turtle ninjitsu. Tina is in love with this concept, sometimes finding it hard to differentiate what she sees in the dark recesses of the sewers and her saturday morning cartoons, but she's glad to be there anyway with her beloved and slightly radioactive senseis and use their teachings to punch crime's thigh bone in half!

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Family <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">: <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Griffin Girder (dad/gym teacher), Avril O. Girder (mom/reporter; clearly not April), Duncan “The Deuce” Girder (brother)

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">mom and dad and big brother. Dad’s a gym teacher and likes the pep in his little girl’s step. Took a judo class with the wife once, so assumes the occasional martial arts prowess she shows, she picked up genetically (warning: that is not how science works!). Mom’s a newscaster on the local channel, does a lot of running around herself, in a business sense, so does her best to spend time with the family when she’s free from her job. But the news never sleeps... or something catchier. Her brother’s a cool, big jock of a guy, and mostly finds Tina annoying and tries to avoid her in general.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The Turtles <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">: not the pleasant skateboarding sort, the radioactive sludge that fell on the sewer-dwelling turtles mutated them in as much a superhuman sense as it did in a “oh god why!?” sense. With their newfound human intellect and affinity for martial arts, they also gained massive tumors, disfigured features, loss of certain mental or bodily functions, and generally an ongoing mild case of the agonies. Their secluded lives are miserable and painful, getting by most of their days with intense meditation between scavenging for food. The meditation helps enlighten them in a sagely hermit way, as well as cope with the depression and pain forced onto their lives from their enlightenment. Occasionally struggle with putting themselves out of their misery, “fortunately” difficult given their mutant endurance and partially crippled appendages. Usually fair but stern teachers, often sagely, but sometimes it’s just the radioactive brain talking. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">They go by the names of the classic artists: Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, and Tchaikovsky. Not much to differentiate them to anyone but Tina, so they’re pretty much interchangeable.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Tina still thinks they’re way smart and keen, and fails to grasp the darker side of their situation.