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| - The Hamato Clan was once led by the mutant rat patriarch Hamato Splinter, who raised four adopted mutant turtle sons Leonardo Hamato, Raphael Hamato, Michelangelo Hamato and Donatello Hamato. They met and befriended April O'Neil, who took them in after their first sewer lair under Manhattan was destroyed. Raph independently befriended Casey Jones, while Mikey found and adopted Klunk as his pet cat. April was eventually regarded as part of the family, acting as a big sister to the four turtle brothers and a daughter figure to Splinter.
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| - The Hamato Clan was once led by the mutant rat patriarch Hamato Splinter, who raised four adopted mutant turtle sons Leonardo Hamato, Raphael Hamato, Michelangelo Hamato and Donatello Hamato. They met and befriended April O'Neil, who took them in after their first sewer lair under Manhattan was destroyed. Raph independently befriended Casey Jones, while Mikey found and adopted Klunk as his pet cat. April was eventually regarded as part of the family, acting as a big sister to the four turtle brothers and a daughter figure to Splinter. Casey entered the rest of the group's life a year later when he rescued April and the Hamato Clan from a New York City Foot Clan attack on April's Second Time Around building in Brooklyn. Casey allowed them all to live at the Jones Farm outside Northampton, Massachusetts, where they lived like a family for a year until the turtles returned to New York City and defeated NYC Foot Clan leader Oroku Saki. The Hamato Clan moved into their second sewer lair under Brooklyn, and April found a new apartment. After Splinter's tragic death in the Prologue, Leo left incommunicado for Japan, and Mikey moved in with April as a live-in brother, leaving Raph and Donnie in the family lair until they became estranged and Raph moved into a new lair of his own. Raph's blood was secretly harvested by Maxwell Amherst, whose experimentation accidentally created a new young mutant turtle, Renoir, who would inherit the life and memories of Maxwell's own son Augustus Amherst. April remained on good terms with the three Hamato brothers remaining in the city, but Donnie lost all affection for Raph and Mikey and seldom interacted with them, and Raph and Mikey refused to have anything to do with each other at all. For a time, Casey took off on his own, frustrated by his failure to win April's love, and while away in Colorado he met and married his first wife Gabrielle Jones, who was already pregnant with Shadow Jones from a previous relationship. Gabrielle died in childbirth, leaving Casey as Shadow's stepfather and only guardian, so Casey brought Shadow back to New York where April had recently bought the apartment building in Brooklyn owned by Casey's mother. Casey and Shadow moved in with April and Mikey, and Casey and April eventually married, with April becoming Shadow's stepmother and Mikey becoming Shadow's live-in uncle. Shadow and Augustus grew up as childhood friends and classmates at the same school. After Renoir first "appears" and "kills" Augustus, Raph rescues Renoir and forces him to become a new ninjutsu student, neither turtle knowing of their possible blood relation. Renoir's influence helps heal the rift between Raph and Mikey. When Leo returns from Japan, he and Mikey both decide to move in with Raph and Renoir in Raph's lair, while Donnie hates Leo and becomes more estranged from the family than ever before. Renoir becomes accepted as part of the family's life, with Raph in particular loving Renoir much like a son, but Leo is the first to openly liken Renoir as a member of the family, observing that Renoir already fits into the family better than Leo himself now does.
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