Okie dokie, here’s a long post for Sunflower’s BACKSTORY!
The theme of this is an overview of how I use Good Dad Draxum.
Draxum got Sunflower to use as the prototype for the mutation experiments. It didn’t work immediately, since the Lou Jitsu DNA sample was not direct. (It was like, a piece of his hair that was on a costume that Draxum got in one of those “random pieces of celebrity clothing” charity auctions.)
He was disappointed but he still took care of her. She was basically a pet. When she started speaking, however, that’s when he realized the experiment worked. (She could only babble like a toddler, but it worked.) He let her watch as many movies as she wanted to so she could be constantly exposed to language. With captions on, too, so she could learn how to read.
The other turtles were bought from Big Mama late one night when Draxum was getting ready to experiment again, and Sunflower mumbled something about wanting siblings. Five turtles at different ages… oh. One was still an egg? Draxum decided to keep it with him until it hatched and stuff.
Sunflower and the other turtles didn't really know each other because the timeline speeds up here. They met, yeah, but they were unmutated. They talked a little bit in animal noises but Sunflower had been exposed to human language more so she had pretty much no idea what was going on.
Uh skipping the baby turtle dynamics because it was really boring……. They were just. Babies.
One day, there was a small explosion with a different experiment, you don’t have to worry about it (Draxum was trying to cook food using a bunsen burner…. You know how it is) and unfortunately Sunflower was taken away from Draxum and sent to an…. Orphanage? Pet shelter? I don’t know exactly where she would have gone but then she gets adopted by a shapeshifter living in the hidden city that is my self-insert and Sunny gets raised like a human from there on.
Meanwhile! Draxum pours his attention into his experiment with Lou Jitsu, hoping that the other turtles will be to be the ~~children~~ mystic warriors he wants. The egg is almost ready to hatch, he can tell. But then the big lab explosion happens, blah blah canon stuff, and the egg fell into the mutation tank and he’s afraid he lost it.
During the cleanup, an agent of the council of heads finds a baby turtle whee the egg was and decides to give it to a human scientist whom this random agent knew and trusted. Nobody trusted Draxum anymore.
CUE THE NEXT THIRTEEN YEARS OF DRAXUM BEING VERY SAD BECAUSE HE HAS LOST ALL SIX KIDS.
First, he finds out that the babiest turtle is living in the space station and has been named Venus! Then he finds out Sunflower is an archery competitor. He wants to get them back but the humans refuse.
THEN episode one happens. From there, we find out Sunflower met the ninja as online friends and they all meet up at like a robotics convention or something, blah blah baxter stockman, blah blah there was an IDW comic I read about Donnie that was why I wanted to make my oc in the first place. I think it was a one-off special.
There we go, Sunflower’s BACKSTORY. Her lore from then is that she just starts living with the family but stays at home most of the time because she was injured and she doesn’t know what she’s even supposed to do to help. I need to watch the rest of Rise to make more sense with canon but yeah!