Name: Artemisia 'Tia' Hamato
Nicknames:
Artie - by Raph and April
Missi - by Mikey
Sia - by Leo and Donnie
White - by Splinter
Temi - by Donnie
Ari - by April
Tia (Main) - by Everyone
Master/Aunt Artemisia - Casey Jr
Dios Madre - Casey Jr
Age:
Season 1 - 14
Season 2 - 15
Movie 2022 - 18
Movie Apocalypse - Deceased at 35
Gender: Female
Sexuality: Straight
Race: Mutant Turtle
Species: Musk Turtle
Family:
Father(s) - Splinter, Baron Draxum
Mother - NONE
Brother(s) - Raph, Leo, Donnie, Mikey
Sister(s) (Adoptive & Honorary) - Piebald, Cassandra, April
Ancestors - Oroku Saki, Karai, Sho, Atsuko
Godson - Casey Jr
Friends:
April O'neil - Best Friend
Cassandra Jones (After redemption) - Best Friend
Sunita
Todd
Love Interest: Yuichi Usagi
Personality: Tia is a very gentle creature and is kind to just about anyone she meets. Although there are moments where she can be extremely sarcastic, especially when one of her brothers does something stupid. Her family will always come first to her and is always willing to give her brothers a hand if asked. She has the self-sacrificing attitude, but hides it underneath a mask of arrogance. Tia often finds herself being the one with a plan, but never truly wants to execute them do to a lack of encouragement from herself, since she is neither the leader and doesn't want to be. Although, she does know that she can rely on her brothers and father more often than not.
Likes:
Art - Like Mikey she has a knack for art. Finding it both beautiful to look at and a fun way to express herself.
Training - Tia finds herself training if she ever needs to calm down and take a moment. Normally this might be her learning new ways to fight with her blades or through meditation.
Lou Jitsu - Her all time favorite movies, and knows every movie by heart
Music - She will listen to any genre, and is always blasting music from either her room or from her phone. Tia can also play several instruments that were all self taught but typically sticks to just listening to her favorite genre, musicals
Helping Donnie in his lab - Artemisia is a very smart girl that is not as into science as her brother Donnie, but does enjoy helping him on some of his projects, since in his words, "The closest thing to his brilliance." Which she took as a compliment.
Watching TV with her Dad - Typically on slow nights, she will go and watch tv with her dad, sitting on the arm of his chair and laughing with him at his trashy reality tv. It's nothing much, but she loves spending time with him, even if she doesn't enjoy the show.
Dislikes:
Jupiter Jim - She loves the comics and is an all time fan, but she is very adamant on staying far away from the kidnapper, as he off sets her way too much.
People messing with her family - Tia can be very protective of her family and hates it when someone either bullies them or hurts them in any way.
Kraang - They cause the end of the world and tried to murder not only her but her family. She could definitely live without seeing them.
The Foot Clan - Being arch rivals does not help with the constant crimes that they commit, not to mention that they resurrected a demon that killed her ancestor and almost killed her father.
How her father can be over protective of her - Do to her being the only girl and the smallest of her four brother, she feels that her dad can be a little too overprotective with her. Especially with the case that Baron Draxum dropped her as a baby turtle.
Abilities: Able to unlock the powers of her ancestors, or Ninpo, she found that she had a shared ability with Leo, being able to teleport and create portals with a slash of her sword. Tia also has the ability to use magic and sorcery. But her fighting capabilities is not matched by how good she is with medicines and healing the injured.
Weaknesses:
- Focuses on her brothers during battle which leaves her wide open for attack.
- She has major insecurities that hold her back, and can get angry when people mess with her brothers or family.
- She can also be a bit of a smart-ass, which can get her into trouble most often than not.
- Using to much of her abilities at a time can seriously drain her body and mental aspects. It's not until she gives out that she stops.
Weapon of Choice: Duo Katana's and having Kunai as a backup
Background: Like her brothers she is a turtle, mutated with the DNA of famous martial arts movie star, Lou Jitsu. She was made to be a strong warrior and a silent killer. And when her creator Baron Draxum, and Father had fought as the later tried to escape, Baron tried to take back Tia, but dropped her allowing Lou to scoop her back up. From there, she was raised in the shadows like her brothers, and like them she grew into her own personality. Tia of course shared many similarities with her brothers, Leo's humor, Mikey's art of being delicate, Raph's care, Donnie's brains and sarcasm. As she grew, her skills as a ninja did too, everything came easy to her, like she was made to, but she struggled with insecurities that held her back from accomplishing past any of her brothers. Learning to play of her insecurities with good humor and a bit of arrogance, Tia never pushed herself to her limits, only sticking with what she believed she could really do. This all caused her to struggle in unlocking her Ninpo. Feeling frustrated, and agitated that she couldn't do it, especially after loosing Karai, and feeling as if it were her fault. But upon hearing "Anata wa hitori ja nai," Tia felt at ease enough to unlock the power of her Ninpo. Only then was she able to help her family defeat the Shredder.
In the future, underneath the Kraang Apocalypse, Tia is a master in both martial arts and sorcery. She spent most of the time being split between training the resistance with her brother Raphael, learning magic with Mikey, Strategics with Leo, and coming up and building knew weapons with Donnie. Then when her best friend Cassandra was pregnant, she was honored to be dubbed the Godmother of Casey Jr. But as the one sided war raged on, and Raph died, she didn't know what to do and slowly drifted in and out, only remembering the bear minimum. Then when Cass died, all she could focus on was making sure her five year old was safe and didn't get a moments rest, so it took Leo to pry her away, only after promising that he would watch over Jr, while she took a break. When she finally started healing a bit and came out to rejoin and fight for her lost brother and best friend, the Resistance was ready to make a heavy hit against the Kraang, in that battle, Leo lost his right arm and Tia's vision was permanently lost. Using special glasses that Don made in order for her to relearn to see without seeing. Then Donnie became sick, a virus that the Kraang had specially engineered to kill the genius turtle and torment the family and resistance. The female turtle knowingly had caught the same disease that the Kraang had given her younger brother, but she kept quiet. After Donnie died, Tia moved non-stop battle after battle, she raged on, ignoring how weak she was becoming. It wasn't until her last two brother's pulled her back that they found out that she had the Kraang disease. At that point Sia had come up with a last line of defense plan, to send someone back in time to the day everything was messed up. She suggested that it would be Casey, which led to a huge argument between her and Leo, about how unsafe it would be. They stopped talking much after that. But one day, Tia fell, her body to weak to hold her weight. She knew that just like her brother Donnie, she would be dying. Having been preparing for that very moment, since the death of her brother, Tia left a book on how to do treatments and how to run the defense systems of the base. From there, she was happy to see that her brother's had noticed her abscence and came to find her. Knowing that it was the end, they brought her to the surface of their base. They stayed with her, making her comfortable and they talked about happier times. They spoke of favorite childhood memories and they laughed at old antics, until night approached. "I'm tired." Closing her eyes, Tia fell asleep next to her brothers and never woke up.
Leo and Mikey, woke up the next day to find that their sister had gone in her sleep. They weren't able to bury her, so instead, she was cremated. Her mask being given to Casey, who tied it around his wrist.
Other: On her last birthday, her brothers and April all chipped in and bought her a Cloaking Brooch, to allow her to easily blend in with the humans. It's one of her most treasured possessions and never takes it off.
Appearance:
Season 1 & 2
Season 1 & 2 (Human Cloaking)
Future: