>>98421176No. Everything about this character fucking bores me. Everything about here just says "EFFORTLESS; We Need A Token Minority!"
For one, I could careless about a black April. It's not like this franchise isn't above swapping the races of characters or changing the designs (Baxter Stockman, April's initial appearance), all that's going to happen is that everyone is going to compare her to the designs of earlier April O'Neils. When I think of April myself, I think of red/orange hair, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. Even without the racial equation, it's a wild departure from the norm, even if every different April has worn a different outfit.
And for second, I might be on board if her design didn't suck. This looks like someone just slapped together some black OC together and then said "Call her April to meet the quota!"
I am FUCKING SICK AND TIRED OF THAT "THE BLACK GIRL WEARS HERE HAIR IN THOSE TWO POOFS BECAUSE HOW THE BLACK PEOPLE WEAR THEIR HAIR, ALL THE TIME" design. For fuck's sake, put some fucking effort in! That's not the only style for young black girls to wear their hair in, Christ! Was this designed by a committee of inoffensive soulless robots. I see it so much on characters, I've just grown fucking sick of it.
And lastly; why not just make a new character? It's not like this series hasn't already done that before. Why not just throw her in with April and Casey, is anyone going to complain as long as she's a good characters? Or shit, make a human character that all of the Turtles can relate to, like a partner or something.
All anyone is going to do is complain that they dared make the beloved April into the dreaded BLACK, even if they're not going to watch the show.
I don't know, maybe the show is gonna be great, but I'm already turned off by the Turtle's designs, myself.
