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Of course, Chococat-chan.

Any time.

[ a quiet li'l pffff at the nickname ]

Mind if I ask one more favor?

Sure, what's up?

So, I've been practicing making hoodies lately and I was thinking about making one for Hunter-kun. Could you sneak me his measurements? And if you know his favorite color and animal, that'd be great!

And — tell me if this is overstepping — I was showing him kanji and stuff the other day and I started thinking … if I could find out what you guys use for Hamato" I could embroider his name on it somewhere.

[There's a slightly longer than usual pause here, which means it's longer than 5 seconds. He's kind of awed, actually.]

Cardinal, red and gold for colors but he leans more to red, gold is what his ninpo manifests in.

I dunno about kanji since I never learned how to write it, but we have the Hamato family symbol.

Thank you!

[ a rustle as she grabs for a pen, jotting a note down ]

Cardinal ... red and gold, hm, I could use gold as a trim maybe. Any colors to avoid? [ Hums, tapping her pen. ] If you could draw the symbol for me, I'll include that. Wanna make sure it's as accurate as possible. Would Donnie-kun or Raph-kun have any idea about the kanji, do you think? Or I can stick with katakana; I'd be using it for his first name anyway ...

Donnie, probably. If you want Spanish or turtle language, I'm your guy.

Avoid green, blue, black combo. And if you need it accurate, got something better.

[A minute later she'll get a selfie, Leo's ninpo lit up with a bright blue version of the Hamato symbol in front of his chest.]

[ when that selfie comes through ]

Whoa! That's — wow, that's amazing, thank you! [ BEST TURTLE. FAVOURITE TURTLE. ]

Cardinal on the front, Hamato family symbol on the back, and I'll ask Donnie-kun about the kanji. Perfect.

[HE IS, IN FACT, THE BEST.]

Any time. Happy to help if it's helping spoil him to nice things.

This is why you're my favorite.

[ Happy! Hums! ]

While I'm in a terrorising mood, I gotta ask. Is turtle language on or off the table as something I can-slash-should bully Donnie-kun with?

[Happy! Hums! back! He's someone's favorite. TWO SOMEONE'S FAVORITE NOW.

But that... He hesitates as he thinks on that one. Don's chirping and trilling was always kind of his thing to figure out. And Korone isn't a sure thing. Leo is fairly certain, but Don isn't.]

Hard to say. [Easier. Go with the easier answer.] There's like nuances, and easy to misinterpret tones and pitch combos.

Mm, got it. In that case I'll leave it alone. He can share if he wants to.

Yeah.

Turtle sign language, though, that is something I can encourage.

Working on it. There were a couple of times where he started to sign, so I thought it'd be a good idea to learn.

Oooh, yeah definitely. Especially if you're around when he goes nonverbal, it's helpful to have. I was talking to him about letting me help teach people since he's already trying to teach Hunter and ...someone else, but he got real cagey at the idea of me helping.