Swift

"*Some things are beyond our control...*"

**Swift**, (real name **Leonardo Akito Hamato**, born September 23rd 1994), is a Mutant Red-Eared Slider Turtle that is the oldest and chosen leader of The Turtles. The team consists of himself and his three younger brothers; Ghost, Rebel and Turtle Titan, along with his two eldest sisters; Cypher and Turtle Damsel. As his name suggests, Swift's primary ability is wind manipulation.

## Appearance

Swift is an fern green colored anthropomorphic mutant turtle ninja warrior. His eyes have cobalt blue irises with black pupils. He wears a royal blue bandana mask where the tails length range between Ghost and Turtle Titan's. His height ranges between Rebel and Ghost's. Swift's hands have two fingers and a thumb and has 3 little toes (like his brothers).

## Civilian Wear

In 2010, TBA.

In 2016, TBA.

In 2018, TBA.

In 2020, TBA.

## Superhero Attire

For his superhero and ninja attire, Swift wears brown knee pads and elbow pads, along with a matching brown belt around his waist and two straps over his right shoulder. He also wears beige rolled bandages wrapped around his wrists, ankles and fingers.

## Personality

Swift is an enthusiastic ninjutsu prodigy, who wears a royal blue headband, and fights with twin katana swords. He leads the various missions of the Turtles. Because of his persevering dedication towards ninjutsu, and his level-headed discipline, and partly because he asked for it, Master Splinter and Lady Shen wisely chose Swift to be the leader of the Turtles.

Swift is the big brother of the turtle quartet. For the most part, he tries to be the mature and responsible older brother, but there are occasional times where he can be a very typical older brother, however he reassures his brothers especially Mikey when chaos emerges. Overall he’s very helpful.

Swift is the only Ninja Turtle who is capable of using the spiritual, healing abilities of "the healing hands" technique to heal himself and others which enshrouds his body in a white aura by chanting the mantra and the right hand seals.

Swift is a perfectionist. He wants to make his friends and family proud of him. When he makes a mistake he would go hard on himself. Even he can sometimes make rash decisions too, like doing crazy one man missions or his choice to spend time with Karai instead of helping his brothers. Although Ghost and especially Rebel are the ones who would really erupt when angry, Swift rarely erupts.

The leader of the Turtles, Swift aspires to be a brave, decisive, perfect hero. Unfortunately, he's an inexperienced teen (for the moment at least) with three rowdy brothers. It's the gap between his aspiration and current situation that is the greatest source of frustration in Swift's life. He's the most driven of the four Turtles, training and studying relentlessly. He tends to be hard on himself, but his diligence does not go unnoticed; he is the favored student of Splinter, whose approval he very much craves.

Overall Swift is a helpful, adventurous, courageous, responsible, hardworking, protective, honorable, respectful, and enthusiastic ninjutsu prodigy with a "can-do" attitude. He is the most serious, disciplined, cool-headed mature and focused of the team.

## Powers

* **Turtle Physiology:**

* **Wind/Air Manipulation:**

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