Foot Recruit

**Jennika**, also known as **Jenny** or **Jenn** for short, was the ninja chūnin of Foot Clan, a dear friend to the Turtles and for a short time a love interest of Kevin O'Neil. Originally human, she is now a mutant turtle after her life was saved by an emergency transfusion of mutagenic blood donated by Donatello due to her loss of blood.

## Physical Appearance

Jennika is a teenage girl with blonde hair styled in a buzz cut, black eyes, light skin, and a lean figure. She wears a black sleeveless jumpsuit with red wraps around her neck, calves, arms, and a red sash around her waist. She often wears a red face mask during Foot Clan missions. She also wears matte black lipstick, red eyeliner, and two red piercings on her left ear.

## Personality

Jenn is intensely energetic, shown in her frantic speech pattern and tendency to shout. She is a quick-thinker and tends to take herself seriously (though she has the regular playful moment). She is fiercely loyal to the Foot Clan and always wants to prove her worth to them in any way she can, though she seems to most enthused about proving her battle prowess. However, despite her persistently combative nature, she never engages in a fight without the approval of either Foot Lieutenant or Foot Brute, and is a devout follower of the Foot's laws and traditions.

## History

Jennika was a young Foot Assassin, and a loyalist to the Foot Clan rather than to The Shredder. As a young girl, she was driven from her home when she found her father beating her mother, and lived on the streets afterwards.

Her first encounter with the Foot took place in prison, where an imprisoned Foot ninja defended her from other convicts and became her fast friend. The woman trained Jennika in secret as they plotted to escape the prison, but Jennika's friend was killed by another inmate just as they had gained their freedom. She found her way to the Foot and became one of their number, using her newfound skills at killing on the woman who had murdered her friend.

## Powers and Abilities

* **Ninjutsu**: Jennika is well-versed in the art of ninjutsu, including not only hand-to-hand and armed combat, but stealth, espionage, escape, and more. Unlike the other Turtles, she was trained specifically for the purpose of assassination, and has taken lives quite brutally on more than one occasion.
* **Athleticism**: Although she likely is not as well-versed in this as the other turtles, she is incredibly nimble and boasts athletic strengths far beyond even most trained athletes.
* **Childcare**: Jennika was tasked with the supervising and care of the children of Saint Robert's Orphanage more than any other member of the Foot Clan or Clan Hamato, that was seen.
* **Pedagogy**: Jennika taught basic martial arts techniques to these orphans.
* **Mutant turtle physiology:** As a mutant turtle, Jennika has the advantages (and potential disadvantages) with being a bipedal turtle of humanoid size and stature. Most prominent, is her shell, a natural armor comprised of the carapace and plastron. It is unknown what other specific enhancements she has at this time.

## Weapons and Equipment

* **Foot Assassin uniform:** As a Foot Assassin, Jennika wore a specific uniform, including striped sleeves and a menacing red mask.
* **Claws:** As a Foot Assassin, her clawed weapon was a glove with bladed fingers, sort of a combination of the *Tekkō-kagi* with "*neko-te*", and reminiscent of Freddy Krueger's trademark weapons, but with claws more in length of a *tantō***.** Post-mutation, she wields traditional *tekkō-kagi* the likes of which were utilized by Oroku Saki, only with four blades**.**
* **Katana:** Outside of her Foot Assassin garb, Jennika normally carried and wielded a single katana.
* **Bandanna:** Post-mutation, Jennika takes up wearing a yellow eye-mask bandana, similar to the other turtles.

## Trivia

* This character is a mix of Jennika from the IDW Comics, and Casey Jones from Rise of the TMNT.