{"id":3568,"date":"2012-02-24T02:35:24","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T02:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/?p=3568"},"modified":"2012-02-24T02:35:24","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T02:35:24","slug":"1999-07-letters-from-raphael","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/1999-07-letters-from-raphael\/","title":{"rendered":"1999-07 &#8211; Letters from Raphael"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sup?<\/p>\n<p>Well, I&#8217;d like to say that everything is cool around here, but I ain&#8217;t a liar, so I won&#8217;t. The temperature has been insane up until about 18 hours ago, and I&#8217;m still pretty bummed about the whole Clan Sai crap. It&#8217;s been like 4 months and it still bugs me most of the time. I still can&#8217;t believe I was that stupid. Oh well.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; Mikey got ya freaked out about me? If ya haven&#8217;t read his letter, don&#8217;t bother. He way hyped the Akira thing. I didn&#8217;t come close to offing the loser&#8230; I just wanted him to know that he really screwed up by messing with me. He&#8217;s still got a few lessons he needs to learn, though&#8230; this is a full summer course and he&#8217;s only been to the first class. He&#8217;s got alot to learn before he can graduate, if ya know what I&#8217;m sayin&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Enough about that&#8230; I still spend way too much time thinking about those guys. Gotta let burned bridges go&#8230; I&#8217;m usually pretty good at that, but this time it&#8217;s not so easy. But time heals all wounds, or so they claim.<\/p>\n<p>Shredder hasn&#8217;t shown up much since that day. I ran into him one time when I was out scouting alone. The coward was with about 40 Foot Clan members&#8230; he&#8217;d never risk facing me alone. He&#8217;s getting older and I&#8217;m getting stronger&#8230; so I guess he&#8217;d rather be a wise chicken than a dead duck. Anyways, he fed me some more lies about how he wants me to join the Foot and that he&#8217;d need a new lieutenant after I got rid of Akira. I can see what he&#8217;s trying to do&#8230; I might be crazy, but I&#8217;m not stupid. Shredder is way outta his league trying to play mind games with me. I&#8217;m not gonna off Akira anyways&#8230; I want him to live with the kind of pain that he caused me. It&#8217;s only fair, right?<\/p>\n<p>So enough whining about stuff. I hope things have been cool with you. On the good news side of life, Leo and I have been getting along real well since this stuff went down. He&#8217;s trying hard to make me feel important, and while his efforts are extremely transparent, I still appreciate the effort. He hasn&#8217;t made it much in the past, but it&#8217;s nice that he&#8217;s doing it now. I&#8217;ve also been having a good time hanging with him and Venus. They&#8217;ve got a chemistry that used to bug me, but now I like seeing them together. They&#8217;re 100% Good People, and it&#8217;s nice to spend time with them&#8230; makes up for all the scumbags who I was hanging out with. We talk about alotta stuff that I used to think was bunk, but lately I&#8217;m starting to believe it almost as much as they do. I&#8217;ve always believed in honor, but I thought stuff like &#8220;justice&#8221;, &#8220;fairness&#8221;, &#8220;order&#8221; and &#8220;right&#8221; were alotta bull&#8230; but when I spend time with those two, I see that it can be real. That&#8217;s a good feeling, lemme tell ya. I&#8217;ve always pretty much lived in a dark world permeated occassionally by some lighter shades of grey&#8230; but these 2 are truly showing me some light. I&#8217;m proud to be in their circle. Someday mebbe I&#8217;ll see things the same way they do&#8230; I can&#8217;t really imagine that happening, but I&#8217;m finding myself yearning for it. Weird, huh?<\/p>\n<p>Hang loose, compadre.<\/p>\n<p><center>Later,<br \/>\nRaph<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sup? Well, I&#8217;d like to say that everything is cool around here, but I ain&#8217;t a liar, so I won&#8217;t. The temperature has been insane up until about 18 hours ago, and I&#8217;m still pretty bummed about the whole Clan&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/1999-07-letters-from-raphael\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,446,88],"tags":[41,447,21],"class_list":["post-3568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-letters","category-othercomics","tag-dan-berger","tag-letter","tag-raphael"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3569,"href":"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3568\/revisions\/3569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}