Ninja Turtles in the Owl House lore and facts
- Kirby O’Neil first met Camila Noceda at the Robin’s Roost Cafe while he was in Gravesfield for an antiques show. Upon discovering how they both lost a spouse to natural causes, the two became friends, then lovers, and finally husband and wife. Camila’s daughter Luz was seven at the time her mother remarried, and Kirby’s daughter April was older by two years at age nine.
- Similarly, the bond between the Clawthorne family and the Hamato clan dates back centuries to when Hamato Koji became a shoulder for Evelyn Clawthorne to cry on following the sudden death of her human husband Caleb Wittebane. This relationship would continue for generations to come, extending all the way to Evelyn’s great-great granddaughter Gwendolyn and Koji’s great-great grandson Hamato Yuuta, who would later introduce his children Yoshi and Hana to Gwendolyn’s daughters Eda and Lilith.
- In contrast to Luz’s endless creativity, April is more intellectual and athletic. She has an interest in science and journalism, plays soccer, is on the school gymnastics team, and regularly does yoga. She also tried signing her and Luz up for cheerleading to expand Luz’s social circle, but that was also where Luz did her eyelid trick that freaked everybody out. Thankfully, April would get a second chance at cheerleading when she joined Hexside’s fearleaders.
- Luz’s ninja weapon of choice is a scythe while April wields war fans that once belonged to Tang Shen.
- Out of all the Turtles, Michelangelo is Eda’s special little guy, a fact that Mikey uses to rile up his brothers like a little gremlin. Mikey reminds Eda a lot of herself, a energetic and mischievous witch with tons of potential much like Eda when she was younger. Though you may think Mike is a lazy and childish slacker, he’s actually quite the creative and unpredictable fighter, so much so that Splinter believes he has the potential to be the deadliest fighter of the four brothers.
- Oroku Saki wasn’t necessarily born evil, but he grew up believing that wild witches were cowards who used their powerful magic to hide how pathetic they were, a trait that Emperor Belos noticed when he planned to arrest the Oroku clan for their use of wild magic. Unlike Saki, his brother Oroku Nagi refused to submit to Belos. Seeing himself and Caleb in the Oroku siblings, Belos decided to have the two battle in a witch’s duel.
- At the eve of the witch’s duel, Saki and his family’s retainers Hattori Tatsu and Aru Khan went on a journey in search of a suit of armor known as the Kuroi Yoroi, which is said to be a legendary weapon used by the Ninja Tribunal, the first witches to use martial arts. Saki used the armor to kill Nagi in their witch’s duel and would go onto become known as the Shredder. Afterwards, the Oroku clan would be reformed into the black-ops division of the Emperor’s Coven called the Foot Coven.
- Bebop and Rocksteady were a pair of thugs who were thrown in the Conformatorium for their numerous crimes. But instead of being forced into a coven or petrified, the two were recruited into the Foot Coven as a way of escaping imprisonment.
- Baxter Stockman is the twin brother of Perry Porter, thus making him Gus’s uncle by extension. The two became estranged after Gus’s mother Bernice joined her brother-in-law on an experiment to create a portal to other worlds that quickly went awry. Bernice died in the chaos, and Perry disowned Baxter for failing to save her.
- Amity was first introduced to Casey Jones after she was forced to end her friendship with Willow. As part of the business partnership between Odalia and Darius Dunn, the two were arranged to be married when they came of age. However, Casey realized that Amity’s controlling queen bee personality hid a much more tortured and benevolent soul beneath, while Amity realized how caring Casey really was behind the risk-loving goofball he presented himself as. After Amity fell in love with Luz and Casey fell in love with April, the marriage was called off.
- While April warmed up to the Turtles, Splinter and King without much trouble, she and Eda definitely got off on the wrong foot. April believed that Eda wasn’t a very good mentor and looked more like some creep who drives a free candy van (as it turns out, Eda once beat up a guy like that after discovering that he really didn’t have candy in his van), while Eda loved poking fun at how April reminded her of Lilith.
- Eventually, the two would come to an understanding during the events of “Revenge of Tibbles” (this AU’s version of Really Small Problems) where Eda realized just how much stress April was putting on herself to be a good sister. Despite their differences, the two girls cared for their families above all else. After saving Luz and the others from the clutches of the Purple Dragons, April and Eda agreed to have a little girls’ day out together.
- In addition to being two of the strongest witches on the Isles, Eda and Lilith are also skilled fighters from training under many masters. Eda prefers to get up close and personal with her opponents while keeping them guessing, while Lilith is a more graceful and tactical combatant.
- Eda trained under the Ancient One and the Utroms while Lilith was an apprentice of the Shredder. Both are skilled in bojutsu, as is every witch with a Palisman, but Eda prefers the arts of shurikenjutsu, kayakujutsu, shinobi-iri, hensojutsu, and intonjutsu, while Lilith is more talented in kenjutsu, choho, boryaku, and taijutsu. They work out by jogging and doing yoga, but Eda also does boxing, weightlifting, and poledancing in comparison to Lilith working out with gymnastics, judo and kendo.
- When Lilith was first welcomed into the Owl House after sharing the curse with Eda, everyone was divided over the change. Hooty and Michelangelo welcomed her with open arms, Luz, Eda, King, Leonardo, and Donatello followed some advice from Splinter to remain optimistic, and April declared Lilith to be on thin ice with her.
- And then there’s Raphael, who will never let go of how Lilith & Shredder nearly killed them all and took Eda & Splinter away. He’s so paranoid, he had recurring nightmares about Lilith betraying the gang and mocking Raph for being the only one to see through her facade even though no one believed him. As a way of forcing the two to become closer, Splinter handcuffs Lilith and Raph together and will only release them if they proved they’re on better terms. This test would be interrupted by Tiger Claw, Hunter and Baxter plotting to hunt Lilith down to bring her to Shredder so she can be punished for her betrayal, forcing her and Raph to work together if they were to survive.
- The Utroms migrated to the Boiling Isles after Dimension X was conquered in the name of Aldrich Leviathan and made their home in what would become known as the Empyrean Oasis, which would be the source of the earliest mutant demons. The Triceratons have also migrated to the Boiling Isles for similar reasons, and even destroyed their homeworld to deny Amphibia another planet to conquer.
- Centuries later, the Utroms led a secret war against Belos to free the isles from his tyranny via training witches to become Guardians. A young Eda, Yoshi, Raine, and Tang Shen were among these witches, as were Gwendolyn, Hamato Yuuta, and Tsou T’an-Jin before them, and many members of the Clawthorne and Hamato families dating back centuries to Koji and Evelyn.
- In 1815 during the War of 1812, a US soldier named John Bishop discovered a mysterious portal that would lead him to the Boiling Isles, where he was experimented on by the Utroms to create a perfect superweapon to destroy Belos. Bishop was horrified by the aliens who captured him and made an escape, forcing the Utroms to scrap the project altogether. Bishop would eventually find a way home through Titan’s blood, but he stuck around the Demon Realm long enough to learn about the evils of Belos and carve his own Palisman, a wolf he named Knight. Afterwards, Bishop became leader of the Earth Protection Force, a position he would retain for decades due to the Utroms’ experiments making him basically immortal.
- Due to Lilith’s ties with the Oroku family, she was made by Shredder and his wife Oroku Miwa to be the nanny of their two daughters Karai and Pimiko. Between the two, Karai was preferred over Pimiko, who hid her desperation for approval by acting like an arrogant brat.
- Throughout his life as the Golden Guard, Hunter considered Karai to be like a sister to him for how much she looked out for him. Karai knew how cruel Belos was to his subordinates and feared how he would punish Hunter if he failed a mission.
- Shredder is roughly a decade older than Eda, Lilith and Splinter, being somewhere in his fifties while the three of them are all in their mid to late forties.