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A good trigger for BSoD with Donnie would be if he is forced to kill Timothy.
And so for things are leaning in that direction.
In the Pulverizer Donnie is warned that by choosing to train the Timothy at all he is responsible for him and all that will happen.
In Pulverizer Returns, none of the Turtles seem to know the Pulverizer had been Donnie's student. I mean yeah we do have that moment where the Timothy asks Donnie if they could train together again sometime and Donnie says 'No' in the Pulverizer. But in Pulverizer Returns they don't seem to acknowledge or question why Donnie is so adamant about getting him out of the Foot Clan. And instead just brush off their brothers insistence as unimportant particularly when there is someone who can pass them valuable information on Foot Clan activity.
Even the way Leo sighs in irritation after Donnie takes off in he Stealthbike, it's like he's asking "Donnie, what is wrong with you?"
In Mutagen Man Unleashed be have Mutagen Man betraying Donatello by eating the mutagen when Donnie's back is turned in order to gain arms and legs. We don't know how long he has been doing this? But we can assume that it started when the Turtles started locating the mutagen canisters and bringing them to the lair. And Donnie of course has been talking to the Pulverizer about April since she left.
And then later when Donnie tampers with that canister of mutagen which puts Timothy on ice (quite literally). He does tell Timmy not to drink it as a warning that the mutagen was tampered with. And it's clear that hurting Timothy in that matter, hurt Donnie emotionally as well. But the only choices he had was it was either do that or let Timothy hurt April.
I don't know about any one else, but after Pulverizer Returns I got a feeling that something in Donnie had shifted, and after Mutagen Man Unleashed it felt like whatever shifted had definitely cracked.
We also know and have pointed out that Donnie has made retromutagen successfully. But it was said he was only going to use it to cure Kirby and Splinter. And people complained that Donnie wasn't even thinking about Timothy who he had also promised to cure.
The way I see it is Kirby was more urgent then Timothy because he felt he owed that to April. Kirby was involved because of them and mutated because of them so he owed it to April to make things right.
With Splinter, I see that more as a desire to return something Splinter had lost. Donnie and the other Turtles have more then likely heard Splinter morn his lost humanity more then the few times we have. So by creating the retromutagen he feels he has a way to restore what Splinter had lost.
Of the Turtles, Donnie has been depicted as a pacifist, in previous incarnations that aspect was never explored. And there are certainly some kills where Donnie hasn't batted an eye such as Killing the Shredder in issue one of the Mirage comic or later killing Stockman. But there are other kills that Donnie has made that do affect him, such the leader of that Militia group the Turtles encounter in Northampton. The ones that wanted to detonate a nuke in the middle of a near by town to set a statement. Donnie is not able to dismantle the bomb but he does remove the plutonium core. So when the Militia leader detonates it, it goes off like a regular explosive. But Donnie doesn't take it as a victory because even though the individual who died was flawed, he was still an individual who only wanted to bring change.
So far the Turtles haven't had any serious killings. I mean, yeah we have seen them kill before. But most of the time, they tend to knock enemies out or leave survival ambiguous. With Raph, Leo, and Mikey if they are ever forced to kills an enemy they know, they would be seriously affected by it. And would likely try to convince themselves that that they were doing what they had to do.
Donnie on the other hand if he was forced to kill would be affected by it, but depending on who would cause the reaction. Fish Face or Dogpound, might get Donnie withdrawing for a bit but i doubt he'd be overly broken up about it.
Timothy on the other hand might get a reaction since his demise didn't have to happen. Which at best there will be a moment where Donnie just withdraws and maybe goes into a "If only..." trip. (Which might be a good way to get the Turtles to know about out Donnie's connection to Timothy.
Donnie: If only I hadn't offered to teach him...
Leo: He was your student?! Why didn't you tell me?!)
At worst Donnie might brake down in tears and then later telling everyone he's quitting as a ninja.
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