The Book of Karai

[Andrew NDB]

So just to throw this out there. There is work going on for a Karai book with Andres Ponce on the art. All of it. This will segue into the graphic novels you've already seen out of me and DemonAlukard like the Image finisher, Odyssey, Origin, Forever War and The Shredder and the others already coming from that end. There will, for sure... also be... "mystical" stuff within.

How do you feel about Karai in general? Are there any boxes unchecked? For this project, of course, this is the same one that brokered the peace with Leonardo within the course of the Mirage City at War where she had to come to New York annoyed that Saki, her underling, left a mess for her to pickup the pieces of and sort out (and this is NOT any version that is related to Oroku Saki, like his daughter or granddaughter or any of that, to be clear).

[neatoman]

Defining story? I suppose the sequence of events that lead to her losing control of the New York Foot branch to Saki in the first place.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by neatoman

Defining story? I suppose the sequence of events that lead to her losing control of the New York Foot branch to Saki in the first place.

At that point in time she was not in full control of the Foot and New York was given to Saki when he was 18. She ascended after that. The New York branch was an experimental thing that Saki earned.

[neatoman]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

At that point in time she was not in full control of the Foot and New York was given to Saki when he was 18. She ascended after that. The New York branch was an experimental thing that Saki earned.

Does it say that in volume 4, Tales volume 2 or something? If so I probably haven't read it. I just took a look at her dialogue in CaW and she doesn't make any explicit claims there about when she ended up in charge. All she says is that an ambiguous "we", so not clear if she means herself and other leaders or previous leaders of the Foot, lacked proper contact with him in the early days and the only clear reference to herself being in charge is that her advisors thought the New York factions would destroy themselves. Unless it's in a book I haven't read, I'm not really seeing any clear indication that Saki's branch pre-dates Karai's leadership.

[ToTheNines]

Right on! Very excited for this, obviously.

Immediately after CaW would be an interesting time. Coming off a long, hard victory but at the cost of her daughter. But, as we’ve previously discussed, we also need to know how she ended up at odds with the turtles eventually, so as to make sense of “Silent Night”.

[ToTheNines]

Originally Posted by neatoman

Does it say that in volume 4, Tales volume 2 or something? If so I probably haven't read it. I just took a look at her dialogue in CaW and she doesn't make any explicit claims there about when she ended up in charge. All she says is that an ambiguous "we", so not clear if she means herself and other leaders or previous leaders of the Foot, lacked proper contact with him in the early days and the only clear reference to herself being in charge is that her advisors thought the New York factions would destroy themselves. Unless it's in a book I haven't read, I'm not really seeing any clear indication that Saki's branch pre-dates Karai's leadership.

Well we know she’s a little older than Saki, but not by much (2 years older if you consider the Palladium stuff canon). And the fact that she’s acting as a field operative at all in CaW tells us she’s probably not the Big Boss. Probably more of a Captain or Major, to draw a military comparison.

[neatoman]

Originally Posted by ToTheNines

Well we know she’s a little older than Saki, but not by much (2 years older if you consider the Palladium stuff canon). And the fact that she’s acting as a field operative at all in CaW tells us she’s probably not the Big Boss. Probably more of a Captain or Major, to draw a military comparison.

Good enough, I suppose.