Karai OC because of Mystics/Heart of Tengu?

[longing for leo]

Ok, I've never started a thread before...but after posting this in the Scion of the Shredder arc, I realized that it doesn't really fit there. So this is a thread for theories on why Karai is being so...OOC/cold/emotionless (except for hate), etc. I'd love to hear other's thoughts/theories on the matter...but PLEASE, no spoilers. If you've found info about what will definitely air on the show, please do not post it because I, for one, prefer to be surprised. This is just my theory, I have no idea whether it will come to pass.

But honestly would karai not being shredder matter to you if you were in Leo's situation? Considering how hard he tried to reach her, I think so! I'm not saying he won't hurt her. But I don't think he'll just kill her, either, unless he has absolutely no other choice. It would be so wasteful, when he knows what good she's capable of, when she's not raving mad. I don't know... I can't predict what will happen.

But let's be honest Leo trying to reach out to Karai shouldn't happen either. Leo learned his lesson about listening to Splinter way back in "the shredder strikes" and if Splinter says there is no saving her I can't see Leo thinking there is. It may be that he's ultimately not the one who can reach her, and it has to happen within herself. I dunno.

At least now, he really does understand that they can never be friends again. What she did crossed the line, and I'm pretty sure Leo's memory of their past friendship shouldn't stop him from doing what he has to do, now. Karai's mind is made-up, as far as I can see it. There's nothing Leo can say because there's nothing Karai wants to hear, now that her father's gone. She endangered HIS father... that's a direct slap in the face.

There's so much that can happen. I'm going to be climbing the ceiling by Saturday. <-- or doing that.

I just had a thought (more like a wild/desperate/grasping at staws hope )...

You know how many of us think Karai's being OOC? ...Her voice, denial of all old care for Leo, honor, or any reason at all, and the whole one-track mind set on achieving one goal (killing tmnt) because of one reason (her dad's defeat) thing...

Well, what if she's being OOC because she's not actually in character? What if she's being controlled...I for one am very suspicious of the Foot Mystics, the Heart of Tengu, and their absence in SotS. What if, instead of allowing Karai to control the Mystics, the HoT instead allows them to control her?

I just think it's weird that they suddenly show up and are controllable by some crystal thing. That only after we see her with them and in possession of the HoT did we ever see Karai acting like this (evil/uncaring/cold)

I know I sound like some desperate/crazy fan trying to think of any possible way to prove that Karai is not, in fact, evil and that she has not (permanently) gone over to the dark side....And maybe I am one, come to think of it... jk But really, the thought just hit me that we don't have a lot of info when it comes to the Mystics or the HoT...so maybe they've got more to do with her sudden personality change than just the loss of her father.

I mean, it doesn't even make sense that she would go off the deep end and to the dark side...She saved Bejing, she saved the turtles (Leo especially) several times, apparently she even considered them friends, so why would betrayal be enough to make her like this? She and her father betrayed the turtles (her promise to lift the vendetta and leave them alone)...she even stabbed Leo...right after he'd just saved her...

So I just think that she's being OOC and the Mystics/the Heart of Tengu is a possible reason as to why. I'm interested to see if it turns out that anything like this is going on. I imagine (if that were the case) that she's snap out of it during the climax of a fight...maybe the HoT will be broken and she'll come back to herself. Your thoughts?