Respect Among the TMNT Brothers

[Ulisa]

Okay, so I was talking with one of my friends the other day and she asked me something interesting. her question was, among the four TMNT brothers, what was their level of respect towards one another?

Intially, her question was, if they were to use a Japanese term to address one another, which would they use: onii-san/onii-chan/ani-ue or otoutou-san/otoutou-chan/otoutou. Now, I'm aware that the turtles speak english, if they know Japanese, it's probably bits and pieces but given that each of those terms can mean a different level of both respect and closeness of relationship, I pondered it for a while.

I thought it was an intriguing concept simply because respect is different than just plain friendship or love or things like that. I can think of a few people in school that while I valued their friendship, the way they acted sometimes made it difficult to have respect for them.

I was curious what all your thoughts were on that question.

Ulisa