This was a little excercise in three things that I need work at: Splinter's character in general, first person POV, and present tense (everything I write is past tense).

This is based on the very confuddling Newtoon and Movie canon that (going against comic and oldtoon canon) states that Splinter was a rat turned humanoid, instead of a human (Yoshi) turned mutant rat-man. Although I do not support this strange take on the events, it does offer some interesting possibilities to play with.