Rottmnt Frida - Blog Posts
She's cute
What do you think of Frida aka big mama assistant? I know we only saw in a few episodes or so and saw reveal her face but still thoughts?
Honestly, there’s really not much to think about regarding her as a character cause we know NOTHING about her as a character. She appears a total of 2(?) times in the show with no speaking lines. All we get from her character is that she is mysterious, is loyal to Big Mama, and is a skilled fighter (I can’t remember if we’ve ever seen her fight, but she probably is).
We don’t know her personality, her fears/weaknesses, her likes/dislikes, her hobbies, her history/relationship with Big Mama (whether it’s a loyal servant and her boss type relationship or if BM is a parental figure towards her), how she feels about Splinter and the Turtles (does she know they are her family or is unaware? If she does know, how does she feel about that? Does she feel resentment towards them, indifference, or something else?), etc.
The sad thing is, most fans will only ever know her as Big Mama’s Assistant, being completely unaware of the rottmnt comic issue or checked out the producers old Twitter posts that reveals her true identity.
As cool as a design and concept Frida aka Big Mama’s Assistant is, and ignoring all headcanons fans have of her, she’s sadly a nothing character. And I hate that she is a nothing character. I don’t want people to think I hate her, I love her in concept, but as a character she sadly has little to no character at all for me to love.
I just wish Nickelodeon didn’t abruptly cancel rottmnt so we were given time to get properly introduced to the character of Frida, and not “Big Mama’s Assistant”.
So one thing that’s been living rent-free in my head since I watched the episode „The ancient art of ninja hide and seek“ is this weird hotel room where the brothers have their final showdown of the episode, you know just showing off their newly acquired skills
You know this one.
And it just could have been that the creators thought „hey, let’s just use a random hotel room for this scene“ but the thing that’s been bugging me is that this doesn’t look like a randomly chosen room at all
It doesn’t even look like a regular hotel room
It is hidden behind a secret door and the turtles only get there by pure accident and as we can see in the background that other rooms have regular doors. Heck, this room is so well hidden that even Splinter can’t find the entrance even though he was standing right in front of it.
Another thing is how the room is furnished. It is very blatant that this room isn’t meant for guests to stay in. The entire room has been personalized, there are posters on the wall, we have a car bed and a surfboard, there are vinyl records scattered across the floor and the bed isn’t made. Overall it looks very much lived in.
What I noticed, that was also kind of weird is how accessible the rest of the hotel seems to be from this room as seen with how out of every corner Big Mama‘s goons pop out of more hidden doorways.
The only use I could see in this room is if it was the room of one of the employees because that seems like the only logical answer for this kind of room since who else would need this level of accessibility.
But there is still one more thing. In this episode all of the employees we see on screen are adults and I don’t think it’s the room of any of the goons we see in this episode. Why? Well because this room looks like it belongs to a teenager. The posters, the general messiness and choice in furnishings all don’t give off the vibe of the inhabitant being an adult and look more like how a teenager would decorate and upkeep their room.
My personal headcannon (and explanation) for this room is that this is the room of Big Mama‘s Assistant, you know the person who’s been confirmed to be the turtles missing sister. It would make sense for this to be her room since she’s the only character I can think of that would fit all of the criterias for this room, since A she is employed by Big Mama and it would make sense to keep her room as such separated from the guests rooms but still central to get around the hotel quickly. And B she would be the turtles age, between early and mid- teens, at this point in the story. If this is the case and the room is in fact belonging to the sister (Frida) it would also serve as a nice foreshadowing if the turtles kind of indirectly interacted with their sister before actually meeting her
Okay regarding mystery sister's turtle species!
I got a ton of comments regarding what type of turtle she could be on that last post I made, and I wanted to bring up some of the more likely options! (Also, I'm gonna call the sister Frida cuz that's probably her name)
One of the most popular guesses is that Frida is a yellow bellied slider, cuz, y'know, yellow. Also it'd be fun to have two sliders in the family maybe lmao
Another popular theory is that she's a box turtle like Mikey (they do look a pretty similar honestly) in which case specifically the eastern box turtle or the florida box turtle could be the more likely options
Bog turtle! The markings on the face remind me a lot of Frida's markings so I think this one makes a lot of sense, personally
And lastly we have the spotted turtle, more yellow markings which would fit Frida's deisgn.
Honestly I'm having a hard time deciding on which species I wanna headcanon her as until when (or if) we get a confirmation, I'm kinda vibing with all of these lol.
Actually, I MIGHT be a bit more partial towards bog turtle or some type of box turtle, but I'm flexible
Frida but she’s Leo’s actual bio twin sister (hatched from the same clutch)
Donnie is NOT pleased abt it 😭😭😭🙏🏻
workin on the next one!! this one's definitely more complicated, but it'll be cool!
after the reveal of Frida's design I had to edit her in!!
small comic I did back when Frida was revealed 👍
Lyrics from “The hard way” by Sushi Soucy
AAAAAH YAS!!! The child of Big Mama x Child of the Foot is so goooood. i wuv it so freaking much!
@gleppy-arts asked me for sapphics and here you go
Cassandra/frida Cuz I just wanted to draw some Casey/Venus from the rise iteration
we never fully met Frida, but I’m sure she’s the only one that got the Lou Jitsu rizz
Also, let’s stop shipping April with the turtles and lend this to Casey (would be funny as hell and April would rest a bit)
Super hot take/headcannon:
Rottmnt Frida is half Mexican half Japanese
There two types of turtle sisters
Don't feel like rendering this
I wish we could have gotten to known more about her 😭