[ SECRET POST #6313 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6313 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Luke Skywalker is still disabled even with his disability aid, fwi

[(Anonymous)]

Yep!

See also: Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, Edward Elric, Toph Bei Fong, Furiosa, etc.

[erinptah]

Yeah, "society should have the magic/tech to fix this" isn't a handwave/writeoff, it's a whole slew of worldbuilding questions about how that works.

Who builds those perfect robot prosthetics, and can everyone afford to buy them? Who diagnoses and prescribes the magic antidepressant potions? Does every blind person choose to use a high-tech vision-visor, or are there people who decline (or is it not a choice)? If you drop your anti-chronic-pain amulet down a ravine mid-quest, how easy is it to replace?

You don't have to make any of this the *focus* of a story to have it *there*. At the very least, it's texture. Fictional worlds are better with texture.

[(Anonymous)]

+1

The current WoW expansion has one of the faction leaders as a centaur who happens to be Deaf. Considering all the magic and technological nonsense in the game there's probably no reason there couldn't be a magic fix, but instead there's a wealth of not-quest-relevant information on how to interact with her (talk directly to her even though someone else interprets for her), how she handles being Deaf (she has a guide dog and there's a specific interaction that explains how he helps!), and other stuff. In fact you can pet most of the dogs in the area but if you try to pet hers it tells you he's on duty.

It was one of the most interesting things in the whole area imo!

[(Anonymous)]

Warcraft, like many franchises, has also just always given characters irreversible disabling injuries despite having established magic that they could use to fix it. One of the most iconic troll characters in the franchise lost an arm and an eye, and it was an active choice by the writers to not have him regenerate them, as trolls are capable of regrowing lost parts. Another troll took permanent damage to his throat as an in-universe explanation for why his voice changed, and it renders him physically unable to speak his native language correctly. There's at least one elderly magic user who uses a wheelchair instead of using magic to move around. And one major character who is himself skilled in healing magic sustained injuries so severe that they left him with with something akin to nerve damage, although that pain has not been referenced in several years, so Blizzard may have collectively forgotten about that one.

A lot of storytellers who aren't actively trying to be inclusive still include acquired disability, if for no other reason than to show that their world is still dangerous even if they have magic or incredibly advanced technology. A world where everything can be easily fixed is a world without stakes.

[feotakahari]

In my setting, most of the cyborgs look down on you if you don’t or can’t “fix” your disability. The religious whackjobs are fine with disabilities, but they hate gay and trans people, which cyborgs are fine with. If you’re gay and have hemophilia, you probably hang out with aliens, because at least they’re not total dicks to you.

[(Anonymous)]

And Darth Vader not only has many prosthetics and synthetic organs, but a ventilator, an annuciator (to help his damaged vocal cords produce speech), a feeding system, and more.