#axel???

[bigweldindustries]

going through the hades 2 stuff and im sorry but i just have to ramble a second because look at Hephaestus

he's not just a wheelchair user but also an amputee. an above knee amputee. wheelchair users are already next to nonexistant in video games but amputees exist in this really...disheartening? spot where they're pretty much just reduced to "person with a cybernetic limb" - it's always just somewhere from "just a cool visual design" to flat out "superpower". I can't think of a video game amputee that is actually disabled by their limb differences - I'm all for futuristic worlds where prosthetics and other disability aids are far advanced from what they are now, but that's not really what's implied by these designs. They're just... Cool designs that in no way reflect on the real-world experience of being an amputee.

Look at Hephaestus, though. Look at that prosthetic. Whilst stylised it very much looks like it functions like common mechanical knees - knee bends when thigh is lifted, knee straightens when thigh is lowered. He's a wheelchair user as well as a prosthetic user - every prosthetic user I know is also a wheelchair user as a prosthetic is not usable in every occasion and also cause exhaustion and pain if used constantly.

Whilst we can't see much of his wheelchair the position he's sat in and the wheels very much evoke active wheelchair to me - this carries on to very specifically the thickness of his arms. Whilst a lot of Hades designs are muscular Hephaestus has very noticeably thick arms - which makes sense, as active wheelchairs require a lot of arm strength.

Just overall this design is making me want to cry - he's not just an actual wheelchair user in a video game, he's a realistic depiction of an amputee, a disability usually brushed over in order to give a character a fun design quirk and nothing else. He's fat and he's hot and he's a realistic depiction of an above knee amputee. Oh my god. Oh my god?

[thecollectibles]

White Snake by Axel Sauerwald

[skulsakz]

done by malezas777 (instagram)

song tattooed is axel f - crazy frog

[willgrahamscock]

Tell us in the tags who your very first ship was, and (optional) your age. wlw=yuri mlm=yaoi.

[ceeejus]

looks like my summer vacation is… over.

[ok4ru]

THIS IS ADORABLE WHY HAVEN’T I SEEN THIS?!

[cynnoct]

wish things could stay like this forever

[kafeicreme]

I'm 100% convinced that's how they got their human clothes, I know it, Axel told me.

[sopuu]

the stones are in order

[sitting-on-me-bum]

A Rare Sight

An Ethiopian wolf sits among purple flowers in Ethiopia’s Bale Mountains National Park.

by Axel Gomille

Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice Award

[pencilcomics]

that's pretty much how the game went, right?

[thecollectibles]

Mechanic by Axel Sauerwald

[sayaka]

I just want them to have mundane lives and let Xion have a dog again

[isralelz]

The buddies of all time

[crimson-chains]

Been meaning to make this for a while! To match the Sora and Riku one I currently have :D Axel's chakrams were WAY harder to draw than Oblivion and Oathkeeper, lol! Darn circles!