trying to seductively get on my knees for you but my knees crack so loud it echoes and i’m stuck there for five minutes
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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?
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Dick: So you like, were in that Lazarus pit...
Jason: Yes?
Dick: And it like... healed you of everything and... it made you brand new and-
Jason: Get to the point..?
Dick: How do you STILL HAVE KNEE SCARS?!
Jason: What do you mean?
Jason's knee scars from the Boy-Robin Boy-Shorts™:
Jason: HOW ARE THEY STILL THERE?!
Dick: AND WHY DO I HAVE THE SAME ONES?
Jason: We have to talk to Tim and Damian. This might be a Robin thing..
*they do so*
Tim: Oh, those? Yeah, you guys have had those since you were little. They're from the lack of pants.
Dick: How do you-
Tim, maniacally: I have so many videos of you all falling flat on your faces and scraping your knees...
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Honestly the cliche advice is true. If you fill your life w things you’re passionate about, if you challenge yourself every day, if you give your own opinion of yourself more weight than you do other people’s opinions of you, you will actually thrive. Like no one can tell u anything
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