characters with physical disabilities !

Posted 5 years, 7 months ago (Edited 5 years, 7 months ago) by zinnia

i swear there was a thread like this but i couldnt find it so you know what that means baby
lune get out

i dont really see a lot of characters with physical disabilities outside of like... needing glasses so i wanna see some !

characters with prosthetics count !

you can say as much or as little as you feel like, i just wanna see some cool disabled characters because i just..... never see them and it makes me sad

as always black out anything sensitive !

Adrian Vatreno AlleycatIrony

it's an odd...? disability? i guess? but his mutated arm is basically useless bc he can't use it :0 he can barely move it as it doesn't have an elbow where it should (instead of being in the middle of his arm, his elbow's a lot higher) so it's super stiff
in the human AU, he was born w/ a slight paralysis in his right arm (that would be his mutated one, regular verse) that progressively became full paralysis as he grew older and now he just wears it in a sling to make it easier for him to do things w/o it getting in the way

Cyrus Bell Caine

Cyrus hurt his left knee in an accident and was left with so badly damaged leg it's beyond healing, giving their medical treatment isn't quite as advanced in his time as ours is. Technically he'd need a walking cane to walk because he walks with a visible limp and his knee is so loose it needs bandages to keep it from Cyrus accidentally bending it into messed up and unnatural directions. He initially has a lot of trouble accepting his limitations because he was super sporty and active and the accident ruined all his career plans + he's very proud and hates when people pity him, but s he grows older and matures he starts using an aid as he realizes it's like.. literally nothing to be ashamed of at all. I myself have messed up knees and sometimes I can't kneel down or stand up without aid so he got a lot from me, although not super intentionally + I don't need a constant aid myself. 

Desiree's left leg is amputated, and although his prosthetic leg technically "works with magic" it's honestly not the same as a functioning leg and mostly just gives him some degree of movement and support to it. Also sometimes it stops working for no reason and he needs a cane to walk around usually even during his good days. 

Daniel I guess is kind of on the fence, he has a really weak body and he's often bedridden for days and I'm pretty sure his degree of migraine would be counted under a disability in some countries 

Walter is blind with no sense of perception whatsoever, as an illness in his childhood destroyed his optic nerves. He uses a slightly lighter walking cane tailored for him to get by + he naturally uses his other senses to navigate and his friends are often more than willing to help him, especially when he's mapping new areas and needs descriptions and someone to guide him in difficult terrain. 

 Antsu Imoo NILFRUITS

the sock that covers antsu's left leg covers a prosthetic ! he received it in a car crash ...

Machina VincentVanGoat

I imagine by a prosthetic you didn't quite imagine a highly advanced robotic arm. I mean if she does remove it, she is indeed only with one arm. She did that to herself to further advance her ability when it comes to what she does and all. What better way to know her robotic arms work than by testing it directly? Same with one of her eyes. Removed by will to test, and later, depend on cybernetics.

Red wolfwantsred

Red had prosthetics before she was able to use magic for substitute limbs (which I guess are still prosthetics, in a way). And Annabel Lee is missing part of her arm (not that it's ever stopped her from kicking ass, though).

Kibi zinnia

shows up 5 hours late to my own thread

kibi is in a wheelchair since they lost movement below the knee in a car accident . theyre doing more than fine though ! they got their weird friend to make a wheelchair mech once and it ended horribly with at least one tree on fire 

angie is just like, straight up missing an eye and she's used it to accidentally ascend to true pirate level

rare furry oc but markus lost his leg while investigating an ice temple that collapsed . not even a full year afterwards he's goin on adventures and treatening a god of chaos with a knife so he's arguably my most powerful oc


 Laurence elegy

He's an amputee in addition to needing glasses. He also struggles with physical weakness in general, poor thing. He's got more than enough magic to make up for his disabilities though. (He still struggles with mobility issues though, as he's too proud to get prosthetics or anything of that nature.)
I have a few more physically disabled characters, but he's the only one with a (mostly) completed bio. I'm disabled myself, so I agree with you on never seeing any disabled characters, and it's a damn shame. Just because one isn't able bodied doesn't make them lesser of a person/character.

15USD Jules

Ellie is wheelchair-bound/paralyzed from the waist down after a car accident that happened a few years ago.


Kuzma lost his right hand in a fight. 

 Rodion Zhirayrovich Tigranyan Ledokol

            Before he joined a military experiment and study project as a test subject, Rodion spent a few years without his left arm. Medical personnel decided to amputate it in order to save his life due to excessive blood loss after suffering an attack during military duty. He received an automaton prosthetic left arm as part of the study project he takes part in.

 ♟ ZUHBAS-14 Pepperly

Zuhbas got his leg blown off in a mission and was forcefully retired. He had to spend what little money he saved while in the Zuhbas "army" to get himself a new leg. He's also proving his previous workplace wrong as he's still really good at being a killer so they shouldn't have trashed him to begin with.

I also have a handful with a missing/blinded eye because I have a thing with that, but idk if they count, and they're mostly not public anyway. I also have a guy with a prosthetic arm, and an older guy with a limp that uses a cane, but they're also private.

Haruhi Nozara Jdphobe

Haruhi and the rest of the cast of Fix/ation are disabled! It's what the general plot and theme of their story revolves around: Their relationship with their disabilities, and how it affects themselves and their lives. Haruhi's blind, Terumi is quadruplegic, Aina doesn't have arms, and Kiku is paraplegic. There's also Ryoka, but she's not physically disabled, so I suppose she doesn't apply to this thread very well. They make a good team, and are adept at fighting in unique ways despite their disabilities. 

ElithianFox

Several of my OCs are physically disabled! Despite being disabled myself, I don't necessarily feel more drawn towards making disabled characters over able bodied ones. Not to mention that writing disability is pretty tough. I can't even write my own one properly, and I've lived it my whole life l'D Still, disability can add a nice amount of conflict and hardship!


Audiovisual stuff

Blindness is one of my most used disabilities. I have Cefalian, who went blind as a toddler and who became a chemistry graduate and eventually researcher and teacher anyway against the odds. She's highly successful, although she now has an assistant to write down and more importantly read back some stuff she cannot remember.

Cafun was born blind, and where he was destined to work at his parents' farm, they did their best to teach him as well as he could with no experience on how a blind kid could work at a farm. He eventually managed; being born with a disability is much easier than having to adapt to a loss.

Deimos is technically speaking blind, but he has a slight perception of what's around him through magic. He'd count as legally blind, though he's not fully blind. Especially considering how he's always fighting others and needs pretty precise movements, he definitely counts here.

Epheil became blind in a frost magic accident. I haven't yet decided on the exact details, but after it happened he made a bond with Shadri to regain part of his vision. He can see through her eyes if she makes contact with him, and he's learning to change his fighting style to work with this development.

Familiars are often used to regain eyesight by blind mages, but in a bit of a reverse scenario King is a blind familiar. He has bonded with Imke, so he could share vision, but he rarely does so. He can navigate the world by sound and sense alone.

Now, onto non-blindness! Lyn is colour blind, more specifically he has the protanopia type. In my world, the red cone prevents people from seeing ghosts, and protanopia allows some to see them. So it's a bit of a double edged sword, with a positive and a negative!

Mortimer is a mute, and I am considering making him deaf or hard of hearing as well if I can figure it out. He's one of my many characters who uses sign language, though one of the only ones who does so because he cannot speak.


Chronic pains and conditions

I find chronic conditions and pains to be a real fun element to add to characters' lives. This may legit be one of the things I reach for the most l'D

Raeges was subjected to torture which left both his hands broken. Besides the mental stuff, his body never made a full recovery, even when after years he finally got his hands looked at by a medic and returned to somewhat working conditions. He's still in pain daily, and while it's not as bad as it had been in the past, it's pretty still bad.

Altari was born without pains, but an incident caused him to be stuck with headaches. They were mild at first, but over time they got so bad that he became impaired on his worse days, and unfocused on his better. When he wakes up he has a few hours of clarity, but as his day goes on the head pains and migraines get worse, sometimes accompanied with nausea and other types of migraines. It's so bad his parents got him permanent guards to watch his back, since they're political figures and he needs his back watched at all times.

Etisi has bad scars from a burning incident in his face. I haven't yet done my full research on the aftermath of burning, but I can't say it looks very painless. 

Nordil is a rotting near-corpse who's kept alive only by magic, and who lives in salt water. No amount of magic is gonna fully dull the pain from that situation.

Not sure where he fits, but Seranet's been infected with a parasite that has been draining a lot of his nutrients and sending its waste into his bloodstream for years now. While the pain is definitely bearable, his body has weakened strongly from the constantly stolen resources, and his condition has reduced to near zero.


Limb and body stuff

Finally an amputee! I really don't do myself justice otl, writing amputees into fantasy is really hard l'D Travis has lost a lot of things in his life, and as a death healer who lives on taking risks it shouldn't surprise anyone that when he failed to heal back a severed arm due to inexperience and hasty healing, it became unviable to heal back and he was stuck with a stump. 

Markus did't lose his limbs, but his legs deformed into goat legs, which in and off itself is quite the painful process already if you compare how much the bones had to change to switch from humanoid to goat legs, but he also has a hard time walking some goat legs are shaped to work best on all fours. I can't imagine that all the bones, muscle, and tendons that had to shift around will be 100% painless at any time.

And lastly, Benethel is recovering from anorexia. He's slowly getting better from the mental component, but his body is critically underweight and collapsing on itself. While painful, I'd count this more under body stuff. He's lucky that his wind magic allows him to bypass some of gravity, but this boy has to EAT

Froster Snow qualityghost

Froster’s desf and mute, Arthur’s covered in scars and is blind in his left eye, and most of the experiments’ mere existence is a physical problem

(On mobile so too lazy to get links rn oof I’ll add them tomorrow when I’m at a computer)