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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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New comic about runner's high.

Read here

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OLYMPIAN GODS in HADES II

In the name of Hades! Olympus, I accept this message!

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Dog Tricks 🐶

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Vitamin C - Vacation (from Pikachu’s Vacation)

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"He may be messy-haired and spaced-out, but he becomes a different person when he gets that twinkle in his eye. At the same time, you can get a feel for both sides by looking at him. I added the glasses midway through the design process as a gimmick to represent his two-sidedness, or the way he keeps his head down in everyday life. His sharp, alluring gaze is somewhat mitigated by putting on glasses, and he looks like an ordinary kindhearted boy instead."

— Shigenori Soejima

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In the narrative business, we call this “foreshadowing.”

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Ethan, you wanna see some shit?

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please be patient with me im from the 1900s

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Being a dad mean sometimes making a fool of yourself for their enjoyment.

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Maybe if he was a little less fuckable we wouldn’t be in this mess

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