#maybe theyd look like vines or wires wrapped around the length of their horns

[shootinwebs]

More Disability stuff about Fizzarolli from my brain because I love him and I'm Disabled:

I wonder if Fizz is Deaf (and either lip reads to some extent while he does hear some sound, or has some sort of prosthetics for his hearing, a la cochlear implants for imps).

The kid he signs with in the audience at his performance has cracked horns, and I wonder if that means that imps hear with their horns? But just like with humans, there are a number of different sources of deafness, even just with different ways the ears can be injured. So if that's the case with imp horns, they can probably still have injuries to their horns without hearing loss (or variations of total to partial hearing loss).

And then there's the fact that Fizz isn't bothered by airhorns and just thinks they're fun lmfao.

If Fizz had no hearing loss from the fire, I think it's likely he still had a personal reason to learn sign language after the fire: we know in canon that the fire damaged his vocal cords. Maybe he lost use of his voice almost completely, and eventually had speech therapy to start talking again, but he learned sign language in the meantime while his throat was recovering from the burns.

Buuut. If he grew up performing in a circus where at least Blitzø's family lived in a circus tent, could his parents (?where are they? lol) afford speech therapy in addition to the probably massive hospital bills they were slammed with??

Since it seems like Fizz is fluent in signing, it's very likely signing was his means of communication for years, so he didn't speak at all with his voice until his body recovered from the burns as much as it possibly could.

The fact that he spent his birthday at the circus around Blitzø's dad makes me think Fizz is either an orphan or his parents just weren't around (either they couldn't be there or they just flat out didn't care about him).

So, if Blitzø wasn't around for Fizz after the fire, and his parents are fuck all, who did Fizz even have to talk to while he was recovering? Hopefully his sign language teacher, at least. Or anyone else in the hospital who happened to sign, or who weren't impatient audist assholes and talked to Fizz by reading notes from him.

It honestly just gets worse the more I think about it, because if Hell is just debatably worse than Earth, it must be just about as ableist and exclusionary, and Fizz was pretty much all alone.

And that makes all the more sense with Fizz's obsession with pleasing Mammon: the illusion of purpose, of adoration. The lie that fame tells of never having to be alone again.

#i bet hearing aids and cochlears for imps would look rad as fuck #maybe theyd look like vines or wires wrapped around the length of their horns #helluva boss #fizzarolli #disability tag #headcanon #theory