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[fooligandan]

Idk anything about kingdom hearts but tell me about disabled characters or disability in it?

Ooh.... On the one hand, case of "If this was realistic these people would be dead several times over from being slammed through buildings but the nature/tone of their medium (+ literal disney and fantasy healing magic also) prevents most cases of permanent injury" in general, such is fantasy video game non-realism I suppose

On the other hand, there's a little bit though or at least some topics of interest that's related to that --

1: Xigbar

Guy got an eye shot out by a darkness beam, owch. I imagine this was a difficult adjustment to make for him + would have its difficulties and struggles, especially regarding a new lack of depth perception

This gets little focus outside of the event where it happens to begin with though (IIRC; could be wrong or just forgot)

2: Riku

Rare case of someone getting hurt and the resulting injury sticking around and not getting heal-magicked away immediately(/presumably), had his wrist probably broken during a fight (shown in flashback) and for the game this is shown in and some afterward has a wrist brace-like sleeve on the affected hand (KH3 Riku has like half sleeves on both arms), and I THINK his fighting stance is different from then on too?

This is most pronounced in 2 tho where that side's hand just at his side and isn't used very much, due to recency. I'll have to pay attention to this again, interesting detail overall though

Also in 2 gets kicked in the hip and has to be supported for the following scenes but unlike the wrist thing seems to have recovered?

Get this kid a cane, good god

I think it would be very cool to have more characters show up that casually just have disabilities than just these two (unless I forgot someone/I'm meant to count anyone in the disney cast too? and i also forget from there?), SO I kind of just, like, play pretend with whoever I think could use some disabled swag or if I think it'd be interesting to think about. I've given Aced epic autism I can do it again to others as well.