#Blind Character

[mimzy-writing-online]

Since you've mentioned that blind eyes look like normal eyes, would it be offensive to draw a character's eye in another color to indicate blindness (even if it is to differentiate between a blind eye and non-blind eye in a character with partial blindness)?

From an artistic and character design perspective, I think it'd be best to first focus on what causes the character's blindness and if the cause fits the backstory you want to give them. Then, you should draw their eyes to as closely resemble the condition as is realistically possible.

If your character is elderly, then cataracts is a perfectly reasonable cause for their blindness. In which case, I would recommend giving them a normal eye color and then adding white-grey-blue blurred spots that only partially obscure their eyes. Cataracts rarely cover the entire eye, let alone both. However glaucoma and macular degeneration are also super common causes of blindness, and their eyes would not appear any different from a sighted person's, so you would need to be more creative with visually indicating they're blind.

If the character is a warrior who lost their vision in battle, then scars around the eyes are the most straightforward and appropriate indicator of their backstory.

One thing I don't often see in blind characters is characters who are cross eyed or have a lazy eye. The medical term for "lazy eye" is amblyopia and it's very common, especially in people who have been blind for many years and in children and teens. I think that's partly to blame on ableism teaching us to feel uncomfortable at visible differences--which is why villains/antagonists were sometimes made disabled to other them to the audience. Whereas protagonists were described/drawn to be beautiful as a way to tell the audience they should like the character.

Nystagmus is another visible difference but that's very difficult to convey in art unfortunately.

Outside of what a character's eyes look like, there are design choices you can make to indicate/remind the audiences that the character is blind-

For example:

including a cane or guide dog in character design

having the character wear sunglasses but only sometimes, usually in brightly lit places or perhaps in situations where they're tired from recent story events and their eyes might ache

having a character rub their eyes when they're tired. This isn't something I expect sighted people to get, but it's relatable.

having the character hold things close to their eyes to better see, turn their ear to a sound instead of their eyes (especially of there are sighted characters on page looking towards the sound) and touch objects of interest

I hope that helps

[m055hedgehog]

I had a small vision.... When Sonic is blinded Shadow takes it upon himself to be there more for Sonic.... and yes- they are very gay.

[michoodles]

After months I can finally use my tablet again so here are some doodles!

First here are some doodles about ' Gamilith an amrâl: A letter for a lover ' by @m1dnight-blu3

I love the idea of Bilbo with a beautiful hat and how Thorin couldn't see his face right because the hat hid him from the height of a dwarf.

And second, I'm definitely doing more later. Bilbo is so pretty ( and with my headcanons about hobbits with tail and how sometimes things grow in their heir like leads or flower ) I can't wait to see that Took vein in action!

Suddenly my name is Thorin Oakenshield or why I'm so in love???

Second, a little doodle of 'The Blind Burglar ' by @domesticgoddesswriter

I LOVE THIS BILBO SO MUCH YOU GUYS DON'T UNDERSTAND HE'S A BURGLAR. A BURGLAR.

I love and I can't wait to see more about his eyes, Yavanna knew what she was doing because damn, I can personally go and say thank u for all.

I also love Dinodas idc and with my hc of tailed hobbits I love how Bilbo probably looks while he's in Mirkwood.

Bdw, I hope to do more soon but with the exams in the next corner I can only tell you to wish me luck.

[satellites-halo]

Mayra meets her new guide dog💝🦮

[ID: A digital drawing of Mayra Tikuna sitting on some stairs with a guide dog. This art was made by SEALSKIN and the artist does not consent to AI image generation. Mayra Tikuna is an ochre-skinned person with feminine features and short dark hair, wearing a latex bodysuit, gloves, and boots. Above the one piece suit is a pink skirt with small floral patterns and a ruffle trim, along with ruffled socks peeking out from under her latex boots. She has a permanent collar on. Mayra is holding a folded up White Cane in her left hand, and her right hand is gently petting the dog next to her with a smile. The dog has its front paws on the stairs next to Mayra, looking at him attentively. It is a Doberman Pinscher, wearing both a deep muted purple collar and a vest. Its vest reads "Guide Dog" on the side and "Do Not Pet" on the back. This art was made by SEALSKIN and the artist does not consent to AI image generation.

The whole piece is colored softly, with highlights being nearly pure white and blending into the other colors. This art was made by SEALSKIN and the artist does not consent to AI image generation. /End ID]

[chaotic-sproutlet]

One little blind girl is gonna be weeping and it ain't toph (love them both <3)

[redlikerozez]

悪魔の巫女 | Akuma no Miko | The Devil's Shrine Maiden written by RedLikeRozes

Summary:

The King of Curses stumbles upon a peculiar shrine maiden in his conquest who holds a powerful technique he wants nothing more than to understand and decides to hold her captive in his temple until he decides she's of no more interest.

“If you find use in someone like me, my lord, then I will serve you,” she begins, “but if I will be a burden, then I will accept death.”

Set in the Heian period.

Chapter List (more will be added as I write)

Chapter 1: Lobelia - approx word count 6.6k

Chapter 2: Oleander - approx word count 6.8k

Chapter 3: Marigold - approx word count 4.5k

Chapter 4: Chamomile - approx word count 4k

Chapter 5: Hyacinth - approx word count 3k

Chapter 6: Daphne - approx word count 3k

Chapter 7: Tansy - approx word count 3k

Chapter 8: Gladiolus - approx word count 5k

Chapter 9: Primrose - approx word count 2k

Chapter 10: Plum - approx word count 3.5k

Character Art

Character Reference

Rough Sketch of Matsumae

Moodboard

I made a playlist on Spotify for this fic! Listen in order to follow along with the plot (kinda)! May also be periodically updated. (Be careful, the songs are not spoiler free for what’s gonna happen… You have been warned should you chose to listen.)

Cross-posted on Tumblr and AO3

All writing and art posted by this blog is original work by ©RedLikeRozez. Do not reupload, translate, copy, or claim as your own work.

[gayaest]

New OC from an emoji meme: 🫐🎧🩹🪼— gali!

[bookishbrigitta]

In the spirit of this awesome post about characters with mobility aids and @heart-0f-a-rebel16's tags of cane users Kallus and Kanan, I humbly submit...

Look, other people on this site draw or paint or are willing to pay for Photoshop or have the time to relearn open source Photoshop competitors...I do not. If you fall into any of those categories, feel free to put your own, more polished, spin on this!

[nottoofondofgaypeople]

Listen, okay, hear me out. I don't cure Laurance's sight, he just has to be blind and learn to live with that. And it won't be easy. But when someone joins the party, someone who always covers their eyes, he's able to start learning. And while nobody knows why Aaron wears that bandana exactly, Laurance can tell. He knows exactly why Aaron wears it. Blocking out what little vision he has lets him hone his other senses. He's mastered an art that Laurance is a beginner in, and despite wanting to keep his distance, there's a pity he feels for the guard throwing himself into a danger he can't see, and offers to help train him in the ways of blind fighting.

[myriaeden]

Daredevil Lockscreens

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[smirkeapproved]

Apollo ☀︎

[loustica-lucia]

DAII x DATV — Dreamers of Tevinter

Anyone remembers Feynriel from Dragon Age II?👀 What if after almost two decades, he became a strong Somniari in Tevinter? Here he is, as a Shadow Dragon, with my two OCs: Aisling the blind Somniari (who can only see in the Fade), & his shapeshifter wife (always keeping an eye on him to guide him), Lusacan🥹

"The Fade feels different now. I see the stitches, the seams holding it together. I feel I could wake at any moment. I see why the Chantry fears us. I've heard tales of magisters who stalked their enemies and used their own dreams to destroy them. You're right. I must master it, find someone to study under. The Dalish don't have what I need. Perhaps Tevinter. If these powers can be trained, it would be there." — Feynriel, Dragon Age II [Source]

More story details: • Aisling Vatia Cassius is 88 by Dragon Age The Veilguard. An old, calm, and experienced Somniari who uses his power as a Fortune Teller in The Eyes of Nocen (eastern Tevinter, across the Nocen Sea from Minrathous). Helping fellow altus and magisters who want to reform the Magisterium (formerly the Lucerni, now Shadow Dragons) by spreading those ideals outside of Minrathous. • His wife, called Lusacan by her former master, was an elven slave used for blood rituals since she was a kid (parts of why she is so short for an elf). [She kept the name as a token of pride, since it's the name of one of the Tevinter Gods. People call her Granny Lusa though.] She managed to escape one day by turning into a rat and going out of her cage. She was rapidly found on the "market" again, and the Cassius family took her in to look after Aisling, since he was blind and needed assistance, when he wasn't wandering in the Fade. They fell in love when they were still young, despite the disapproval of many magisters for this union. Aisling can "see" only in the Fade, while being completely blind outside of it. When many turned down Feynriel when he asked for help controlling his powers, he saw a strength and potential in the young man, and took his training personally. Feynriel is almost like a grandson to him, now.

More art of Aisling & Lusacan:

2022-2023 pieces

[trans-duckling]

KakaGai Valentines Event: Love in the shape of words

The first letter Kakashi wrote was one thanking Gai for staying by his side despite everything. He was referring to both the past and the future, because he knew that, no matter how bad things could get, his husband would stick to his side. And he needed to write down how much he loved him for that.

By then, his sight was mostly intact, at least during the day. Therefore, he was still able to write without a problem, take care of any chore and, in general, just lead a normal life. That would not last long, though.

When the Hatake woke up that morning, darkness welcomed him as usual. Well, to be fair there was still a small circle in his vision allowing him to see into the world, but the image he got out of it was so blurry that he was considered medically blind. He had gotten used to it.

Turning to his side, he extended an arm over his husband’s chest, fingers brushing against the hair covering it. He could feel the deep breaths indicating Gai was still asleep, in case the snores were not enough to reach that conclusion. Years ago, that would have been strange, but not at the moment. The other man still left three days a week soon after the sunrise for training, but spent the other four mornings with Kakashi in bed. He was delighted with it.

As expected, the Hatake’s body was still slightly sore —and possibly bruised— due to the previous night’s activities, but he would not complain. He had to demonstrate his husband how thankful he was for the incredible presents he had gifted him. It was then when he remembered the letters.

See, Kakashi had started writing letters to Gai soon after his diagnosis. The honest reason behind it was that it would soon become something he could not do; write down stupid notes and other things to his husband. And he may not care much about it, but the Hatake had a collection of all the post-it the other man had written to him during the last decade, from groceries lists to love notes that he stuck over his lunch box back when Kakashi was still the Hokage. He had had the intention of keeping them to read through all when they were older, but he guessed Gai would be doing the reading, considering the situation.

And so, he now had a collection of letters to his husband to compensate all those he would not be able to write. Or he wouldn’t have, if not because the other man had been stupid —and perfect— enough to buy him a braille typewriter.

Decided it was the right moment, Kakashi slid out of bed without waking Gai up or step on any of his dogs. This last obstacle was more difficult to overpass, as they tended to occupy all the floor of the bedroom and part of the bed, but experience gave him some advantage. He felt some movement at the end of the bed, though, and the low breath made him smile.

Slowly, the Hatake stretched a hand out to scratch Endal’s forehead, but his aim was off and ended up brushing his ear instead. The ninken, however, just moved his head until Kakashi’s fingers were where he wanted them, and after a few scratches he licked his hand and went back to sleep.

As silent as he could, he left the bedroom and walked through the house until he reached the office/gym where they kept a collection of different things. Honestly, with all the trips they had been doing, that room had been a little bit abandoned and he considered a miracle he didn’t step on anything. There were a couple of close calls, but he was a highly trained shinobi and that undoubtedly helped.

After retrieving a wooden box hidden behind a stack of books —Icha Icha 2nd especial edition—, he made his way back to the bedroom and sat next to his husband. Kakashi closed his eyes, focusing entirely on Gai’s breaths and snores. If he tried hard enough, he was able to picture his face; more wrinkles covering his forehead and cheeks, mouth open and still perfectly white teeth glowing under the morning light. The Hatake had gotten used to a lot of things as he lost his sight, but not being able to see his husband’s face had been the hardest.

“Gai” he called.

When only snores kept echoing in the room, he sighed and brought out a finger to poke at the other man’s cheek.

“Gai” the Hatake repeated, still poking him. “Gai. Gai. Gai. Gai. G…”

“Rival!” his husband grumbled at one point, hand enclosing around his annoying index finger. “May I know why are you being so…”

“Annoying?”

“I was going to see insistent.”

“Sure you were.”

“Kakashi” the other man sighed, moving into a sitting position. “Is there something wrong?”

“Why would it be?”

“Because you woke up earlier than me and instead of staying in bed, you woke me up as well” another slow movement, and Gai’s face came very close to his. “So, either there is something going on, or maybe you’re just…”

His husband’s lips brushed against his. And then their friends said he was the perverted one. Still, he kissed him back. The Hatake was not a monster.

“I did not wake you up for that” he chuckled, catching Gai’s lower lip in between his teeth. “Although I would like to put a hold on it for later.”

“Duly noted, dear husband.”

Rolling his eyes, Kakashi let go of the other man’s lips and pushed him slightly away. Like that, they were seated in front of each other and with enough space for him to bring out the box hidden behind his back.

“I wanted to give you this.”

“A present?” Gai chuckled. “Is this because of yesterday?”

“No” he huffed. “I have been doing this for a long time, I just wasn’t sure of when to give it to you, so… Here.”

The Hatake felt his husband’s hands carefully taking the box and then leave it in front of him on the bed.

“You’re not going to open it?” he wondered.

“I’m worried something might come jumping out of it.”

“Now you’re just being stupid.”

“No, I’m being cautious considering the man I married.”

“Eh, you chose me.”

“And I would do it a thousand times more.”

Kakashi kicked him on the left leg. He didn’t like blushing so early in the morning.

“Go on and open it, Gai.”

The soft noise of the small hinges was the only sound in the room for the next couple of seconds. That, and a curious hum coming from the taijutsu master’s mouth. The Hatake didn’t move, keeping his eyes settled in which he hoped it was the box and not a random point in between the two of them.

The sound of paper being unfold indicated him that Gai had taken the first letter in his hands.

“Rival!” he gasped a few seconds after. “This is… This is… How many have you written?”

“I’m not sure” Kakashi admitted with a shrug. “Some are very short, though.”

“It doesn’t matter! This is amazing work, and your words… You’re going to make me cry!”

He had assumed that would be happening, but the need to show Gai how much he loved him had been too high. Of course, he still did things in their day to day to keep the flame awake —not that they have ever had problems with it—, but some things were difficult for him to say out loud. Maybe because they were too cheesy and he was embarrassed, maybe because he was sure the moment he would try to start a sentence, the words would disappear from his mind. Whatever the case, by writing it down Gai could read them whenever he wanted.

“When I wrote the letter you have in your hands, my vision was mostly gone” he explained. “After that one, I realized I wouldn’t be able to do it anymore, which was really the whole reason why I started it.”

He heard the wooden box being put away and a moment after a couple of arms came to wrap around him. Kakashi let Gai drag him against the warmth of his body, his legs fitting perfectly in between his husband’s and back resting against an still hard and muscular chest. A kiss was softly placed on his naked neck and he felt himself melting a bit.

“Of course, you had to go and buy me a typewriter” the Hatake continued with a false sigh. “Now I don’t have an excuse to stop writing you letters.”

Gai was not the best one at reading braille —not that he need it in his daily life—, but he was sure the man would take as much as he needed to read anything he wrote.

“I love you�� his husband murmured, lips against his ear.

They had been married for years. Those were daily words for them by now.

His heart beat faster anyways.

Kakashi turned to kiss Gai on the lips. Practice had made it possible for him to aim correctly even if blind. He breathed his husband’s air.

“I love you.”

[thatanxiouswriter]

blind x sighted couple prompts

✧˚ · . cute

• blind partner likes tactiley feeling their partner's face gently when they're in bed and basking in each other's presence

• sighted partner likes moving a few small things during conversation as a cheeky prank (varies couple to couple, also shouldn't be something really major like furniture or full layout; more like a nonbreakable can of soda during conversation)

• sighted partner is curious and asks if they can recreate goggles of their blind partner's vision and tries to see the world how they do in a day (remember! blindness is a spectrum! only 10-18% of the blind community is fully blind), blind partner is amused

• blind partner notices things about their sighted partner a sighted person typically wouldn't notice and gives them compliments. sighted partner gets flustered and shy everytime ("your voice is like sitting by a sunny window where it's really warm and comforting.")

• sighted partner doesn't realize how dry their skin and hair is until blind partner points it out and buys them really nice smelling and quality skin and hair care products as a sweet gift (sighted partner loves it bc it reminds them of blind partner + they feel more confident and fresh)

[muppet-facts]

Muppet Fact #898

Aristotle is one of the only blind Muppets on Sesame Street.

Source:

Sesame Street. Episode 1577. November 24, 1981.

[heme3nc]

the fact ive seen no fics yet of a johnshi no powers au where kenshi's white cane is named sento is criminal. like come ON GUYS its RIGHT THERE

Im imagining, Kenshi isn't Yakuza but he comes from a long line and he's very interested in the history, Johnny is still a celebrity. They meet somehow and become friends and Kenshi is like info dumping about this ancient sword his family had named Sento and how cool it is, how it was told to give his ancestors magic sight or whatever. Its probably in the british museum.

Then later, maybe Johnny is attacked because of how famous he is. But Kenshi protects him and well you know this part.

And Johnny of course puts it upon himself to help Kenshi, he lets him move into his house because he can renovate it quickly to be accessible. And of course he spends hours researching and finds the best white cane money can buy, detachable tips (of course he buys ALL the different cane tips as well), spring handle so it doesn't jab Kenshi in the gut, the whole works.

And of course he jokingly calls it Sento but Kenshi likes it and it sticks.

and then they kiss kiss fall in love and all that

(ps if there are fics of johnshi no powers au link them pls and ty)