#Not to mention the ableism I've suffered through because of said impairment

[weirdestcornelius]

Ohhh boy. I'm going to put this under a cut because it's going to get a bit long, but thanks for asking!

I would keep it due to being a suicide attempt, yes, but instead of it just disappearing I would change the entire way Uni is shown to deal with it.

You can't just say a character suffers from something and then never show them actually suffering from a disability. It's a very shallow way of including representation and it's especially shallow with Uni because pup tearing her eyes out is meant to be a strong plot point but. It's not. I seriously FORGET Uni has sight issues because of how erased it is in comic, which is not good when you're trying to write a visually impaired character and have it be a big part of them. So I'd rewrite Uni to have more struggles in the comic.

First of all, her goggles should not erase their sight issues with magic. If you just magically fix her disability with magic there was no point in Uni having a disability in the first place! It comes off as super shallow and overall ableist to go that route. Instead, I'd have pup wear goggles because she's self conscious about her eyes, because they are literally like a SH scar for her! Uni is still depressed in comic and most people who are depressed aren't going to be open about their scars, coming from someone who has suffered with that. To show the reason she wears her goggles is because of them being self conscious, only show her NOT wearing them around people she trusts, like Caroline or maybe Barry over time. Show them being uncomfortable to take the goggles off in other settings as well!

Second, actually show Uni struggling to do certain tasks because of their impairment. The goggles are worn in V4 because they apparently help her make puppets, but just show one of her friends helping her make them! Or better yet, you can show Uni making them by pupself, but just make sure to show her struggling to do certain things, like stitch things in a neat way. Uni isn't completely blind obviously, so she would be able to do some things herself with practice (and making puppets is something she's apparently been doing for a long time) but that doesn't mean they'll be able to do everything perfectly. As for daily things, show her having to be really close to her screen to be able to actually play the video games she enjoys. Show them struggling to find things that are right in front of them because of how bad pups vision can be sometimes. Show her having to get other people to read things to them! In v1 Uni had to ask Barry to read a map because they can't do it themselves, show that again!

As for her wearing them to hide their missing eyes from their kids in Cometcare, sure, that works. But as said above don't make them fix her disability! She can be said to always wear them because 1: still self conscious about her eyes in some ways and 2: doesn't want her children to see pups empty eyesockets because it alludes to the hospital, which the kids aren't supposed to know about. They can even be shown being given more accommodations because shes out of the hospital! Uni has a pet cog in Cometcare (I can't remember her name) but make that a seeing eye cog for her! Kittycorn has already said that ferry's that help with disabilities are a thing, so that means that Uni could have her cog help guide her when she's out alone. Not to mention all the different ways you can spin how Uni got the seeing eye cog in the first place; since Kittycorn says that Uni's parents are concerned for her condition and care about her well being, THEY could have been the ones to gift the cog to them after they got out of the hospital, as a way to clarify that Uni would be safe. I don't know about others, but if I had a kid that randomly came out of some murder hospital and be severely visually disabled out of the blue, I'd probably be worried about how they're going to live life in a town considering Uni hasn't been out of the hospital in like, six years. It's going to take some getting used to if she wants to even walk around the town she lives in.

And since Cometcare seems to be so focused on cutesy ship stuff, make one of Uni's spouses shown to be helping her sew! Show them reading important things to her, show them describing intricate pictures to her! It's not that hard to give a bit of better representation with these kinds of things.

Oh yeah other Sparklecrit blogs have talked about this but I wanted to add to it as someone that is actually pretty badly visually impaired.

I don't like the way Uni's sight is fixed with magic goggles. Don't get me wrong, I love Uni. She is literally one of the most relatable characters I have found in any kind of media as someone who's genuinely traumatized and has taken on coping mechanisms similar to theirs. But I do not like the way her visual disability is treated.

As stated above I am visually impaired. I'm not going into details but it has put me under the risk of becoming blind quite a few times and strongly impacts the way I see the world. Obviously I'm not completely blind but it really does impact me, especially with the way other people see me sometimes due to it and the forms of ableism I've had to deal with. It's honestly why I related to Uni at first; both me and her have the same issue with our vision being really messed up. But it's not just my personal opinion that matters here. As other blogs have said the "magic can fix disabilities" trope is inherently very ableist and gross and just- honestly an excuse to get rid of a characters disability entirely.

While I do understand that Uni doesn't want her children to see what happened to her eyes, just wearing a pair of normal goggles would fix this issue without literally completely correcting her disability as if pup didn't have it in the first place. And before someone says anything, no. Seeing in a single color does not at all equate to her vision being so blurry that she can hardly make out facial expressions. This isn't just a Cometcare issue either, Uni has started wearing goggles in Sparklecare as well to correct her visual impairment and it comes off as really weird. Obviously pup would have a hard time making the puppets with how blurry their vision is but they could always get help from another character. Or literally just show how a characters physical disability affects them ykyk.

While this most likely wasn't what Kc was going for I can easily see why it looks like that, especially with the Jay's scooter and Polly's cane drama. I feel that if Kc wants to write physical disabilities into buns comic, she should definitely get some physically disabled people on the team. Again, this is not hate towards Kc- I just really wish that physical disabilities were represented in a better way in the comic because although squeak probably didn't mean for it to come off as this trope, it definitely did to me and a lot of others.