#a lot of Ulysses injuries mirror my own spinal injuries which is why they’re really detailed haha-

[connorsnothereeither]

Can we get a recap/explanation on what's (physically) wrong with Ulysses? Injuries, scars, etc (I know he's got shakey hands and spine issues? Nerve damage? I sadly don't remember)

Yeah, absolutely!! I don’t know if I’ve ever compiled like, an exact list of the things that have been off-handedly mentioned, it’s mostly just things as they come up in lore, but I would love to ramble about them lol (and see if I can dig up the scar chart-)

TLDR is he has nerve damage to his hands and a spinal injury to his tail, but more in depth, I feel like it might be easier to split it into the injuries and the scars lol :D

Injuries (aka the part where I project):

Ulysses’ primary injury is to his tail. In the drowned attack he suffered a form of spinal damage known as an “Incomplete Lumbar/Sacral Injury”, specifically caused by fractures in the lower vertebrae. All of that is fancy medical language to say that he suffered a lower-back spinal injury, and the subsequent nerve damage left him with severely limited movement in his legs and tail, and almost no feeling/sensory recognition in his tail. He was able to regain movement in his legs, but his tail is would functionally never work the same again, even if he regained some level of movement since the original paralysis caused by the injury.

Ulysses doesn’t actually know why he has hand tremors. As far as he remembers, he only gained these after he was fished up by sailors in a previous reset, and they’re not caused by the spinal injury to his tail. Medically speaking, they’re called “peripheral neuropathy tremors”, meaning they’re shakiness/weakness in the hands caused by nerve damage (Doctor Strange is I suppose the cliche “media example”). It’s damage done to his hands (which matches some of the scarring on his hands) but he doesn’t know what caused it.

He has some damage to his right knee, which he suffered during the pillager raid on Athena’s birthday, where his knee was kicked in and broken during the fight.

Scars (aka the part where I get angsty):

Ulysses body is covered in smaller (now very old) scars. A lot of them are from the initial attacks in the first days of the war when he was caught in the drowned hoard as a soldier (which also injured his tail). This is most of his scratches/chunks of scarring where he was clawed/bitten by drowned

A large portion of Ulysses right tail fin was also shredded during this attack, which limits his swimming ability.

His main facial scar (extending from partway up his neck, through one of his gills, and up the left side of his face) was given to him by Leviathan in the outbreak. He tried to stand up to Leviathan to distract them from his escaping team, and Leviathan swung at his head with a trident, failing to slit his throat, but leaving the very nasty scar.

On his right hand, Ulysses has a very clean bite-mark scar, which was recently revealed to be given to him by a very young Aax during the Project Proteus experiment.

During the Pillager Attack at Athena’s birthday party, Ulysses got a scar on his left shoulder from a crossbow-bolt wound.

On his chest, Ulysses has distinct claw marks, slashing across his front. These were given to him by Fenris during “Project Lycaon” when Ulysses induced Fenris’ “feral/seeing red” state, and he escaped containment (there’s also some scars on his arm from this same attack where Ulysses tried to block Fenris’ claws).

[ya-boi-haru]

Yoooo so interesting! And cool! Tysm for answering!

Can we get a recap/explanation on what's (physically) wrong with Ulysses? Injuries, scars, etc (I know he's got shakey hands and spine issues? Nerve damage? I sadly don't remember)

Yeah, absolutely!! I don’t know if I’ve ever compiled like, an exact list of the things that have been off-handedly mentioned, it’s mostly just things as they come up in lore, but I would love to ramble about them lol (and see if I can dig up the scar chart-)

TLDR is he has nerve damage to his hands and a spinal injury to his tail, but more in depth, I feel like it might be easier to split it into the injuries and the scars lol :D

Injuries (aka the part where I project):

Ulysses’ primary injury is to his tail. In the drowned attack he suffered a form of spinal damage known as an “Incomplete Lumbar/Sacral Injury”, specifically caused by fractures in the lower vertebrae. All of that is fancy medical language to say that he suffered a lower-back spinal injury, and the subsequent nerve damage left him with severely limited movement in his legs and tail, and almost no feeling/sensory recognition in his tail. He was able to regain movement in his legs, but his tail is would functionally never work the same again, even if he regained some level of movement since the original paralysis caused by the injury.

Ulysses doesn’t actually know why he has hand tremors. As far as he remembers, he only gained these after he was fished up by sailors in a previous reset, and they’re not caused by the spinal injury to his tail. Medically speaking, they’re called “peripheral neuropathy tremors”, meaning they’re shakiness/weakness in the hands caused by nerve damage (Doctor Strange is I suppose the cliche “media example”). It’s damage done to his hands (which matches some of the scarring on his hands) but he doesn’t know what caused it.

He has some damage to his right knee, which he suffered during the pillager raid on Athena’s birthday, where his knee was kicked in and broken during the fight.

Scars (aka the part where I get angsty):

Ulysses body is covered in smaller (now very old) scars. A lot of them are from the initial attacks in the first days of the war when he was caught in the drowned hoard as a soldier (which also injured his tail). This is most of his scratches/chunks of scarring where he was clawed/bitten by drowned

A large portion of Ulysses right tail fin was also shredded during this attack, which limits his swimming ability.

His main facial scar (extending from partway up his neck, through one of his gills, and up the left side of his face) was given to him by Leviathan in the outbreak. He tried to stand up to Leviathan to distract them from his escaping team, and Leviathan swung at his head with a trident, failing to slit his throat, but leaving the very nasty scar.

On his right hand, Ulysses has a very clean bite-mark scar, which was recently revealed to be given to him by a very young Aax during the Project Proteus experiment.

During the Pillager Attack at Athena’s birthday party, Ulysses got a scar on his left shoulder from a crossbow-bolt wound.

On his chest, Ulysses has distinct claw marks, slashing across his front. These were given to him by Fenris during “Project Lycaon” when Ulysses induced Fenris’ “feral/seeing red” state, and he escaped containment (there’s also some scars on his arm from this same attack where Ulysses tried to block Fenris’ claws).