#eduoar corabelli II

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LGBTQ+ Disabled Characters Showdown Round 1, Wave 3, Poll 16

A character being totally canon LGBTQ+ and disabled was not required to be in this competition. Please check qualifications and propaganda before asking why a character is included.

Check out the other polls in this wave and prior here.

Eduoar Corabelli II-The Reader Trilogy / Sea of Ink and Gold

Qualifications:

He's canonically mlm and has depression, and both his relationship with the man he loves and his mental illness are very important to his character and story. Since it's high fantasy the term 'depression' isn't actually available to him, but it's explicitly canon anyway and he just calls it 'melancholia.'

Propaganda:

Ed is like a Disney princess with depression--gentle, kind, loves animals dearly, all that jazz. He's also, when we meet him, being crushed under the weight of responsibility and a familial curse that kills every family member and each person they love before their time, and he's in the most fascinating, sweet, twisted little unspoken relationship. He loves this guy, his childhood friend, but is too scared because of the curse to give voice to those feelings; this guy loves him, but is too reluctant to talk about it, because of the guilt of actively poisoning Ed in a drawn-out assassination attempt and having just killed Ed's last relative. Also, Ed knows he's being poisoned and is gladly going along with it, because he's suicidal. It's complicated; he does get better though. Just know that their love is profound, but not as good as Ed deserves, and when he breaks free of the mental prison of being cursed and leaves the shadow of a man who almost killed him despite that love, he finds he's not just a good person but a capable one

Mod note: apparently according to Mod A “I HAD TO SCROLL THROUGH GOODREADS FOR LIKE TEN MINUTES TO FIND OUT IF THIS GUY EVEN EXISTS”

Eda Clawthorne-The Owl House

Qualifications:

She has a magical chronic disorder which has flare-ups, is mitigated by taking medication (potions), and has similar side effects to many real disorders such as fatigue, greying hair, and physical impairment (drains magic, a natural ability of *most witches). Unlike in other stories however, her condition is NOT ever completely cured. It does evolve and become more manageable over the course of the story, but she still experiences symptoms from it. Eda also loses one of her arms later in the story. She does get a replacement hook, but it is never shown whether she has a functional prosthetic or not. Most likely, she only has one fully functioning arm after this. As for being queer, she is in a relationship with a nonbinary person and is all but confirmed bisexual (has a secret box with the bi flag on it seriously why else would she have this). Also the owl house has a Lot of queer characters in it and I mean. just look at her. I would be surprised if she wasn't queer somehow.

Bisexual, and has a curse that affects her day to day life

Bi & lost arm and has a chronic illness metaphorically

Propaganda:

Has canonically dated both men and a non-binary person. Her curse affects her ability to use magic (and at one point outright stops it), which is very important in witch life. Said curse also causes her body parts to fall off sometimes. Many have said her curse is like a metaphor for depression but really it's more like a magic version of a physical disability (although I wouldn't be surprised if she actually also had depression).

Uuuuh she’s great and stuff idk I can’t propaganda well sorry

[gay-disabled-characters-showdown]

LGBTQ+ Disabled Characters Showdown Round 1, Wave 3 Matchups

Nodoka Hanadera / Cure Grace (Healin’ Good Precure) vs Jack Zimmerman (Check Please!)

Tōgō Mimori (Yuuki Yuuna is a Hero) vs Isabella Peretti (ValorPUNK)

Daan (Fear and Hunger) vs Johnny Joestar (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure)

Crona (Soul Eater) vs Wade Wilson (Deadpool)

Cui Buqu (Peerless / Wushuang) vs Alex Manes (Roswell, New Mexico)

Data Soong (Star Trek: The Next Generation) vs Alistair Hammerlock (Borderlands)

Billie Lurk (Dishonored) vs Zhou Zishu (Faraway Wanderers / Tian Ya Ke)

Blade (Honkai Star Rail) vs Juno Steel (The Penumbra Podcast)

Patchouli Knowledge (Touhou Project) vs Hua Cheng (Heaven Official’s Blessing / Tian Guan Ci Fu)

Kay Challis (Doom Patrol) vs Ballister Blackheart (Nimona (novel))

Lan Wangji (The Untamed / Mo Dao Zu Shi) vs Shane (Stardew Valley)

Adam Parrish (The Raven Cycle) vs Zolf Smith (Rusty Quill Gaming)

Harrowhark Nonagesimus (The Locked Tomb) vs Tokito Minoru (Wild Adapter)

Hebe Harrison (Doctor Who) vs Frodo Baggins (The Lord of the Rings)

Wu Zetain (Iron Widow) vs Jace Beleren (Magic: The Gathering)

Eduoar Corabelli II (The Reader Trilogy) vs Eda Clawthorne (The Owl House)

Check out the other waves here.