#local guy who regularly wields heavy 2 handed weapons is so physically fucked up that he can barely get out of bed

[5unrider]

the thing about tai yang and having an aether-run prosthetic that is incredibly functional and has very little tax on his aether, is … he still lost an arm. one of his arms was still amputated. he suffered traumatic physical injury that cost him an entire limb. the pain is still there; the discomfort is still there. the prosthetic may not affect him much aether-wise, because it utilizes such a small amount and his soul is so incredibly dense, but there is still a physical cost to it. his shoulder still hurts, his body still hurts, he is still regularly uncomfortable. he has to take it off as frequently as being a warrior of light will allow him to, and the typical fighting and physical duress his body normally undergoes / that he puts himself through does strain that arm in particular and mess with him. tai yang, at the end of the day, remains disabled despite appearances. having the prosthetic he does, as useful as it is, does not erase that fact. you know