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the person who helped today when I fell out of my wheelchair actually did a really great job, so I want to share in case other people wonder what to do. [Note: this is not universal, this is merely a suggestion from one person, every wheelchair user's needs are different! I am a person who uses a manual chair usually pushed by someone else who is also disabled.]
Scenario: you see someone in a wheelchair fall out of their chair, and you have the ability to help.
1. Approach and ask "are you okay?"*
2. Next question if they say no, are vague, or open to continuing conversation** is, "is there anything I can do to help?" Or "what can I do?"
If they say no to help, then that's the end, just leave and go do whatever you were doing!
If they ask for help or say they are mildly injured, ask "what would you like me to do?" And wait for an answer before doing anything! If they seem dazed or confused, they might have hit their head or had another medical event*, or they might just be like that due to regular disability. Be patient.
Do not touch the person unless they say to, or they are like, unconcious in the middle of the road, ya know?? Wheelchair users usually have conditions that mean being handled improperly can severely injure us, you could cause much more damage than the fall.
Some things they might need you to do:
Bring their wheelchair closer (mine went about 5 feet away after it dumped me)
engage the brakes of the wheelchair
hold wheelchair steady if it's an unsteady surface (mud, hill, ramp, wet, etc)
offer an arm for them to hold onto to get up (them grabbing you, not you grabbing them) or move another solid item closer for them to use (i.e. a chair) [only do this if you physically have the ability to!]
If the terrain is rough (i.e. a parking lot), they *might* ask you to push their chair to a more stable area once they are back in their chair
nothing
Something else
Do what they ask, NOT what you think would be helpful. If for some reason you have to do something (i.e. you can't stop oncoming traffic and need to get them out) ASAP, tell them what you plan to do
Keep in mind they might also be D/deaf, have a communication disability, be stunned after the fall, have a head injury, not trust other people, etc. Be patient and treat them as a person with autonomy and agency! They might need to just sit on the ground for a few minutes to recover before trying to get back in their chair. They might want everyone to leave them alone. They might ask you to call someone specific. Their chair might have broken and that can be extremely distressing. All of this is like if your legs spontaneously stop working when you're out and about!
A lot of wheelchair users (NOT ALL) have ways to get into their chair on their own once the chair is close enough and brakes engaged (but it's hard from the ground!). Here's what brakes look like on a lot of manual wheelchairs, in case they ask you to lock the brakes. They're levers on each side and pushing the lever pushes a bar against the wheel to hold it still.
ID: A manual wheelchair with the brake levels circled in red and labeled "user brake levers"
*There is also the possibility of course that a person fell out of their chair due to a seizure or other medical event, so that is why it is important to ask if they are okay. If you saw them hit their head, tell them so. If they had a medical event, follow protocol for that, I'm not gonna get into it here (thought I could).
**sometimes a person will be clear after the first question i.e. "I'm all good thanks" clearly means they do not need you to ask another question, you can just leave them alone. Keep walking and don't stare. A lot of the time people will be a bit banged up but be totally fine and able to manage on their own.
TLDR: Ask the wheelchair user if they're okay, then what they need, and then do exactly that, including leaving them alone. Thanks!
#obviously some people will just be fine and can do it themselves#but for those of us who cannot! thank you for helping#pretty simple honestly. just ask what they need and then do that thing!#don't make assumptions and don't touch them in any way unless they tell you how to#no one piss on the poor please#i know this doesn't cover everyone#no post in the world can#and im a communication disabled person#trying to process falling out of my chair today. lol.#wheelchair#wheelchair tag#wheelchair user#isaacfloofs talk#disability blogging#disability#obviously if a person falls out of a power chair you cant just move it super easy esspecially if the reason is that it got stuck#(power chairs often weigh about 300+lbs)#anyway
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#law. lying low for weeks: the plan is slowly coming together. the pieces are slotting into place. this WILL run smoothly this time.#luffy. the moment he touches land: I'm here to loudly overthrow the government with my sheer power of will#law's intelligence perplexes me because he is. so strategic. knows when and how to play his cards#and is insightful enough to be able to get on people's nerves with their greatest fears#but also. how has he not cottoned on to the fact that this is how luffy operates.#yes he will do the loudest most reckless thing for the sake of other people. (little girl he befriended 5 minutes ago)#yes he will completely discard your plan the moment it becomes inconvenient to his goal.#yes it will benefit law in the end. and he will be mad about it.#CJ's op watch-through#one piece#op#trafalgar law#monkey d. luffy#lawlu
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don’t get how you can watch iwtv and be a sincere diehard lestat hater. like the world’s biggest lestat hater is louis and that man can’t even commit to it for more than five minutes before literally hallucinating lestat wearing a wedding ring and talking pretty to him. this show is about louis and every road leads back to lestat for that man
#nobody hates lestat like the men who have brain rot about him#like that’s Claudia’s mother their whole thing is far too messy to be reduced to hate#like sorry that was her mumdadbastardparent. too complicated to get it sorted out right#madeleine didn’t even know him#daniel doesn’t know him (yet)#santiago will bend over for any vampire with more power than him unless they don’t like him#(then he’ll seethe while imagining getting fucked) so in another life he’d dickride lestat or seethe at him and louis hardcore#uhhh. who else knows this bitch. his momma dipped she got her own shit going on she don’t really think about him#maybe Louis’ family are bigger lestat haters but they’re all dead#armand hates him but that’s entirely dwarfed by the sex thing and also he’s way more obsessed with daniel. lestat is not touching that thing#so yeah it’s just louis who knows him deep enough to be a true pure hater#and louis loves him so so so much. so it’s kinda over this show is literally about these two#attacking each other and then holding hands. or punishing the other for 77 years#so. yay!!!#this is not the show for you louis gets the mic for like five minutes n he’s immediately going ‘so there’s this blond-’#like we all didn’t know. get off the stage!!!!!! silence on the blond guy. but alas. louis has the mic still so it’s blond guy central#louis de pointe du lac#ldpdl#lestat de lioncourt#loustat#iwtv#interview with the vampire
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extremely dumb comic detailing a small misunderstanding. ninjago lore gets pretty wild.....
#drafting this @ 1 am it took all my brain power to make this fucking thing#ninjago#lego ninjago#ninjago fanart#ninjago dragons rising#cole ninjago#sora ninjago#arin ninjago#master wu#wu ninjago#comic born out of a desire to draw funny faces as well as touch on sweet relationship dynamics heehee
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community today right now!!!
#chart#chicky notes#flockintogether#as often as u can!!!#but thats p much it#do not underestimate the power of simple touch and being fed and feeling grateful for ppl and things. whatever varieties of that u like#secrets 2 have what u want forever and ever ur whole life
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I’ve been thinking about Miles as Serizawa quite a bit 😁
#doctorsiren#ace attorney#mob psycho 100#miles edgeworth#phoenix wright#narumitsu#wrightworth#serizawa katsuya#reigen arataka#ace attorney fanart#ace attorney au#psychic lawyers au#digital art#my art#procreate#LET’S GO GAMBLING!!#aw dang it-#squib and I were trying to figure out how the claw thing worked if Gregory took Sakurai’s place#we decided that part of the reason why Miles locked himself away for 15 years was because 1) his powers and 2) his father went missing#Gregory (instead of being killed by MVK) was instead made to join Claw (which now means Claw is an older organization)#without his father there to help teach him how to control his powers. miles got scared and locked himself away#much to the sadness of his mother Eleanor (who is alive in this AU)#I think im gonna have it so neither Gregory nor Miles know that the other is part of Claw#at least not until the World Domination Arc (probably post-WDA)#it’s easier this way HAUHUISu#yeah gamer miles…needs to touch grass…and take a shower…and get a haircut…#also hooray! he gets glasses 😁😁😁 AND HIS DAD IS ALIVE AND SO IS HIS MOM#THIS MILES EDGEWORTH TRULY IS WINNING
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Haladriel + rarely or underrated moments from s1 requested by @elena-gilbert ❤️
#tvedit#ropedit#userthing#userquel#userelenagilbert#tolkienedit#popcultureds#filmtvtoday#haladrielcentral#tropedit#cinemapix#userlysandra#haladrieledit#rings of power#saurondrieledit#ringsofpowerdaily#otp: bind yourself to me#payidaresque.gif#anytime they were THIS 🤏🏻 close to touching i was like EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE GODDAMNIT#also i noticed that they never actually touched each other in s1#it was always either subconscious or very cautious#i mean they obviously touched each other but it was never a 'skin to skin' kind of thing#it MUST escalate to something in the finale#PLEASE?#there's no way they didn't touch each other for a whole freaking season just for it to mean nothing when they finally meet?#THE PINNING#THEY MUST GIVE IN#also i really like this little detail where sauron is coming at her like a predator walks towards his prey and gal steps back everytime#it's very telling and adds to the tension#MORFYDD AND CHARLIE THE ACTORS THAT U FUCKING ARE
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not moving on from how louis so far surpassed the bare minimum of saving daniel's life? how he could've just let daniel walk away and call it a day but he sat him down and armed him not only against the past few days but the rest of daniel's damn life?? how daniel's had it horrible since, but in spite all his losses, he had something??? how he had the hope of being someone and mattering and he held on to it for 50 long years?? and it worked??? it helped him survive over and over and over???? a shit life is better than no life at all and daniel lived because louis chose to help him??!???
#iwtv#interview with the vampire#daniel molloy#louis de pointe du lac#nobody touch me im feeling things#let's say too that louis kept daniel to manipulate armand#to spite him#to assert dominance over him#whatever his intention was daniel l i v e d#it's so poetic too how louis using his vampire powers is the only way he could've protected daniel from total despair#when total despair IS the vampire way! louis used his darkness to save a mortal from that same darkness!!#his humanity wins!! shining through so many years of hurt!! he refused to let another passionate opera singer die in shame and pain!#he refused to let paul's death destroy scared young louis all over again!! he's breaking the cycle of trauma!!!!#....and then armand erases all that character development LOL#i can't wait for the next ep this one was Amazing
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“Once someone touched my jaw so softly I cried. Once someone held my hand so lightly I wept —” Sanna Wani, from “Meditation”, My Grief, the Sun.
#aegon ii targaryen#house of the dragon#hotdedit#houseofthedragonedit#don't let this fool you aegon likes it rough too#SO SORRY for the coloring of the second gif. the driftmark dark filter kicked my ass#the only touch he has experienced are from violence or from sex and like which is the kind of power he has over the serving maids :/#alicent only ever touches him in anger and the rest of his family only see him as a wastrel#which he IS don't get me wrong but it's very 'if they see me like this; i will be like this' even if he wants to change (he doesn't)#so so so fucked up this thing about touch#ONCE SOMEONE TOUCHED MY JAW SO SOFTLY I CRIED#I AM THE BLOW AND THE CHEEK#mariana does things#photoset#alicent hightower#otto hightower#aemond targaryen#hehe i forgot#*hotd
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A little doodle page of some magnus hornets au stuff
#Magnus hornets#jay merrick#alex kralie#marble hornets#tim wright#brian thomas#mh bray#mh brim#mh brilex#brilex#the magnus archives marble hornets au#mh jasky#tim ears turn red ive decided#Lonely avatar Brian is definitely touch starved but also touch adverse#In this au they all work together at some point but Alex catches one of them going after some stranger's fear at one point and decides to#start slashing and shooting#the operator is there but more of a catalyst that brings the entities to them#Jay knows Hoodie is Brian using the magic eye powers he has#Brian can disappear at will like Martin Blackwood and Peter Lukas because i think it fits how he is#Tim is a stranger avatar because he conceals things regularly from the rest of the guys bro cant be straightforward to save his life#this is some of the gayest shit ive ever drawn#YIPPIEEE#toxic hornets#lol!#timlex#but just a bit#jaylex as well but theyre always toxic and using each other for information
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"I think this is the most inhuman; and human, that I've ever felt.." MUCH CAN HAPPEN IN A YEAR. IN FIVE YEARS. A DECADE. imagine how much can happen in a century. just ONE (1). How will you grow? what phases do you find? even in 5 years, you will find patterns.
#jrwi fanart#jrwi show#jrwi suckening#jrwi suckening spoilers#jrwi the suckening#arthur bennett#HEY SO THE REALLY FUNNY THING THAT THE CHARACTER DID THAT SEEMED RLY SILLY N GOOFY IN THE MOMENT?#LIKE THE WHIPLASH BETWEEN SERIOUS N SILLY ALMOST PISSED YOU OFF? WHAT IF I FOUND A WAY TO MAKE YOU SAD ABOUT IT#this was meant to be a scribble that would be a bigger part of a bigger page.might leave it on that page.#but still. bc o that i nearly posted it onto my wacky side blog.BUT NAYY I SPENT TOO MUCH TIME N ENERGY N YOU GOTTA SEE IT#ARTHUR BENNETT DRIVES ME CRAZY. I FEEL LIKE ITS ODD FOR HIM TO BE SO TECHNOLOGICALLY OUT OF TOUCH#WHERE HAS HE BEEN. HAS HE BEEN IN WAR? IS THAT WHERE MAGNUS CAME FROM? WHERE WAS HE WHEN HE WAS WITH EDWARDS CREW?#ARTHURRR I HAVE QUESTIONS ARTTHUUURR!! HEY CAN I ALSO ASK; WHAT THE FUCK HAVE YOU BECOME#DO YOU THINK HE HAD ANY IDEA HE WOULD VEER CLOSER AND CLOSER TO THE MONSTER HE DESPISES. ALL BC HE DESERVES IT. OR WATEVER#HE FASCINATES ME SO MUCH. TO LOOK AT THE STONE COLD STOIC FOOL FROM THE START OF THE SHOW#AND TO FIND OUT THAT HE USED TO BE A BAD BOY.. A DELINQUENT... A LIL PRANKSTER.... MY GODDD THATS ADORABLE#I WOULD LOVE TO KNOW MORE.... BUT I DOUBT THE LAST EPISODE IS GONNA ANSWER THOSE QUESTIONS..i love arthur bennett so much....#AS FOR THE ART!! i mostly used the fire alpaca watercolor brush. tbh im not a brush guy. anti aliased default pen tends to be my main game#but LATELY IM SQQQUIRMIN OUT OF AN ARTBLOCK so expirimenting like this is helping#DONT LOOK TOO HARD AT IT!! im still proud tho. colors are fun :3 im also very proud of the backgrounds#I LOVE THE CARTOON THING where the background looks all fancy n painted but the characters are solid colors#what else can i ramble abt. OH YEAH. i looked up the bikes to make sure they were time accurate tehehehe. 1913 to 2012.#almost a century apart!! isnt that neat? ALSO FUUUCK CAN I JUST MAKE A QUICK CONFESSION. DOWN HERE IN MY TAGS.#only the strongest can read my tags anwyay. SO I REALIZED WHY I LOVE ARTHUR SO MUCH. TIME IS A FLAT CIRCLE#while arthur is a Stoic and Cool vampire w a knack for being playful/silly; who alsos been alive fora century thus witnessing HORRORs#THERE HAPPENS TO BE A ROBOT FROM A BAND W A TITANIUM ALLOY SPINAL COLLUMN#WHOS A Stoic and Cool ROBOT w a knack for being playful/silly; who alsos been alive fora century thus witnessing HORRORS#the fuckkkiiinnngggnn The Spine from steam powered giraffe. WHATEVER. i cant escape from my heart. i guess.#i think The Spine and Arthur could be friends. Arthur saw the band perform back when they were the Steam Man Band#EDIT: WOOPS I DIDNT REALIZE THIS WOULD END UP IN THE SPG TAG. HI GUYS DIDNT KNOW U WERE STILL ALIVE SORREE 4 THE CROSS CONTAMINATION
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It wasn’t shocking when Eddie came to Steve whenever he was anxious or just needed some company, even before they started dating Eddie always felt at peace around Steve no matter what was going on around them. Recently Eddie started to pick up this habit that would involve him taking Steve’s hand into his own and take his index finger then face along the lines in Steve’s palms. The innocent action never made Steve feel a certain way, in fact he thought it was cute. He just wondered where did this habit come from in the first place. One day while they were cuddling on the couch at Steve’s place Eddie immediately brought Steve’s hand closer to him and traced the same lines that he could probably do with his eyes clothes because he’s done the same thing over and over again. Steve thought now was the best time to ask the question.
“Can I ask you something?” Steve asked softly. Eddie hummed in response as he continued to mindlessly trace the lines in Steve’s hand. “Why do you do this?”
Steve pointed to Eddie’s finger tracing his palm, he earned a light laugh from Eddie who looked at him with a smile on his face.
“It calms me down and it’s like a distraction in a way. I feel at peace when I’m with you, Steve” Eddie said sweetly before placing a quick kiss on Steve’s cheek making him blush in the process. It made him feel good that Eddie could put his guard down around him and he was comfortable enough to admit something so personal.
#steddie#steddie and soft touches always go hand and hand#they’re so cute#so delicate#delicate touches#sweet boys#they’re so beautiful#soft prompts#Steve x Eddie#eddie x steve#steve harrington#eddie munson#stranger things#idk what else to tag#help lol#please#come on#manifesting#power#so cuuuute#happy#lmaooooooo#that is so funny#wow#hmmmmm#omfg#i know what you are#be for real#duffer brothers i swear#i’m tiiiiiired
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this is mean but. the thing is that nothing about 911 on abc is that deep because it’s 911 on abc but i do have to say that being in this fandom alone has wholesale lowered my expectations for the general capacity of people to engage not just critically but base-level logically with the world around them. like i kind of thought we were all on the same page here but i was wrong
#if you do not immediately start hearing alarm bells when you see villains that are#a shadowy group of elites who molest children and require child blood sacrifices to maintain their power. you probably should start now!#this isn’t even about lfj because i do not actually think he’s into Qanon but this is a movie validating Qanon beliefs. like#you should be able to identify this stuff. it’s really scary that so many people cannot#and this doesn’t touch the other stuff like. If it’s not said explicitly then it’s not real. what?#are you reading between the lines on things that aren’t network procedurals? or??????
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This was El’s face after watching Billy die for her btw.
#She wanted to save him#she spent the whole season using her powers to protect her friends#until the point of exhaustion#and right when she thought that no one was coming to save her#here comes billy hargrove#a boy who did not know who she was#he only knew the gentle touch of her hand on his cheek. and that was enough for him.#billy hargrove#stranger things#eleven hopper#eleven and billy#Billy and eleven#Dacre Montgomery#harringrove
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"strongest sky"
#star's shinies#khr#luce khr#skies are so broken in khr and the fact that we only hear that the GN skies are strongest is so freakin sad#like their future vision isn't really touched on and is put on a similar level to like hyper intuition#and the fact that they can resurrect the Arcobaleno isn't portrayed as a feat of insane strength but instead a wishy washy#“the pacifiers let them do it” (read: its not really their power) and isn't it so sad that they sacrifice themselves like this?#like#if they were just non combatant but still the strongest that would be one thing- that would be cool#but they don't get to demonstrate their strength as being anything but similar or weaker then other skies like Tsuna or Byakuran or Xanxus#who are absolutely powerful skies#but I want to see the same power scale that we do with the others#there is no sun comparable to Reborn#no mist comparable to Mammon (discounting the cheating that takes place)#there should be no sky comparable to Luce Aria Yuni except each other#Luce bound the Arcobaleno! that's gotta be a feat of insane strength#maybe that takes most of their power and energy? ofc that's not the in story reason but I can headcanon#katekyo hitman reborn
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touch-averse or touch-starved? an analysis of boba fett's attitudes towards physical touch in legacy of the force
a sufficient number of people expressed interest in this topic that i'm finally making this post! i find this facet of fett's characterization quite fascinating and naturally wanted to share, especially bc it's so unexpectedly nuanced in a lot of ways. so here it is, for the consideration and enjoyment of fic writers, expanded universe enjoyers, and general fett fans alike!
touch is (ostensibly) unbearable because it's a form of compassion. throughout the series, if there's one thing we learn can put fett into the fight-or-flight reflex, it's compassion. at multiple points, his gut reaction to someone showing him compassion is to either lash out at them to get them to stop (as he does with jaina), or if he's not willing to do that, get away from them as fast as he can (as he does with sintas and occasionally beviin early into their friendship). fett explicitly equates more intimate forms of touch (such as hugging, or taking his hand) with compassion and states outright that he has no idea how to respond to such gestures. yet, fett's attitude towards touch cannot be boiled down to simple aversion, because
fett's reactions to physical touch read more like someone who is touch-starved, not touch-averse. despite the attitude towards compassion explored above, when fett is actually faced with compassionate touch, his reaction is not what one would expect. in contrast to when people try to verbally show him compassion, which will get the aforementioned fight-or-flight response, compassionate touch provokes much more ambivalence. for example, when sintas reaches out to take his hand, he initially "dreads" it—yet, when she actually touches him, the text tells us, "He needed her to let go of his hand; but he didn't want her to." similarly, though fett seems to express relief that mirta isn't the type to hug him or take his hand, in the very previous book, we seem to have evidence contrary to all parts of this statement. namely, mirta places her hand in his to reassure him when he's undergoing a very painful treatment for his fucked-up-clone-DNA disease, and his reaction is to immediately take her hand and, when the doctor starts lining up the needle, to squeeze it with such force that mirta "thought he'd break every bone in her fingers." these do not read as the reactions of someone who is averse to touch, but rather, someone who is actually quite touch-starved.
(note that it is not at all uncommon for fett's actions/emotional responses to be at odds with the image he projects. he is not at all a reliable narrator of his own internal experience. for example, at one point he claims to not feel ashamed of anything he's ever done, despite the fact that we see him explicitly grappling with feelings of deep, paralyzing shame for how he treated sintas. beviin even teases him for this habit at one point, responding to fett's claims of professional detachment in the face of his obvious care for others with a cheeky, "'course, i believe you 😉")
furthermore, as we see with mirta, fett can get downright clingy when he's worried about someone. in revelation, fett and mirta both take part in a mission that eventually forces them to split up into separate strike teams. fett is, to put it mildly, rather anxious about this. he fears that something will happen to mirta when she's on her own, and that furthermore, it will be his fault for agreeing to take her along on the mission in the first place. significantly, the separation is book-ended by two instances of fett physically grabbing mirta. first, when mirta begins to climb up into the other part of the ship, fett grabs her by the ankle to try and slow her departure, a result, we're told of his "sudden fear for her." he doesn't let go until she shakes him off. later on, when they're reunited, with mirta covered in someone else's (though fett isn't yet aware of this) blood, jaina observes that he grabs her tightly by the shoulder "as if he was going to shake the daylights out of her." both of these reactions seem to be purely instinctive and visceral; it seems fett's first, kneejerk reaction to the fear of losing someone is to physically grab and hold onto them. again, his actions don't align with the detached, touch-averse image he sometimes portrays.
finally, the characters who know fett best seem to know to offer physical reassurance in the face of painful/distressing situations. specifically, we see beviin and mirta offer physical touch as reassurance; beviin places his hand on fett's back when he's watching sintas suffer from carbonite thawing sickness and is anxiously waiting to see whether her mind is still intact, and, as mentioned above, mirta places her hand in his when he's receiving treatment for his genetic disease. and that's not to even mention how sintas's first reaction to seeing him in emotional turmoil is to try and take his hand. for all that fett tries to put on a distant, untouchable facade, the characters he cares about most and vice-versa can see through it within the text itself.
in conclusion, i feel like if a character he cared about actually hugged him, fett's reaction would be something along the lines of this image:
thank you for coming to my tedtalk
#boba fett#legacy of the force#this is theeee most self-indulgent analysis post i've ever done. no one look at me#in sum i feel like fett has an ostensible attitude of ''people shouldn't touch me bc i am simultaneously above and beneath such things''#but any time something sufficiently distressing happens that facade crumbles real quick#when he's in real pain or fear‚ touch is a powerful reassurance#and the people who know him best are very much aware of this#i kind of get why he has to put up the act. like he has a reputation to maintain.#but also: kinda hilarious that his loved ones are like all ''cmon man. you ain't foolin' anyone''#''getcha hand held‚ idiot''
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