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carodoodles
Sep '15

Now I wanna check out who have disabled character(s) in their story. We disabled people are always looking for more stories, especially comics, that involves disabled characters. So, share away your disabled characters, a bit info about them, and link to where we can read their stories! smiley

Here's mine:

The Satrians:32
- Dion is legally blind, has a tunnel vision. Xe is part of the alien race, Satrians.
- Sasha is a human, technically abled bodied if xe's on Earth but since xe lives among the satrians, xe is considered disabled (sorta deaf, if you will). All satrians communicate through telepathy. And, last time I've checked, we humans cannot read minds. ; ) So I count xem as a disabled character!
- and, I plan on adding more disabled characters in the future!

What qq:9 It's autobiographical short stories based on me (I am deaf)

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infectedbloodcomics
Sep '15
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Not yet, but in my long comic (starting next year), I will have a kid with Down syndrome and some people will have disabilities (soldiers coming back from war run a very high risk of that).

EDIT: I forgot to mention that Sekhmet suffers from severe PTSD and is suicidal (how in the world I forgot that about my main character, I have no idea). There is a lot more to her, but spoilers be damned smile I also have another character who is deaf on one ear. It's someone really close to Sekhmet, but I can't mention this character's name, due to more spoilers.

And the link to my comic is here8. It's called The Green-Eyed Sniper.

mg78
Sep '15

never thought anything about it...
look like a good idea for the future.

AnnaLandin
Sep '15

Yes.

In Grassblades21, Masahiro is missing his left hand from the wrist down, and it is a central part of the story. The other main character, Akane, is a selective mute8.

Both of their disabilities are caused by violence or trauma, and they were not born with them, which means they approach it a bit differently than if they'd had their entire lives to get used to it. Masahiro in particular has not yet gotten used to the idea that his dominant hand is no longer there (he was left-handed), and still carries his sword on what is now the wrong side of his body, etc. He also hides his injury from view, and pretends it isn't there.

kurisquare
Sep '15

Thank you so much, guys!! u//v//u

Well Postcards already got mentioned, but I'm also planning another webcomic which also has a couple more disabled characters (and a lot more characters in general, it's a big thing) I can't wait to get to it!

PS: the Satrians are super cute?? Read it now imo

getsuart
Sep '15

In Echo13, the main character, which is Echo, is mute from birth. She doesn't use sign language because no one understand it, and writes on paper instead. (and I must say I also know very, very little about using sign-language, though it's a language I'd like to learn)

Hrodland got night terrors and depression. It's still not a big disable, but it can drive crazy or even more depressed. This also explain why he's reluctant at talking to people and always angry. He lacks of sleep right now in the story.

The archmage is an albino, does it count? XD He can't stay where there is light, but he tries to protect himself with his cloak if he has to meet someone. Otherwise, he stays in the dark all day, making him even more frightening than what he is already.

At least four characters are one-eyed (three "main" and one very minor), one of them got a glass eye. Another one (a very, very minor) is mute because of his tongue cut. One minor character is half deaf, iirc... but I don't remember who it is... (bad, bad me)
And I'm working on a villain with a trauma that lead him crazy.

... got a lot of disable characters, with a higher rate for the one-eyed guys... XD
As a lot of them are warriors, they got scars and maybe lost something, so it's quite normal.

UzukiCheverie
Sep '15

I won't say who because spoilers but one of my characters becomes deaf at one point in Time Gate, and another one loses their left eye.

vocaloidno1fan
Sep '15

I wont say the specific characters (NO SPOILERS FOR U)
I have plenty of disabled/going to be disabled characters
some deaf, some that lose limbs and have to get prosthetics, some blind, and even some that r mute (or at least better off that way only because their voices r RLY loud n so high-pitched...)
plus, if scars count, I got plenty more with scars. but only because all my characters fight in wars when its necessary (the major war-events, or Supernal Realm Wars as I call them, r the only times when all my characters in my upcoming story Hybrid HAVE to fight)

punkarsenic
Sep '15

All my characters in my comic16 are disabled, actually.

Anselm/Topher/that lot - are first of all a system. theyre autistic, with other stuff going on too. also because of their situation (raised from the dead and shit) they have little to no immune system or healing factor and without their superpower would probably die instantly.

moran - has bpd, and is autistic. she often goes nonverbal.

david - has ptsd, and possibly hpd

peter - has multiple learning difficulties as well as autism, and has npd and hpd. hes also a survivor

maria - is autistic and has adhd

darwin (the one who calls himself remus lupin in comic) - is hard of hearing, autistic, and psychotic.

novex - is mobility disabled and uses a cane at all times, and a wheelchair for long journeys. xes also asthmatic and extremely short sighted. xes autistic and dissociative.

theyre all disabled because, well, i am. so why not?

Chopythes
Sep '15

I actually do have a character that's mute! Or deaf, that hasn't been revealed yet.
Though, she doesn't turn up until like half the series is up, but she does play an important part later on in Beyond the Ordinary4. (I wish I could've introduced her earlier D: )
Beive's kinda oblivious to this fact, and just thinks that Louise is a bit odd. And Louise is probably just gonna roll with it.

In high school, I used to take classes at Swedish Sign Language, it was fascinating! I wish it was more incorporate in school though, I've met a lot of people within the comic culture that's deaf/mute so I wish I could use it myself better.
One of the reasons that I brought Louise in, was mainly the fact I needed practice in both the sign language and how to actually draw hands.

Caelestie
Sep '15

Well I have a character that suffers from ptsd but I can't say who it is right now. I also have a character that is mostly color blind and is lacking an arm. Though she isn't introduced yet!

jessiepolfliet
Sep '15

For Stormspectrum5 I have Typhoomerang who has only one eye, though he modified a device that allows him to record what he is supposed to see and connects it with his overall view.

joannekwan(ง ˙o˙)ว here to help~
Sep '15

For the series I have here on Tap, there's Alex, a secondary character in Heavy Horns, who has a prosthetic leg.

For other things I'm developing, I have a main character with one arm, a blind guide, a guy with a synthetic heart, an albino who's legally blind... that's all I can recall off the top of my head at the moment.

As for recs, I highly recommend A.M.P18. The main character is wheelchair bound. He has prosthetic legs, but they aren't usable as of yet. He's a sweetheart and I may have a slight crush on him. Lots of action, great art, and it's just getting started!

carodoodles
Sep '15

Yay so glad to see many disability representation on here! You guys rock for having disabled characters in your stories smiley

Amirai
Sep '15

I have one in my comic Shards: The Shattered World7, but she's a ways off from showing up as the comic only has a few pages so far.

I haven't decided what her disability is yet, but it involves needing a wheelchair most of the time. She can walk a little, but not very much at all before she has to stop. I feel those who are not paralyzed but still need a wheelchair are some of the least represented people of the disabled community, with writers too often using the disabled person standing as a way to shock the audience about that 'terrible faker.'

I loathe that trope. People in wheelchairs have enough suspicion directed their way already and those examples don't help. I feel that there needs to be more examples of non-paralyzed characters who still actually need wheelchairs to promote awareness that disability is not a binary state, there are many levels in between.

I feel strongly about this, being disabled myself. Sorry for the mini-rant. ^^