A Celebration of Good Representation!

A blog dedicated to informing y'all about disabled characters in media!  If a post has an asterisk (*) next to the text, that means the character is played by a disabled actor.  We try not to include any characters portrayed in a stereotypical or ableist way; please contact us if there is a character/series mentioned that you have a problem with.

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Brother Vance from Destiny 2 is blind.

Image ID: a video game character - a man standing with his hands clasped in front of him. He is wearing a yellow and black cloak with a yellow hood up, covering his eyes.

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Petra Venj from Destiny 2 is missing an eye.

Image ID: a video game character - a woman kneeling on the ground with a bright blue eye and short cropped red hair covering the other side of her face. She has a glowing symbol on her chest.

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Amanda Holliday from Destiny 2 has a prosthetic leg.

Image ID: a character model of a blonde muscular woman in a 3d video game art style. She is wearing coveralls without sleeves, a tool belt, and work gloves. She is wearing a red kerchief and welding goggle around her neck and tall boots. Above the boot on the woman's right leg, her knee is metal. She is standing in front of a black background.

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The Unnamed Surveyor from Bubble Marin has an unspecified vision impairment and wears an eyepatch.

Image ID: a green cartoon submarine wearing an eyepatch and a yellow hard hat with a periscope coming from the top. He is floating behind a camera on a tripod.

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Aquaryah Aquavilla from Barbie: Mermaid Power has a prosthetic (tail fin).

Image ID: an animated young Mermaid with purple hair, a pink top, and a tail colored with a gradient from yellow to orange. She has a purple prosthetic tail fin. She is waving.

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This blog is alive??

.... Uhhhh... yes? I'm currently the only mod I know of, and I'm a disabled third year PhD student. So alive is a relative term. But I do see all of the asks and submissions, and I do have plans to continue posting them!

Thanks for the ask!

~mod cancer ♋️

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If a character doesn't have a disability but the voice actor does, does it count?

Great question! This blog is primarily focused on disabled characters, not disabled actors. But I bet there's another blog where your submission would fit!

Thanks for asking!

~mod cancer ♋️

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Glory from Genshin Impact is blind

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Xiao from Genshin Impact has PTSD and a chronic illness

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Ticket Jerry from Dialtown has partial-body paralysis and is a wheelchair user

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If it’s not too much trouble, can you please add image descriptions for people who use screen readers?

Oh wow, we probably should have already been doing that, huh?

Lol, just goes to show you that even disabled people have more to learn about being accommodating to those with disabilities. Life is full of learning opportunities, and isn't that beautiful?

I have never done image descriptions before, so I'm sure I'll have more to learn before I become proficient, but I will absolutely start trying! Thank you so much for pointing this out to us!

~mod cancer

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Hi! I saw a post about Merle from TAZ being partially blind, just wanted to add that he's an amputee and prosthetic limb user too :)

Edited to include that, as well as an image description!

Thanks for letting us know!

~mod cancer

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Booster Gold (Michael Carter) from DC Comics has PTSD, is an amputee and a prosthetic limb user

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Phillip J. Fry from Futurama has ADD*

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Jean-Pierre Polnareff from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is a paraplegic, double amputee, and a prosthetic limb and wheelchair user.

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Karen Dunn from Dialtown is Autistic.

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Hi! i just binged all your posts, and i think this blog is really really cool, tysm for creating it !!! :)

Hi! Thank you so much for enjoying it! I'm only just seeing this now, which might just tell how much I have in the inbox, lol.

I hope you keep enjoying what we do!

~mod cancer