i wanna see more stuff about tim's "it's for your own good!" mentality with jay because it is craaazy how fast he went from "yep we're investigative partners or whatever let's go look at parks and stuff" to So attached and concerned for jay's safety that he starts disregarding jay's autonomy. WHAT WAS THAT
So ignore how you can see the green screen outlined on him I just could not get rid of it,,,,, also credits for the animation idea: transfumbler on tiktok
alright it’s disability pride month so i should probably choose now to do the rest of these
post-canon disability hornets time!!! (this is assuming everyone lives and moves out of alabama btw- so. very much spoilers ahead. and so so much under the cut)
Jay: Absolutely coming home with both an OCD diagnosis and likely a Schizophrenia diagnosis as well. He is very normal about both of these (he is not. Tim had to literally drag him out to a psychiatrist cuz he couldn’t stand Jay insisting he was fine for much longer or he was gonna have a fit) He likely had OCD prior to all the operator stuff but he didn’t really care, he kinda just assumed everyone had occasional thoughts of extreme paranoia and intrusive thoughts. Said thoughts got way worse after entry 72.
After like a half to a full year he finally starts dealing with them and is less generally disgusted by himself. He starts accepting help (though hesitantly and slowly and he absolutely has strings of time where he self isolates but he’s working on it). A lot of his compulsions revolve around frantically filming everything and checking to make sure every single lock in the house/apartment is secure multiple times. He does seek reassurance (mainly from Tim or Alex) but he self isolates more often. Cant worry that everyone in your life hates you and wants you dead if you don’t have anyone in said life.
His schizophrenia isn’t As severe as Tim’s simply because he wasn’t around the Operator for as long, but he does still have hallucinations (mostly of alex or the operator or just general hearing things) and delusions that he struggles to deal with.
He has chronic pain from his gunshot wound so he sometimes can’t really get out of bed or do things but for the most part he’s able to work from home. Also he only has one kidney now :) they stole his other one (got too messed up from the bullet and they couldn’t salvage it)
Also i cannot stress to you how much this man despises therapy. He has to be honest with someone he doesn’t trust yet and has only met a few times?? yeah that’s not happening. He still goes and it does help him when he’s actually able to be honest but otherwise he hates it. He wants to quit. He also doesn’t think he needs it (he does)
Also he has PTSD. not diagnosed cuz he can’t be bothered and also thinks it’s fine, but he absolutely has it. Tim will drag him back to the psychiatrist right after Jay accepts his other two diagnoses. he doesn’t want to completely overwhelm him even though he thinks a diagnosis would really help.
Tim: His leg. is so fucked. he did Not have time to let it heal well so it flares up often and he walks with a cane. he actually quite likes his cane, he just dislikes how annoying it is to deal with in public—he hates that he only has one hand to do things with. he used to hate how often people stared at him cuz he’s a relatively young guy, but he stopped caring after a couple weeks of using it. he’s dealt with worse from other people.
His seizures are more frequent now, but they don’t always trigger a blackout like they used to. Unfortunately he has yet to figure out what Does trigger them, but his medication continues to be his best resource. The first time he had a seizure after moving away from alabama he scared the shit out of both jay and brian who he was with at the time, half cuz they were worried about him and half cuz they thought they were about to get dragged back into all the operator madness. They did not, but also none of them left the house or each others sides for a month. Shout out canned food that they are now collectively Very sick of. Tim actually didn’t lose his job from this, finally finding a decent boss as it had been a couple years since he’d be in any work position. Granted his boss wasn’t Happy, but he didn’t get fired. (lowkey the most unrealistic part of all of this cuz corporate america sucks ass and they would never)
also has PTSD because of course he does, i wouldn’t be surprised if he had it sooner and just wasn’t diagnosed until after leaving alabama. This is why he’s fairly confident Jay has it as well, he recognizes his own traits in jay (much like how he recognized the schizophrenia before jay got diagnosed with it) he just knows jay would be reluctant to be called out on it.
He has. very bad depression. mainly from guilt (his dumbass still is convinced it’s all his fault even though it’s not). he especially blames himself for jay and brian’s long term disabilities. jay because he thinks he wouldn’t have gotten shot had he not left jay at his house, and brian because… he pushed him… out the window… thing… and also blames himself for not knowing brian was alive for all that time because he thinks he could’ve helped him had he known.
jessica: narcolepsy (obviously) but they never specifically if it’s type 1 or 2 so i am here dubbing her type two narcolepsy.
you’ll notice a theme here: ptsdddd. i cannot imagine any of these people leaving this situation without ptsd i’m sorry. i think she also has ocd but i think she’s less in denial about it than jay is. took her forever to get diagnosed though because they said she was “just anxious” and she just needed more sleep and she wasn’t well rested enough, that’s why she was so “stressed” (the irony of them telling the girl with narcolepsy to sleep more was not lost on her) and recommended therapy. she did therapy and that was what lead her to get diagnosed, because a therapist recognized the traits in her and recommended her somewhere
brian: paralyzed from the waist down because of spinal cord injury. his arms can move but they hurt because the fall also fucked up both of his shoulders permanently. he now also has chronic migraines which can last several days at a time and he literally cannot do anything except sleep (or try to sleep) when he has one
PROSTHETIC EYE PROSTHETIC EYE PROSTHETIC EYE i don’t care that that doesn’t really make sense (idk how his whole comic eye thing works but to me it looks kind of.. hollowed out? so. giving him a prosthetic eye) he hated it first, he tended to wear an eyepatch instead. he figured there was no point in pretending he was “normal” and would prefer the “obvious” eyepatch. tim loved when he wore the eye, which helped brian accept it as an option for him. after some time he started to have fun with it, and now has a whole collection of different colors and iris shapes.
he’s always in a wheelchair due to said paralysis and normally just wheels himself around. the only person he let’s touch the handles on his wheelchair is tim, and tim normally only does so if asked because he doesn’t want to assume brian needs the help. (tim also doesn’t think he deserves to interfere with something so crucial to brian because he’s the one that caused him to be in it. little does the idiot know brian does not blame him for that. he doesn’t blame tim for anything really, but he does sometimes have fits of resentment, mainly for him leaving when he wore the mask and teaming up with jay instead. he does blame alex, however, but he is still relatively cordial with him. he’s trying to trust him again. he blames alex the way you blame someone when you know it’s not technically their fault but you need to channel your anger and frustration to someone). he also has a debilitating fear of heights now
ended up with a bipolar diagnosis after he went to a doctor just to make sure everything else was alright. he wasn’t even looking for anything to be diagnosed.. i have no justification for this one-
i’m pretending the neck stabbing didn’t happen but If it Did and he survived it, i think he wouldn’t be able to talk much if at all, and he’d likely need a feeding tube.
happy disability pride month guys, make sure you hit someone with your mobility aid this month and if you can’t do that then find a way to telepathically give someone a disability /j. everyone get more disabled (looking at you, yes you, able bodied people. get more disabled right now) /j
also please reblog with your own thoughts if you have any, i wanna hear em :3 and sorry about the all over the place capitalization
anyone who uses the r slur at this point needs to just be recognized as a hateful bigot and we cant be quiet about it anymore. genuinely. get mad at people for this. point it out and be annoying about it. no you cant reclaim it you just want an excuse to be bigoted
you align yourself with fascism because For Some Reason you find fascist trends appealing and you like it when you can wield power over people. you like that you can say you're someone above another class of people. you like this word because it feels powerful to use (Because You Are Exerting Power Over A Marginalized Group You Dont Think Of As Human). you just like being a bigot
last thing i'm coming back and adding to this post. if you try to add any kind of comment or addition to this saying "well i say it sometimes but..." or even just outright saying it on my post i'm blocking you. stop and actually read what i'm saying jesus christ. you're not giving your Beautiful Nuanced Opinion you're an ableist bigot saying an ableist slur you can't reclaim because it's Not a slur for anyone who's just neurodivergent or has autism. its a slur for people with intellectual disability. thanks
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