wait bestie i gotta know: what do you headcanon joly as having? i haven’t totally decided on anything for my teacher au (besides anxiety lol). but like as far as physical ailments what do you give him?
i’ve given enjolras eds, pots, and mcas because that’s what i have and part of me is like “ooh joly could have the same! it’s fun to have friends with the same shit as you” and the other part of me is like “but there’s so many other kinds of disabilities out there you should do other ones too” (which would require a lot more research on my part 😭😭😭 which maybe i want to do, but probably not lol)
it depends on the au tbh-
main au and service dog au, he's got a birth malformation in his legs, which he's got a ton of pt and operations for since he was a kid. used to be a wheelchair user, now can do with just his cane, which is what he's gonna use for most likely the rest of his life :)
agere au, he's probably gonna have fibro or something alike to it - i havent thought of it much truth be told, but i do always seem to go for fibro when idk what to do lol, its either gonna be that or arthritis i think
in another au of mine, this one unnamed, and probably in my future canon era aus, he's gonna get Unidentified Chronic Pain, because that's how it is for me - no doctors willing to do their job, so I've got no diagnosis nor any idea what the hell is wrong with me -, and since the first au is more for me to project onto joly, and in canon era he wouldn't have received enough medical attention to diagnose him... well, it just seemed to fit
also, in almost every single au of mine he's got a pretty low pain tolerance (unfunnily enough) and a super weak immune system, and being ill typically causes him to flare so that's fun - im not sure how typical that last bit is for disorders other than whatever i have, but oh well, gotta project onto the guy!!
my gf reminded me of the idea of potsie!joly a day or two ago, too, and while i havent added it to any aus yet, i really am excited to do so :)
another one i think would be kinda cool would be making him an amputee- and i dont mean amputating his leg(s), but an arm or hand, besides whatever disorder is already keeping him from walking unaided. i dont know, this concept popped in my brain just now, even if i usually make fey the one missing limbs here lmfao
for more mental disorders, obviously anxiety (to different degrees of severity), and also autism because c'mon, it's joly /silly (maybe even audhd? unsure)
besides those (and sometimes health-related ocd), because joly seems relatively sane to me, i dont really add anything else to his brain soup. that being said, i completely would eat up a version of joly that had ptsd... i usually give him some sort of medical trauma, but not full blown ptsd, which would be very interesting to see imo
the mental stuff usually stays mostly the same in most of my aus, so there's not much change there. i like focusing more on physical disabilities so i can kinda outweigh the clear disparities in typical fandom culture... and also its more fun :3
hope this was helpful!! <3
