#mobility aid design

[saintstars]

The most mortal God for Disability Pride Month! (Further detail below cut)

I know we don’t need more Disabled villains representation but Melkor’s my guy and I wanted to give him a walking stick post The Fingolfining to support his leg injury.

This stunning set of them really inspired me.

But then I remembered my hc Melkor has both his hands burnt by the Silms so he would need something that wouldn’t put weight on his tender palm, something more like a crutch.

So how to do that and still retain a look that was intimidating and opulent as Melkor is in all things? Well, make it a weapon of course - now he has a sword to brandish at anyone he feels isn’t respecting him enough!

Now the handy thing about armour is it’s made to support all your vital limbs, so I made the arm rest a gauntlet he could simply stick his hand into. Shaped to rest over the pommel of the sword in the most roguish way possible, of course. And naturally the ferrule is a dragon (/ chicken) claw.

I like having it all come apart for usage separately, and for changing up the aesthetic as desired. The whole stick is studded with gems and inlaid with gold for that “I’m the king of the world” feel. I won’t lie, I personally want this crutch now but I don’t have the strength of a Vala to use something this entirely made of iron. A nice carbon polymer version would be bitchin though.

I also figured Mr Mighty would have matching leg supports that were essentially extra jointed and splinted greaves that could be tightened or loosed as needed. When he’s wearing a full armour set none of this would stand out especially, but I drew him in a sheer robe because I love to sexualise him I mean for contrast. For contrast.

[rumarot]

so i'm trying to design mobility aids for minh.... what do we think of the first concept (the fullbody drawings are older i just wanted to have a reference of her here on the post)

a little nervous because i do not want to get anything wrong, but i still wanted the wheelchair to be a sci-fi(esk) design, and be customized to her

if anyone has any notes that could improve it, lmk :]c