#sigdi thundershield

[theuberadventurer]

Happy Mother's Day!

[oots-out-of-context]

[tiffany-smith]

'Kay so I'm FINALLY reading the Hunger Games and I'm only seeing a continuation of the sacrifice-for-no-reason theme I saw in OOTS.

In OOTS, Sigdi Thundershield sacrificed the coin that could have resurrected her husband, or restored her arm, for the resurrection of five strangers who would otherwise have gone to Hel. Twenty years later, her son Durkon, a cleric, found out and couldn't comprehend that level of kindness. He spent his whole life trying to wrap his head around it.

Twenty years after that, Durkon died rather than let a vampire kill another Evil-aligned individual. That was Belkar Bitterleaf, a murderous halfling on the very teetering cusp of perhaps maybe having an ounce of sympathy for another living being. Durkon's sacrifice sent him careening down the edge, quite unwillingly, of character development. He put himself in quite some danger to kill the unholy vampire that Durkon's death spawned.

The hope, as the story goes on, is that Belkar will at some point pass the radical kindness along to the next shocked recipient.

Now, in the Hunger Games, Peeta Mellark throws some bread to Katniss. And she cannot understand why.

I put my clothes to dry at the fire, crawled into bed, and fell into a dreamless sleep. It didn't occur to me until the next morning that the boy might have burned the bread on purpose. Might have dropped the loaves into the flames, knowing it meant being punished, and then delivered them to me. But I dismissed this. It must have been an accident. Why would he have done it? He didn't even know me. Still, just throwing me the bread was an enormous kindness that would surely have resulted in a beating if discovered. I couldn't explain his actions.

I know from the movies that Katniss ends up telling people to help Peeta live if she dies. That if the choice is between herself and him, it should be he who lives.

Idk I just think it's neat.

[rcbirdy]

“Och, surely ye’ve noticed we Thundershields haf thick nigh-impenetrable skulls!”

[yourdangerousmind]

one of the weirdest ways I've seen ableism manifest is people thinking that putting 50% of your grandson's weight onto a newly regenerated limb you haven't had in 50 years would be *better* than holding your grandson with the one arm you already raised your son with

[cannondisabledcharacters]

Today’s disabled character of the day is Sigdi Thundershield from Order of the Stick, who is an amputee

Requested by Anon