Has anyone asked you about ur disability headcanons yet? If not then I request to hear them :3
This ask actually made me go insane for a moment. Thanks for asking. I have a number of random little disability headcanons for dsmp characters, mostly because I'm an ambulatory wheelchair user and I will write my own representation but additionally because this series has so many good reasons for people to become disabled. and everyone was neurodivergent already.
I'm just going by people I have kind of on my brief summary of headcanons list so far. But see below the cut
Dream - (He/Him)
So actually primarily Dream just starts as AuDHD. Just the way he thinks and communicates. Like he's neurodivergent. That's just fact and I do love giving the character the content creator's disabilities
This fucker STIMS okay. He can't stand still and he must stim. he can and will pace circles into everything. Huge motion related sensory seeker and it's his biggest regulator. Everyone has learned the hard way to not stop him
He slowly develops paranoia and depression but that evolves into a full blown case of PTSD post-prison
Also has a traumatically restrictive diet afterwards. It takes him a long time to get eating normally again, and there's still a lot of things that will just take the ability to eat away from him entirely
Starvation and isolation can severely mess with your brain and I honestly think it could trigger a latent physical health issue as well. So not only is Dream struggling to cope with recovery from the hell he threw himself in, he's also contending with new chronic issues
I'm always super compelled for it to be a joint issue for some reason. probably because I see him as extremely flexible. So potentially dealing with severe joint inflammation of some kind.
He would be a very reluctant user of mobility aids. This man does not want to sit in the wheelchair, but he'll learn eventually. You can put fun patterns on your tire covers, Dream. Come on it's fun.
Punz - (Any)
I think somewhere along the way Dream could have been diagnosed with his earlier problems. I think Punz has been stubbornly avoiding the doctor as long as they've been alive. And they will continue to do
So there are some SIGNIFICANT problems they just aren't acknowledging. Likely ADHD or AuDHD. It's okay, they have systems for coping with things
Definitely Schizophrenia and Depersonalization Derealization disorder. This can either just be a thing or backstory relevant but between the two they give Punz a really just interesting grasp of reality and a complete lack of connection to their body.
In Like Real People Do Punz has a version of Congenital Insensitivity to Pain and as a result had an accidental hemiglossectomy (they bit off their tongue) that gives them a speech impediment. Tongue trauma is really common in conditions like that
I just think Punz needs to wear wrist braces. I think they've fucked up their wrists a bit and could benefit from a brace that actually provides some support. Like the tingling and tension in their wrists isn't normal but they're not going to acknowledge it.
Purpled - (He/They/It)
I just remember the post i saw one time of cc!Purpled discussing his adhd diangosis as not hindering him in school because he was hyperfixated on being the best. I have never been able to track down a clip to confirm this but it's real in my heart at least and also how c!Purpled is
I definitely think he was like sick as a baby. Got a nasty infection that he couldn't just fight off being too young and also did not receive sufficient care for. This is why you don't leave a 7/8 year old in charge of a baby
He's mostly fine now, but when he's sick he's really really fucking sick. So just don't get sick, as if that's easy at all
Biggest issue they have overall in my mind is insomnia. I think it's reoccurrent and very much connected to stress levels. He just goes through phases where his sleep schedule gets decimated and he sleeps for like 2 hours a night at most and it just makes everything bad
Tommy - (She/They)
So the content creator decidedly does not have ADHD. I keep constantly flipping back and forth on whether I want to write c!Tommy with ADHD but regardless of any actual diagnosis I think she hits a ceiling somewhere of what she can handle and it becomes pretty clear something is giving her issues
That could just be the PTSD she does develop. I think she's stuck playing "was this a thing for me before I got this disorder and needs looked into alone or is this just part of this disorder" for the rest of her life.
I do think her PTSD developed not just from like one thing like exile or whatever but from repeatedly dealing with things that hurt her and made her feel unsafe. PTSD doesn't always have just one inciting incident. She might have something closer to C-PTSD
I think they've got like a LisFranc foot amputation from walking into the tundra woefully unprepared from walking into the tundra and getting a shoe wet. She got frostbite on a lot of places but since one of her feet got wet, that one did not recover properly
I don't think she gets a prosthetic for a while. I think she's stuffing her shoe and coping until she's allowed back in l'manburg. then she can finally pay a visit to whoever passes for a prosthetician or at least knows SOMETHING about orthopedics
Technoblade - (He/It)
Number 1 fucked up knee haver. number 2 resistant to using mobility aids because unlike Phil he's not old
But prison still takes a lot out of him so he's at MINIMUM temporarily incapacitated while recovering from all of that. he's not listening to doctors orders (Phil and Niki repeatedly telling him to lay down)
Generally actually gets sicker than most people. he's not from the overworld. his immune system doesn't DO pollen what do you MEAN the plants want to kill him. Shitty immune system is what eventually does kill him tbh
He's had a pretty steady build in ptsd symptoms as time goes on but it only really flares his head when he's stuck in a situation he has to wait out.
Worst of his disorders is really OCD. like he just has it and the voices just make it worse. they're basically agents of "if you don't do X, Y bad thing will happen". Except when that old man is around then they're poggin
On the same audhd wavelength with Dream, and also Philza at the same time. He does not want to do what you tell him. he also cannot do something you want without specific clear instructions. he will do it his own way anyways.
i don't think he has Schizophrenia. he might have some kind of psychosis but I'm personally just hesitant to give him Schizophrenia because it feels like reducing it to just hearing voices which is definitely a symptom but he doesn't really have negative symptoms to me. I could write an essay on this
Philza - (He/Him)
Old man has so much wrong with him. Doctors can't fix this. He's just like this now. His big god wife loves how messed up of a little man he is
He has no concept of how time actually moves, his perception of time has just been stretched out wildly and he is fully capable of dissociating through a whole year
His autism manifests most apparently as a kind of rigidity. Especially socially. It can be really hard for him to accept change. he's trying but like, that doesn't mean it's not still hard to work with or around it
Sometimes my system makes the colorzas a loose kind of OSDD-1a system. They're all Phil just different flavors. I haven't ever written this before but it's kinda fun. I get it
Losing his wings severely messed up his balance so he was using a cane for a while until he sorted that out. He doesn't have enough residual limb for a prosthetic, but he's learning to be okay with the loss
Phantom pain is a bitch though and he and Tommy are both learning to cope with it around the same time. They have wildly different ways they cope with it though
Probably will come back to this later and add Niki, Eret, Wilbur, Sapnap, George, Karl, and Q. Actually someone sent me another ask as I was working on this one on the bus asking for more so they'll get them and maybe an infodump.
So this is Solar Orbit! Daughter of my oc/ponysona Eclipse Corona (and also sunset shimmer bc self indulgent self-ships ftw)
more bio under the cut
She goes by Sol/Solar mostly but Eclipse calls her Orb playfully.
Sol is a bouncy kid who loves to learn. She unfortunately has ADHD like Eclipse but it was caught pretty early and they could start helping her cope with it a bit. She’s prone to hyperfocus alot, especially when reading. She’s always thinking of new ideas and questions to ask about the world, but sometimes she’ll catch one and stick with it for a few hours. She’s also similar with friends; she’ll be friendly with most ponies but has a couple she chose and will continue to annoy for years, with the main reason at first just being because.
Her favorite subject is physics; she loves doing those kinds of calculations. She’s terrible at writing but numbers are easy and straight forward to her. She also loves astronomy & sci-fi, usually reading a sci-fi adventure story with her parents. When she grows up, she wants to join/start horse NASA and go into horse space
Her special talent is levitation magic! She can be really precise with it, but also can carry heavier things pretty easily. Despite her moms great talent for magic, she’ll eventually overtake Sunset’s skill in levitation.
for someone who has never been clubbing i sure have a lot of scenes in nightclubs.
i found an old snippet from soulless (an unwritten story that i hope to return to at some point) and you can totally see the parallels between the club in that segment and the club that features heavily in the middle of solar orbit. intense neon lighting, multiple glass floors, murderous crime organisation hidden away inside.... i should make a post showing how my writing has developed!
