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Tataru must have talked her into doing this. Aeryn got overwhelmed and covered her face like six seconds into the photoshoot. This is the only workable image they got. (I wanted room to add silly blurbs, so I only listed her canon classes, sans dragoon/rogue since those aren't commonly known in her lore.)

which is basically saying

she can get glasses (magic that allows her to read aether ink) but she's still blind

b/c if aether ink wasn't involved, she wouldn't be able to see

i guess the person of the post you're complaining about doesn't know anybody with Coke Bottle Lenses - which are Blind Without Correction a lot of the time.

they were thinking being Blind is only Blind WITH Correction which is somebody who can't see even with tools and such to help them.

Y'Shtola is blind by the way, she's just Blind Without Correction, meaning she can have tools which make it so she can See (which tbh isn't much, let's be real here)

*my mom got a master's degree in teaching vision impaired/blind children. these are the children that will go blind as they get older, or they don't have periphriel vision, or they have those thick coke bottle lenses. she taught them Braile, got them large mega watt lamps so they could read, they got the large print school books. But every single one of those children were Blind Without Correction

example of coke bottle lenses

Aether perception isn't normal vision. If something is devoid of aether, they can't see it, such as shadows. Shadows have no aether, so can't be used for depth, distance, or volume, but Y'shtola and my boy don't need those cues because they're getting accurate 3D info from the aether.

Can you imagine how difficult that would be to translate when you're used to normal vision?! NOTHING looks the same, it would be sensory hell, completely messed up.. but… Y'shtola can see just fine, I guess, with her 'magical cure'.

She manages, and is independent. Her difficulties are generally only mentioned when something plot-wise changes to make her sight less effective, but that doesn't mean she wouldn't face daily challenges. She has had to relearn how to navigate her world! I have a close friend who is blind and helping me write an 'authentic' blind character (authentic in quotes as we're playing in a fantasy sandpit, rules bend, but still with respect for the challenges visually impaired people face).

Noodling with finally nailing down an official look for Hero, Raine’s Azem.

Fashion Report Day

Axel's still working his way through Stormblood so he couldn't get the fancy Crystarium gear for his top marks this week… which usually means he wouldn't bother entering, but since his partner Calmarie reminded him how much she enjoys Gloves he thought he'd focus on that part. 88pts, good effort, B+