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this isn't very good of a post because i'm semi drunk (thank god for red squiggly spelling error corrections right) BUT soraya is the biggest lesbian of all time and i want someone super great for her? she's described here and basically a disinterested sourpuss who doesn't want to make friends. it doesn't have to be ~opposites attract~ but i'd love for her to begrudgingly fall for someone, especially since she's sworn off all romance after her first love died. and it'll definitely be this whole ~love changes her little by little~ sort of thing, opening her open, softening her edges, that sort of thing. because god know soraya is tough on everyone and even tougher on herself. she's relentlessly trying to make up for what she thinks she's lacking in (she wants to be a hero but thinks of herself as completely unworthy, but continues fighting anyway, but ACTUALLY im drunk so ignore me but this is part of her many insecurities).
this is a pretty open plot and definitely does not have to end up as finals, i'm just looking for a rad lady who will test raya's limits and make her want to improve herself and grow as a person, ykwim? (also doesn't have to be mutual feelings, tbbh? having someoe to love again adn wat to BBE BETTER AROUDN would be so good for her). but also i LIVE for complicated angsty shit, if you're into that too.
gender (female or nonbinary), pb, and occupation are all open though i am dead set in them being poc :3 contact here or svnshines on aim c:
akemi hatsumoto → spirited
Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life. ―Wade Boggs
soraya khadem → resilient
“Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good.” ―Elizabeth Edwards
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soraya khadem, or did you mean: unfriendly
synonyms: nasty, hostile, antagonistic
To feel anything deranges you. To be seen feeling anything strips you naked.
Anne Carson, from Red Doc (via synaesthes—ia)
One Comics Clever Look Into Deaf Culture
I would normal prefer to post only my own words with limited quotations but this article is already so well written and sums up so well what I think this particular issue accomplishes all on its own.
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Hawkeye #19 by Matt Fraction and David Aja is published today and already it’s a shoo-in for next year’s favourite single issue, just as Hawkeye #11 just won this year.
Because this is the deaf issue. The sign language issue. Which, of course, is ironic, because every issue of every comic book could be a deaf issue, operating as it does in a purely viual medium.
Except that’s not quite true. Born deaf can have more difficulty reading than those born hearing as there are no audio hooks to hang words on. And there are experiences and sound effects taken as granted in comic books that can provide a disconnect. But certainly, I know a number of deaf people who find a connection in comic books in a way they can’t as easily with TV or film, as this is a visual medium is that is meant to be read. And I am very interested to see hearing-impaired Bleeding Cool contributor Kirk Staley‘s take on this comic.
But the majority of the audience for this comic will be those with functioning hearing and little familiarity with sign language, which permeates the comic. That could have been offputting to come. But the comic makes some clever choices in introducing you to this world, through your familiarity with the characters.
Because that is “Clint” isn’t it? There’s no other possibility here in this context. And the unfamiliar becomes instantly familiar.
It’s also worth noting that you don’t generally see the character using sign language. Mostly you see the sign itself, as a dispassionate, blank mannequin, posed in the correct position. It conveys clarity, but also that this is a word or a ketter or a sentence rather than a person. It merely extracts the meaning.
Also, speech balloons are unfilled when Hawkeye isn’t looking at the person, when he isn’t able to lip read. And when he is, he dialogue appears like this.
Snatches of typed words, separately, pieced together into a sentence, sometimes wrong, but the lipreader is a detective, doing their best to transfer an audio medium into a visual one.
So the comic teaches you some, lets you intuit he rest and in some cases inspires you to do you own research. But, as with Monty Python’s “Summarising Proust” sketch, you get it, even if you don’t get all of it.
Okay, sometimes it holds your hand. But not much.
And that’s the greatest achievement of this comic, it creates the world of guesswork, or detecting, of putting pieces together and coming up with the result, often correct but with a few missing pieces and a few things wrong, with the worry that you have missed something along the way.
And that is often the experience of the deaf person dealing with a hearing world. No matter how experienced or talented, there’s always something…
They might as well just give this comic the Eisner right now.
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Taken from THE BLEEDING EDGE. Link back to real article here
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ELLISUN'S CHARACTER PLANS
AKEMI HATSUMOTO 32, jaeger pilot
akemi is a dear soul, someone with so much to share but difficult means of getting it across. she was born mute, you see. with that comes some minor learning disabilities but neither parts of her identity have ever held her back from going for what she wants. she's a ball of sunshine, excited to share her thoughts and listen to others. she primarily uses sign language (i have yet to figure out what type of sign language she primarily uses, probably ASL and JSL), and also carries around a tablet where she types in what she wants to say and it'll relay it back either vocally or she'll show it to who she's talking to! buuuuut when akemi gets overexcited she just skips to signing and people get confused if they can't sign hahaha.
she's eager to be active, the type of person who can't sit still. also the type to be overly concerned about others, an empathetic person who also takes on the worries and sorrow of others. a pacifist who wouldn't hurt a fly, she had a tough time going through training because she would always hesitate in going after her opponent. obviously she's past that now but yeah -she'll only be aggressive when she's in the conn-pod, you'll rarely catch her being physical outside of the conn-pod or kwoon floor. as sensitive as a person she may seem, she isn't as easily riled up or upset as you may think. she's a trooper but she isn't
she and her copilot sahil met when they were both in the field for the UN and they both connected through sign language, as her copilot has minor hearing disabilities (but has hearing aids for it, etc). they kept in touch after separating and reconnected again in hong kong, before the kaijus came back. when she doesn't have her tablet or if it's faster for sahil to speak for her, he usually does. they're rarely seen apart and are precious ok. akemi used to be a translator (she knows a few different sign languages) as well as a triathlete.
SORAYA KHADEM 30, fighter pilot
daughter of an iranian ambassador. they moved every few years and she mostly went to boarding schools. dicked around, tbh. got good grades but slacked off otherwise. rich kid who shrugged off responsibilities, she didn't care for politics or following family legacy. she was pretty passive and flippant about most things, really. of course, she was ever completely like this in front of her parents, but generally she just didn't give a shit. returned to iran after high school and completely ditched university to enlist in the air force. lost the love of her life to a crash (caused by faulty something in the plane) and she’s been wrecked ever since. was dishonorably discharged for misconduct towards a superior officer. has sort of been an alcoholic ever since.
since raya couldn’t fly planes (bc she didn’t want to be sober lmao sigh) and her parents no longer supported her, she became a flight attendant (lmaaaaooooo fuckin hated it but it was the closest she could get to flying). suffered through that gig for a while and then kaijus came back. she sobered the fuck up so she could be a pilot again but made herself wait at until she was 6 months sober to enlist.
has the sweetest face and seems approachable but seriously she wishes she had a resting bitch face. she really does. raya doesn’t want to make friends or be cozy with people. chainsmoker. has a pitbull who’s almost always by her side. laughs at the little things like people’s typos or them tripping up the stairs. gray-a, doesn't think she'll ever be with anyone again and only really has sex to relieve tension, etc. she's not as loose of a canon as people may think. she follows orders, she does as she's told and wants to fight the good fight, but will cross the line to put someone else in line hahaha.
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cute story time: my one friend is dating a boy who is blind and they go for walks everyday and as they walk she describes everything to him and he always says that “she makes everything sound so beautiful, except herself, but one day I’m determined to make her describe herself in the same beautiful way she describes the earth” I’m so
Good intentions, bad science. Sound familiar?
Ghost Drifting is said to be an unanticipated consequence of the Neural Handshake. Pilots are said to find that their link remains somewhat active, though muted, after they’ve disconnected from the hardware. Pilots who Drift with one another long enough begin to adopt certain personality traits of their partner, but their own core personality and consciousness remains intact.
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#AFTER ONE FAILED TEST DRIFT #NOBODY FUCKING TOUCH ME (via alfonselric)
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My aunt was right. Those who don’t know how to make love make war.
