Behold; My Stuff

he's not just a wheelchair user but also an amputee. an above knee amputee. wheelchair users are already next to nonexistant in video games but amputees exist in this really...disheartening? spot where they're pretty much just reduced to "person with a cybernetic limb" - it's always just somewhere from "just a cool visual design" to flat out "superpower". I can't think of a video game amputee that is actually disabled by their limb differences - I'm all for futuristic worlds where prosthetics and other disability aids are far advanced from what they are now, but that's not really what's implied by these designs. They're just... Cool designs that in no way reflect on the real-world experience of being an amputee.

Look at Hephaestus, though. Look at that prosthetic. Whilst stylised it very much looks like it functions like common mechanical knees - knee bends when thigh is lifted, knee straightens when thigh is lowered. He's a wheelchair user as well as a prosthetic user - every prosthetic user I know is also a wheelchair user as a prosthetic is not usable in every occasion and also cause exhaustion and pain if used constantly.

Whilst we can't see much of his wheelchair the position he's sat in and the wheels very much evoke active wheelchair to me - this carries on to very specifically the thickness of his arms. Whilst a lot of Hades designs are muscular Hephaestus has very noticeably thick arms - which makes sense, as active wheelchairs require a lot of arm strength.

Mel appears to be autistic. She focuses entirely on her hyperfixation, and characterizes everyone around her based on that hyperfixation. People drop hints about what they think of her but Olympus above knows she's missing every single one. Says the most edgiest shit unironically and Naruto runs all over the place. She does the nectar trade thing cause of tradition, strongly implied that she doesn't realize the implications of her actions - ie. Moros likely developing a crush on her. She has not the slightest idea why Nemesis would even dislike the idea of her fighting Chronos (and missing most of the cues Nemesis makes suggesting she might worried for her very much Actually probably cause like Moros she has a crush???).

She is convinced people only want her around if she provides results, otherwise she is a failure. She is Mommy and Daddy issues Incarnate. Hints are being suggested she might become Awful Evil Grandpa's favorite descendant.She might've poisoned Nemesis at one point. It doesn't stop Nemesis from taking another nectar from her. She can be incredibly rude af sometimes reflectively. She thinks Scylla and the Sirens are ass. She starts oversharing at one point and gets her ass attacked cause of what she says. She tries to remedy it the next encounter but makes it worse actually. She gets mad if her jar of mushrooms is in the wrong spot. She calls sheep "piggies."

However the drunk guys are also drinking, and eventually she can't afford to buy another pitcher for the table so she can't keep up the ever-full beer glass trick. At this point she has to resort to setting up the pool trick shot that she's never seen anyone but her boyfriend pull off, and says she'll leave with whoever manages the shot first.

1. 0 notes. Big flop.

2. #10k (failure, you get 2k)