#caspar rambles

Firstly, I find it fascinating how Hazard's story is treated differently to other characters. His injuries are portrayed as life-changing. A major player in his revelation that overwatch is bad. He is shown to use stuff like wheelchairs; he gets shit prosthetics from the hospital. Mizuki's is implied to be a traumatic event, but its not really important. For characters like Lifeweaver or Symmetra it is hardly a footnote. It's just a thing they use to do their job. Junkrat's self injury is of course played as a big joke, and this extends to his peg leg. Genji is of course like. Fucked up to shit, but after he gets his body parts its basically fixed forever and nowadays he just like. Fucks around and kisses mercy or whatever.

If i was being generous i could say that Blizzard are trying to establish a class narrative to who has access and priority in the system. Lifeweaver and Sym are/were important engineers in a big company so it makes sense they'd get beautiful and painless support. But they are 100% NOT doing that they can't even finish their own story half the time T_T tbh i think they just think its super fucking cool. But it does make me wonder about the worldbuilding questions this brings up...

Does Lifeweaver still have access to the systems that developed his arm? Does he have to mod it out, like Hazard? Does he suffer from problems related to maintenance that he presumably has to do, by himself?

How rare/expensive are these services in countries like India that are heavily invested in Visknar? Is it a class symbol? A fashion symbol? Are non-amputees blocked from certain parts and systems in society (i.e authentication to systems, like people who dont use phones)?

Hazard has some pretty crazy prosthetics. Obviously he mods a lot of it but id be interested what is available to the public. Like those extendy legs !

Is ableism still a problem in this society? I would guess not, but the fact that idk Kiriko or the Yokai dont think its shocking that Mizuki only has one arm implies to me that its pretty well-excepted (or those conversations happened off-screen. For every single armless character) BUT the way Sigma is treated does not make me think we're in a post-albeism society. As a whole.

And most importantly. Does Mizuki have to unwind the entire chain from his arm to clean the thing properly? Millions must know.