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Napster actually has one of the disabilities I have- lower supports needs autism. He's not alone in this, quite a few of my OCs do cuz I find viewing the world through an autistic lense makes it a bit difficult for me to write neurotypical characters.

In Napster's case, he has some vocal and physical stims that mimic his favorite animal, a cat, so basically he would meow or knead things a lot when he was younger (he really likes soft textured clothing, blankets, pillows etc).

Unfortunately, his peers growing up would make fun of him for this so he formed a mask. His family life was not great either so he would mask there too. About the only place he could feel comfortable stimming was with his one childhood friend, Benny the cat, a stray whom he met frequently at an abandoned shack, the small bit of respite he had from the people who hurt him so.

He would eventually find someone in adulthood who accepted his stims and allowed him to do so freely, another human in fact, but that is a story for another day 🤭💜

[Here is a pic of Benny, cropped to avoid too many spoilers]

Unfortunately, like Napster, my family home isn't always the best to openly stim (being the origin of where my autism came from doesn't keep you from abelism! Whoda thunk it🙃). Family bs aside, I also had a cat friend for 19yrs who was safe to stim around and helped me regulate- His name was Motor (full govt name, Motorcycle Butterscotch (not doxxing my last name)). He was the calmest cat you'd ever meet and purred all the time 💜💜💜

[Here is a couple pics of Motor]

One last thing about Napster that is relevant to his experience is he is adopted and is not the same race as his family and a majority of his peers growing up. Part of the bullying he experienced was in regards to his race/skin color which is something I have not experienced as a fair skinned white guy, so I wanted to draw attention to that because it is important to tell more stories of autistic people of color. I definitely think, for Napster, this makes him feel the need to mask more (cuz he is often in unsafe environments with people who don't understand). I hope that this part of his story and character feels realistic and respectful. I am open to concrit, so if you are an autistic person who is mixed Filipino and Chinese and live in a majority white country and feel comfortable sharing your experience, I am here to listen.

I hope you guys enjoyed reading what I could share of Napster for now. Later, I plan to post lore drops about him, Louie, and Wildcard (because I keep fixating on them and I want yall to see why).

For now, please enjoy the photo ref and have a nice day.

Of course people can have names that sound like other things in other languages, but specially since she's a kid with down syndrome, I thought I'd just come here to say (I got worried that someone might find that an excuse to be ableist or something)

Keep up!

Aw what :[ i heard it while watching a show (polish) and thought it sounded really cute. I never look up names first, because I don't want it to influence the characters personality. But that's such a bad roll of the dice I can't really ignore it.