(A continuation to my previous post)
Now, to this month's subject: Disability Pride. I have a lot of f/os who are canonically or I headcanon as disabled
N Gin canonically has severe brain damage and chronic migraines. That rocket destroyed a solid portion of the right half of his brain. And he has a cybernetic arm in the most modern two games (IAT and Team Rumble). Also his brain damage is much MUCH worse in the Radical Era, too. I'm toying with the idea of him having some kind of personality disorder (caused by both his past and worsened by the rocket) or just simply brain damage-induced psychosis, as well, but that's not set in stone rn.
Nic is blind in one eye. In canon (or what was supposed to be canon but didn't make the cut), she was killed off screen from a shoot off with her brother. She survived it in my take but lost an eye.
Most takes of Penguin are disabled in some way shape or form. Be it a limp (from a fucked up leg or hip), lack of dexterity in his hands cuz of syndactyly, or simply being too short for every day life. DCAU and Returns Oswald have the limp and syndactyly (ignoring the fact that TNBA Oz has normal hands. People headcanon he got surgery on his hands). But 04 Penguin has the syndactyly and lack of height problem. He's half a foot shorter than the other two birds. He can't even drive without the Kabuki Twins. And uses his ravens to help him with daily tasks. I say he doesn't have the limp because he is just too damn dexterous.
Peri and Gale are both on the mute spectrum. They speak through morse code with their claws tapping and scratching on surfaces or soft hisses.
Reala, to me, had C-PTSD and chronic pain. With how much trauma that Wizeman put them through both physically and mentally, they aren't coming out completely unscathed even with the fact they can bounce back after every single encounter. And I say chronic pain because I've seen a few headcanons regarding the grey bandages on their Journey of Dreams design being compression tape used to deal with chronic pain.
(If anyone in the comments who have any of the disabilities that could tell me their experiences with them in the comments that would be awesome. I really want to learn more about it so I can write it as best as I could. I only have ADHD and Autism and some experience with people with PTSD, severe migraines, and chronic pain; immediately family suffers from all three)
Just to say this, I am not villainizing these disbilties just because I'm headcanoning villains with them. Most of my f/os turn evil either from their past, a single breaking point in their life made them evil, or were created/born evil. I am just a disabled bat who loves villains, is all.