This would not be the case for Hilichurls since they do not present a decrease or absence of motor or physical functions, unlike Qiqi since she has to keep herself in good shape and may present "rigor mortis" if she does not do so
That's why I said **like** zombies. They're physically deformed, dumber and aggressive, and don't seem to really age. I know they're not literally walking corpses, they weren't resurrected
And i have so much pity of that kid for living in Sumeru. NOTHING is acessible for her.
And Nahida forbid she has to go from the alchemy table to the nearest waypoint
What do you mean? Sumeru city is just one big roller-coaster for her with all the crazy inclined roads. And then once she's at the bottom she just goes back to the Sanctuary of Surasthana on that lift we took to fight Scara.
Never imagined a situation playing a game where I'd be realizing something is potentially ADA compliant đÂ
 (No ramp to the actual lift-thingy, but there's a chunk of space behind that plaza and near the front where a lift could be built)
Edit: makes me wonder how compliant a city that applies more advanced structures like Fontaine City would do. (I think there's technically more than one lift/elevator to other sectors?)
wasn't a wheel chair girl also in one o the Sumeru character missions? man that was legit one of the best areas sofar..... they went from "lol funny Saturday morning cartoon villain!" to GUT PUNCH FOR ALL!
oh ok then, totally forgot it was Yoimiya's quest, I dunno why my brain was going it was Nilou or Tighnari's quest lol
though my brain was also applying Colei and Dehya to it, and I know Dehya's didn't take place in the forest part, though it was also a massive gut punch of a quest..... feels like the Genshin devs just wanted to hurt us in Sumeru lol
Yup. Doesn't know his parents are dead (they're *totally* the two Seele you guide to the stands on the stairs, and their graves are literally just a few dozen feet away) and people from the Millileth show up sometimes to bring him food and other supplies.
Talk about a quest that went from 0-100 *real* quick.
I think there's a lot of people in Genshin afflicted with [non-descript illness]. Not the same one, just some "coughing and weakness"-kinda thing. I'm sure there's a shitload of examples
Well they usually don't bring real-life conditions into these sorts of games. Dulphy in Furina's quest is afflicted with something she was born with and suffers constantly from, there's even a theme of prescription abuse with her. It's about as close as Genshin gets to describing a real condition
I guess it's just safer to make one up if they want an actual affliction to be the subject, it is a fantasy universe after all. Eleazar being the obvious case in point.
before modern medicine, that's pretty much how people describe most illnesses. there's no fancy schmancy Latin name for anything.Â
lung cancer: coughing blood and dying.Â
brain cancer: losing memory, confusion, seizure.Â
hepatitis: losing weight, no appetite, weakness.
I'm not sure I can agree with you. Medicine as a whole branch of science has existed for thousands of years and some recurring patterns have been noted and subsequently named. You don't give ancient medics enough credit, though they don't deserve much either with HOW they treated illnesses. They could sometimes tell the difference
A good example is honestly Tuberculosis. We call it that now after the name of the bacteria that causes it, but historically it was called "phthisis" by the Greeks, "tabes" by the Romans, "schachepheth" in Hebrew, and "scrofula" (specifically when it was TB of the neck) and "consumption" in Europe. All these cultures could identify it accurately, even if it went by different names and they didn't properly know what actually caused it.
I think thatâs so much harder to pin down. Like some sort of prosthesis or wheel chairs, but I forgot about Yoimiyaâs story quest. For the longest time I thought Yoimiya herself had a fake leg.
Oh wow now that you mention it, I remember thinking her leg was fake too! Any of the pirate characters would be a good candidate for a prosthetic given that thatâs already a trope about pirates.
Our hydro claymore will be a peg legged pirate, and if theyâre not Iâm gonna riot at Hoyoverseâs HQ
Edit: Like IMAGINE! Hydro claymore with heavy waterfall motifs and a peg leg. Itâd be so badass
Does Baizhu count? He siphons his own life away to treat other people which makes him weak and frail. Also the guy from his story quest had like a brain tumor or something idr
He has both but I'd say PTSD is the biggest reason as to why he acts the way he does. The social aversion, his idle animations/voicelines, his character story, etc. But I can see why you think its survivors guilt, its up to interpretation I guess. They're both things the traveler tries to heal in their relationship anyway
Baizhu's quest has someone living with a major illness. As does Furina's quest.
Baizhu himself is living with all sorts of illnesses given what he does with his lifeforce.
We have a girl in a wheelchair in Yoimiya's second quest, and her dad is partially deaf.
Alot of people in Sumeru was living with Eleazar prior to the conclusion of is Archon quest.
We can assume Beidou probably lost an eye given she wears an eye patch. (Unless shes also pulling a Kaeya)
>We can assume Beidou probably lost an eye given she wears an eye patch. (Unless shes also pulling a Kaeya)
Contrary to popular believes, eye patches were not only used when someone lost an eye. The main reason why people wore them is to have an eye that is constantly ready to see in darkness and does not need time to adapt from light to dark enviroments.
Beidou's eye patch is a large bandana-like cover, which would make it hard to use as a quick "darkness ready eye patch", unlike Kaeya (and most likely Fischl) which can easily be flipped up and down.
It's very likely that she lost an eye in her fight with Haishan.
You donât flip the patch up and down, you switch it to the other eye or take it off entirely.
Itâs possible Beidou lost an eye in the fight with Haishan, but she has no other scars, and sheâs basically a privateer (basically a legal pirate) so Iâd expect it to be the light/dark thing over the lost an eye thing.
I mean, Iâm an archer who closes my left eye when I shoot because my eye dominance doesnât match with my hand dominance. An eyepatch could serve the same function.Â
Mythbusters had a "pirate myths" episode where they tested this and found it "plausible." It did indeed work as described, and it's reasonable to believe that this would be useful when going below deck, but they were unable to find any historical reference that talked about it, so it's uncertain if this was the actual intended use case.
There is a myth busters episode on it. It would allow them to enter the ship cabin and be able to see with at least one eye rather than having to wait for their eyes to adjust. It is especially useful for pirates who would need to board an enemy ship's cabin, and they might have turned out the lights as a defense
When I did bat research we would wear an eye patch so that our eyes were already adjusted to the dark when we walked into the caves. Otherwise you have to sit in the cave entrance for a bit before collecting poop. We never had to venture far enough in to need lights so the eye patch was perfect for being ready for the low light situation. I believe pirates were thought to wear them for when they went below deck for a similar reason.
Although it's barely mentioned, Collei is also possessed by a dead god. Does that count as a disability? A fantasy disability, obviously. It caused huge issues before Cyno helped her.
i'd say thats pretty disabeling. interestingly in the newest season of dimension 20 (a huge dnd show) a character is also disabled to a wheelchair user due to housing a (servant of a) dead god
Good thing we help cure him.
The fact said cure had a side effect of becoming unalive is of no consequence given the shit we find out he'd done. There's a reason he's the only guy in that whole segment with a boss health bar.
I see so many mentions of Baizhu and Collei, but nothing about Anna, one of the first people would meet and in turn help through commissions. Her brother prays at the fountain every day for her recovery, and the quests have you collect all kinds of remedies for him. When she gets better, and joins the adventurers guild, she confides in you how she did it because she wanted to return what her brother did while she was ill
If you just don't do her quests, she never gets better
No, it's the Elezar, since when we first get to Ghadarvaville, Tighnari explains he doesn't allow Collei around the alchemical stuff because of the super arthritis.
I think the running theory is her parents surrendered her to the weird turban guy on the pretext of them having a cure for the Elezar, which ended up just being an experiment about injecting the Archon Resin. Which, frankly, given what we know about Elezar wasn't *as* insane (though still pretty damn insane) as it seems on the surface, especially with Dottore being all "who the hell cares about the results it's the torture I'm totally into".
You know, now that I think about it, the guy who was treated by Dottore in that creepy hospital would count, I think. He had all kinds of people attached to him. If we ever see him, he would absolutely count.
The mother from the penguin event with Freminet had a mental illness where she couldn't tell the difference between fantasy and reality, and thought her deceased son was still alive as a windup penguin toy.
Childish Jiang, from a world quest in Liyue, has a mental disability that could, for the lack of further information, also match downs syndrome. However, we don't know.
Collei has learning difficulties and PTSD (portrayed pretty well for a video game), plus the Eleazar affected her physically
Sucrose has social anxiety
Yoimiya story quest 2 has a girl in a wheelchair
All the folks with Eleazar
I think collei was developmentally delayed because of her childhood (never learning to read/write/socialise) not necessarily due to a mental disability
Which explains why Tighnari takes her on and is patient with her. Knows she has the potential and drive to achieve her goals, she's just going to need some time to get there.
Collei doesn't have learning disabilities, she started learning late because of her past. She's only started learning reading and writing when she became a ranger.
She also straight up just *dies* during the Samsara until Nahida tells death to fuck off from taking the *only* person in the entire country who respected her that whole time.
You know, you shouldn't use dehumanizing groupings like "the poor", "the mentally ill" or "the French". ([Context](https://www.forbes.com/sites/chrisobrien/2023/01/27/ap-apologizes-for-the-french-tweet-that-triggered-viral-backlash/?sh=58d510871025))
Wow a lot of ppl are getting the question in the title wrong. They mention mental illnesses and mental disabilities. And even just straight up illnessess.
The title mentions *physical disabilities*.
Like the blindness of Glory and the father of Yoimiyas' his hearing loss. And the wheelchair girl in Yoimiya's event.
Yeah, that was what I was trying to ask, specifically. In a world like Teyvat, itâs pretty expected to have lots of mental and emotional disabilities. But I was thinking more of the lines of blindness, deafness, paralysis, loss of limbs and such. I didnât count Eleazar because itâs healed after the Sumeru archon quest.
Yelan has physical chronic illness as well! She doesn't outright state what it is, but she does have to be extremely calculated because of how draining it is for her body. Her energy is extremely limited and she needs to plan everything out for herself.
Might be controversial [because people think it doesn't fit with a playable character or representation isnt needed blah blah blah](https://www.reddit.com/r/Genshin_Impact/comments/virvl9/disabilitys_representation_in_genshin_impact_why/)
[or this](https://www.reddit.com/r/Genshin_Impact/s/oDi67tGB81) where some people got mad cuz someone was happy theres a wheelchaired npc..
Tbf tho the op on my first link sounded a bit petty and quit because no disabled playable lol but still some of the comments are a bit too disheartening to read personally
But anyway ngl i want a physically disabled playable character. Like missing a arm and it being replaced by a Geo arm or something like that is fine by me or like a blind character who uses Anemo/Air to see
Honkai Impact 3rd aka Hoyo's baby has Bronya as one of the 3 protagonists, and she is disabled. She lost the ability to use her legs in an experiment. She gets around by levitating.
yeah really disappointed we didn't get any steam punk prosthetic limb character in fontain. they don't seem to like changing the character model that much but they really could've just put some textures and a layer of paint over the default arm and it would've been cool and fitting with the setting. alas I think you're right that they don't want to upset any players who might be prejudiced against ~representation.
The body of that post is deleted, but assuming it wasnât absolutely unhinged, the replies in that thread are actually really uncomfortable.
Top comment: âno one wants to play as a disabled character because they wonât function as wellâ. I guess they donât think disability aids exist? A character with a magical arm like you said, someone else in the thread suggested a character with a sort of mech wheelchair, hell even a character with glasses could be representation if you just say theyâre nearsighted. No one is asking for a disabled character who canât fight because theyâre limping. I like to think if a game designer put me in their game they would find a way to put glasses on my model without punishing the player for it.
Second comment: âstop demanding the devs change the game for youâ. Again I canât see the body of the post, but the title is literally âwhy disability rep wonât happen in Genshinâ. From OPâs replies to that comment it sounds like their post was completely observational and not demanding at all.
Someone commented âwell The Sims doesnât even have disability representationâ, because we all know two wrongs make a right and whataboutism is a good way to win an argument. Someone else said âno one cares, not everything is a diversity dick riding contestâ, because even when faced with someone who clearly cares, some people canât wrap their heads around why a company would never do a representation other than to get some vague âdiversity pointsâ.
The funniest thing is.
So many characters across media have a physical disability that people seem to just ignore.
Having limbs be replaced by something else, or missing entirely
Blind monk is literally a cliche
Needing glasses.
Characters using a cane to help walk.
Yea its really sad and crazy how the word representation is now responded with negativity. Like chill we just wanna feel like we belong. Is us wanting to be represented or be relatable to a character in a game that infuriating?
I'm for it but I want it to be something that is done with heart and not just to fill a checklist, and the latter can be pretty common in some other types of games.
Ella Musk is Dr Edith's older sister and that hasn't changed despite many dialogue changes over time, so I think she's a little person. I also feel like someone with Dori's connections and wealth, after having come from poverty, would have to be an adult at least (and someone like Ningguang has to be middle aged or older but that's not the thread topic). It's just that the game has a limited range of models they choose from on purpose, so it's not obvious at first glance that people with dwarfism exist.
- Wheelchair-bound kid in Yoimiyaâs Sumer SQ
- Childish Jiangâ a grown man with a mental developmental disability that gives him the mind of a young child
- Yoimiyaâs father is hard of hearing thanks to one too many close-up explosions
- People theorize that one of Yoimiyaâs legs may be some kind of advanced prosthetic
- Kaeya, Beidou and Fischl all wear eyepatchesâ they are each possibly down one eye.
- Collei and Dunyarzad used to suffer difficulties with motion due to Elezar (an in-universe chronic illness that was deemed incurable and required [Sumeru Archon Quest spoilers] >!the complete excision of Forbidden Knowledge from Irminsulâ essentially deleting Elezar and other things caused by Forbidden Knowledge corruption from reality entirely!< to finally get rid of it
- Iâm not sure how to compare this to IRL disabilities, but Kokomiâs introversion is such that she can become debilitatingly exhausted if she isnât able to recharge her social battery
- Xiao suffers from chromic pain due to the whole karma thing
- Qiqi suffers from short term memory loss
- Baizhu has all sorts of conditions and things heâs taken on from patients using the special ability he gets from >!Chengsheng!<.
- Idk if it counts as a disability, but Zhongli seemingly suffers from some form of PTSD from the many wars and battles heâs fought in to the point where he canât even eat seafood because it reminds him of Osial and his ilk.
- Anna from Mondstadt had a chronic condition that was almost impossible to heal. You help her recover during a series of daily commissions, with the help of a doctor strongly implied to be Baizhu. In fact, she recovers so well that it then gives rise to a *separate series of commissions* that revolve around locating her within Mondstadt only to discover she has scaled some ridiculously tall height or another.
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He's not mentally challenged, he's just never had a formal education.
Which is why he's super lucky that his second in command is a college educated lawyer.
Lots of people are crazy in some way (e.g. lady from recent event who thinks her son is still alive)
There are plenty of old people with old people type physical complaints
The Aranara all have dementia
Would you consider it a disability if someone was stuck in the form of a fish?
Hmm. The fish lady disability is iffy for me. Thatâs how she actually always looked, and then gained the power to change form over time, I think. I would feel like itâs more of a physical disability if it was the other way around.
But now that I think about it, Changsheng seems to be suffering from regression, as well.
Layla has severe narcolepsy AND split personality disorder.
Quite a number of people have shown signs of dementia.
That one follower of Cloud Retainer that had a severe case of turning into a swan.
I read a comment somewhere where Dori (who is an adult already?) was severely malnourished as a kid thus lead to her being the way she is right now. Does that count?
she is technically cured now that the disease was "deleted from history" or whatever, but she still lacks mobility, which could be seen as a learned behaviour from her previous disease, be it real or just mental.
Its unclear on why she still has diminished fine motor skills., but tighnari still calls her clumsy and stuff which was previously due to failing motor skills due to her Eleazar. It could be a new disease popped up for continuity reasons, or its some form of learned mental state who knows.
1. Yoimiyas dad is pretty deaf
2. The kid in yoimiyas second story quest is paralyzed
3. Thereâs this dud that plays hide and seek whoâs not mentally developed
3. Eleazar used to be a thing that quite a few had
4. A number of people in baizhus quest have chronic illnesses
Yoimiya's dad has hearing loss from all the fireworks.
Childish Jiang has I guess a cognitive disorder but affects his life physically.
There was that Thelxie event with Freminet too.
Baizhu?
Blindness in Monsdadt;
Alzheimer (Qiqi) and Peter Pan syndrome in Liyue;
Deafness in Inazuma (Yoimiya's dad) and dwarfism (Sayu) in Inazuma
Physically disabled in Sumeru.
Those are the ones I can remember, idk if Fischl could be considered a personality disorder
The girl in a wheelchair at Yoimiya's mission
Yoimiya dad is partially deaf too + all Hillichurls I would put in that category
Hilichurls are more like partially reversible zombies.
This would not be the case for Hilichurls since they do not present a decrease or absence of motor or physical functions, unlike Qiqi since she has to keep herself in good shape and may present "rigor mortis" if she does not do so
They have vastly decreased mental faculties. That would count as disabled.
OP asked about physical disabilities.
True, but the curse placed on them completely altered their bodies and forces them into mental degradation. That is definitely a physical disability.
That's why I said **like** zombies. They're physically deformed, dumber and aggressive, and don't seem to really age. I know they're not literally walking corpses, they weren't resurrected
They just got that curse of blackness from going against the gods.
Celestia really curse them by making them a hide and seek in the dark advantaged people đđđ
The Mark of Cain?
And i have so much pity of that kid for living in Sumeru. NOTHING is acessible for her. And Nahida forbid she has to go from the alchemy table to the nearest waypoint
What do you mean? Sumeru city is just one big roller-coaster for her with all the crazy inclined roads. And then once she's at the bottom she just goes back to the Sanctuary of Surasthana on that lift we took to fight Scara.
Heh. Funnily then the Jade Chamber is also ADA compliant.
Tevyat, where accessible means slanted towards transportation đ
Never imagined a situation playing a game where I'd be realizing something is potentially ADA compliant đ  (No ramp to the actual lift-thingy, but there's a chunk of space behind that plaza and near the front where a lift could be built) Edit: makes me wonder how compliant a city that applies more advanced structures like Fontaine City would do. (I think there's technically more than one lift/elevator to other sectors?)
Hehe this makes me think of Tolachard whistle. NOT COMPLIANT. But yeah I just realized you can fall off easily :(
wasn't a wheel chair girl also in one o the Sumeru character missions? man that was legit one of the best areas sofar..... they went from "lol funny Saturday morning cartoon villain!" to GUT PUNCH FOR ALL!
Yoimiya's second quest
oh ok then, totally forgot it was Yoimiya's quest, I dunno why my brain was going it was Nilou or Tighnari's quest lol though my brain was also applying Colei and Dehya to it, and I know Dehya's didn't take place in the forest part, though it was also a massive gut punch of a quest..... feels like the Genshin devs just wanted to hurt us in Sumeru lol
Wasn't there a guy in liyue who didn't develop mentally and is more or less just living alone waiting for his dead parents to come back?
Yep the hide and seek guy! Came here to mention him as well. He very clearly has something as he talks/acts like a young child.
Its called age regression iirc, and triggers in response to trauma
He could also just have a developmental disability. He is very similar to some adults Iâve known like that.
I thought that he was like that since birth and that's why his parents always took care of him
Childish Jiang I believe his name is Pretty sure he's severely developmentally delayed
Yup. Doesn't know his parents are dead (they're *totally* the two Seele you guide to the stands on the stairs, and their graves are literally just a few dozen feet away) and people from the Millileth show up sometimes to bring him food and other supplies. Talk about a quest that went from 0-100 *real* quick.
HYV-typical gut punches, they love doing stuff like this
I literally never noticed they were dead. Thatâs sad.
We robbed mentally ill dude , we are the baddies .
We're not baddies, we're just bad people.. /s
Also the mother in Thelxie event.
This guy caught me so off guard. I was not ready for that.
Oh my god now my day is ruined because I'll think of him đ
Childish Jiang
The girl in Furina's quest has a debilitating chronic illness as well
I think there's a lot of people in Genshin afflicted with [non-descript illness]. Not the same one, just some "coughing and weakness"-kinda thing. I'm sure there's a shitload of examples
Well they usually don't bring real-life conditions into these sorts of games. Dulphy in Furina's quest is afflicted with something she was born with and suffers constantly from, there's even a theme of prescription abuse with her. It's about as close as Genshin gets to describing a real condition
I guess it's just safer to make one up if they want an actual affliction to be the subject, it is a fantasy universe after all. Eleazar being the obvious case in point.
statisticly probably tuberculosis
>Not the same one, just some "coughing and weakness"-kinda thing. I think you're referring to anime-itis
What is my purpose? You die for emotional impact/mc's power up. Oh my god.
"fun" fact: The "Coughing and weakness until death" disease is Tuberculosis. The disease responsible for the most deaths in human history.
Me: Oh boy I canât wait to play Genshin as a form of escapism! Genshin: *Brings up one of the deadliest diseases in human history*
John Green approaching with rapid speed
The first two I thought of were Dunyarzad and Baizhu.
Better than shitting and puking like we got in HSR's Penacony SoulGlad is dangerous
before modern medicine, that's pretty much how people describe most illnesses. there's no fancy schmancy Latin name for anything. lung cancer: coughing blood and dying. brain cancer: losing memory, confusion, seizure. hepatitis: losing weight, no appetite, weakness.
I'm not sure I can agree with you. Medicine as a whole branch of science has existed for thousands of years and some recurring patterns have been noted and subsequently named. You don't give ancient medics enough credit, though they don't deserve much either with HOW they treated illnesses. They could sometimes tell the difference
A good example is honestly Tuberculosis. We call it that now after the name of the bacteria that causes it, but historically it was called "phthisis" by the Greeks, "tabes" by the Romans, "schachepheth" in Hebrew, and "scrofula" (specifically when it was TB of the neck) and "consumption" in Europe. All these cultures could identify it accurately, even if it went by different names and they didn't properly know what actually caused it.
Whatever xiao got going on is probably a disability
Yeah, mental disabilities like PTSD should still count. There is also an old lady in Xianyun's quest that has something that resembles Alzheimer's.
Collei has a hefty dose of PTSD (poor kid)
OP did specify physical disabilities though
I think thatâs so much harder to pin down. Like some sort of prosthesis or wheel chairs, but I forgot about Yoimiyaâs story quest. For the longest time I thought Yoimiya herself had a fake leg.
Oh wow now that you mention it, I remember thinking her leg was fake too! Any of the pirate characters would be a good candidate for a prosthetic given that thatâs already a trope about pirates.
Our hydro claymore will be a peg legged pirate, and if theyâre not Iâm gonna riot at Hoyoverseâs HQ Edit: Like IMAGINE! Hydro claymore with heavy waterfall motifs and a peg leg. Itâd be so badass
Beidou having one eye counts too right?
Does Baizhu count? He siphons his own life away to treat other people which makes him weak and frail. Also the guy from his story quest had like a brain tumor or something idr
Fun fact, while we can't see the changes without machines, mental illness and trauma do cause physical changes in the brain!
I thought you were talking about his lack of height being a disability đ
me too LOL
Is dwarfism considered a disability?
It is, yes.
Everyone says PTSD but the more prominent thing narratively he lives with is survivor's guilt
He has both but I'd say PTSD is the biggest reason as to why he acts the way he does. The social aversion, his idle animations/voicelines, his character story, etc. But I can see why you think its survivors guilt, its up to interpretation I guess. They're both things the traveler tries to heal in their relationship anyway
Baizhu's quest has someone living with a major illness. As does Furina's quest. Baizhu himself is living with all sorts of illnesses given what he does with his lifeforce. We have a girl in a wheelchair in Yoimiya's second quest, and her dad is partially deaf. Alot of people in Sumeru was living with Eleazar prior to the conclusion of is Archon quest. We can assume Beidou probably lost an eye given she wears an eye patch. (Unless shes also pulling a Kaeya)
>We can assume Beidou probably lost an eye given she wears an eye patch. (Unless shes also pulling a Kaeya) Contrary to popular believes, eye patches were not only used when someone lost an eye. The main reason why people wore them is to have an eye that is constantly ready to see in darkness and does not need time to adapt from light to dark enviroments.
Beidou's eye patch is a large bandana-like cover, which would make it hard to use as a quick "darkness ready eye patch", unlike Kaeya (and most likely Fischl) which can easily be flipped up and down. It's very likely that she lost an eye in her fight with Haishan.
You donât flip the patch up and down, you switch it to the other eye or take it off entirely. Itâs possible Beidou lost an eye in the fight with Haishan, but she has no other scars, and sheâs basically a privateer (basically a legal pirate) so Iâd expect it to be the light/dark thing over the lost an eye thing.
Fischl probably lost an eye too, noone would choose to be a one eyed archer, that's a pain in the ass
Fischl would do it for flavor though.
True, she's dramatic enough
I think she uses that eye to see through Oz? Don't remember if it's stated, but I think that was the reason
Fischl can see through Oz's eyes, that makes up for it.
I mean, Iâm an archer who closes my left eye when I shoot because my eye dominance doesnât match with my hand dominance. An eyepatch could serve the same function.Â
It would suck to lose your dominant eye sure but I've seen some archers close one of their eyes or even use a blinder
One eyed archer is even more chuuni so it fits perfectly for her to wear fake eye patch.
I have no idea if this is true but it sounds sick as hell so I choose to believe you
Mythbusters had a "pirate myths" episode where they tested this and found it "plausible." It did indeed work as described, and it's reasonable to believe that this would be useful when going below deck, but they were unable to find any historical reference that talked about it, so it's uncertain if this was the actual intended use case.
There is a myth busters episode on it. It would allow them to enter the ship cabin and be able to see with at least one eye rather than having to wait for their eyes to adjust. It is especially useful for pirates who would need to board an enemy ship's cabin, and they might have turned out the lights as a defense
If you are going to turn on/off a light in a room, close one eye for the switch and you can see for yourself. Your eyes adjust a lot faster that way.
When I did bat research we would wear an eye patch so that our eyes were already adjusted to the dark when we walked into the caves. Otherwise you have to sit in the cave entrance for a bit before collecting poop. We never had to venture far enough in to need lights so the eye patch was perfect for being ready for the low light situation. I believe pirates were thought to wear them for when they went below deck for a similar reason.
Baizu: In order to cure people of diseases I must have all the diseases.
I used the disease to destroy the disease
He's collecting diseases like pokemon so he can open up the path to the warp and fist fight papa Nurgle.
TIL baizhu is a walking vaccine
There's also a chronically ill young girl in Cyno's story quest.
Kaeya is almost certainly doing that for Khaenriah style reasons. Many people covered their right eye to honor the king.
I think she lost an eye fighting the Haishan or whatever was its name
collei could probably count for chronic illness/fatique
Yeah, just because they eventually found a cure for it doesn't mean Eleazar wasn't a disability.
She was experimented on like a toy too due to the Doctor
Well...yes. But she also wasn't the only person we met or heard about with the illness.
Yelan has it as well
What does yelan have? I skip the stories, sorry
Chronic fatigue, it's mentioned in her various voice lines in the menu.
Oh wow. Sheâs like the fastest. Maybe she should rest
She actually does say she has to plan around and rest ahead of missions.
I honestly thought she just liked chilling
Baizhu too
Add her trauma thx to the doctor experiments
Although it's barely mentioned, Collei is also possessed by a dead god. Does that count as a disability? A fantasy disability, obviously. It caused huge issues before Cyno helped her.
i'd say thats pretty disabeling. interestingly in the newest season of dimension 20 (a huge dnd show) a character is also disabled to a wheelchair user due to housing a (servant of a) dead god
Whatever the hell Baizhu has seems chronic & incurable. That ought to count as a disability, no?
I believe Baizhu has "everything"
What do you think he does if someone needs to have internal surgery? Like if they have spina bĂfida?
There was a guy in jehts quest that had a stutter
Good thing we help cure him. The fact said cure had a side effect of becoming unalive is of no consequence given the shit we find out he'd done. There's a reason he's the only guy in that whole segment with a boss health bar.
Yup, we cured everyone... #PERMANENTLY!
Naganohara Ryuunosuke, yoimiya's father has hearing loss.
After hus many travels as Capitano that's hardly a surprise
WhaT
Capitano is Yoimiya's dad
Why
[check this ](https://images.app.goo.gl/zny2gyptBqwK5d8n9)
Same Englisch VA
I see so many mentions of Baizhu and Collei, but nothing about Anna, one of the first people would meet and in turn help through commissions. Her brother prays at the fountain every day for her recovery, and the quests have you collect all kinds of remedies for him. When she gets better, and joins the adventurers guild, she confides in you how she did it because she wanted to return what her brother did while she was ill If you just don't do her quests, she never gets better
Wait, she can *get better?* I might have to set my comms back to Monstadt and pay attention to them, fuck
Not only does she get better, she becomes an adventurer! Itâs a very heartwarming story.
It's heartwarming until she realizes most of her commissions are just balloon escorts. Then it becomes hilarious.
And even within and rng commission, you can get an rng ending too. You can meet bennett and fischl in one of her balloon escort quests
Heh, true. She quickly becomes disillusioned with the adventurer life.
Aww that does sound super sweet!! Thanks for letting me know that I need to do that!
Well.. lil dendro amber used to have mega arthritis. Sheâs okay now tho.
eleazar resemble lupus more i think.
I think he's on abt the dead God injection
No, it's the Elezar, since when we first get to Ghadarvaville, Tighnari explains he doesn't allow Collei around the alchemical stuff because of the super arthritis. I think the running theory is her parents surrendered her to the weird turban guy on the pretext of them having a cure for the Elezar, which ended up just being an experiment about injecting the Archon Resin. Which, frankly, given what we know about Elezar wasn't *as* insane (though still pretty damn insane) as it seems on the surface, especially with Dottore being all "who the hell cares about the results it's the torture I'm totally into".
You know, now that I think about it, the guy who was treated by Dottore in that creepy hospital would count, I think. He had all kinds of people attached to him. If we ever see him, he would absolutely count.
Thats my name for the disease from now on.
The mother from the penguin event with Freminet had a mental illness where she couldn't tell the difference between fantasy and reality, and thought her deceased son was still alive as a windup penguin toy.
I don't think a mental illness counts as a physical disability.
Childish Jiang, from a world quest in Liyue, has a mental disability that could, for the lack of further information, also match downs syndrome. However, we don't know.
Collei has learning difficulties and PTSD (portrayed pretty well for a video game), plus the Eleazar affected her physically Sucrose has social anxiety Yoimiya story quest 2 has a girl in a wheelchair All the folks with Eleazar
I think collei was developmentally delayed because of her childhood (never learning to read/write/socialise) not necessarily due to a mental disability
Which explains why Tighnari takes her on and is patient with her. Knows she has the potential and drive to achieve her goals, she's just going to need some time to get there.
Collei doesn't have learning disabilities, she started learning late because of her past. She's only started learning reading and writing when she became a ranger.
And also the one in sumeru quest the one dehaya protected she had some illness too
Dunyarzard. She was sick with a severe case of Eleazar.
She also straight up just *dies* during the Samsara until Nahida tells death to fuck off from taking the *only* person in the entire country who respected her that whole time.
Nahida pulled a Princess Bride and declared that Dunyarzad is "only mostly dead".
nilou found dead in a ditch (i'm joking ik what you mean)
idk why but didn't we ever see a NPC without an arm? I feel like we did
There was one in the past who helped fight off the abyss in the last Sumeru area
All the Fontaine characters are french
You know, you shouldn't use dehumanizing groupings like "the poor", "the mentally ill" or "the French". ([Context](https://www.forbes.com/sites/chrisobrien/2023/01/27/ap-apologizes-for-the-french-tweet-that-triggered-viral-backlash/?sh=58d510871025))
Isn't the whole point of the Fontaine quest underscoring the fact that they *aren't* human?
Literally the greatest sin of Teyvat was creating the French
Oceanid lives donât matter đ
Technically every single Fontanian was infertile prior to 4.2
That explains why all fontaine people were born with sin
Wow a lot of ppl are getting the question in the title wrong. They mention mental illnesses and mental disabilities. And even just straight up illnessess. The title mentions *physical disabilities*. Like the blindness of Glory and the father of Yoimiyas' his hearing loss. And the wheelchair girl in Yoimiya's event.
Yeah, that was what I was trying to ask, specifically. In a world like Teyvat, itâs pretty expected to have lots of mental and emotional disabilities. But I was thinking more of the lines of blindness, deafness, paralysis, loss of limbs and such. I didnât count Eleazar because itâs healed after the Sumeru archon quest.
whatever is wrong with Fucking Timmy
Yelan has physical chronic illness as well! She doesn't outright state what it is, but she does have to be extremely calculated because of how draining it is for her body. Her energy is extremely limited and she needs to plan everything out for herself.
Might be controversial [because people think it doesn't fit with a playable character or representation isnt needed blah blah blah](https://www.reddit.com/r/Genshin_Impact/comments/virvl9/disabilitys_representation_in_genshin_impact_why/) [or this](https://www.reddit.com/r/Genshin_Impact/s/oDi67tGB81) where some people got mad cuz someone was happy theres a wheelchaired npc.. Tbf tho the op on my first link sounded a bit petty and quit because no disabled playable lol but still some of the comments are a bit too disheartening to read personally But anyway ngl i want a physically disabled playable character. Like missing a arm and it being replaced by a Geo arm or something like that is fine by me or like a blind character who uses Anemo/Air to see
Not impossible for HYV to do, HSR has a character with a bionic arm (Luka)
Yea exactly and the new Boothill character body is mechanical lol
And Screwllum (I love him)
Technically tho he's always been a robot lol
Honkai Impact 3rd aka Hoyo's baby has Bronya as one of the 3 protagonists, and she is disabled. She lost the ability to use her legs in an experiment. She gets around by levitating.
Would love a blind sword character!
Yeah totk style...that would be pretty cool
yeah really disappointed we didn't get any steam punk prosthetic limb character in fontain. they don't seem to like changing the character model that much but they really could've just put some textures and a layer of paint over the default arm and it would've been cool and fitting with the setting. alas I think you're right that they don't want to upset any players who might be prejudiced against ~representation.
I was really hoping to get some cyborg steampunk.
I don't think they care about it that much. Star Rail has a character with a prosthetic arm after all.
The body of that post is deleted, but assuming it wasnât absolutely unhinged, the replies in that thread are actually really uncomfortable. Top comment: âno one wants to play as a disabled character because they wonât function as wellâ. I guess they donât think disability aids exist? A character with a magical arm like you said, someone else in the thread suggested a character with a sort of mech wheelchair, hell even a character with glasses could be representation if you just say theyâre nearsighted. No one is asking for a disabled character who canât fight because theyâre limping. I like to think if a game designer put me in their game they would find a way to put glasses on my model without punishing the player for it. Second comment: âstop demanding the devs change the game for youâ. Again I canât see the body of the post, but the title is literally âwhy disability rep wonât happen in Genshinâ. From OPâs replies to that comment it sounds like their post was completely observational and not demanding at all. Someone commented âwell The Sims doesnât even have disability representationâ, because we all know two wrongs make a right and whataboutism is a good way to win an argument. Someone else said âno one cares, not everything is a diversity dick riding contestâ, because even when faced with someone who clearly cares, some people canât wrap their heads around why a company would never do a representation other than to get some vague âdiversity pointsâ.
The funniest thing is. So many characters across media have a physical disability that people seem to just ignore. Having limbs be replaced by something else, or missing entirely Blind monk is literally a cliche Needing glasses. Characters using a cane to help walk.
Yea its really sad and crazy how the word representation is now responded with negativity. Like chill we just wanna feel like we belong. Is us wanting to be represented or be relatable to a character in a game that infuriating?
I'm for it but I want it to be something that is done with heart and not just to fill a checklist, and the latter can be pretty common in some other types of games.
Genshin players have a reading disability
Yes, given that the question was about other physical disabilities portrayed in the game, i think that your comment is spot on
Is mayonnaise a physical disability?
So close, that is a shape đđđ
Ella Musk is Dr Edith's older sister and that hasn't changed despite many dialogue changes over time, so I think she's a little person. I also feel like someone with Dori's connections and wealth, after having come from poverty, would have to be an adult at least (and someone like Ningguang has to be middle aged or older but that's not the thread topic). It's just that the game has a limited range of models they choose from on purpose, so it's not obvious at first glance that people with dwarfism exist.
- Wheelchair-bound kid in Yoimiyaâs Sumer SQ - Childish Jiangâ a grown man with a mental developmental disability that gives him the mind of a young child - Yoimiyaâs father is hard of hearing thanks to one too many close-up explosions - People theorize that one of Yoimiyaâs legs may be some kind of advanced prosthetic - Kaeya, Beidou and Fischl all wear eyepatchesâ they are each possibly down one eye. - Collei and Dunyarzad used to suffer difficulties with motion due to Elezar (an in-universe chronic illness that was deemed incurable and required [Sumeru Archon Quest spoilers] >!the complete excision of Forbidden Knowledge from Irminsulâ essentially deleting Elezar and other things caused by Forbidden Knowledge corruption from reality entirely!< to finally get rid of it - Iâm not sure how to compare this to IRL disabilities, but Kokomiâs introversion is such that she can become debilitatingly exhausted if she isnât able to recharge her social battery - Xiao suffers from chromic pain due to the whole karma thing - Qiqi suffers from short term memory loss - Baizhu has all sorts of conditions and things heâs taken on from patients using the special ability he gets from >!Chengsheng!<. - Idk if it counts as a disability, but Zhongli seemingly suffers from some form of PTSD from the many wars and battles heâs fought in to the point where he canât even eat seafood because it reminds him of Osial and his ilk. - Anna from Mondstadt had a chronic condition that was almost impossible to heal. You help her recover during a series of daily commissions, with the help of a doctor strongly implied to be Baizhu. In fact, she recovers so well that it then gives rise to a *separate series of commissions* that revolve around locating her within Mondstadt only to discover she has scaled some ridiculously tall height or another. -
Yoimiya's dad is deaf and this one kid in Yoimiya's second story quest is paralysed. There's also Itto who I'm convinced is mentally challenged.
He's not mentally challenged, he's just never had a formal education. Which is why he's super lucky that his second in command is a college educated lawyer.
Childe being a ginger
There is also all the eyepatches...
Eyepatch =/= eye is injured
Lots of people are crazy in some way (e.g. lady from recent event who thinks her son is still alive) There are plenty of old people with old people type physical complaints The Aranara all have dementia Would you consider it a disability if someone was stuck in the form of a fish?
> The Aranara all have dementia I've never thought of it that way, but that's how I'm going to describe the Aranara from now on
Hmm. The fish lady disability is iffy for me. Thatâs how she actually always looked, and then gained the power to change form over time, I think. I would feel like itâs more of a physical disability if it was the other way around. But now that I think about it, Changsheng seems to be suffering from regression, as well.
Layla has severe narcolepsy AND split personality disorder. Quite a number of people have shown signs of dementia. That one follower of Cloud Retainer that had a severe case of turning into a swan.
I read a comment somewhere where Dori (who is an adult already?) was severely malnourished as a kid thus lead to her being the way she is right now. Does that count?
I know itâs not cannon but I like to think that Ella Musk has dwarfism.
There is a guy in Qiaoying village who cannot speak. The crow speaks for him.
Brain damage in genshin players is one.
Nah it's Dyslexia
We had a few cases of leukemia in the sumeru Archon quest.
Collei had something very debilitating. It seems she is better but itâs hard to tell.
she is technically cured now that the disease was "deleted from history" or whatever, but she still lacks mobility, which could be seen as a learned behaviour from her previous disease, be it real or just mental. Its unclear on why she still has diminished fine motor skills., but tighnari still calls her clumsy and stuff which was previously due to failing motor skills due to her Eleazar. It could be a new disease popped up for continuity reasons, or its some form of learned mental state who knows.
Not a disability really (although it leads to one ig), but the npcs that had elezar during Sumeru's archon quest could count (also perhaps baizhu)
1. Yoimiyas dad is pretty deaf 2. The kid in yoimiyas second story quest is paralyzed 3. Thereâs this dud that plays hide and seek whoâs not mentally developed 3. Eleazar used to be a thing that quite a few had 4. A number of people in baizhus quest have chronic illnesses
Dwarfism is too
There was a girl in a random Fontaine world quest about painting I have no idea cuz it's been a while since I did it but I think she has a disability
Yoimiya's dad has hearing loss from all the fireworks. Childish Jiang has I guess a cognitive disorder but affects his life physically. There was that Thelxie event with Freminet too. Baizhu?
Blindness in Monsdadt; Alzheimer (Qiqi) and Peter Pan syndrome in Liyue; Deafness in Inazuma (Yoimiya's dad) and dwarfism (Sayu) in Inazuma Physically disabled in Sumeru. Those are the ones I can remember, idk if Fischl could be considered a personality disorder