I can have a radically different perspective than you and it is not wrong for me to make content that aligns with my own perspective. Your perception regarding a character who’s status is ambiguous as best and what makes you personally uncomfortable regarding them does not have to make me uncomfortable. Sure maybe, if you’re not willing to engage with the Fantasy, indeterminable elements of a Fantasy story. There are a lot of other reasons these two would be / are a clusterfuck of a relationship (which sometimes, is precisely the point), but on the basis of age - would it not always be too big of an age gap to breach? So Viren is fully an adult, and yet his ‘experience’ of adulthood still pales in comparison. For example if you want to ship Aaravos with anyone who isn’t another (currently non-existent) Startouch elf, you are dealing with an age gap of literally thousands of years, even for an adult male in his 40s.

One of the things I talk about a lot in regards to 10+ years in fantasy writing and writing groups is how sometimes fantasy has things where there is, legitimately, no real world equivalent unless you’re bending your back to break it.

In my eyes there are only two moments where Sir Sparklepuff acts remotely like a child (I suppose) and that’s when Viren takes him by the arm to guide him, and when he does his happy clap (which adults can definitely do the last one). Y'know, down to the hobbling, loincloth, and acting like a guide? In a lot of ways he is far more comparable to being a mute, more benevolent version of Gollum, from Lord of the Rings. You can see Sir Sparklepuff as a child if you want to, but given that he walks on all fours, secretes goo, eats uncooked bugs with his bare hands, and is a butterfly born from little bug pal and has innate knowledge to guide the group given to him by Aaravos, an ancient elf, I think it’s a bit of a stretch. This is doubly so for someone like me who is also asexual (and concepts of sex and adulthood being weirdly interwoven in puritan North American bullshit). Now, my opinion is informed by me being Autistic who also works with some Autistic children as a tutor, and I probably don’t have to tell you this but am not going to assume, but there are many many behaviours neurodivergent adults do that get labelled as “childish” and then used as an excuse infantilize you. If I am on the defensive, it’s because of the (minimal, but still upsetting) albeism I’ve seen directed toward Amaya in the fandom over the years for her being deaf and mute. (I loved seeing Gren immediately interpreting when Amaya had her back to Viren btw! An great example of good interpreter ethics/etiquette right there.)īasically they‘re showing us Amaya’s deafness through small details, instead of just telling the audience straight up.If you are personally grossed out by it, you can blacklist my “tw pregnancy” tag, which I’ve used for various posts regarding any character being pregnant for a few years now. She was not facing Viren & she obviously couldn’t read his lips with her back turned on him, so without Gren she wouldn’t even know that Viren had continued speaking to her at all. However, Gren INTERPRETED what Viren said into ASL for her, why? Again, it’s because she’s deaf. Gren wouldn’t have had to interpret for her because it obviously wouldn’t have been necessary. If she could hear, then she would’ve heard Viren. Lastly, there is a scene where Amaya turns her back on Viren and walks away, not realizing that Viren had continued to speak. There would’ve been no reason to include this scene if Amaya could hear. They deliberately had Rayla tell Amaya to read her lips, & showed Amaya carefully reading Rayla‘s lips. Unless… of course, it’s because she’s DEAF. logically speaking, it would be unnecessary for Gren to use ASL to communicate with Amaya. This would be easier & more convenient, considering her position as a General. Thirdly, if she wasn’t deaf but mute, then she would be relying on her hearing for reception and her sign language for expression. Even if we can’t lipread, we can tell when someone’s yelling.

I also want to talk a bit about this but in a separate post… as I promised in my previous one lmfao.) Also we Deaf people aren’t stupid. (There’s a reason why I emphasized “skills” btw. Secondly, the reason why she can understand Callum & the others is not because of her hearing but because of her lipreading SKILLS. Firstly, this was confirmed by the official blog & by the creators.

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