More prompts plus Avatar: The Last Airbender squee

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• Avatar the Last Airbender: Toph and Teo, Iroh and Zuko, bonus Mai.
  
• Grey's Anatomy: Miranda Bailey
  

I was also inspired to write some fic about Toph and Teo inventing Braille and installing ramps, because that's my idea of wish fulfillment.

pippin suggested four different characters for "Avatar: The Last Airbender" (NOT THE SAME AS THE MOVIE AVATAR) and having watched the show it is pretty much made for this challenge: it's not just set in an alternate East Asia (thus making all the characters non-white, even if not everyone seems to have noticed(*)) the characters cover a variety of ethnicities, ages, and body types, and several of them are disabled or scarred. It's also made of awesome :)

Some thoughts I had on a recent post of trouble's which I will edit slightly:
I think Avatar does pretty well in letting it's disabled characters actually be disabled rather than negating any difficulties with superpowers etc.

Toph is blind but can "see" via vibrations through the ground. Most of the time she's like a sighted person, but she can't read or fight flying opponents, and if she's flying/floating can at best see the inside of the ship. There's lot of humour about people saying "Read this!" and her saying "I'M BLIND YOU IDIOT" (I'm not sure how blind people would feel about it, but I liked that they were making fun of the idiots not her)

Teo is in a wheelchair/hangglider living on a mountain so can fly. But that's only helpful in really limited circumstances, and he's shown needing help getting up stairs once or twice. (He's a fairly minor character)

I love that the existence of these characters plus Zuko means fangirls are making lots of happy romantic fic/art about characters who have disabilities or scars but no or little angst about it.

(*)I read a fic where the characters were arguing whether after death you ended up flapping around fluffy clouds with wings in Heaven or rotting in the ground. The WHOLE PREMISE of the show revolves around reincarnation!

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[ex_pippin880]

The other day, in conjunction with something you or someone else posted along with some magic system I was world-building, I started thinking about magic for non-abled people, e.g. using sign language or !braille !magnetic tattoos able to be read by !magnetic reading-finger-things (...yeah, words) instead of speaking for spells.

It is rather difficult to NOT go "well there is x part of the magic that can perfectly replicate whatever they are unable to do" because that is so often a part of non-abled magicians/superheroes/etc. it's pretty... ingrained into me. :(