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[thisisalex]

bc you can't make me do the drabble meme

Name me one of my characters, and I'll tell you the inspiration(s) behind their initial conception, whether they be real-life people or fictional characters.

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[thisisalex]

Dogey helps me get all of my old person grumpiness out. IT HAS TO GO SOMEWHERE.



I felt SO BAD when I was writing Pan. Every time I would open up her app, I’d be like, “Welp, time to ruin her parents’ life a little more.”



So Rookwood is mostly a rip off of another DE I played before, but actually his backstory works really well for Rookwood so I’M KEEPIN’ IT. Basically, his parents are both deaf. And that was because iliekrp likes to point out that all the handicapped people are missing from Hogwarts, and at the time I was ALL UP IN the deaf community, studying sign language and whatnot. So his basic inspiration was that he was involved in the magic eugenics community, but his parents would probably usually be drummed out of that circle by virtue of their disability*, so he’s already got a kind of double life going. THEN, there was the fact that, when you’re a hearing person in the deaf community, if people see you signing with someone else in public, they tend to assume you’re deaf too and you would be surprised at how much mad shit people will just openly talk. So I was thinking about how he’s probably pretty quiet, and he’s learned to just sit there and listen and let people talk at him, never really letting on that he’s remembering everything you say.



And then also he’s an Unspeakable, and I just like the idea of an Unspeakable that doesn’t like to talk much.



* The majority of the deaf community will balk at deafness being called a disability. I just used the word mostly as shorthand.

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I had so little free time yesterday that I wasn't really able to say how much I LOVE this concept, and I still really don't have a ton of time but I REALLY LOVE IT.

Like, I know what you mean about there not being a lot of disabilities in HP (and about the deaf culture in particular not considering it a disability - I took ASL ages ago so I know a very very little about that). I've been in a game with a girl who couldn't speak (I don't know if "mute" is still an okay term), and I've seen one, maybe two deaf characters. And that's about it apart from learning disabilities like dyslexia. (Or would that count too?)

So I think it's really cool that you've done that, and you're doing that, and I'm really looking forward to seeing it in game because that's super interesting. :)