This is a great resource remainder & thought process explanation makes a lot of sense. Very helpful in life & fiction.
Could somebody be a paramedic if they were missing a forearm?
Y’know, sometimes a question comes along that exposes your biases. I’m really, really glad you asked me this.
My initial instinct was to say no. There are a lot of tasks as a paramedic that require very specific motions that are sensitive to pressure: drawing medications, spreading the skin to start IVs. There’s strength required–we do a LOT of lifting, and you need to be able to “feel” that lift.
So my first thought was, “not in the field”. There are admin tasks (working in an EMS pharmacy, equipment coordinator, supervisor, dispatcher) that came to mind as being a good fit for someone with the disability you describe, but field work….?
(By the way, I know a number of medics with leg prostheses; these are relatively common and very easy to work with. I’m all in favor of disabled medics. I just didn’t think the job was physically doable with this kind of disability.)
Then I asked. I went into an EMS group and asked some people from all across the country. And the answers I got surprised me.
They were mostly along the lines of “oh totally, there’s one in Pittsburgh, she kicks ass” or “my old partner had a prosthetic forearm and hand, she could medic circles around the rest of her class”. One instructor said they had a student with just such a prosthesis, and wasn’t sure how to teach; the student said “just let me figure it out”, and by the end of the night they were doing very sensitive skills better than their classmates.
Because of that group I know of at least a half-dozen medics here in the US with forearm and hand prostheses.
So yes. You can totally have a character with one forearm, who works as a paramedic for a living.
Thanks again for sending this in. It broadened my worldview.
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This was very fun to watch.
AWESOOOMEEE!! MINATOOO!! MINATOOOO!! xD XD
1. because that’s so cool, helpful & awesome, imagine the good someone could do with that power & being able to see the world in such a unique beautiful way. & 3. because I could donate to charities more often, have stable employment, enough stability to pursue writing professionally in my own time and be able to support/give back to those I love most.
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Also how can Arthur Conan Doyle write a character like Irene Adler 1891 and have her 1. Outsmart Sherlock Holmes and get away with it and 2. Be in no way a damsel or love interest to Sherlock.. But every modern retelling not only has her be a sexual /love interest character but she is posed as being very very smart… But never smart enough to just outwit him, get away with it and move on? Women can be smart, sure, but no one is allowed to be smarter than Sherlock.
It’s been over 120 years and Irene is, at her best, never as decently treated as the original.
So pretty!!! 😍 I already love these characters.
I’m looking forward to the new show Dungeon and Dragons is making. Saw the character designs today on twitch and I love them!
I really like this, seems well thought and interesting estimation of what a Hifumi Phantom Thief might be like. However I will like to note that in the social link it’s her father who is sick not her mother, her mother had to work extra jobs and put her own dreams on hold because of her husband’s illness. Hence why Hifumi’s mother is living her dreams vicariously through her daughter and because they need the money. I was curious about fusion of the two parents into a single character and I am curious how that came about and why? Not sure how to write notes on posts. But I think this might be it. Shrugs.
Okay, I rarely do posts unless necessary and THIS is one of those times. For the last few days, I’ve been watching Persona 5 playthroughs (since I beat the ACTUAL game itself sometime prior), interact with other blogs concerning certain mechanics and scenarios in the game, and have been going fan crazy over certain characters *cough*Mishima*cough* Anyways, one of the things that I’ve contemplated at that time was the possibility of certain characters in the Phantom Thieves, if given the chance. I know, I know, the Phantom Thieves have enough people as is, but hear me out: what I’m about to analyze is merely a hypothetical. There’s no likelihood of it happening and everyone has their own opinions.
Yep, I said it. These three specific characters if they were Phantom Thieves instead of actual Confidants. So beforehand, I should warn you that this post WILL get long because I will go in-depth to their contribution to the team, how they joined, and description of the Initial and Ultimate Personas.
These will be done in parts, as to not make the posts overly long and dreadful to read. For the other parts, choose from the ones listed below. Yuuki Mishima | Hifumi Togo | Sae Nijima
Warning: All artwork used in this work belongs to @5ru9 and reddit user, qphysx. All credit goes to them and I don’t claim any artworks as my own.
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I love this so much. Amazing! :)
The Prime Deities of Exandria (plus a tagalong)
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The whole slave and emancipation thing makes me think of Shadows. They are kind of enslaved to whatever Big Bad that comes along maybe the main character will be a Shadow that develops an ego, like Teddie did.
This so amazing & impressive. I just had reblog it so I can remember it.
We really need a Carnival Phantasm-esque spinoff with the entire Persona cast, Atlus what are you doing?
Fun!...
some dnd backstory ideas that give your character a reason to leave home that isn’t “everyone in my family died.” (just to say: i have nothing against those backstories (i use them a lot), but its fun to mix it up!)
family/friends/personal
someone close to you is sick. you need to adventure to find a cure
someone stole something important from you and you need to find it
you’ve received a message from a long lost relative and are trying to find them
someone that you love has been kidnapped (maybe you have to earn money to pay a ransom or complete some deed…)
adventuring runs in the family! everyone is expected to complete one quest in their lives
your family/culture sends people out to complete certain tasks when they reach a certain age as a rite of passage
another player’s character saved you in the past so you feel indebted to them and travel with them, protecting/aiding them
there’s a magical drought in your hometown and you have to fix it
your hometown doesn’t have a lot of jobs so you have to travel and send money back home
some childhood friends and you made a “scavenger hunt” where you try and complete a checklist of certain tasks (ie. defeat a barbarian in hand to hand combat, steal x amount of gold, slay a dragon, etc) in an allotted amount of time
quests/jobs
a god/patron has sent you on a quest to do something for them
you’ve been hired by someone to complete a task (and you get sucked into the big adventure along the way)
you’re on a quest for knowledge. maybe it’s to learn the best ways of fighting, maybe it’s something more academic related
your priest received a vision from your god and they sent you on a quest
you’re writing a book about the world and different cultures and you need first hand experience
you’ve found every map you’ve come across is shitty, so you decide to become a cartographer and make your own
you’re a detective who helps solve crimes and need to travel to solve a particular case
you’re a collector of a certain object and travel across the land to find it
you’re apart of an adventuring academy and have to complete a quest to graduate
you’re an artisan and you travel with your wares, trying to sell them. alternatively, you’re trying to spread word of your business and gain new business partners
you worked at a tavern your whole life where an old bard would sing songs of their adventuring party and that inspired you to go and do some adventuring of your own
feel free to add some of your own!
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