r/hatethissmug • u/Taka_no_Yaiba • 19h ago
Thing I hate wheelchairs in fantasy
You're telling me you have infinite possibilities, and you want nonfunctioning legs and a chair with wheels in a world where there's 0 asphalt and other smooth stone roads around?
And as for the second one. Guns on a wheelchair? You know what else has wheels and guns? A fucking tank. You could have had a fucking personal tank, but you chose a wheelchair? The vehicle equivalent of the fucking bikini armor? As a tank you'd have defensive capabilities too, which would be important BECAUSE GUNS NOW EXIST.
In a fantasy setting, we can literally be whatever we want. Rogues are extra stealthy, fighters are extra strong etc. But a wheelchair doesn't come with any goddamn upsides. Even other disabilities turn their downsides into upsides, like blindness (toph & lee sin having tremoursense etc)
The last 2 are "wheelchairs" done right in fantasy. Cool as fuck spider legs or literally a drone platform. I know, this is more technologically enhanced stuff than magic, but you can imagine magical ways of being able to fucking walk. Hell, flight is so fucking common in fantasy, why don't you just fly around instead?
And for those arguing its a sense of identity: how come nobody is fucking obese then?
EDIT: I also forgot about mounts and chariots. You could literally just attach yourselves on or at the engines of that time (animals like horses or oversized dogs) and be a cool knight or like an ancient egypt/rome chariot warrior but no. You gotta be a dude in a chair with wheels that get you nowhere because there are literally no paved roads anywhere.