she seems incomplete…
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Except prosthetics are not a magic cure-all and come with their own challenges. Not to mention that many disabled people have insecurities/hang-ups that may make them less likely to seek help.
One of my cousins lost his leg due to an accident with a train a few years ago. My aunt got him a prosthetic leg, but he rarely ever uses it. Why? Pride maybe. Mixed in with A LOT of depression and anxiety and general feelings of hopelessness.
Saying all disabled people should want to wear a prosthetic/get better shows a lack of understanding of what they’re going through. Losing something like a limb is a very hard and complex thing. Not everyone reacts to it the same way.
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She’s in a different situation than your cousin though. She’s an active soldier in a war with many people around her dying that she wants to protect, and WoW prosthetics are way better than anything we have irl atm thanks to magic and their tech.
While I hate this about them, Mecha gnomes are willing to lob off their limbs and organs for their advanced prosthetics because they are outright superior compared to normal limbs. Even if Arathi made stuff is worse, if it can be used in battle like the blacksmith said then it’s way better to have than just a shield strapped on her limb that irl at least would be near useless.
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Well, I wouldn’t care because I am that shallow.
I mean I still would raise an eyebrow at her being a DEI checklist but if she was pretty, she would be less of a DEI checklist and I would have something more visually compelling to focus on (straight woman so the peanut gallery needn’t bother).
And, although she is still a black character used to impart wisdom and sunshine to the white male main character, she does have her own going-ons separate from that so she is not a complete ‘Magical [redacted]’ so, as a character in a story, she is a step up from what was usually done with diversity checklist characters in my era.
Regardless, I am grateful Blizzard fixed the lighting for black characters. It was just awful for the black female captain in the all-races starter zone. Hope they sorted her out too.
I understand that, but we do have magic cure-all in wow, we can even bring back the dead, in canon, not just as a game mechanic.
Im talking about the opportunity to be healed, like in the post you quoted, regrow limbs, give back sight or hearing, stuff like that.
Are we sure those things aren’t possible in her case? cause the only other two main characters i remember who have missing limbs are Zul’jin and Kargath - they have reasons to not grow back - the others pirates and common folk who can’t afford it, but seeing how the arathi are profficient in healing magic with the holy light, seems like there should be possible to heal her, especially when no one else have similar conditions
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For whatever reason they designed her to look like every 14 year old boy with that haircut.
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We barely met her that’s why
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I sure wish the WoW community could be cool when talking about Faerin. I’ve seen some of the weirdest things people said when talking about her, like eugenics and stuff.
Can you guys just be normal???
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That term doesn’t mean what you’re saying. It refers to a character that is ONLY there to teach a lesson to the white main character and doesn’t really have any other role in the story.
I mean, isn’t most of the limb regrowth trolls and the fact that they can regenerate? This complaint really feels like "Other people in this story can do (thing) so everyone should be able to do (thing)
If the writers didn’t use her as a politically charged means to lecture a more pathetic character then no one would’ve cared.
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just here to say i dont like faerin.i have my reasons.
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The only politics being inserted here is your boring checklist complaints that the people who are pushing that noise think is so clever but the rest of us just see as empty gibberish.
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Well, she has been prominent in their promo material and at level 75 I still have not seen her either.
@ardmccloud
just stop.
TFTFY /tenchar
Which I noted and that would show if you had quoted the entire paragraph instead of cutting it off.
Mmm, such as?
Not really his fault that the truth sounds clever, is it
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…I feel like I need elaboration on how the one armed black woman being in WoW is “politically charged”
I also wouldn’t call her interactions with Anduin lecturing either.
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Then where are the rest of the Arathi that are disabled?
I’m not sure such magic even exists in wow outside of miracles or deity powers. WoW has a world building problem, it always has and it always will for better or for worse so we don’t really know this stuff. If I had to guess such a wound could possibly be healed if it happened mere moments ago and there was a really strong healer but apart from that you’re screwed.