Talk:Axel Campbell

the entire section feels like it plays into some uh… unfortunate tropes about inventing magical bypasses for blindness, you know? when you’re writing a character that’s blind, it’s generally a really bad idea to tie it into a magical bypass for that disability, or to even have a “bypass” at all.

For sure! Thanks for flagging that! I've pulled the text from that IRM to this doc, and highlighted some sections that we can review.

If there's anything I've missed feel free to highlight that as well! I figure this is a good way to get started at least

All right I've done some rewrites in the linked doc! let me know what you think either on the doc itself, or just reply there if that's easier.

Okay here is a summary of the current changes;

• completely removed any reference to Axel 'trading' his eyesight for forbidden knowledge (in hindsight wow yeah probably should have known to avoid that one, better to fix it now at least)
• decoupled the two parts parts of Axel's above lore to be:
  • Axel's existing low vision was effected by the shadows, causing it to evolve into blindness
  • Axel's dealings with the shadows now explicitly say that he can use them to know FK stats, and have no kind of "bypass" for his blindness
• Added some light mentions of cane use in the Shadows, and some more specifics for his guide dogs in later paragraphs
  • did NOT get too into his accommodations in the Shadows while adjusting to blindness, as per requests on the discord to not make it a focal point
• Made a few light edits for phrases such as "keeping an eye on things" as per requests from discord
• Made some totally unrelated fixes and edits for awkward phrasing, run on sentences, and the like.

Unless I hear otherwise I'll make this change live at some point on Friday, so please reply here or in the google doc before then if there are any other things we want to adjust.

Added a small mention of Axel stealing Hank's bat and being decried by some Pies fans to Henry Marshallow/IF-92.952. hi sam

Adding additional content to round out Axel's time on the Expansion era

Details include:

- Naming his two service Dogs

- Discussion of his ERA of 286

- Discussion of Axel's frustration with Expansion Era Mechanics

- Axel practicing with Bevan Underbuck in the Shadows

- Axel being trained as a future captain by Kennedy Loser

- Axel getting the team to play Beep Baseball and cheating

Full text of the update is available here

Proposing to give Axel a header image! This would be the art by SaltBuzzard on twitter that can be found here https://twitter.com/saltbuzzard/status/1413685957686071301?s=20

Setting up a Filebox IRM to make room for the other interps, but starting off this this one:

Axel Campbell was left in the shadows for a long time, and made a bargain with something to give up his sight to be able to see and know things that he shouldn't. After the Crabs came back he picked up a a guide dog as well as a few strange training routines. When he did get to play, Adalberto Tosser and Lorcan Smaht were quick to support him on the team.

Full article is here