#ragh's obvious anxiety every time something happens with the gem is incredibly familiar

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thinkin about lydia barkrock again i just. she's incredibly important to me both as someone who has chronic pain myself & as someone who grew up with a disabled parent. my mother was diagnosed when i was a toddler, so i don't remember a version of my mum who isn't disabled to some extent, it's just always been a fact of my life. and sure, there are certain things she can't do, and that list has probably gotten longer over the last few years, but she's still my mum, and she raised me, and she did a damn good job of it too. and idk i just. for the most part it's easy to find families that look like mine in fiction, but i'm not sure i've ever seen the medical side of my family in fiction in a way that feels as close to home as lydia & ragh's relationship does. it's just very lovely to see a disabled character who a) is a well-rounded character in and of herself, and b) is a parent, and is explicitly shown to be a good parent to her son

#idk that this is coherent At All i just am emotional about lydia barkrock #like my mum isn't a wheelchair user but she does use various mobility aids #and i just. idk man a lot of ragh & lydia's story feels very familiar to me in a way that's very comforting #ragh's obvious anxiety every time something happens with the gem is incredibly familiar #just the like. casual acknowledgement of what life is like both for the disabled person and for their loved ones #i can see myself in both sides of that story and it's very comforting #anway. #my post #d20 #fantasy high #fhjy #lydia barkrock