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Don't you hate this type of character design (self.Blind)
submitted by Critical_Delay_1022
I don't get the obsession on fictional characters with bangs or hair that completely covers one of their eyes.
This seems to be more prominent in Japanese media, but it's definitely present in Western media as well, expecially in media that has a focus on sports or fighting. It doesn't make any sense.
I don't get why these characters would purposefully hinder themselves by narrowing their field view and taking away binocular depth perception in a literary or movie genre that is usually defined by fast-paced combat in life or death situations.
I know some characters do that to mask some kind of scar, but I can list so many characters that just have this hairstyle for no reason other that it probably looks cool... maybe.
I remember all the emo kids attempting this look when I was in middle school and they were clumsy as hell in PE and struggled to read and write even while as perfectly sighted individuals, just to keep up this aesthetic.
I'm born monocular due to cataracts and the idea of romanticising making life hard for yourself kinda irks me.
I guess the people who make these kind of designs choices are really just bad at character design.
Do you think it's just a matter of bad taste (kinda like how blind people in general are always represented with dark glasses or slint eyes in cartoons) or am I missing something?
This seems to be more prominent in Japanese media, but it's definitely present in Western media as well, expecially in media that has a focus on sports or fighting. It doesn't make any sense.
I don't get why these characters would purposefully hinder themselves by narrowing their field view and taking away binocular depth perception in a literary or movie genre that is usually defined by fast-paced combat in life or death situations.
I know some characters do that to mask some kind of scar, but I can list so many characters that just have this hairstyle for no reason other that it probably looks cool... maybe.
I remember all the emo kids attempting this look when I was in middle school and they were clumsy as hell in PE and struggled to read and write even while as perfectly sighted individuals, just to keep up this aesthetic.
I'm born monocular due to cataracts and the idea of romanticising making life hard for yourself kinda irks me.
I guess the people who make these kind of designs choices are really just bad at character design.
Do you think it's just a matter of bad taste (kinda like how blind people in general are always represented with dark glasses or slint eyes in cartoons) or am I missing something?
lacitar 3 points 1y ago
I know in mha there is a character like that, but apparently she is trying to hide the fact part of her face is dragon like
Critical_Delay_1022 [OP] 2 points 1y ago
Using hair to hide any visus deformation is not that bad. I'm talking about those characters that seem to have this hairstyle for no reason.
Fire Emblem characters seem to do this a lot. Even the new protagonist has her right eye completely covered despite her being a fighter in a medieval warzone.
Fire Emblem characters seem to do this a lot. Even the new protagonist has her right eye completely covered despite her being a fighter in a medieval warzone.
lacitar 1 points 1y ago
Ah yes, those sucks. Thete are a few games i play where that hair style is an option. I just ignore it.
SiriuslyGranger 3 points 1y ago
I don’t see at all what this directly has to do with blindness and not everything does. Sound like a hairstyle. Really. Not everything is about you or blindness.
Critical_Delay_1022 [OP] 2 points 1y ago
I get that it's a hairstyle, but so many times it makes no sense in universe. Would you choose a hairstyle that hinders you so much were you a fighter? It's such an old yet easily debunkable trope.
bradley22 1 points 1y ago
It just looks cool. That’s it.
SiriuslyGranger 0 points 1y ago
But why post this on a blindness forum.
Critical_Delay_1022 [OP] 2 points 1y ago
Because I wanted to know what other fellow VI or monocular people thought about this style choice? I already could predict that most sighted people's reaction would be quite disinterested. I wanted just to know what you think. There's no right or wrong answers, don't worry.
SiriuslyGranger 1 points 1y ago
I see, well some of us are totally blind and other types of blindness. Personally I just think it’s a hair thing and shouldn’t matter all that much.
ukifrit 2 points 1y ago
how about blind characters with bands or whatever on their eyes? Like wtf?
Critical_Delay_1022 [OP] 1 points 1y ago
I think you're referring to the blind girl that appears in Black Butler? I was pretty confused at the beginning too. But I guess that since it's set in the Victorian Age prejudice against deformed visus would have been rampant at the time.
ukifrit 1 points 1y ago
I mean Daredevil, Kenshi from mortal kombat, etc.
Cruzur 2 points 1y ago
It's just a character design that looks cool. You may like it or not, that's subjective, but it's not inherently bad. Don't think too much about it.
Critical_Delay_1022 [OP] 1 points 1y ago
The aesthetic part is indeed subjective. But the thing about it being impractical and potentially dangerous in many universes is kind of... objective? I get that it's fiction and it's not supposed to be realistic, but it still should try to be coherent.
Cruzur 1 points 1y ago
As you said is fiction. Think of things like skirts. A lot of anime girls fight with them but they're umpractical. Or, I don't know...extremely long hair that reaches the floor for example. Yes they are not coherent but they just are! As I said I think the best thing is just to not think much about it since everything is really unrealistic
PrincessDie123 2 points 1y ago
I have rocked this hair style since middle school myself. It’s aesthetic but it also blocks some brightness since I can’t fit any sunglasses over my lenses (even cocoons don’t fit anymore). What I don’t get is the fascination with fake spectacles for fashion or to “look smart”
Critical_Delay_1022 [OP] 2 points 1y ago
I completely forgot about that trend! So happy it died down. I remember glasses without lenses being sold everywhere back in the early 2010s.
PrincessDie123 2 points 1y ago
Yes I was so angry about it! But at the same time I suppose fashion canes and walking sticks have been a thing for a while, but I always equated it to faking the need for a wheelchair for clout. Not a good look.
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