So, a disability-related thing that annoys me

[terajk]

 (I'd call this a "trope" but I've only noticed it twice so far. I may not be looking in the right place.)

I've seen this thing in both Avatar: The Last Airbender and Soul Eater, where there are a) several disabled characters, b) themes about the importance of friendship and trust, and c) villains associated with paranoia, because they are Bad.

WTF?

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[recessional]

IT'S ALMOST LIKE I AM PARANOID IN CERTAIN WAYS OR SOMETHING. *ahem*

[terajk]

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I'm pretty introverted in Real Life; I don't spend much time with other people and don't care to. I'm still awkward with people I know very well. On the one hand, the chosen family thing appeals to me a lot; on the other, it would be nice if the characters who didn't want/like the chosen family thing weren't bad.

[recessional]

I write a lot of chosen family, but even then they tend to be small chosen families that wind up together for a reason, full of prickly people with hair-triggers for whom part of being in a chosen family is the fact that nobody will accidentally ask them about that time in Reno they don't ever want to talk and/or think about again, or acknowledge exists. Or how nobody ever asks them about why they hate flowers. And everyone understands why they jump three feet in the air if you walk behind them without making a noise.