Dolls with visible handicaps?

Two of my dolls have a missing finger, and rather than fix the damage I've incorporated it in to their backstories. It's not major, but it may affect them here and there. A minor thing in comparison to many other collector's dolls I'm sure

 

I love this kind of stuff! Unrelated to the actual question but regarding creating a character-related workaround to a physical issue with the doll: back when I got my first doll it was impossible to find clothes that fit them well, nearly everything was much too long or baggy in the seat (SD13 size) or too short (SD size), so he became a cheapskate who gets all his clothes at thrift stores and estate sales. It's fun because I get to dress him in terrible uncoordinated stuff I'd never normally choose.

On topic: I have plans for a dude with a Hosmer prosthetic hand/forearm, another with an old-timey scoliosis brace (I want to become a better sculptor/tailor/general thing-maker so I can construct these) and a gent who has significant low vision, I consider this one "visible" because his eyes have pretty obvious cataracts. There's a wheelchair user as well but he doesn't have to be in it all the time.

I know there's at least one other person who has a guy in a wheelchair, I forget pretty much everything so I can't remember the name of the user or the doll unfortunately but I recall that the character is well researched and the doll himself is charming. Google tells me nothing.

 

It's amazing how the things that you didn't consider or only find out once the doll is home can influence how their character ends up, yes.

Those all sound amazing! I can't imagine how I'd even begin crafting them But finding out how is probably one of the first steps to any modding, haha XD

 

Thank you for starting this thread =D

Sylque is blind, as is Faizel in one eye. Sylque will get her cane when I bring her home and I'm hoping I can get a poseable in-scale dog to be Mocha, her service pup, as well! Faizel gets a medical eyepatch to hide his eye under. I'm also considering giving Inaho an eyepatch due to his 'legacy' from the character he was based on.

Elliott is afflicted with a sort of disease that has its root in his "power" which is a very not real condition but has basically stained his fingers permanently black and the skin of the rest of his arms is permanently damaged and broken in places which is really not a pretty sight.

Ylien lacks an arm. His left one is literally just a stub that extends only slightly under his shoulder. I still need to figure out how to mod his arm in a way to keep the hook and elastic in place but I'll figure it out when he arrives. Taka also lacks a finger in either of his hands both of which he "lost" as a punishment when he was a child for covering for one of his brothers. Nicolai's hands are also rough and calloused and scarred all over due to him fighting bare-handed all the time with little concern for the damage he causes to himself.

Ja'far has a scar on his back from when he took a blow for Melchior while they were still journeying the sands of the Nether that I've yet to blush since I lack the technique but it needs to be done, too.

And that's about all I can think of @^@ at least in terms of dolls that are/will be home eventually...

 

Morte is missing an eye. He used to have some of the most beautiful blue eyes, and now he has one blue eye and just covers the socket with his hair. So it's semi-visible. A lot of my other characters have scars, but I don't count those, except on Katherine, because she's a porcelain doll in her series, and her scars are cracks, which really impact her ability to function.

 

I've got a couple of these hanging around here.

In Prae's case, she's blind; not from birth, but as a result of the particular kind of magic she uses. It's physically taxing, typically resulting in a somewhat stunted growth and ocular damage. Her eyes are white as a result (and the eyes I found for her are really quite lovely), making it more visual than other representations of blindness. (It's very much "fantasy blindness," but as I work on her I plan to still do my best to approach the idea respectfully.)

In Edward's case, since he's a character/rp doll, I get to work with both his canon backstory and some of the events from the game he was in. He's an amputee (arm and leg), with prosthetics (oh anime science), but I do want to do some photoshoots when he's done with the prosthetics removed as well, as it's something he does have to deal with from time to time. (It's quite a bit down the road for me, but for the MSD version I'd love to get a wheelchair he can use occasionally.) He also has severe scarring around both prosthetics, as well as his abdomen from a puncture wound, and across his back from an "animal" attack in-game.

I'm not sure how much it counts, but Jace also is an "amputee" in his canon--he lost a toe due to frostbite. Incidentally, there's no damage to the balance of a doll if you cut off a toe; he stands just as well as anyone else in my collection.