Speaking as someone who's just started writing this character, this is absolutely fascinating and very useful; thank you!
Yeah, I've been watching the way Sousa (or, well, Gjokaj-as-Sousa) moves, since I have a leg-related disability myself and that kind of thing is interesting to me. One thing that I had noticed is that, while I think he does pretty well with it, the way he moves is a lot less ... graceful, naturalized I guess, than most people IRL who actually have amputations or other mobility-impairment disabilities. (For contrast, look at how Jim Byrnes -- of Highlander and Wiseguy, who has a double above-the-knee amputation and walks with two prostheses and a cane -- moves around on his shows.) Obviously the out-of-universe explanation is that Gjokaj actually has two perfectly functional legs and isn't used to it, but it also makes sense to me in-universe because he's probably only had a couple of years to relearn how to move around and the prosthetics would be pretty clunky as well. It's also headcanon for me, I guess, that he's suffering from the after-effects of poor surgical care and really nothing in the way of physical therapy, considering the state of medical care at the time and the fact that he got his primary care in a war theatre.
... anyway, I am ridiculously fascinated by this stuff, so thanks for the links. :D
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Date: 2015-02-27 08:59 pm (UTC)Yeah, I've been watching the way Sousa (or, well, Gjokaj-as-Sousa) moves, since I have a leg-related disability myself and that kind of thing is interesting to me. One thing that I had noticed is that, while I think he does pretty well with it, the way he moves is a lot less ... graceful, naturalized I guess, than most people IRL who actually have amputations or other mobility-impairment disabilities. (For contrast, look at how Jim Byrnes -- of Highlander and Wiseguy, who has a double above-the-knee amputation and walks with two prostheses and a cane -- moves around on his shows.) Obviously the out-of-universe explanation is that Gjokaj actually has two perfectly functional legs and isn't used to it, but it also makes sense to me in-universe because he's probably only had a couple of years to relearn how to move around and the prosthetics would be pretty clunky as well. It's also headcanon for me, I guess, that he's suffering from the after-effects of poor surgical care and really nothing in the way of physical therapy, considering the state of medical care at the time and the fact that he got his primary care in a war theatre.
... anyway, I am ridiculously fascinated by this stuff, so thanks for the links. :D