I play a blind character, but I am not actually blind.
I looked on a lot of forums and watched quite a few informative videos by Tommy Edison on YouTube. Conveniently, he's got a whole little series based around answering questions from not-blind people. Since Maia strives to be as independent as miqo'te-ly possible, I need to OoCly know which tasks she can do without trouble and which she would require help with.
People have asked me how Maia can do anything since she's blind, and thankfully I have a series I can point them to. She may not be able to sprint across the open world and battle dragons, but she can more than handle the mundane tasks required to run a business. (Including : getting dressed, making tea and lunch, light travel, and understanding vocalized documentation to the point that she can either agree to sign with an "x", or decline.)
(Disclaimer: My character concept isn't "look how blind my Blindy McBlind self is, so blindedly" - this is just the only thing I've had to research in regard to playing her versus my actual, RL experience.)
I looked on a lot of forums and watched quite a few informative videos by Tommy Edison on YouTube. Conveniently, he's got a whole little series based around answering questions from not-blind people. Since Maia strives to be as independent as miqo'te-ly possible, I need to OoCly know which tasks she can do without trouble and which she would require help with.
People have asked me how Maia can do anything since she's blind, and thankfully I have a series I can point them to. She may not be able to sprint across the open world and battle dragons, but she can more than handle the mundane tasks required to run a business. (Including : getting dressed, making tea and lunch, light travel, and understanding vocalized documentation to the point that she can either agree to sign with an "x", or decline.)
(Disclaimer: My character concept isn't "look how blind my Blindy McBlind self is, so blindedly" - this is just the only thing I've had to research in regard to playing her versus my actual, RL experience.)
