No this isn’t medieval melee combat but it’s pretty impressive. There are records I know of of deaf soldiers joining the army in the American Civil war, hiding their deafness, getting by with lip reading, trickery, luck, and a keen sense of observation. This might be a small point but these things would help her survive the attacks / arrows / ambushes she would not see or feel coming at first.Īnd considering there is no historical record of deafness being a basic death sentence in pre-black powder combat times, all you have is pure speculation. She would have bodyguards, she would be given special treatment and special training.Īmaya also wears heavy armor and carries a large shield on her back that sticks over her head. That means that more concessions would be made for her and to her than normal a soldier. I hope I've sufficiently explained my reasons as to why I find Amaya's deafness and more importantly, find her being a deaf soldier, to be a walking plot hole that breaks immersion. And obviously, composing music is a lot less likely to kill you or the people around you than if you were a deaf soldier in combat. So even when his hearin started to fail until he lost it altogether, he still had a masterful knowledge of music symbols and patterns and memories of what they sound like that he could still create symphonies and concertos that were both theoretically and practically masterpieces.
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He still had his hearing when he was learning how to play music which he was a prodigy and genius at. And yes, Beethoven was dead but he wasn't born deaf. Beethoven was deaf and he's one of music's greatest composers. All in all, it's a character with a disability that works well because her disability and the role/occupation Toph has don't clash and don't break the immersion.īut wait, you might say. She can't really sense pejoke with sand because it's too loose and can't really sense attacks that are coming from the air. And even with that, she still faces weaknesses. It makes perfect logical sense in-universe, expands on one of the key principles and Magic systems (Earthbending), and it has a real world precedent in that blind people's other senses like their hearing and sense of smell and touch get heightened to compensate. And even though she's blind, she can get around that by having her hearing and the ability to sense vibrations in the ground which is why she's such a skilled Earthbender. Contrast that with Toph from Avatar: The Last Airbender, who's blind.
And Amaya doesn't have any special ability to compensate for her deafness. In all honesty, Amaya's deafness is a very real risk to not only her life but the lives of all the soldiers under her command. But Amaya won't be able to hear a twig break under an assassin's or warrior's foot before she feels a sword run through her chest. In low-light situations like that, your hearing is the best sense that you have in surviving in that situation. Or let's say that she and her soldiers are fighting during night against enemies that can see in the dark. Amaya won't be able to unless someone in front of her either signs it quick enough to her or she can read their lips fast enough to understand.
Any other soldier could probably hear the arrow or Magical attack parting/disturbing the wind and be able to dodge it. The same principle applies if she was shot from behind by an arrow or Magical attack. She'll never be aware about an assassin or Moon Elf assassin that strikes her from behind because her comrades behind her can't warn or shout to her about the enemy right behind her. And I can list off from the top of my head several situations in which Amaya's deafness presents a big danger to herself and her subordinates in a fight. I mean, how many soldiers in real life are still alive today because they could hear their allies scream/communicate to them, "GRENADE!" or "AMBUSH!" or "SNIPER!"? Hearing is one of the most vital senses in combat. Now, Amaya is a great character and a badass fighter and her representation as a Deaf/HoH person would be perfect if it wasn't for the fact that being a soldier is the worst possible occupation to combine deafness with.ĭeafness is a terrible disadvantage as a soldier and it's an unacceptable risk for all the men and women under her command. I know I'm going to get some controversy for this but some things need to be said.ĭiversity and inclusion is great and all but not at the cost immersion and believability.
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