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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 9453669">It is not. It is just a single instance of a person with a curse where they have a physical deformity that reflects their internal nature. However presumably all the other people in the setting who have physical deformities have them simply because of dumb luck of birth, an accident, etc. Sure you can do what you want and should only do what you feel comfortable with. But I think this doesn't harm anyone. Like I said, I have a disability myself. While I obviously don't think the disability reflects anything bad about me at all, the pain a disability can cause, that is ripe for this sort of drama and melodrama I think (and I frankly find it cathartic to have characters where the negatives of it aren't shied away from: but like I said, I do also like having it handled in a wide variety of ways). I could easily write an NPC or a story where a character has the condition I do, except instead of being chased by something mundane, like an illness, it was a product of a witch's curse. This wouldn't bother me because it isn't a commentary on the worth of disabled people</blockquote>