I found the company who makes them in case anyone else is interested!
This is why adaptable equipment is important!! Gives more power back to the user to live their life in the best way for them. Unfortunately a lot of times it is cost prohibitive and hard to find- that’s where allies and activists (and #socialworkers #BlackTumblr #BlackTwitter) can help.
For me personally the Found Family trope is fundamental to RvB as a series. There’s so much of rediscovering each other and building trust and working as a unit, no as a family, that it would be insane to disregard that as a key theme. But for that to exist there has to be a flip side; isolation.
Looking past the obvious isolation that comes with a remote canyon or a spaceship removed from influence from other sources there’s still a ton of stories about isolation and the effects it had on the isolated parties. Tucker in the desert, Alpha at High Ground, Prisoner Wash, both Carolina and York after the project, Doc in the void etc.
In all of these cases there’s effects! Isolation is something the human body and mind isn’t equipped to deal with. Humans are social animals, who experience and relate to the world with social interactions. Extreme isolation can cause irreversible damage especially to the mind. Even if the isolation is mild or short lived the effects can be gruesome. Hallucinations, general restlessness, a loss of sense of time, extreme and rapid changes in emotions and paranoia are only a few of these effects.
Isolation can be devastating to a healthy mind but like after all the trauma these guys have been through? Shit man, isolation is rough. PTSD ridden characters having only their mind as company? Characters who’ve been living in close quarters for years finding themselves alone with nobody to talk to? Characters who cope with the belief that someone’s coming for them, when nobody’s coming and characters being swallowed by emotions intensified by the isolation.
And I’m just so !!! about this theme? I’ve not had enough time to actually translate what I’m feeling and thinking into words and then to English words but like guys. Isolation. All the fodder to sustain angst for years. There’s no doubt a ton of writings about this already by people who are soooo much more talented than I am but christ if this isn’t a fascinating part of the story.
