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Yeah, in the same boat here, English is my fourth language, so even though I'm pretty fluent in it, with terminology like this, I'm constantly having to look up the subtle nuances and it's basically impossible to make perfect literal translations.This might be just a matter of terminology mix-up. Where I'm from "invalid" is (or was) the correct translation of the english "disabled". Mostly but not exclusively used for physical disabilities that impaired movement, but it might have fallen out of favour due to connotations with "lacking value".
As a non-english native speaker disabled is, to me, also a broad term? Maybe there's an order of severity like impaired>disabled>invalid?
Maybe it would be interesting to explore a theme like that in a game in some way, and if anyone has a big enough heart to look beyond a physical disability it would certainly be our hero. But with only a couple of characters left to introduce and a pretty crowded cast already, I wouldn't be opposed if a disabled character was introduced but I also wouldn't be disappointed if not.
As far as I've seen, impaired and invalid are both seen as kinda politically incorrect and too unspecific. There are apparently also some advocates for differently-abled instead of disabled, but most of these seem not to actually come from the disabled community itself but from other people advocating for what word would be appropriate for people outside their own experience... So I think disabled is all in all the preferred word. But even that is heavily debated. So yeah, it's complicated.
But yeah, I feel you, I wouldn't be opposed to having a character like this, but like you said, might be a bit too crowded already, and a character like this would really need to be explored in greater detail so it probably couldn't be just this minor sidechick character.
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