Concept Art of The Iron Bull - With One Arm

This. This.  I think I may make an AU for Amputee!Bull because… he’s just so, so important. You don’t understand how impactful such a thing would have been, not only to his Character Development, his relationship with the Qun, and his relationship with others…. but because of how important it would have been to what he means for so many people. 

Already, Bull is a multi-faceted, self-standing, successful example of a woefully underrepresented portion of the population. He is “Other” in so many ways, he is traditionally flawed and insufficient in so many ways. But Bull is also so much more than the elements that make him up, than his history and his people. He is one of the greatest examples of taking perceived shortcomings and making them into strengths, making them into a catalyst of fire that forges you into a better person. 

Can you see, how great it would have been to incorporate the loss of a pivotal physical asset, like a hand, into that dynamic mix? Can you see how much it might have meant to those who struggle with their own physical limitations, or even mental limitations, how important it is to show that there really is NO SUCH THING as being Handicapped? Bull is who he chooses to be, Always. No matter what Cost. 

And so are we. That’s just… it’s important. 

• “Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
• “People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons.”
• “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” 
• “When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.”
• “This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”
• “You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.” 
• “But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.”
• “It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.” 
• “Truth is a matter of the imagination.”
• “Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.”
• “I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.”
• “A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.” 
• “There must be darkness to see the stars.”
• “It’s always easiest to let yourself be governed.”
• “A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it.”
• “Go to bed; tired is stupid.” 
• “The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.” 
• “If civilization has an opposite, it is war.”
• “What good is power when you’re too wise to use it?” 
• “To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.” 
• “The wise needn’t ask, the fool asks in vain.” 
• “One voice speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies.” 
• “What’s to gain by silence?”
• “If you want to strike out in any new direction — you go alone. With a machete in your hand and the fear of God in your heart.”
• “No granite is so hard as hatred and no clay so cold as cruelty.”
• “There are things that outweigh comfort, unless one is an old woman or a cat.”
• “It is not altogether a bad thing to have criminal ancestors. An arsonist grandfather may bequeath one a nose for smelling smoke.”
• “What is more arrogant than honesty?”
• “Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light?”
• “When you eat illusions you end up hungrier than before.”
• “The counsel of the dead is not profitable to the living.”
• “I will not take the counsel of despair.”
• “To make love is to unmake power.”