User blog:Faeriegrrl/Help the Blind-man

Hello DARP,

- your friendly neighborhood Faeriegrrl, also known as Rie or Fae.

This blog has been created because I have been writing this character since 2012 and he still doesn't exist.

Me and my charrie need a little help. I've started writing this character, his name is Enoch McKenzie. As my blog title says he is blind. When I got the idea for a blind character I thought it was great, and I would make him really soon. That was back in September/October of 2012. I am afraid there is no place for him, he is blind what is he going to be able to do, or add to the wiki besides wit? I over-think A LOT when it comes to my characters, I think I did it again with him.

I really appreciate any comments you have, any at all.

Here a bit of the story: (If you feel like reading it.)

Enoch Terrence McKenzie was born October 31st, to Natalie and Donald McKenzie in Santa Cruz, California. He was born with perfect vision, gradually it decreased over time. When Enoch reached the age of 20 he was completely blind. He has superior hearing, and smell due to living his life without sight. His other senses are not heightened per se, though they are extremely sensitive. Enoch was diagnosed with Best Disease (vitelliform macular dystrophy), he has not let the diagnoses stop him from living his life despite how frightened his parents Natalie, and Donald have been for him.

He has memories of what he was able to see for the first twenty years of his life. He can't be sure whether any of what he remembers is accurate, or how many details may have changed over time, and he doesn't care. Enoch paints images of his surrounding within his mind. He feels he can see with precise clarity in his head, although he can't see anything at all. When he hears a sound, every inch of him can feel it. Once the vibrations, the mechanical wave of pressure and displacement makes their way to him, an image of what 'may' have happened plays for him. The first time this ever occurred Enoch laughed, he thought what he "saw" was funny. It wasn't, but who could blame the blind man for laughing at something he couldn't even see?

I'm sure magic could fix his blindness, but quite obviously he doesn't want to. He has lived through losing his sight, and lived a good life without it. Why would he want it back now?