she could have one of those really depressing ones where the immune system attacks your muscles, I can't remember what the fuck they're called though, hmm
or something like I gave godfrey, unspecified autoimmune disorder that attacks the nervous system and degrades the myelin sheathes on the nerves
(how and/or why I remember this seven years later I will never fucking know but there you go)
olivinearc03/12/2018
The more specified the better just bc idk if we could get shit for "not showing work" or "you just assigned her sickitis"
Magnifisloth03/12/2018
show-not-tell, I never outright stated what godfrey had but the symptoms were pretty obvious, and the kinda shit she had to deal with :V
I'll drudge up some greek later idfk; but the name matters less than the symptoms
olivinearc03/12/2018
True that
And frey managed to travel and stuff
Magnifisloth03/12/2018
yeah, even if she's had it all her life stuff like that tends to present pathologically during the teenage years iirc
because, y'know, all those lovely chemicals causing havoc and making the body do the weird shit it do to have a growth spurt :V
olivinearc03/12/2018
Younger?
Middle school?
Magnifisloth03/12/2018
makes sense - thing is, once it's presented the progression varies drastically from individual to individual
she could be relatively alright all the way up to like, six months before she got turned
olivinearc03/12/2018
Let's say she's a slow burn
Was it unnamed or just you didn't bring up the specific name btw, for clarification
Magnifisloth03/12/2018
so we can be lazy and look at what I did to Godfrey for her last year, the rest would just have been stuff like occasionally numb extremities or trouble keeping her balance or all that lovely nebulous shit that's hard to pin down - it's literally unnamed as far as I recall
but again, been seven years - when I'm less brainstorm-y I'll google for actual names but for now we are Spitballing Symptoms :V
....
something something hero of time something where's my goddamn master sword I need to go back and shank a bitch V:

anyway a sort of rough progression for godfrey's disease was like... he's also a touch shorter than average thanks to that btw, because IIRC (not a doctor yet if ever) the growth plates are made of a similar molecule to the nerve sheathes, anyway - always a little stumblier and fumblier than average, becomes more noticeable around age 13, between 13 and 15 he started to slow down a fair bit since everything just sort of ached all the time, 16-17 he started losing function at the extremities, especially on his left side, 17-18 his left arm and leg were more or less dead weight (although he had a surgery that reconnected things to an extent; it's something stroke victims have had some success with and was like... the article was a couple years old in 2011), if he'd survived past that he'd probably have had the procedure done once or twice more before he was literally trapped in a flesh prison by the age of 24 or so
(and then death shortly thereafter)
this is a very rough timeline and if I ever had any notes I sure as shit don't now V:
Magnifisloth03/12/2018
zubat and ghost, yes
also let's not forget the fury and crippling depression owing to the ridiculous unfairness of it all
(probably a bit mitigated in Madi in that she knows she's got an out but living with that shit would still suck)
one thing people seem to forget is that being badly ill with no real cure possible is psychologically agonizing - you're losing bits of you, you can't get them back, you didn't do anything to deserve it, it sucks.
olivinearc03/12/2018
i think the illness needs to be big enough to inevitably kill her or lead to killing her, but still allow her to drag herself through the more academic parts of her education
and they still want highschool and stuff not homeschooled for the social bits
Magnifisloth03/12/2018
the godfrey special seems just the ticket, then, maybe with some modifications :v

research notes
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/autonomic-neuropathy/symptoms-causes/syc-20369829
https://www.everydayhealth.com/autoimmune-disorders/autoimmune-disorders-of-the-joints-muscles-and-nerves.aspx
http://narcissu.insani.org/med.html#4.1