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Horses are really fragile animals. Is it still a death sentence for a centaur if one of their equine limbs gets hurt? Or can they help it somehow?
Oh god, now I'm thinking of amputees and how those would work
Horses are SUPER fragile, or maybe more like delicately balanced.. but particularly their crazy spindle-legs which centaurs get to deal with! But a big part of why hurt legs are a death sentence for horses has less to do with "It kills them" and more to do with quality of life, which a centaur can get around! A horse with a broken leg doesn't understand it can't put ANY weight on that leg for an extended period and will attempt to go about their daily life and act normally, which basically guarantees re-injuring the bad leg and a high chance of injuring the other 3 legs as they try to cope with the change in balance and weight distribution. It all leads to a really poor quality of life with almost no chance of truly healing properly. The story of all they did trying to save Barbaro the racehorse is a long sad story that illustrates a lot of the issues even with modern veterinary medicine with trying to deal with a broken leg in horses.
Thankfully with centaurs, They understand the need for healing, are able to manage their own quality of life and have the gear to support themselves in the time it takes for the injury to heal!
Also perfectly good for long term use in the case of aging, amputation, or general disability! Which is common with the front legs and lower backs of centaurs given the unusual stresses caused by their body-plans. They were created with thicker and more robust front legs to cope with the permanent added weight of the torso instead of a horse head, but injury and disability in that area is still very common!
Injuries to the hind are less common and usually less severe, and given the hind legs bear less direct weight than the front they can usually get away with wraps and limping until it gets back to weight-bearing. Something like a rear amputation or ruptured tendon would probably require a custom harness/brace attached to a wheel like these and/or basically a peg leg!
⚠️BLOOD WARNING ⚠️
This is MC, as you can probably tell, they are quite dead currently and have just appeared in the afterlife.
I don't know how this afterlife makes sense but this character, setting and plot came to me in a dream, and i remember specifically knowing deep down that MC stood for main character even though I was not lucid dreaming in the slightest.
MC lived in a post-apocalyptic world with monsters and such, one of them killed MC after they got separated from their group/found family.
The dream was quite vague about everything as dreams usually are, but two things i know are that they can imitate voices and sometimes knock on doors to get victims to come out of hiding, so I've decided to call the monsters Imitators.
Also surnames have become mostly obsolete in this world, and most parents end up dieing due to the monsters, so children name themselves once they are old enough to choose, before then they are reffered to by a characteristic, such as hair colour.
mc's found family brother is called Robin, after the bird because he saw one in a book once and thought it was cute.
And the afterlife is pretty chill honestly, they spawned into a sort of dormitory i guess? There's other dead people and MC gets confused sometimes because they are not familiar with most technology, also most others refuse to believe a monster killed them due to their pre-apocalypse mindsets.
MC, Any pronouns (doesn't entirely understand the concept of pronouns and really just does not care)
Pov: you just died but the afterlife is incredibly underwhelming and you're not sure how to react.
I would say sorry for the lore dump, but i know some people actually like reading what i write, so no apologies this time :)