Amputation — Tag Meaning
A warning for limb loss, whether depicted in scene — battlefield, accident, or surgical — or central to a character's history. Conscientious fics handle the aftermath honestly: phantom pain, adaptation, and rebuilt self-image.
What to Expect From "Amputation" Fics
Expect graphic or referenced limb loss, recovery and adjustment arcs, and often prosthetics entering the story.
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Prosthesis
Stories featuring prosthetic limbs, from Bucky's vibranium arm and Ed Elric's automail to realistic modern prosthetics. The tag covers both the sci-fi gadget angle and grounded narratives about limb loss, fit, phantom pain, and adaptation.
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Serious Injuries
A canonical tag escalating from the base Injury tag: wounds that are life-threatening, permanently altering, or require extended recovery. It tells whump readers the stakes are real and tells sensitive readers to steer away.
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Medical Trauma
A canonical tag for trauma arising from medical experiences themselves: emergency interventions, painful treatment, experimentation, or care that crossed into harm. Sci-fi fandoms with lab-experiment backstories apply it constantly.
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Disability
A canonical umbrella tag for works engaging substantively with disability, whether canon-established or introduced by the author. Fandom uses it for everything from realistic adjustment narratives to AUs reimagining able-bodied characters as disabled.
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