Prosthesis — Tag Meaning
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.
What to Expect From "Prosthesis" Fics
Expect prosthetic maintenance as intimacy, body acceptance arcs, and in some fandoms full sci-fi engineering porn.
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Browse "Prosthesis" works on AO3Related Tags
Amputation
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.
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Bucky Barnes Recovering
Recovery fic focused on Bucky's long climb back from being the Winter Soldier: therapy, re-learning autonomy, plums and notebooks, and rebuilding an identity Hydra erased. It is a slower, more process-oriented sibling to the 'needs a hug' tag.
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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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Scars
A canonical tag for scars as physical fact and narrative symbol: maps of survived history that other characters discover, touch, or ask about. The scar-reveal scene is one of fandom's most reliable intimacy beats.
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