To the devs who worked on Taimi, who wrote her and created and animated her model:
I want to thank you for Taimi. I live with multiple sclerosis, and
while I was only diagnosed a handful of years ago and am looking forward
to a future where I won’t be trapped in my own body, I value characters
like Taimi more than you can know.
My greatest trouble spots are my legs, specifically the joints in my
hips and knees. There are days that I wake up and I can’t get out of
bed. I’m young (in my 20s) and I walk with a cane and have a handicapped
tag for my car – and I get nasty looks from people all the time because
I’m young and, clearly, I shouldn’t need a cane or a handicapped space.
I’ll never forget the day a pregnant woman berated me outside a grocery
store for taking the handicapped space she wanted.
When I play games, it’s usually as an escape. I like to imagine that
I’m the perfectly healthy Commander Shepard, or some outrageously good
looking Final Fantasy character on a quest to save the world with magic.
Games take me out of my situation and, for a little while, allow me to
be someone else. Maybe this is why I play a hyper-mobile d/d
Elementalist.
But when you introduced Taimi, I was overjoyed. I didn’t play the
Marionette weapon testing update, so I didn’t see Taimi until just
recently when I was mucking around the refugee camp in Gendarran. The
friend I was playing with pointed her out, and I think I shrieked loud
enough to wake the dead.
I don’t know where you’re going with Taimi. But honestly I don’t
care. Because now, in Tyria, I can imagine having a giant golem cart me
around when I can’t feel my legs or when they hurt too badly to walk.
Now when I get derisive or pitying looks, I can take a minute to imagine
I’m sitting on a golem’s shoulder like a complete kitten.
So thank you for thinking of people like me. Thank you for thinking
about how someone with a disability might get along in your world. And
thank you for making her awesome.
Christina
PS Since I’m incapable of fanart of any kind to show my appreciation,
I bake. If your office would like to receive a tupperware full of
cookies, I’d like to bake them for you as a thank you.
ich hoffe ihr wiederholt das demnächst 
Muss ich mir direkt mal anschauen.
aber das wird schon noch.