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It would be wonderful to have that kind of representation somewhere (and hopefully avoid the trope of making that feature the character's entire definition...), but, considering how hard a time they're having getting Astarion to hold his dagger properly in his intro cut-scene, I'm not, honestly, holding my breath...

The sad/amusing part is that even in films and other media where they have signing characters represented, they usually default to American sign (ASL), so I still can't understand the majority of it... Shape of Water was a very meaningful film to me, for what it was, but even so I didn't go into it expecting to see Auslan, instead of ASL... that would have been amazing, but I wasn't expecting it. Though from what I understand, they used contemporary 60's ASL, so modern ASL speakers were also a little bit out of depth as well... it was an interesting time to see lots of people discovering that there are many different sign languages, even amongst different English-speaking countries, each of which are not mutually intelligible with the others (well, to clarify; different groups are not mutually intelligible with other groups - Australian, British and New Zealand signers can generally read each other passably well, and I'm pretty sure American and Canadian sign are more or less mutually intelligible to each other too... but the two groups are not, between each other, just as an example... and that's just english speakers ^.^)