Do you have other places in the work where characters with an impairment are presented in a positive or atypical way?
This feels reasonable to me. If you’re concerned it might feel offensive, you could have the text make it clear that the agent is usually a total badass (for example). You could also have them do something else during the mission, or remove the arm and go in one-handed and still be a badass.
In any case, they’re clearly a person with a disability who is in a high-power position–so that feels like positive, if complicated, rep!
Honestly my main question here is why a SFnal setting with cybernetic arms is using paper files. Are there other ways the investigation could be sabotaged that don’t rely on a blind person “failing” because of their blindness? (Again, though, the fact that they’re in this position suggests that the world and the story mostly treats folks with disabilities the same as others, which feels like a positive!)
I’m not sure I have enough context to understand this one. I feel like someone getting permanent nerve damage due to an accident would be more than “a tad annoyed”–especially if the reason it happened is because someone else did something irresponsible and it could have been avoided!
But also, acquiring an impairment through a traumatic injury is a very different situation than the other two, it feels like. I think as long as you don’t pull out the “better off dead than disabled” trope you could treat this with nuance and not be accidentally insulting.