Daily Entertainment: Everyone's A Hero In Their Own Way (You And You And Mostly Me And You)

[lifethatisscratched]

Everyone has someone they look up to. Who are your pup's heroes?

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[onceaviking]

Godric.

[freedom_is_grey]

Fen'Harel. Fuck the establishment.

[sdelmonte]

Kirk: His father, Abe Lincoln, the Mercury Seven, probably a few other explorers

Knox: Woodward and Bernstein, Batman

Cyborg: His mom, Robin, Raven

CharlieQuestion: He doesn't believe in heroes. Oh, there are people who call themselves as such, and there are people who do good in the world. But heroes? He doesn't think there are any.

Swamp Thing: The men and women of the Green Revolution of the 60s. Abby Arcane. Superman.

Gibbs: Jack Sparrow

[inlovewithwords]

Somewhat oddly (or not at all) my characters seem to distinguish between heroes, people looked up to as role models, and those just admired.

Eriond: Honestly, none really. I mean, he super-admires a lot of the Eddings Traveling Party, obviously, but, er.

Henry: Currently? No one. Lost little soul. (I was about to say 'boy' but then remembered certain plots...)

Lois: Will never admit it, but her dad is all three to her. Even if she can't stand him. Martha and Jonathan Kent are too. Heroes specifically... ah. Well. She's kind of jaded about them at the moment--thanks to the soldier who was her first real love, her dad, Oliver Queen. and kind of Arthur Curry, too--but she truly believes they exist and should be helped. Still, she's a bit jaded and grasping at things. (Give her time.)

Tavi: He totally had an academic hero once! Magnus, the scholar who insisted Aleran ancestors had no magic. They are now friends, but he isn't Tavi's hero anymore. At all. When he was a kid, Bernard was his role model but not really his hero. There are a fair number of people he's looked up to with admiration--Bernard, Isana, Amara, Araris, Killian, Miles, Cyril--but most of them weren't role models. Certainly not heroes. Of those, only Bernard, Araris, and Isana maintain that rather than deep respect and not-looking-up-to admiration.

While Bernard is still his ethical role model, there are hugely complicated feelings about Gaius Sextus. Definitely looked up to him and in ways still does--but almost as an anti-role model he admires, respects, and loves very much. Not wholly accurate, but close.

Heroes?

Not so much.

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

Gordon's, canonically, have been Richard Feynman, Albert Einstein, and Stephen Hawking. I believe he's also adopted Simo Hayha, more for the 'started off a regular guy, UNLEASHED AN ORGY OF PROTECTIVE VIOLENCE UPON HIS ENEMIES, went back to farming and hunting moose' thing than for the kill count.

Shephard is not likely ever to admit it and will likely make some noises about 'check the names I gave the Vortigaunts who work with me, or check my dogs' names' if asked, but ahead of all the others is a group of Army National Guardsmen who showed up and pulled him and a buddy out of the basement that Cheat floodwaters had trapped them in when he was six years old. Carlos Hathcock comes in at #2.

There was a time when Ellen would've said her father. That... not so much the case, not these days. Star Paladin Cross, maybe, and Elder Lyons almost definitely. And she very much looks up to Sheriff Simms, in Megaton.

Edward Kenway would probably have to think about it a while and eventually say Robin Hood or some other famous 'oh, fuck the system anyway' highwayman-type figure. Only without being born into nobility because noble birth is stupidly overrated in his eyes.

No idea about Santo or Wee Mad Arthur.

Stacker's is... probably his sister Luna.

Fawkes named himself after 'a man who was willing to die for what he believed in', so, the version of Guy Fawkes one can read about in the 2077 edition of the Encyclopedia Atomica.

And Varric, well, you can ask him a dozen times and he'll give you fourteen different answers. He's like that.

[cassiefuckingcage]

Mom and Dad. She lets her father know how much she loves and looks up to him, but with Sonya, it's more unspoken at first. But she certainly wouldn't have joined the military if she didn't look up to her.

My other presently-active pups don't really have any heroes that I can think of.

[rudderless]

Clementine: Farrah Fawcett

Juliet: Her brother Ewan

Dixie: Brisco

Pinkie: Maud!

Eponine: Marius, or it used to be