Title: Modern Day Folk Tales
Setting: Post Meat S2
Spoilers: None
Warning: Violence and Language in later chapters
Authors Note: This is going to be a multi chapter verse about 7-8 chapters. Is more of a character study. Thanks to the wonderful
madaboutms fromn L.J for the beta advice!
Prelude
What is a hero?
Define it for me, Explain it to me.
Someone, I'm not sure who, once told me that a hero is someone who stays braver for 30 seconds longer than everyone else.
But is that really it?
The dictionary defines a hero as "a person who, in the opinion of others, has heroic qualities or has performed a heroic act and is regarded as a model or ideal: He was a local hero when he saved the drowning child."
Every day we see them. The footballer who scores the winning goal, the Hollywood actor who helps someone on the side of the road. Is this really heroics? The media certainly seems to think so.
What about the policeman who faces down the barrel of a gun to save an unknown woman, or the lorry driver who pulls a young man from a car before it explodes?
Or what about an organization, dedicated to saving a world oblivious to the danger it is in. People who have lost so much, seen so much and yet still manage to get back up for another crack.
Hero, a collective unconscious myth created by a public as a means to hold on to something better, something good in a world full of heartache and uncertainty.
Buried in the pages of the old stories, one thing they had in common, the hero always triumphed and their stories were told and retold.