"The dark will always overtake the light at the most crucial of times" This is what I try to convey in my stories, that things don't always end up like you want them to. You can build an empire, but it will fall. Nothing is permanent and not everything ends the right way. And I embrace this feeling of hopelessness and despair, but if Tony Stark can build an Iron Man suit in a cave with scraps and CraigMcGill can fend off leeches for more than a year on an alien planet before getting rescued, you can survive another day.