I'm not some character in a storybook, someone who exists just so that others can be amused. I... I know that sounds silly, because super heroes are all about performances as well as saving people... But I don't need my life to be narratively satisfying... I just need it to be meaningful on some level... Even if all it does is make it so that people after me might get to have normal lives.
With everything I know now, I would still choose the path I'm on. I would still choose to protect people. Maybe if things were different and less dire I would choose something else. I do not know. My powers don't involve seeing alternate timelines... But with everything...[ Her expression becomes pained for a moment. ] I would choose this, because I want there to still be a world to live in. Even if I don't get the type of life I would like to have.
[ Besides. She's had so little control over her life, even before becoming a hero, she has no idea what she'd like to do. Before, she was on the path of following in one parent or the other's footsteps, they had been putting so much effort into making both paths available to her, but she had been too young to even conceptualise what she wanted to do outside of making her parents proud, and maybe getting to spend more time with them... ]
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I'm not some character in a storybook, someone who exists just so that others can be amused. I... I know that sounds silly, because super heroes are all about performances as well as saving people... But I don't need my life to be narratively satisfying... I just need it to be meaningful on some level... Even if all it does is make it so that people after me might get to have normal lives.
With everything I know now, I would still choose the path I'm on. I would still choose to protect people. Maybe if things were different and less dire I would choose something else. I do not know. My powers don't involve seeing alternate timelines... But with everything...[ Her expression becomes pained for a moment. ] I would choose this, because I want there to still be a world to live in. Even if I don't get the type of life I would like to have.
[ Besides. She's had so little control over her life, even before becoming a hero, she has no idea what she'd like to do. Before, she was on the path of following in one parent or the other's footsteps, they had been putting so much effort into making both paths available to her, but she had been too young to even conceptualise what she wanted to do outside of making her parents proud, and maybe getting to spend more time with them... ]