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Topic: Do you want to be a hero?
Ozimander
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posted 07-14-2002 02:38:09 AM
Have you ever gotten the sudden urge to do something heroic or self sacrificing?

Something outlandish, like battle a horde of zombies to save the last remaining people on earth?

Or something more 'realistic' such as saving a bunch of innocent people by battling terrorists?

Maybe be interlocked in a battle to save all of exsistance? Like Ragnarok? (Well, technically Ragnarok isn't to save exsistance..but you get what I mean.)

What causes us, if more then just me, to feel like this?

Thanks for your time.

Jokes welcome.

Cthulhu

EDIT: Outlandish..not outland.

[ 07-14-2002: Message edited by: Cthulhu ]

Tristan
Vidi, vici, veni.
Nae's Stooge
posted 07-14-2002 02:40:45 AM
Not really.

I wouldent mind super powers tho.

Veni, vidi, vici
Maradon!
posted 07-14-2002 02:41:30 AM
All the time, yeah.

Bloodsage ridiculed me for it

Ja'Deth Issar Ka'bael
I posted in a title changing thread.
posted 07-14-2002 02:45:30 AM
Maradon...been meaning ask...what is that sigpic from? I snicker every time I see it.
Lyinar's sweetie and don't you forget it!*
"All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die. -Roy Batty
*Also Lyinar's attack panda

sigpic courtesy of This Guy, original modified by me

Maradon!
posted 07-14-2002 02:46:44 AM
quote:
Ja'Deth Issar Ka'bael thought this was the Ricky Martin Fan Club Forum and wrote:
Maradon...been meaning ask...what is that sigpic from? I snicker every time I see it.

That is my hero, Kintaro Oe, from the anime "Golden Boy".

Bast
Pancake
posted 07-14-2002 02:47:56 AM
To quote my comic book character...

"I am not a hero. I never wanted to be a hero. I just want to do what is right, and live my life until what ever it is I am still alive for happens. After that, I'll just continue my life. Deem me a hero all you wish. Inside, I am only me."

I'M AANILE DAMNIT!!!
you know.. the [(_|_)] rogue..
G.S. Waisztarroz
Pancake
posted 07-14-2002 02:49:10 AM
At one time, I wanted to be a hero very much. I thought it'd be cool for the fame.

Now I want the same level of being known, but I'd like it to stem from doing destructive acts instead of constructive ones.

Maradon!
posted 07-14-2002 02:53:32 AM
On a side note, if I ever went completely insane and became a mad scientist who blew things up and mutated people, but in the name of some bent form of justice, I wouldn't entirely mind that either.
Ozimander
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posted 07-14-2002 02:54:15 AM
To qoute my comic book character: (Remember World Weary? I swear to Christ it'll come back!)

"What the fuck. Where's my wallet? Josh, did you see my wallet? No, not the remote, my wallet! Then pause the damn thing! It's a DVD: IT CAN DO THAT!! Jinxed? You fuck! I-Oh...nevermind. I was holding it. Now let's go to BlockBuster, I've got a bitch of a late fee."

Very heroic.

Cthulhu

[ 07-14-2002: Message edited by: Cthulhu ]

Ja'Deth Issar Ka'bael
I posted in a title changing thread.
posted 07-14-2002 02:57:06 AM
I always have, and always will, want to grow up and be the Flash.
Lyinar's sweetie and don't you forget it!*
"All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die. -Roy Batty
*Also Lyinar's attack panda

sigpic courtesy of This Guy, original modified by me

Ozimander
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posted 07-14-2002 03:05:30 AM
I wanna be a cross between Mad Max, Ash, and Spiderman.

Cthulhu

MorbId
Pancake
posted 07-14-2002 03:20:25 AM
I've always had more of a desire for heroic power than heroic fame. The kind of suffocating acclaim received by most heroes would drive me insane, along with the impossibly raised expectations that go with it.
Nicole
The hip-hop-happiest bunny in all of marshmallow woods
posted 07-14-2002 03:38:57 AM
Not... really.

Don't want to fuck things up either. I'm like an anti-hero without powers or guns of some sort, though I am good with a staff.

I'm more of the type who'd want great power for no real reason other than to have great power. I don't want armies, countries, an empire... too much work for too much stress. I wouldn't want to be a hero... who am I to say what's right and what's wrong? I... guess I'd want it just to prove that I can have it. That there CAN be heroes and villains.

Maybe I just need to practice more...



I just spent
my last cent
purchasing this poverty.

Elvish Crack Piper
Murder is justified so long as people believe in something different than you do
posted 07-14-2002 03:48:10 AM
I had a little practice being a hero, standing up for goodness and what is right in the universe yesterday. I was walking around and met up with some friends of mine. We went over to someone else's house and crashed their for a while. All, but one, of them left to go grab some food. So im sitting their talking to this pair of twelve year olds and the grand mother of one of them comes out and starts yelling at her to come home. The grandmother inferes lewdly about what she thinks happens with boys over at this house(Not True To my knowledge), and grabs the little girl and start to pull her down the gravel back ally. I look to the other two and ask if this is normal, it is but I cant do anything unless the GM hits the little girl. She eventually slaps her after dragging her along the ground 20 feet or so, and we get her away from her obviously abusive guardian. She is scared that if she is taken out of the "care" of her guadian, the evil she knows, that she will be put in a foster home, the unknown evil, even though she has other relatives.

Their are two witnesses to this, and to past child abuse, but the little girl has apparantly been co-erced through fear and has lied under oath on pressure from the grandmothers threats of a foster home.

What do I do?

I tried to keep the little girl from going back ot the abuses parent, and was prepared to go down to the police station, but she ran to her GM crying about foster gomes and such.

(Insert Funny Phrase Here)
Ozimander
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posted 07-14-2002 03:50:38 AM
My my. I'd attempt to help understand the little girl a bit more. If that does not work, I would take this information to the police or child care services (or whatever it's called).

Sorry I couldn't be of more help.

Cthulhu

Trent
Smurfberry Moneyshot
posted 07-14-2002 03:55:44 AM
I don't want to save anyone else, I'm happy to just save myself.
Elvish Crack Piper
Murder is justified so long as people believe in something different than you do
posted 07-14-2002 03:57:52 AM
What I know so far is that her mother is dead, and that she was sent to live with the grandmother. The grandmother punishes with violence at the slightest pretence, and yells at the girl. When I was talking with her she was a vibrant person, but as soon as her GM walked up she started to act like she was afraid and the GM said right out she would have a beating.

From what I could tell she is a 12 year old frightened little girl who has had a fear of foster homes drilled into her by the GM, and that she doesnt want to leave into an unknown, she doesnt want to move away from her friends. She is abused and needs help, but I just met her yesterday

(Insert Funny Phrase Here)
Pvednes
Lynched
posted 07-14-2002 11:07:35 AM
What I would like, is ultimate power over life and death. To be able to create the spark of life in those who deserve to live again, and to snuff it out in those who do not. The problem is, who judges? I know for a fact that I am not wise enough to wield that. Nor is anyone. Which, of course, is why I do not have this power.

In my defence, I'm going into the field of genetics and other biotechnology.

[Edit: Come to think about it, if I was wise enough to be able to judge for that, I'm quite sure I wouldn't want it.]

[ 07-14-2002: Message edited by: Dr. Pvednes, PhD ]

Mr. Wilams
Pancake
posted 07-14-2002 11:14:11 AM
Superpower hero? Nah.

If I were to be a hero, I'd rather it be that I was remembered for what I was, not some dorky superpower bestowed on me from some god of dorky superpowers.

Were I to be some sort of hero, it'd probably just be a fluke. So I wouldn't really consider myself a "hero," either. Right place, right time? Sure. But not a hero.

Ozimander
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posted 07-14-2002 03:40:33 PM
Thanks for your opinions and the like, guys.

I was just wondering if anyone ever got that heroic feeling. The rest of your responses were icing on the proverbial cake!

Cthulhu

Lyinar Ka`Bael
Are you looking at my pine tree again?
posted 07-14-2002 04:21:03 PM
Yes, but I wouldn't want to be known. I'd want to help people, but not have it come into my daily life. Sort of my own little secret type thing. I'd watch them all speculate, maybe have a little chuckle here and there over what they come up with, and then go out and do something to help all over again.

I like to help people when I can. And I don't like to see needless pain or suffering. So, like Mr P, that's why eventually I'll be going into gene therapy, a field related to disease and genetics.


Lyinar Ka`Bael, Piney Fresh Druidess - Luclin

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