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‘The Greatest Hero.’

Every 21st century piece of writing advice: Make us CARE about the character from page 1! Make us empathize with them! Make them interesting and different but still relatable and likable!

Every piece of classic literature: Hi. It's me. The bland everyman whose only purpose is to tell you this story. I have no actual personality. Here's the story of the time I encountered the worst people I ever met in my life. But first, ten pages of description about the place in which I met them.

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I think a lot about Shepard's fish tank wipeout in the Citadel DLC.

The entire DLC is this lighthearted love letter to Mass Effect, and it's beautiful. But then there's THIS moment. When Shepard falls through a fish tank.

The entire way down, they desperately try to arrest their fall. They have no shields. No combat armor. There is no one to catch them. It feels like this is one of the few times there is ever fear. And they don't land gently. And the cut scene lingers on it. There is no levity in this moment. Shepard is on the ground, groaning in pain, slow to get up, clutching their ribs. First instinct before they try to get to their feet? Reach for the gun. Have that first. Then see if you can stand.

And I think the only reason we can have this moment, where Shepard is vulnerable, injured, and in trouble, is because there is no one there to see. The moment Brooks gets on the comm, they crack a joke. "Yup. Feeling good." While unable to stand up straight.

We get this at the end of the game, too, but that's when the stakes are at their highest. That's when it's supposed to be hard. It's no less magnificent then, but now, in this moment? When everything was happy and fun and silly? MAN.

And afterward, everyone jokes about it. Every single member of your squad makes a crack about the sushi place. And Shepard plays along. Haha, yeah, fell right through it, while trying to change the subject.

No one knows what that fall was like. No one saw Shepard lying on the ground in the bowls of the Silversun Strip, water dripping off them, struggling to get to their feet.

And no one asks, because it's Shepard.

The Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot, and Mothman are actually old gods, each controlling Water, Earth, and Air respectively.

Each were mighty in their own ways. Large and powerful beasts. All but the fire elemental.

You wouldn't be able to tell it was a mighty beast that could make volcanoes erupt, forest fires spread. Burn down cities in a moment.

No. This God could be seen sleeping in the embers of open fires. Camouflaged as burning coal.

A small animal, an innocent looking creature that could fit in the palm of your hand.

A fire salamander.

Out of open flames it looks like a pure black salamander. The kind you find climbing on walls and sneaking in the grass.

It was a creature that could be set off at the snap of a finger. It showed no mercy. It set fires at a whim and without remorse. It would convince children to catch it or pick it up only to burn them.

However the God knew they needed balance and allowed him to continue its antics. Till one day. A historic moment in all of humanity.

The destruction of Pompeii.

It was that salamander that activated the volcano. For what? Fun. He watched in glee and men, women and children fall to the flames and the lava.

It was that event that broke the other gods. He was sealed the the very valcano he used on Pompeii

The Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot, and Mothman are actually old gods, each controlling Water, Earth, and Air respectively. Fire was banished years ago, but no one knows what they were, or why they were exiled.

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