EVERYBODY has a hero/heroine. It can be real-life or a fictional hero/heroine.
Options...
1. The Perfect Hero
2. The Misfit
3. The Grizzled Old-Timer
4. The Everyman
5. The Anti-Hero
6. The Prodigy
7. The Loner Hero
8. The Tragic Hero
I shared a whole A to Z series about real life heroes, so today I'm going to share a fictional one--someone who has been with me a long, long time. Here we go, in 300 words or less...
I was emotionally black and blue. At the ripe old age of 10, my classmates latched onto my maiden name (Hicken...now add my first initial...) and I became the target of much bullying. (Including a group pledge to the rubber chicken.) I came home
to a big brother who was also being bullied at school, so he took it out on me. At church I was the youngest girl in my age group, and in a different grade than everyone else, therefore, I was only worthy of being shunned.
Life was awesome.
It
was about that time Kiri appeared. She emerged in my sketches and told me her
tragic story: an orphan, alone in the world, abandoned by every decent scrap of
hope. She was meant to be an heir--pampered, adored, respected--but instead
ended up a foster child to an abusive man, essentially a slave who was fed for her labor. Kiri had every
reason to complain. To hate her life. But she never did.
Instead,
she found people to train her with weapons. She sacrificed her nights and risked her safety to sneak out and
learn. She dedicated herself to a cause--protecting and serving others who
were unable to defend themselves.
Kiri
didn't want the glory. She didn't want the notoriety. She didn't want the
praise.
All
she wanted was the family she'd lost.
Since
that was impossible, she set out to keep others from losing the one thing that
mattered most.
She’s
been with me since I was 12. I hope to one day share her story with the world,
but until then, she remains an integral piece of my heart, a hero who helped me
conquer my own dark days.
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Gina shares an excerpt: The Soulless are Here
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Do you have a literary hero? A character who carried you through some of your dark times?
