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[helborn]

Okay, something I've been wondering.

How many of us, outside of this place, are tasked to save the world or whatever? There's some big evil or something coming and you're the only one or one of the few who can or will stand against it?

Bonus points for also having a predicted doom outside of that giant threat.

I was just curious if I was the only one whose life sounded like an awful fantasy novel.

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[voice]

[metempsychic]

I suppose heroes and villainy are constant across many worlds.

[This may be a topic Link has a few too many opinions about.]

[Voice]

[helborn]

Yeah, I guess so. It's kind of frustrating... I mean when I was little I wanted to be someone special but I knew that a lot of heroes didn't have happy endings.

It kind of sucks. Fighting evil or whatever isn't fun.

[It's scary, a lot of the time...]

[Voice]

[metempsychic]

Perhaps not. But fighting overwhelming odds and keeping your courage when the light is dimmest, these are the qualities that make a hero.

Without them, it is just an empty title, a word devoid of meaning.

[four_quarts]

As far as I can tell from what I've seen, by earth media standards I would likely be categorized as a prominent character in a portion of a long-running RPG series. Not that I was ever the primary hero in this scenario, and either was or was playing the part of an antagonist in the last two major entries, which seems an unfortunately common role for my people, historically speaking...

Regardless, human centrism of tales aside, the predicted doom that I know of was always something directly related to the threat.

Of course, that hardly matters now that I'm the last survivor of the doom that wasn't predicted, but I digress.

The short answer is yes, I was involved with saving the world multiple times.

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[ourlegends]

Been there, done that. Like, three times over. I'm a little ready to not fall into these sorts of situations, to be honest.

[video]

[the_tailor]

[He waves his hands around.]

You're talking to one of the five paladins of Voltron, responsible for defending the universe and freeing it from the enslavement of an evil empire that's been taking it over for ten thousand years. My life is like an overdramatic mecha anime.

[Video]

[freedom_engineer]

"Like"?

[freedom_engineer]

How many worlds are we talking here?

'Cause I've actually got a fee structure set up for tax purposes for saving a world... It's rarely cheap work.

[the_tailor]

Until I see model figurines of all the lions and love pillows with me scantily clad on them, I'm not actually in one.

/gently edges in here

[four_quarts]

Don't I know it, dear. You'd think once would be enough to leave to someone else, but oh no, clearly that isn't enough.

[freedom_engineer]

I can guarantee you, with 100% certainty, that those exist somewhere.

[justribbing]

[ There's a whole lot here that, Sans thinks, might just turn his stomach if he had one. ]

yeah? sounds real rough buddy.
looks like you're in good company, though.

[ The whole thing seems incredibly narcissistic, but maybe that's just what happens when you grow up knowing you're a whole world's savior or whatever. ]

uncle ghaleooooonnnn

[ourlegends]

I mean, I don't really regret being tasked with this sort of thing? I'm just kind of ready to pass the baton onto someone else.

It doesn't mean I'm gonna just sit here and do nothing in this place, but there was definitely a lot of grumbling on my end when I got here.

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[helborn]

Yeah, I'm... aware of all that, and it's not like I want to let people down.

They just make it seem better in the movies and stuff like that. I guess they cut out the boring or overly upsetting parts for a lot of it.

[the_tailor]

Duuuuuuuuude. I would kill to see what a love pillow of me would look like. They better have caught my good side, if that exists. I bet those things would, like, sell out in preorders.

[freedom_engineer]

Which side do you count as your good side? 'Cause let's face it, there's only really two varieties.

Clothed and unclothed, or Front and back.

The latter is usually more relevant to picturing the good side.

[helborn]

You've thought about this a lot, huh?

I'm... sorry to hear about that. The last survivor thing, I mean.

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[helborn]

Any tips for those of us just starting out, then?

[the_tailor]

Every side's my good side.

[He pauses before thinking it over, though. There is the matter that he's kind of annoyed that his ass is flatter than he wants it to be.]

Front would work better, though.

[video]

[helborn]

[Where has he heard the name 'Voltron' before...]

I never really got into anime, but uh. Good luck?

[helborn]

Uh, just the one, as far as I know, though it's got associated planes of existence attached to it.

... I guess if you're good at it, setting up a fee structure would work. I think my only real personal benefit aside from occasional free room and board is I got to come back to life once. Which is a pretty good benefit, I guess.

[freedom_engineer]

Hope you've been practicing the appropriate poses, then. That's harder work than it looks.

[helborn]

It sucks, but you do what you gotta do.

And I try to be pretty decent company in return.

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[nojusticeonlyme]

CHOSEN ONES ARE COMMON ENOUGH IN MY WORLD THAT MANY UNLUCKY SOULS THINK THEY'RE THE HERO WHEN THEY ARE, IN FACT, ONE OF THE MANY VICTIMS OF A TROLL HERO.

I WILL, HOWEVER, ADMIT TO HAVING HAD A HAND IN THWARTING A FEW NEFARIOUS, WORLD-THREATENING PLOTS.

[video]

[the_tailor]

It's crazy. Seriously, bunch of teenagers from Earth tasked to save the universe?