A hero

[herodrawing]

[Guess who's back in the hospital. Izuru got to know the bed very well, and Red Five is wrecked pretty badly... but this time it's different.

He's here because of injuries, not due to piloting his AHSMB. No symptoms related to the JURIA System synchronisation have appeared. It's as if the recent feats stabilized his DNA's relationship with Red Five.]

We've done it! Everyone, we've done it.

Humanity is safe now. Well, safer I mean. There's still more dangers to take care of, right? But the Wulgaru one is gone, thanks to everyone's hard work.

You guys... are all heroes!

Comments

[herodrawing]

Why not? Look what we've been through together, mr Walt!

[dolorous_sensei]

This depends on what kind of story you're a hero of. If this is one of those newfangled post-modern heroic story, after defeating the final boss, you can just die falling down of a stair or something, just to show to the readers that the universe is an uncaring place.

[herodrawing]

I don't like this kind of stories... also a lot of people care, right? Even if the universe doesn't.

[dolorous_sensei]

Well, it could also be one of those rise of darkness story, where the hero actually become the villain for the next generation.

[herodrawing]

Gweh! I don't like this kind either, and definitely don't want to star in one. Someone stop me if I do.

[dolorous_sensei]

That's the point. The next generation will stop you.

OR maybe this could be a tragic hero story, where you die in mysterious illness after defeating the final enemy, and everyone would spend the epilogue moping about you and remembering you and making epitaphs about you, and your love interest would be regretting that they never advanced your relationship, and the series end with everyone looking forward to the future with your silhouette in the sky.

[herodrawing]

I don't want to become a silhouette in the sky... ehh? Love interest?

I don't even have anyone like that! Well, I mean... it's complicated.

Can't it just be a standard ending?

[dolorous_sensei]

Yes, but it will be a boring straightforward story, and it will be lost in the glut of other stories, like stories about mecha-piloting teen-vampire pilot rebellion, and stories where heroes are questioning why do they fight and if the enemies they're fighting are human as well, things like that.

[herodrawing]

Nothing wrong with a straightforward story! And if it's done well, it'll be more memorable than something weird but done badly.