(07-16-2015, 08:32 AM)Hammersmith Wrote: Hammer very MUCH aspires to be a hero.That's actually quite the interesting outlook onto being remembered! I like that idea very much.
Unfortunately for everyone else his idea of a Hero is the classical greek version: Â Someone who punches history so hard they can never buff the mark completely out no matter how hard they scrub.
Heroes in the greek times were less virtuous and more INFAMOUS.  They did huge, wide reaching things that impacted society and the world, and it often wasn't good. (Which isn't to say they were good, just that someone who conquered entire lands and slaughtered people was as much a Hero as the one who defended them, and there was a lot of bad shit in antiquity)
Come to think of it the root of the word as we know it is somewhat tied to THIS motherfucker:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herostratus
Who burnt down one of the 7 wonders of the ancient world just because he wanted to be known forever.
They tried scrubbing him out of history.
Obviously it didn't work.
Hammer's on a similar trajectory. Â He wants nothing more than to drag a key over the nice shiny paintwork of history and leave a mark that even replacing the door won't hide.
Bit OT, but I felt it needed to be said
