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This is a tad different than most of my VS threads but I figured the cross genre section would be the best place to put this!

We all like comics, anime, video games, movies, I mean at least one of them right? So just curious, have any of the heroes (or even villains ) from any of these other worlds actually affected you or helped you get through something in your life? Be it something small or huge? Tragic or good? I guess any character who has influenced you positively ?

http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y508/YamchaKMC/image_zps06318767.jpg

The Sentry was one that really has helped me constantly actually after I stumbled upon him, a guy with some mental disorders who turns to drugs and accidentally encounters the serum turning him into the Sentry yet always fighting back the Void, and leaving Robert in the middle of it all. He tried killing himself and failed, at his best he can do anything he puts his mind to but at his worst he can be a puddle of emotions or even worse dealing with that Void persona.. He's essentially his own worst enemy. He can cast it into the Sun, but it'll return eventually, he just has to stay strong.

http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y508/YamchaKMC/image_zps541e940c.jpg

Which really hit home with me, I won't get into too much detail but I went through some serious depression phases and anger issues, sprinkled with some anxiety (generalized anxiety disorder, and agoraphobia, actually two things that Robert himself struggled with.) along with some wondering at worst if I was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia. At times I really wanted to help people but I'd usually end up making things worse, I'd be normal and calm one moment but then once I was set off it was like Dr.Jekyll and Mr Hyde, I always felt like there was someone, something else in my mind, just dark and full of negativity while another side was pulling me away from it all and towards the light thus leaving me in the middle being pulled in two different directions, and I won't lie, I made multiple attempts on my life at one point where I was waking up in the hospital more so than my own bed. I refused to take medicine for fear of addiction yet fell into drugs trying to find an escape which only made things far worse, after a close run in with almost ODing and learning who I could trust and really deciding enough is enough I overcame it all by digging my heels into the dirt, coming back at full force, and not being so mentally weak and fragile.

http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y508/YamchaKMC/image_zps4ce6eb9a.jpg

Now I'm healthier than I've been in years, no addictions, still from time to time see fragments of the anxiety and depression/anger; sometimes in full force (Void) but now I don't let it control me. I guess I can't always be in that "Sentry" persona and at times I'll just be well..me, but when I really set my sights and channel all that crap into something productive and positive I can actually accomplish amazing things I never thought possible (like the getting healthy thing for one, and actually using my time in life to enjoy it and pursue my dreams. It's to where the old me just seems so distant like not even the same person lol.) and that no matter how it tries that the Voids time is over .

http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y508/YamchaKMC/b0bc9a0c-e0ca-405e-a568-8e5f188a330c_zps37f02a9a.jpg

So I guess that's kind of an introduction haha, any others willing to share ?

This is a good thread, I'll need to think of some examples I can properly explain before I post in full, though. mmm

Originally posted by Yamcha
This is a tad different than most of my VS threads but I figured the cross genre section would be the best place to put this!

We all like comics, anime, video games, movies, I mean at least one of them right? So just curious, have any of the heroes (or even villains ) from any of these other worlds actually affected you or helped you get through something in your life? Be it something small or huge? Tragic or good? I guess any character who has influenced you positively ?

http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y508/YamchaKMC/image_zps06318767.jpg

The Sentry was one that really has helped me constantly actually after I stumbled upon him, a guy with some mental disorders who turns to drugs and accidentally encounters the serum turning him into the Sentry yet always fighting back the Void, and leaving Robert in the middle of it all. He tried killing himself and failed, at his best he can do anything he puts his mind to but at his worst he can be a puddle of emotions or even worse dealing with that Void persona.. He's essentially his own worst enemy. He can cast it into the Sun, but it'll return eventually, he just has to stay strong.

http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y508/YamchaKMC/image_zps541e940c.jpg

Which really hit home with me, I won't get into too much detail but I went through some serious depression phases and anger issues, sprinkled with some anxiety (generalized anxiety disorder, and agoraphobia, actually two things that Robert himself struggled with.) along with some wondering at worst if I was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia. At times I really wanted to help people but I'd usually end up making things worse, I'd be normal and calm one moment but then once I was set off it was like Dr.Jekyll and Mr Hyde, I always felt like there was someone, something else in my mind, just dark and full of negativity while another side was pulling me away from it all and towards the light thus leaving me in the middle being pulled in two different directions, and I won't lie, I made multiple attempts on my life at one point where I was waking up in the hospital more so than my own bed. I refused to take medicine for fear of addiction yet fell into drugs trying to find an escape which only made things far worse, after a close run in with almost ODing and learning who I could trust and really deciding enough is enough I overcame it all by digging my heels into the dirt, coming back at full force, and not being so mentally weak and fragile.

http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y508/YamchaKMC/image_zps4ce6eb9a.jpg

Now I'm healthier than I've been in years, no addictions, still from time to time see fragments of the anxiety and depression/anger; sometimes in full force (Void) but now I don't let it control me. I guess I can't always be in that "Sentry" persona and at times I'll just be well..me, but when I really set my sights and channel all that crap into something productive and positive I can actually accomplish amazing things I never thought possible (like the getting healthy thing for one, and actually using my time in life to enjoy it and pursue my dreams. It's to where the old me just seems so distant like not even the same person lol.) and that no matter how it tries that the Voids time is over .

http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y508/YamchaKMC/b0bc9a0c-e0ca-405e-a568-8e5f188a330c_zps37f02a9a.jpg

So I guess that's kind of an introduction haha, any others willing to share ?

^This is what makes you KMC's greatest user.

Originally posted by ScreamPaste
This is a good thread, I'll need to think of some examples I can properly explain before I post in full, though. mmm
Ah I'm glad to hear it, I was worried this thread might be a bust but I figured I can't be the only one who has felt this way haha


Originally posted by Sacred 117
^This is what makes you KMC's greatest user.
http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y508/YamchaKMC/image_zpsf9e5f9fa.jpg
Sheesh thanks a ton, seriously I really appreciate it . I'm no one special though haha, a lot of these guys on here have leagues more experience than me, I couldn't debate my way out of a cardboard box . Nah I'm no better than anyone else but thanks again man I mean it.

Mario influenced me to become a plumber, grow a mustache, talk in an italian accent, and take mushrooms before work EVERYDAY.
Dark times! But now im free fron that!
Now I where a blue suit, red and white sneakers, with an afro(sort of) and i take some speed, crack and whiz in the morning with my onion rings, its a great trip, and yes onion rings are breakfast.
Pikachu also
Spiderman and batman as i was growing up
look its not as serious as yours but hey! And well done for getting your head together yamcha an dealing with all the despression and stress.

All right, I've thought about it, and my first answer will be unsurprising.

http://delfinoplaza.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/majoras-mask-link.jpg

Now, Zelda games are good, this is just a fact of life, but in this case I've chosen to focus (mostly, but not exclusively) on the Link known as the Hero of Time. Why? A few reasons.

1. His life sucks massively, even compared to most other Links, and it is partially self inflicted.
2. His solution to this is to keep trying to fix things until they're fixed, even death can't keep him from doing this.
3. Majora's Mask.

So, let's recap this particular Link's adventure. He's spent his early childhood raised among Fae creatures by a tree who is their father. He lacks a fairy of his own and is seen partially as an outcast apparently because of this, but also it turns out later because he was never one of them. He wakes up to have a massive responsibility dropped on his shoulders and immediately the bad times begin.

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h90/bA5-_/TheGreatDekuTree.jpg

Whoops, couldn't save the Deku tree. Accept blame. Link has been raised until his current age, nine or ten, believing that leaving the forest will kill him, but he's got shit to do, he's got a world to help, he couldn't save the Deku tree, maybe he can save that?

His only friend meets him on the bridge to say goodbye and he's too screwed up from the beginning of his adventure to say anything at all, he just backs away and runs off without a word. All right.

He meets the princess, saves the Gorons, befriending their leader and patching things up with Saria along the way, and accidentally engages himself to a Zora princess after successfully saving their patron deity. Maybe he can save Hyrule after all?

Return to Hyrule Castle town. NOPE.AVI

Zelda and Impa escape, king and soldiers dead, too late. Couldn't save those people, time to stop Ganondorf. Under Zelda's instruction he takes the spiritual stones and the ocarina of time to the temple of time and opens the door of time.

http://www.zeldainformer.com/images/articles/Ganondorf%20Sacred%20Realm.jpg

God. Damnit.

Wait, seven years have passed?

God. Damnit.

Wait, Saria, Darunia, Ruto, Impa, and Nabooru are dead?

He couldn't save them, either. I'm beginning to see a pattern here.

But maybe he can still save Hyrule!

So Link does that, woo. He saves Hyrule like a complete boss. And then... The princess essentially tells him, 'Thanks and all but we don't need you anymore', and erases him from her timeline, in the resulting split timeline, Navi, his only remaining friend, leaves him without explanation.

http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2012/029/d/d/40_ways_to_annoy_link_by_pirategirlamie-d4nzwfy.jpg

Oh. And I forgot to mention, this dooms the timeline he was removed from to have to relive the horrors of the OoT period without Link around to save them, resulting in a Noah's Ark-esque extermination of most living things just to seal away Ganondorf again.

Anyway, back in the timeline Link still exists in...

http://downloads.khinsider.com/album_images/5195-npanmqmquq.jpg

We receive this game. A game where if Link saves a dottering old lady...

http://zeldawiki.org/images/thumb/f/f5/Old_Lady_from_Bomb_Shop.png/180px-Old_Lady_from_Bomb_Shop.png

He can't reunite lovers estranged by the mask's evil...

http://operationrainfall.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Majoras-Mask-Anju-Kafei.png

And if he saves them, he can't protect a young girl from being taken away and traumatized by spirits...

http://zeldawiki.org/images/thumb/6/64/Romani_Day2.png/180px-Romani_Day2.png (Linking because image limit.)

But if he saves that young girl, he can't help this young girl...

http://i521.photobucket.com/albums/w335/sync2285/Majoras%20Mask/PamelaFather1.jpg

Whose father is becoming a monster.

In every direction people need saving, the people of Clock Town are in denial of the moon's fall. The people of the swamp are angry. The Gorons in the mountains are bargaining, hoping their hero will return to them. Ikana has accepted its' fate and almost everyone there is dead already.

Link goes back in time over and over and over, and no matter what he does it is impossible to save everyone this time. There is no way to do it. And even if it were, he couldn't help the people who suffered before he got there, like the Deku Butler's son.

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130404233425/zelda/images/9/92/Deku_Butler's_Son.png

Majora's Mask is the perfect hell for a Hero who has to try to save everyone. It's outlined in HH that the gods chose him for this quality, they made the first Link's life hell to toughen him up and now they recycle his spirit into every new hero. OoT Link is one of the greatest examples of this.

Even in death Link returns to try and save as many people as he can by passing on his experience as The Hero to his descendant.

The guy doesn't give up. Ever.

Ramsay Bolton (Not Snow, never Snow) taught me that it is okay to be who you are, and that, though some people may try to stop you, maybe even hate you, as long as you stick to your principles, and just try to enjoy life the way you want to, everything will turn out okay for you.

Originally posted by NemeBro
Ramsay Bolton (Not Snow, never Snow) taught me that it is okay to be who you are, and that, though some people may try to stop you, maybe even hate you, as long as you stick to your principles, and just try to enjoy life the way you want to, everything will turn out okay for you.

And so... you stand fittingly by your title (Warrior Poet).

for me, it was actually Guts from Berserk. sure he does some questionable things like using a kid as shield against monsters and all that other stuff and sure this is only the tip of the iceberg, but he's a man who the whole seems out to get given just how much shit he's gone through in his life. but despite this, Guts fought on with everything he's got and then some, against things that should have killed him a million times over by now and continues to fight on despite the horrible, horrible fate that awaits him with the brand of sacrifice active.

there's a bunch more that could be said here about him, but I'll get straight to the point I'm trying to get at here: Guts has taught me that no matter what life throws at you (no matter how utterly horrible it is), if you fight against it and whatever else fate has in store for you, you will eventually find a place to call home, surrounded with a small or large group of people that you can call your family or at least your precious ones, just like he did with his current comrades, even if he doesn't try to show it.