All memes and jokes aside. Do you like it in stories? Do you use it yourself when writing? Lastly, the question that interests me the most. Should it win? Should a human spirit persevere in the face of fate and win, or should it lose?
It is the most generic and yet always the best stories from mindkind. It gives us a sense of value and reflection of the worth of our actions in this world no matter how insignificant it is. Indomitable human spirit is what makes superman the greatest hero and the most boring one.
Annihilation of humanity in all media can only produce a shock factor. It will never ever be capable of evoking the sense of nothingness and meaninglessness of everything that a human had ever thought, learn and feel until there is a character that will show us how we should feel about it.
It can be used and it can be broken, just like how JJK did during that specific arc or in Marvels or DC. The struggle of humans even at miserable cost or straight up in vain will always cause a ripple changing other's fate. Honkai series of MiHoYo are absolute brilliant at this. Their Previous Era is the peak that deserves to be explored but they don't want. They just gave us a heart wrenching, bitter sweet Elysian Realm.
The struggle of humanity, discarding their ethics and their biology just to transcend fighting against their enemies, the struggle of a human that witness countless sacrifice just so that he can seize the chances given by them, and an era fighting against a foe that the world can't vanquish so they can only forge a future ahead hoping the next generation follows it in order to win the freedom humanity deserves.
A hero that wasn't able to save anyone had become the testament of his era. He is a martyr, a cold soldier and his name was long lost its meaning nor is he an existence that should still remain in this planet or dimension with how much his body had endured and transformed to be the unparalleled he is, yet his Deliverance and promises is the only thing that keeps him going to fulfill this lonely mission. He is him. The indomitable human spirit tested by time and tempered by tragedies. Unchanging, matured and nurtured.
His end was just eh... I wanted his end to be grand and deserves all the respect everyone should have given to him but the writers just gave him a bare minimum ending. They didn't miss anything unjustifiable, just that they satisfied it with bare minimum despite how important and heavy of a character he is.
Rest in Peace, Bearer of Deliverance. See you in Honkai Star Rail.
