Sound Track: Tomb Raider Legend Manor Theme (Extended Edit)_
Lara Croft, Harry Dresden, or so many others one could think about… No, they don’t exist in our society (at least not as in Marvel movies and the like), and yet, they themselves seem to be so much needed for the breeding of our imagination and consideration of possibilities beyond the ordinary from which we live.
On a random comment around the internet, a user said: “I know she is not real but she gave me comfort” and hoo boy, that resonated on so many levels, you can’t even imagine.
Then, this got me thinking: maybe that’s why they’re real somewhat, at least on a creative level. To bring us to sentiments and things, thoughts and considerations that maybe otherwise one wouldn’t have so much a role-model for.
And an even funnier thing was this: “she is not real but she gave me comfort”. And how many things we pursue which are not real anyways, but instill giving us comfort. Hopes for better days. Meeting a new person. Being different somehow. Going somewhere you’ve never been before. Looking up to a fictional character as a role model for characteristics one wishes to develop. Not any of these are real per se, but in any case, they still drive us from the place we are to some kind of existential comfort in itself.
Maybe some will never be real, like chracters from fiction, and only resemble themselves through cosplays in our own world, but even so, maybe it is not what they are (unreal), as much as to what they represent (its attributes), such as courage, strength, dexterity and so much more. Things that on certain characters become exacerbated to drive a point, and such a point they drive, that some of us emulate themselves, and find relief and accomodation from our fears and unruly emotions through them, an emulation, trapped inside a simulation running inside of our heads, and maybe in our consoles and television shows.
And yet, somehow, they give us power, they craft in us hope, that maybe it would be possible for the ones like us, to go through the burderns of existence and our perils as much of them do.
Not really to save anybody in particular, as much as for us to save ourselves in such cases.