Hero

Fast-forward to 2007 or so. Hero had been untouched in my mind for years. I knew he was there, and I have even told some friends about him, but it wasn't until then I started to bring him back. he began to show up in RPs with no changes to his character, except for the fact that Emily was never seen again, and he left the little town behind. he talked to the main character of the RP, only because he could understand animals. I began making art of Hero for the first time, since when I was 3 or 4, I couldn't draw horses, nor did I think about drawing him at all. I didn't have a concept of an OC, so I shrugged his idea off for a long time. During this time of art, people were calling Hero a "Spirit fan character" which annoyed me, since Hero was a character long before "Spirit" came out- (2002) long before I started school even. Yes he's a horse. Yes He has Dark points like Spirit. Yes, He's an untamed wild stallion with one human friend. But he's not Spirit. I can see why people would make that assumption, but he's not Spirit. Fast-forward to 2010/2011, I was getting more in-touch with my characters- this was the era where my characters began to "speak to me"- writing themselves, interacting and reacting to other people and other people's OCs. I enjoyed talking to my OCs in my mind- drawing comics about our conversations and RP events.It was at this time I began to call Hero my spirit guide. I was daydreaming one day, thinking about how cool it would be to be royalty, like a Disney princess. It was a frivolous and harmless daydream, as I had started working, and I was becoming more and more interested in a life of fantasy I could never achieve. It was then I heard Hero's voice in my head, "Why not?" Now, I wasn't sitting there speaking out-loud. I was having an internal conversation in my head with him. I explain that in this life, in this universe, I would never be a magical princess in a kingdom all my own. Again, he replied, "Why not?". Frustrated I had said to him "The world I live in isn't magical. I am not royalty. I cannot snap my fingers and have all my desires taken care of." there was silence in my head for a while before he spoke again, "Though this is true, I think you're forgetting something. Did you, or did you not create me? What about the others? Didn't you create them? In your living world, you may not be in control, but in your imagination, anything is possible. If you had the power to create us, then why wouldn't you have the power to create your own kingdom in your mind? A place to escape to when life gets you down?" it was in that moment, I realized that I can create my own world. A world where anything I wanted was possible. and so, The Realm of Azurel was born. This was not the last time he was a spirit guide to me. Hero never told me what I wanted to hear, but he told me the truth. I was dating a guy at the end of my Junior year of high school. He was a coworker of mine, and we hit it off almost instantly. I was in complete bliss. He was my first love, and I was head-over-heels for him. One day, after a date, I heard Hero's voice in my head- "I don't like him. I'm going to warn you now, he will dump you in three months." I told him to stop being such a prude, and that we will never part. this was the man I was sure I was going to marry... Three months pass... And this boy broke up with me- Over the phone- the day after Christmas. My heart was shattered. I didn't know what I did wrong, nor did he tell me what I did wrong, or why he broke up with me. he revealed he had been lying to me about something stupid (he was a pot-head, he lied to me about being one). I was a broken woman. Hero was right... But how did he know? From then on, I never doubted him. if I heard him say something to me, I took heed. Fast-Forward to five years ago. I had given him a human form he could switch to, especially since he met the love of his life, Jazz (A friend's OC). I met a guy online. we hit it off fantastic, but as I remember my ex, I was wary. about a year or two of our relationship goes by, and he visited me a few times. After one of his visits, as he was leaving to go home, I heard Hero's voice again, "I like this one. He is good for you." I shrug Hero off, and say back "I don't know, he'll probably dump me like the last one."... another year goes by... I suffer a great heartache as my cat I had for 18 years passed away. I was flung into a depression so deep, I shut myself out from the rest of the world at every opportunity. I had considered breaking up with my boyfriend, rehearsing it in my head "It's not you, it's me. I need some time to sort things out." I confided in my mom, who told me that I really shouldn't break up with him. She recognized that I was in pain over the loss of my cat, and my boyfriend shouldn't have to suffer because of my depression. She advised that I take a trip with him, and I did. I saw what my mom meant. We had a long-distance relationship so it was easy for me to cast him aside- but when I was with him, he made me feel better. We stayed together. I was still in a deep depression, but the thought of breaking up with my boyfriend was now wiped away clean from my mind. Hero's voice came back to me "I told you, he's good for you."... a few months later, my boyfriend came up to visit me again. We were going to an Anime convention with some of my friends, getting a hotel room and everything. It was the day before travel, and he insisted we go out to eat at our favorite Japanese place. he insists that it's our 3 year anniversary, and that we should celebrate. As we walk up to the restaurant, he gave me one of those blind-boxes that had a Portal 2 figure inside, saying "Here! I got this for you! It's a Companion Cube!... but I made some modifications to it." I tell him he's sweet and we get into the restaurant. We sit down, and he asks me "Aren't you going to open it?" I give him a confused look and say to him, "You already told me what it is." and he replies, "but aren't you wondering what kind of modifications I made to it?" so I open it. The companion cube looks normal, only- it has a hinge on it. I open it to see a tiny diamond ring sitting inside the box. I look at him, and he's already next to me on one knee. "Brittany, Will you Marry me?" and Now I'm engaged to be married. Hero was Right AGAIN. I remember telling my Fiance about the whole story, and even he regards Hero as a supernatural force. "He is definitely your spirit guide. Only devine intervention would act in such a way."