# Heroes Rise Fanfiction Page **URL:** \ **Category:** Heroes Rise\ **Created:** [March 2, 2015, 1:57am UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/heroes-rise-fanfiction-page/7857 "2015-03-02T01:57:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6
**Author:** ![anon86661845](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@anon86661845](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/anon86661845)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2017, 12:42am UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/heroes-rise-fanfiction-page/7857/6 "2017-10-14T00:42:43Z")
I know this is a really old thread, but I wouldn’t want to create a new thread when there’s already one so I hope this is okay ;\_\_; I’ve been having a lot of thoughts about how my MC develops throughout the original trilogy and how I’d imagine him developing into Redemption Season. I actually wanted to draw a comic (or maybe do an animatic, but I’d probably have to do the voices myself and I have no recording equipment besides my laptop and phone so the quality would be awful) but don’t really have the time or energy for that at the moment so I typed this up This was really quickly done and I might pick it back up in the future to actually draw it as I originally intended. I just wanted to post this up because I really love my MC ;\_\_; This takes place some time after the events of the Redemption Season after things go wrong (read: Riley ignoring his problems and letting them build up and eventually bite him in the ass) and may end up non-canon depending on how the next games go. Under a cut to not take up space > **Nothing Like Getting Depressed And (Almost) Calling Up Your Ex In The Middle Of The Night** > > Riley sits on the edge of his bed looking at a holographic display that’s flashing ‘DIALING… DIALING…’ > > It’s dark, like Riley had woken up in the middle of the night - or like he’d never gotten to sleep in the first place. > > The display then changes to a video of Lucas saying “Hey there, if you’re seeing this message, then you’ve reached Bright Magic’s video mail box! Leave a message after the beep.” > > Riley sighs. Lucas must be busy. He might be on a job tonight. Or he’s probably just dead asleep and not answering because, according to the digital clock display in the top right corner of the display, it’s a quarter ’til three in the morning. > > “Hey,” he starts, “sorry for never answering any of your calls. I’m okay. I guess. Maybe? Not really? I don’t know. > > I’ve just been thinking. Remember that time you almost went on a murderous rampage but didn’t? What I said to you then? Something about what it means to be a hero and all that crap? I’m just realizing how much of a damn hypocrite I was for that. > > Who am I to tell you about what a hero is when I’ve never been that myself? > > Saving people? Yeah that’s great and all, but it was never the reason why I wanted to be a hero in the first place.” > > He pauses. Purses his lips in thought. > > “Now that I think about it, I don’t really know what it even was in the first place. > > Saving my parents, restoring the family name? My job there’s done. > > Proving them wrong? First of all, I don’t know who “they” are in the first place. My high school bullies who I haven’t seen in years, maybe? Sure. Second, I’m not sure what I was even trying to prove. That I could become a hero at all? That I’d ever amount to anything? That I’d ever be more than ‘Good-for-nothing Riley’? I guess they’re right, there.” > > He furrows his brow in… Anger? Disappointment? He’s not sure what exactly. > > “If there’s anyone who needs to learn how to be a hero, it’s me.” > > He huffs a sharp exhale through his nose. > > “I don’t know why I’m even telling you all this shit in the first place. Anyway, I just wanted to say I’m okay and thanks for checking up on me, or trying to, I guess. Sorry to making everyone worry.” > > He stops recording and stares at his own face staring back at him through the end of the holovid. > > “Whitney, delete the video.” > > Whitney’s face pops up beside the video. She looks concerned and Riley’s stomach twists. “You sure, Sugar? You don’t wanna send? Or even save it at least?” > > Riley nods. “Yeah, I’m sure. I’ll answer him for real tomorrow.” > > “You said that last night too.” She didn’t sound accusing, just sad. Riley felt guilty anyway. > > “I mean it this time, really. This’ll be the last time.” > > Whitney frowned. That was probably a lie, but she did as he said anyway. “Well, alright Sweetpea. Get some sleep, it’s late.” > > Riley nodded and climbed back into bed. “I will, Whitney. Goodnight.” > > “G’night, Sugar.” He calls BM here, but he never gets back together with BM after breaking up with him during THP. I imagine them making much better friends than boyfriends, especially after (headcanon) BM gets some help (either through self-help resources or a therapist, which I think he, along with about half the cast, really needs) after Hero Fall and before Redemption Season --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/heroes-rise-fanfiction-page/7857)._