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Unbreakable/Triumph

Unbreakable/Triumph

The thing about her was that she was so stubborn she became unbreakable. She became something "other" and people began to look at her in so many views and perspectives. Not at her person, no, because in that sense she wasn't much to look at. No, they inspected and analyzed her actions, words, time spent- her character in general. It made everything she did so significant. She didn't quite like it, who would? However she took advantage of the fame the skepticism and criticism others gave granted her. Now when I say this, I mean not money, but giving. She couldn't make herself stop, because she constantly told herself the only way to live was to go on without looking back. She wasn't fragile and refused to be, so she used that for others. She wasn't even a warrior, she was just a general, a leader who got so good at her job she gained a god complex and was made into something of a great hero, like those told about in fairy stories. She'd won so many battles for others; she'd strategized so many tactics and plans that she lost count. She cared not for her many triumphs but for those her victories granted freedom and happiness for life. But she was a general, and sometimes the choices she made did not always lead to happiness when her plans succeeded. She lived a life of beneficial warfare- but sometimes it just wasn't so beneficial. When this happened, she sat in her little room and thought of when she'd wanted nothing more than her own selfish happiness. She'd lost everything because of that, and she used her sorrow and despair to build walls around herself; around her mind. It was this that created the "unbreakable" leader that everyone knew. She lost all of what she'd cared for, and so she'd pushed herself so hard to become what she was- so that nobody else had to go through the pain that she did. But when those she fought to protect or hide away still lost their loved ones or anything else they cared for; when her plans and strategies were not enough, when she assumed she had failed her own noble cause-

That's when her triumphs meant nothing.