The Hero of the Creative Parallels

Powerful, fast, and skilled. Such are the qualities of our Hero protagonist in this story who worked too hard to become what he is. Everyone wants to do something heroic at some point; that is why people admire heroes in the first place. A hero is someone who has contributed greatly to something. A hero is good, exemplary, and noteworthy. A hero is someone who became useful in their time. But how can one become a hero if his/her abilities are "useless" in the first place?

This is a story about a hero whose powers only work under the condition of the cruelest form of irony.