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4. Nobility In Poverty, Or Lack Thereof

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The tendency for modern entertainment to display being poor as a fun adventure is not exactly a well received one.

Cutting close to the poverty line is rarely fun. Having to settle for your career is not an enticing thought. Likewise, sacrificing time, opportunity and health in pursuit of your dream is not a particularly life-affirming situation to be in.

Still, although it isn't romanticised there is a focus on the happiness that can be found outside of career fulfilment. Despite a constant lack of money and the loss of opportunity that comes with it, each character finds joy one way or another. In understanding each other, building friendships, even finding petty revenge against their wrongdoers, our characters draw some happiness from their lot in life.

In the end many of them do find, if not total success, at least satisfaction in what they do. The security may be fleeting but the joy of the moment is certainly there, and that is always something to value.

Contributor

My passion for all things Sci Fi goes back to my earliest days, when old VHS copies of Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet gripped my tiny mind with their big, noisy vehicles and terrifying puppets. I'd like to say my taste got more refined over the years, but between the Warhammer, Space Dandy and niche Star Wars EU books, perhaps it just got broader. I've enjoyed games of all calibre since I figured out that dice weren't just for eating, and have written prose ever since I was left unsupervised with some crayons next to a white wall. I got away with it by calling it "schoolwork" for as long as I could, and university helped me keep the charade going a while longer. Since my work began to get published, it's made all those long hours repainting the walls seem worth it.