[quote=@SleepingSilence]
So like...what the helk did any of that have to do with a fallen hero? Or somebody doing wrong because they think it’s right? This feels like a story that doesn’t even remotely match the prompt in question…

It wasn’t a bad personal reflection story...but she isn’t a hero, nor the villain who thinks she's a hero. The father was her fallen hero, but he’s not a secret bad guy. She’s whiny and angst-filled, but her father died. She didn’t do anything wrong. The mother complex isn’t relevant to the story. Most of it really isn’t tied to the story which is seems to be a story about mourning a personal loss. So...I’m afraid I don’t see the connection.[/quote]

 So, I appreciate the in depth critique in like, a really big way, and the time you took to look over everyone's work, [i]but[/i] I do think you've misunderstood my, err, entire concept a little, so I figured I'd do a little explaining in order to clarify the relation to the prompt.

 So yeah, her father is the fallen hero in this case. Throughout a lot of her childhood, he was the 'good parent' (where the mother complex comes in), and now that she's older he helped her a lot with more practical stuff, like rent and food money. But, he also had issues with alcohol, and was generally irresponsible - something that Jenny didn't really notice due to being a kid. This is hinted at in the section at the pub, and where she's reflecting on the differences between her father and her mother.

 She didn't see these flaws because, y'know he was her dad and she thought he was great, until he killed someone in a drunk driving incident (the guy who's funeral she rather voyeuristically tags along to). Which idk seems pretty 'villainous' to me? It's about mourning a personal loss, yes, but it's also about that realisation that even the most important and influential figures in our lives are, ultimately, human beings, and capable of doing really awful things and causing profound tragedy. And not just on the large scale - but in the small scale - that feeling at the end that he let [i]her[/i] down, too, just by not being there, when she'd always thought he would be.

Edit: Also thought it would be worth mentioning, but I did actually run the idea of a child realising their parent isn't the hero they once thought past Frizan, and whilst it did morph slightly since then, I was essentially given the go ahead.