PSYCHOLOGY — SEP 05 — 2024 — 4 MIN READ
How Can Personal Trauma and Loss Shape Heroism?
Glenn Erics’ journey from a grief-stricken son to a flying hero — a moving tale about strength and the human spirit.
Nobody is born a hero in the SuperPower verse. They are broken into one. Glenn Erics’ father, Fred, loses his job, spirals into depression, and takes his own life — and Glenn, who finds the body, is left to drown in guilt and sorrow, questioning every priority he ever set.
His years of wrestling and martial arts gave him discipline and focus, and they are all he has left. Then, in the middle of the pain, Glenn discovers he can fly — an incredible SuperPower that hands him new hope and a new sense of purpose.
The first heroic act comes almost by reflex: Glenn saves a man falling from a building, catching him mid-air and bringing him to safety. Then a girl high in a tree, screaming, is brought down gently. Rescue after rescue — each one turns a little of his pain into somebody else’s safety.
Trauma rewires the people it does not destroy. Loss shaped Glenn. It did not get to define him — that distinction is the whole book, and the whole series.
"Grief is the proof you had something worth protecting."
— PSI PRESS ARTICLE Nº 002
