The anime character I most deeply relate with is the Heavy from Team Fortress 2. His tragic background of hailing from the deepest coldest parts of Communist-occupied Hokkaido Island resonates with me on an inter-spiritual level. Everything I see that large man, I have to hold my head high so the tears won’t start falling. He’s my spirit animal and the one that I can’t help but think about. The story of the Heavy resonates with the famous original Danish story of “The Little Mermaid” pre-Disney adaptation, in the way that he gave up his family only to have power and sandwiches. But then he lost even that. He gave up everything to protect those he loved, and he fought, with a selfless heart. Unfortunately it took a toll on his mental state causing him to name his gun “Sasha” out of his mental breakdown and cling to her like a girlfriend while stress-eating to keep himself intact. We all know the closing part to his story where he couldn’t bring himself to kill the enemy spy lying with his friendly medic, so he threw himself into the dustbowl and dissolved into ham sandwiches. However instead of ceasing to exist, he ascended to the level of Godhood. Turning into the legendary Hokkaido spirit, fighting enemies in the air in order to obtain an immortal soul, swimming through seas of bananas. Because of his hard work and selflessness, the Heavy is given the chance to earn his own soul by doing good deeds to mankind for 300 years, one day rising up into the kingdom of 2fort.