He rises from the muck, the moss, the roots, the rot, the water, the green silence of forgotten places and the pain of a man who lost everything. He does not look like the hero people expect. He does not arrive polished, clean, charming, or easy to understand. He looks like something people would run from before they ever asked whether he was there to protect them.

The heroes we carry with us—the ones we talk about years later—are the ones who tremble. The ones who feel. The ones who crack under the weight and then choose, somehow, to stand back up. Today's Tony Tips Tuesdays™, I want to talk about something that separates surface-level storytelling from emotionally powerful storytelling: Vulnerability in your hero.