>get hazed once when you join the merchant navy
>autistically train yourself in boxing, savate, and somehow even ju jutsu, to the point where you relentlessly dismantle anybody who tries to start shit (the crew of almost every single vessel in that time would haze and beat any cabin boys or new recruits, and some would haze and beat people in order to make them flee without pay for their service)

for me, it is William Hope Hodgson
>his work is the foundation of a lot of english canon, and a lot of what english canon is based on
>got beat up once when he was a cabin boy (13 years old), autistically trained himself into one of the best boxers in england, somehow became skills in wrestling and jujutsu as well
>was able to convince all the other prentices to follow his autistic training regimen until they could all shit all over the mates on the boat
>owned a gym and a personal training business at the age of 20 (in the year 1900)
>was willing to dive into shark infested water and stay there for half an hour to save somebody who had fallen overboard
I will never be 5% as kino as he was.
I'm not brave enough, autistic enough, smart enough, or downtrodden enough to do it.