

Is that Sam the Barbarian in the first panel? I uh wouldn’t know that character of course *cough*
what a bittersweet homecoming, all that hardship and now… you just done it. The city is saved, and you feel just… just emptyness? (classic trope: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YouCantGoHomeAgain or rather https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StrangerInAFamiliarLand)
That sounds promising.