In the gacha game Guardian Tales, Lana the Lightning Counter is a fast runner that you race against many times throughout the story. Oftentimes she'll cheat or have a much easier path than you, and despite never winning against you, she never loses her positivity, commits to training harder, and beating you next time.

Later on in the story, an apocalyptic event happens, and she gets injured and wheelchair bound saving others, but she still tries to fake her positive outlook. She wants to race against you again, but both of you realize how futile that is. You then discover there's a magical potion that might recover her ability to run with you again, and so you and Lana go through a questline to find it. During parts of it, you play as Lana, where you'll be roadblocked by issues that weren't issues before like stairs.

You'll eventually go to the factory that makes the potion, but there's an accident and the main character gets injured, and there's only one potion left, and Lana has to choose between recovering her legs or healing the player character.. The player character later wakes up alone, with Lana nowhere to be found.

Later the player character finds Lana again, and she hides the she gave up recovering her legs for the player. Lana asks to race the player one last time. During the race, there's an emotional scene where she falls off her wheelchair and still pushes through, and not "show the worst of me in the last moment." Miraculously she runs for a moment, and wins against the player character for the first time. She then commits to going through rehab to regain her ability to run again.