Heroes of the Mahabharata - Abhimanyu
You are not supposed to...
Even though the Mahabharata is revered and referenced near ubiquitously, my household (and probably many similar households) advocated not having the Mahabharata text in the house. They would have the Bhagavad Gita but not the whole Mahabharata. Ostensibly the Mahabharata has elements of family turning on family (தாயாதி பகை) and warring with each other. The prevailing thought was: having the text around was akin to asking for trouble. While I get that, having the Gita around is hypocrisy because the Gita occurs during the actual war in question (Kurukshetra)!!
Secondarily, we are not supposed to name any one Abhimanyu (or Markandeya for that matter). It is because Abhimanyu had a heroic but extremely short life. He is said to have died on his sixteenth birthday ( * ).
Fate will prevail
Abhimanyu was a precocious fetus. While in the womb he is able to hear war stratagems and learn many life skills. One of these lessons he learnt "in utero" was how to break down the "Chakravyuham" formation. However before he could learn the mechanism to escape safely after breaking in, his mother and her interlocutor are distracted.
When the Kurukshetra war is underway, the Kauravas (one of the warring sides) setup the "Chakravyuham" formation to defend something. The foremost Pandava warrior and Abhimanyu's father Arjuna is distracted in another theater of battle. It falls to young Abhimanyu to take up the cudgels and fight on behalf of his father. He fights valiantly and breaks the formation of the enemy. However once he has achieved that, he is quickly surrounded by enemy troops and assailed from all sides. Since he did not learn how to exit the formation, he is felled in an uneven battle with villainous tactics adopted by the Kauravas.
You can spell Human with Abhimanyu
Abhimanyu is the quintessence of humanity -- he has advanced foreknowledge and self awareness among his peers (considering humanity's peers as animals). However his knowledge is incomplete. He knows that it is incomplete but yet chooses to strive with the know how at his command. He knows for certain that he will fail but plays on the off chance that the universe might side with him and make his day.
He goes out as a hero. His family wreaks vengeance on those that felled him (his other uncles and cousins).
( * ) And he does have a child that preserves the lineage and eventually causes the Mahabharata to be written! My man Abhimanyu may have burned for a short while. But he burned brilliantly and strongly!!