OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE COMMENT... Huge apologies I only opened my notifications after this long time as well
I never have any clue how to begin anything - letters, short stories, anything - but my philosophy with writing has developed into leaning into things rather than avoiding them, so I decided to give Roan my same exact problem. I also try really hard to be subtle with what I write, because I really value subtlety in others' works of fiction, so I'm really glad it came across!
I was also deep into RPGs when I wrote this haha (still am) and had been GMing a fantasy game with a ton of gods for some time - I drew a lot of inspiration from my experience with that when writing this
I haven't written anything further in this specific world in the almost-two-years since, but I do have a lot of other stories about gods and Chosen Ones I've been tucking away at, though very slowly (there's one particular project with very similar themes to this one that I'm really excited to finish whittling into shape). I find the idea of a direct connection with this sort of massive, magical authority really interesting, for a lot of reasons
The memory thing... yeah, I very much have been there as well. I do think Roan found his happy ending, though. I like to imagine him moving somewhere nice, with a lot of nature, maybe wherever Sage lives, and in that place he meets new people and gets a bit of a fresh start. As for the goddess, I think her and Roan have a good relationship. She definitely likes him and cares about him, in my head, though of course through the filter of her being a goddess and him being mortal
and thank you again for the last paragraph!! the charcoal look was achieved with custom Sai brushes lol. again, apologies for being very very late, but thank you so much!!!