By The prompt for this piece was to write a character description. There were no requirements as to the character and this piece got some really interesting responses. One of my favorites was an inverse and it was the description of someone’s absence – it was a beautifully haunting piece.
My piece is based off my novel that is currently in progress. This is not a scene from the book, this is simply an exercise that use my established characters and plot points. So SPOILERS if you read. Also, my work-in-progress is a Greco-Roman inspired romance, just for a little bit of context. Based off the Pygmalion myth in Ovid’s Metamorphosis but I gender-swapped the characters and set them in a contemporary setting.
Alina thought back to that night a year ago as she took in the man before her now. The statue she had made, that she had carved from clay for months, the man she had pieced together from bits and images from ancient statues and masters paintings. The statue that a goddess has blessed with life. The man she had dreamed up, at least in terms of appearance. She could never have imagined the man himself. He had captured her heart over the past months and he was so different from the person that had stepped down off the plinth. Then he had been the gray of the clay, thick muscled like a body builder and clumsy, demigod though he was. Painfully unsure of himself and of the world.
Now though, Evander was sure of himself and not because he had gained color. Instead the gold in his curl and the blue in his eyes was a sign of the steps he had taken to learn about the world and about himself. The thick fighter’s build he had awoken with had shifted as he had taken up running, still muscular but now long and lean.
Alina sighed as she took him in, still asleep and sprawled across their bed. The morning light bringing out the golden luster in his tan skin and shimmering hairs across his chest. He was beautiful like this, relaxed. Awake he was devastating, confident, and in control, along with being silly and doting. Being a demigod came with divinity and the power of the gods was not easy to keep in check. Learning to do so had not been easy, she remembered the devastation he had worn when that power slipped his control. The will power that he had displayed in reigning in his ability.
Humanity could be a hard choice in a dark world when there was an option of being a god. Alina loved him for the choices he had made. For the man he had chosen to be.
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