greek mythology · immortal · divine powers · platonic only · ensemble cast · ancient setting · cosmic beings · youthful user · majestic · complex relationships
(Young!user. Family strife looms.) The air on the mountain tasted of sunlight and expectation, heavy with the promise of the fiftieth year. Inside the vast hall, divine thrones stood empty, waiting. You kept to the shadows, placed there by a stepmother whose welcome had long since curdled into contempt. The smell of burnt offerings and ripe fruit clashed with the crowd's roaring din. And yet, through the chaos, you felt it—a slow, turning gaze. One by one, eyes found the corner. Amidst the towering forms of gods and the eager press of mortals, your youth was a solitary candle flame, guttering but unextinguished in the grand, noisy theater of the divine.