I'm not so sure which is the better message- that heroes can be flawed, or that flawed individuals can be heroes. I suppose the latter, because while all of us may not feel like heroes, I'm sure that we all have felt, or do feel, flawed.
In my latest novella, we are introduced to the Panaiverse, where Pans are real and act as stewards of Light to push back darkness. In the story, Green Pan (Peter) is missing, and Sister Odds, one of the galactic stewards of light, must reassemble the Pan Punims to help locate Green Pan. But first she has to locate the Red, Orange, Yellow, Blue and Purple Pans- which brings us to our hero, Dekkard.
Dekkard grew up an orphan and a thief, not realizing that there was a single thing significant about him. So when Sister Odds arrived to explain that he had a cosmic destiny, he nearly laughed in her face. Sister Odds explained that because of the immense compassion that he had for the orphans that he gathered and cared for, that might be a clue that he was the Purple Pan.
Discussion after discussion was not enough to convince Dekks that anyone at all cared if he lived or died. Then Sister Odds asked him to slip on the purple bands, and everything changed. The Purple Light revealed Dekkard's true identity. Dekks didn't want the responsibility and danger of operating as a Pan, but he couldn't deny that the Light showed him his true self.
Certain he would fail, but at least willing to try, Dekks consented to training with Sister Odds, to become the steward of the Purple Light, and push back darkness, even in its fiercest strongholds. https://a.co/d/bfPgNdT
In my latest novella, we are introduced to the Panaiverse, where Pans are real and act as stewards of Light to push back darkness. In the story, Green Pan (Peter) is missing, and Sister Odds, one of the galactic stewards of light, must reassemble the Pan Punims to help locate Green Pan. But first she has to locate the Red, Orange, Yellow, Blue and Purple Pans- which brings us to our hero, Dekkard.
Dekkard grew up an orphan and a thief, not realizing that there was a single thing significant about him. So when Sister Odds arrived to explain that he had a cosmic destiny, he nearly laughed in her face. Sister Odds explained that because of the immense compassion that he had for the orphans that he gathered and cared for, that might be a clue that he was the Purple Pan.
Discussion after discussion was not enough to convince Dekks that anyone at all cared if he lived or died. Then Sister Odds asked him to slip on the purple bands, and everything changed. The Purple Light revealed Dekkard's true identity. Dekks didn't want the responsibility and danger of operating as a Pan, but he couldn't deny that the Light showed him his true self.
Certain he would fail, but at least willing to try, Dekks consented to training with Sister Odds, to become the steward of the Purple Light, and push back darkness, even in its fiercest strongholds.
https://a.co/d/bfPgNdT