Painted

Diana is “chaste” compared to Selene. For Diana Bauman, she wanted to grow as Selene, but ended up finding her Endymion in that form instead. 

The Titan goddess Selene wanted to put Endymion to eternal sleep, so that he may live forever. A part of her wishes that Gale will stay a struggling artist and yearning soul forever, but she knows that he will become something more.

We are all born into a losing struggle.
A losing struggle against what?
Against futility.
Silence follows, and GALE thinks about mortality and pride.
But there are other things one can gracefully lose against.

The moon and the tides.
The stars and the heavens.
The wind and the clouds.
The sun and the sunrise. The Dawn that ushered it in.

“Maybe losing isn’t all so bad.”

“How can you say that? How can you have the will to take a single step, when it’s all for naught?”