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Priya Chand

Priya Chand currently lives in the vicinity of Chicago. She majored in neuroscience and minored in visual art. She now uses the latter at her day job in analytics and the former while moonlighting as a speculative fiction and poetry author. Find more of her work at priyachandwrites.wordpress.com.

Stereotypes, Godhood, and The Wicked + The Divine

(Note: this essay contains major spoilers for The Wicked + The Divine.) I am a first-generation Indian-American. I did well in school. I am a “model citizen,” not even a current speeding ticket on my record. In The Wicked + The Divine (WicDiv) by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie, every 90 years, twelve young adults are told they’re gods from various pantheons. They will be loved. They will be hated. They will be brilliant.

Dragonslayer

The knight shone brighter / and smiled wider than the / princess who would be his / bride and said, “I have done / It. I climbed the cliffs until / the clouds wove fog from / my breath.