The thing about Simon Fairchild in The Magnus Archives - the thing that’s fascinating to me - is that he didn’t have to do anything wicked to become an Avatar. He did wicked things later, once he’d become an Avatar, but to achieve Avatarship in the first place, all he had to do was make beautiful art of the Vast and fall in love with it.
And it seems as though the Vast fell in love back such that when he fell, the Vast couldn’t bear to see him perish, and so he flew.
Simon goes on and on about how insignificant he is, but the literal god of the insignificance of humanity is invested in him, personally.
The other fascinating thing about Simon is that despite almost certainly having been raised Catholic and experiencing his miracle in a literal Catholic Church, he does not attribute his salvation to the Christian God. I wonder what drove that realization?
