Name: Persephone
Species(demigod, god, etc.): Goddess
Greek/Roman(If Demigod):
Birthday:N/A
History(50 words):Unlike Zeus' other children, Persephone has no position at Olympus. Persephone used to live far away from the other deities, a goddess within Nature herself before the days of planting seeds and nurturing plants. When Persephone reached marriageable age, the gods Hermes, Ares, Apollo, and Hephaestus had all wooed her, but Demeter rejected all their gifts and hid her daughter away from the company of the Olympian deities. Thus, Persephone lived a peaceful life before she became the goddess of the Underworld, which did not occur until Hades abducted her and brought her to the Underworld by his infamous kidnapping of her.
Persephone's uncle, Hades, was lonely and wanted a wife. He spied Persephone in the fields one day and entranced by her purity and beauty, fell in love with her at first sight. Persephone was innocently picking flowers with some nymphs in a field in Enna when Hades came to abduct her, bursting through a cleft in the earth. Life came to a standstill as the devastated Demeter, goddess of harvest, searched everywhere for her lost daughter. Hecate, Goddess of magic, then told Demeter she had heard Persephone scream that she was being kidnapped. Demeter then stopped caring for the Earth, and the land didn't flourish and people began to starve and die.
In some stories it is said that Eros, the god of love shot a golden arrow into Hades' heart while he was riding in his black chariot when Hades rode across the field and saw Persephone, thus he fell in love with her. Most versions agree Hades first obtained the permission of Zeus to kidnap her.
Hades was determined to make Persephone love him, and tried in many ways. She hated him at first for snatching her away from her mother, but soon she came to revel in Demeter's absence as she had never been allowed away from her mother before. Hades very much wanted Persephone's love and, at first, tried to buy it with many gifts. But then he took to spending all of his day with his new wife, working to make her happy. Hecate, the Goddess of Magic, came down to the Underworld and befriended Persephone, and Hades was pleased, because Persephone was not depressed or unhappy when her friend was around.
Finally, Zeus, pressed by the cries of the hungry people and by the other deities who also heard their anguish, forced Hades to return his daughter, Persephone. However, it was a rule of the Fates that whoever consumed food or drink in the Underworld was doomed to spend eternity there. Before Persephone was released to Hermes, who had been sent to retrieve her, Hades tricked Persephone into eating six pomegranate seeds, which forced her to return to the underworld for a season each year. In another version she ate the pomegranate off of a tree not knowing the results, but a servant (or sometimes a gardener) of Hades testified against her forcing her to return.
When Demeter and her daughter were united, the Earth flourished with vegetation and color, but for six months each year, when Persephone returned to the Underworld, the earth once again became a barren realm: and that is how the seasons came from. In Spring and Summer, Persephone and her mother are together. In Fall and Winter, Persephone goes back with Hades. This is the myth to explain the weather changes in Fall and Winter compared with Spring and Summer when everthing is nice and sunny.
Appearance(50 words): Persephone is tall, beautiful, young woman with pale skin, flowing, and curled black hair, and wearing a white dress, which, in fact, is actually a colorful dress, though the colors have been washed out. Although she was beautiful during the winter, it seemed like she would be more so during Spring. Her eyes were said to be multicolored, but also washed out, as if the Underworld had sapped her life force. As her appearance changes with the seasons, she also can have warm, chocolate brown eyes and lustrous black hair. Her skin tone can tan when on Earth in the sunshine.
Personality(50 words): Trapped by her husband, Hades, in the underworld, Persephone hates him. She hates being trapped in the underworld from Fall to early Spring. She has a sense of honour but isn't necessarily bound to it. In her Roman form of Prosperina, she becomes more disciplined, warlike and materialistic. She can be sneaky, creating Travel Roses (we knows these as the pearls from the Percy Jackson movie) to bring partners to the underworld to see her.
RP SAMPLE: (50 words): Persephone rested her cheek on her fist in the throne room of Hades' Underworld palace. Tapping her fingers and listening to some poor soul grovel at Hades' feet, she had no interest in the underworld affairs. Daydreaming of her time on earth, she made a near by black rose grow. Grinning, she turned her attention to the rose, watching it wilt then spring back to life.
She sighed and clapped her hand, making the souls around her leave before she could punish them... Not that she would. She wasn't as cruel and abusive as her "dear" husband. Speaking of which, she glared at him. "And when were you going to tell me you were cheating on me with that... that stupid goddess, Aphrodite?"
Tue May 10, 2016 7:12 pm by 
