Name: Persephone Pluton

Culture: Greek

Goddess of: Spring, Queen of the Underworld

Gender: Female

Appearance: Be prepared for a lot of spring puns. Seriously, you've been warned.

Persephone looks as fresh and young as a newly bloomed flower. Her skin is soft and pale, like the petal of a lily, and her long hair falls in waves to her back, shining like the sunlight on a spring afternoon. Her eyes are as green as grass, and her lips-- Okay, I'm gonna stop. Persephone is reasonably tall, standing at five feet eight inches, and she's a healthy weight. She's thin, but not skin and bone.-- oh no, another pun. She has an oval shaped face with a slightly pointed chin, and her skin, as previously mentioned, is smooth and blemish free. Her "sunlight bright" hair is a light coppery color, and her "grass green" eyes are closer to hazel. Her lips and cheeks are a light shade of pink without the help of cosmetics. Her beauty appears ageless which, technically, it is. She could claim to be anywhere from sixteen to thirty and she would easily be believed, because of the youth in her face but the maturity in her eyes.

Personality:

Goddess of Spring- Much like the season she commands, Springtime Persephone is bubbly and cheerful literally all the time. She is optimistic to an unhealthy level and can usually be found planting flowers and singing with birds. In this form, she's not really very intelligent, but her endearing naivety makes it all okay. She spends a lot of time humming, or tidying up her and Hades' house (where do you think the term spring-cleaning comes from?) Springtime Persephone believes in traditional values, and cute fuzzy animals. Most feminists would vomit at the sight of her. Think Disney princess.

Queen of the Underworld- The exact opposite of Springtime Persephone, Queen Persephone is probably the feminist that would vomit at the sight of her, if they were separate people. Queen Persephone is strong willed and opinionated, and most certainly deserving of her title. She rules with just as much power and authority as her husband, and is the only one who can argue with Hades and not be sent to Tartarus. She tends to be sarcastic and a bit cynical, with a dark sense of humor. It would serve you well to stay on her good side.

History: Very complex, involving a lot of Stockholm Syndrome and incest. To put it simply, Persephone is the daughter of Demeter and Zeus, who are brother and sister. She lived in an eternal garden under the watch of her over-protective mother, but when Hades caught sight of her, he fell in love immediately.

Hades went to his brother, Zeus, and asked to have Persephone as his bride. Zeus is a crap parent and said "Sure, go for it!" or something along those lines. Hades completely ignored the fact that Persephone was his niece and rose up into her garden on a flaming chariot and took her down into the Underworld. Persephone also ignored the fact that Hades was her uncle and fell in love with him as well. Yay!

Meanwhile, back on the upperworld, mommy dearest had flown into a rage and was searching the earth for Persephone. She refused to let anything grow and plunge the earth into a deep winter. She asked Zeus where the heck their daughter was and he was all like: "Oh, hey, she's married to our brother Hades now. Oops, sorry about that."

Demeter demanded that Zeus get her back, and so Zeus sent Hermes to go fetch her. Hermes told Hades the situation and Hades was all: "Heck no, she's my wife!" and Hermes replied, "Hey dude, chill, there's a way you can get out of this."

Hermes explained how if Persephone were to eat the seeds of a pomegranate from the Underworld, she could stay down there a month for each seed. Hades brought the pomegranate to Persephone, and she ate four seeds. Then she went back to her mother.

Her mother was like, "Seph, did you eat something down there?"

And Persephone was like, "Just a bit of pomegranate."

And Demeter was like "Oh dang, now you have to spend four months of the year with Hades!"

And Persephone was all, "Yay!"

And now we have seasons.

Godly Powers:

1) Grow flowers/vines/plants at will and manipulate their movement. (Aka: "Persephone, use Vine Whip!")

2) See and talk to ghosts.

3) Bipolar disorder on a godly level. (Details will be revealed in later entries)

Fatal Weakness: Ice. Ice kills flowers.

Token: an ever-blooming flower that she wears in her hair.

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