Player Name: TF Contact:teeff, teefflady Invited by: Already here. Other Characters: Varian and Zulius.
Character Name: Persephone Canon: Stray Gods Canon Point: Post game-epilogue. Age: Thousands upon thousands of years old, she doesn't even know herself. Birthday: We're gonna go with January 1st because she existed before regular calendars did, oops. History:Don't talk to me, I'm angy. TW for emotional and physical domestic abuse, violence, murder and World War II. She is from a choice-based game so here is her specific world state too.
Personality:
Persephone is a person who chooses to no longer be a victim after many millenia of being defined as one. Though she was originally charmed by Hades advances towards her, she soon saw him for what he was and her disgust at her foolish youth is palpable. But not as much as it is for the man who kidnapped and kept her prisoner. There is absolutely no love lost between her and her dead husband. She makes it clear she has no regret in killing him to free herself, to give herself any sort of life beyond being Hades' property. It was mentioned that Idols choose their successors based on the familiar- given Persephone's last successor was also a woman under the thumb of an abusive man (who she swiftly killed) it would not be a stretch to say her existence is filled with continuing to fight against being a victim. In every life she chooses, she chooses to fight back.
She has no small amount of bitterness towards her family. First for their inability to help her in her captivity, and again when they punished her for solving the problem herself by ripping away the throne she felt was rightfully hers. She feels they will only ever betray her- sees them as cowards she cannot turn her back on lest they plunge a knife into it. It's made her resistant to letting them (or anyone) close to her again, holding the belief that the only person she could ever rely on was herself. Even if her family have attempted to make amends, she has shut them down. She holds onto her grudges for millennia (Hermes even alludes to her "having a book" of grievances against people) and the other Idols have eventually learned to keep their distance- which is just how she likes it. Apollo especially gets the brunt of this- she was thrown into an apoplectic rage anytime he dared to so much as breathe in her general direction. He was the one who failed her when she needed him most, after all, and she planned never to let him forget that.
Watching her mother get killed in the War devastated her. Demeter was one of the few Idols she still loved, one of the few she didn't actively loathe. Seeing her mother get gunned down was what killed what was left of "that long-haired goddess who loved her garden". It was the final nail in the coffin, hardening her heart even more than it already was. She can be manipulative, too. She lies to Grace in order to get her to the Underworld, promising she could find the recently deceased Freddie and also speak to the Fates to find out who sent the Furies to kill Calliope. Ultimately, all Persephone wanted was a means to get to her throne, using Grace, Apollo and their connections to Hermes to do it. She is deeply sorry for the deception, admitting even if she could not change the rules of death, she had hoped that Grace might find Freddie's spirit to say goodbye.
She's also not immune to uncertainty and doubt in herself. Though this Persephone is unromanced- should you choose to romance Grace, Persephone admits she doesn't know if she's falling for Grace for herself or because she has a piece of Calliope within her. That frightens her, the idea that she might be stringing someone along, using them the way she once was herself.
Despite all of this, and despite how hard she exudes an aura of spitting venomous anger, she's not heartless. She loved Calliope with everything she had, and the loss of her former lover weighs heavily upon her, even with the knowledge that one day the next chosen muse will regain her memories and she'll return. Persephone can warm up to Grace- especially if the other shows understanding, patience (and just a tiny bit of spunk) towards her. She shows a great amount of concern when she sends Grace off after clues- continually asking her to be careful. After the events of the game, she even makes strides towards forgiving her family. She might not forget what they did, but she does, at least, now tolerate them existing in the same room with her. She'll even jab light jokes at Apollo. Regaining her throne, and being a fundamental part of the shake-up she felt the Idols desperately needed breathed new life into her. Nothing would heal the deep wounds of her past, but she was, at least, finding better ways to cope with them.
Time of Arrival to Kaisou: October! In The Underworld! A green, spooky place surrounded by souls. She keeps trying to move towards her throne, but every step toward it that she takes, the further it seems to move from her. Items: - The clothes on her back! - The key to the Underworld which does not work here, sucks to be her. Retained Abilities: Plant growth- she can "grow a field of corn like no one's business". I'll limit this to roughly the equivalent of the 3-point plant growth power in the Earth element.
Persephone | Stray Gods | OU
Contact:
Invited by: Already here.
Other Characters: Varian and Zulius.
Character Name: Persephone
Canon: Stray Gods
Canon Point: Post game-epilogue.
Age: Thousands upon thousands of years old, she doesn't even know herself.
Birthday: We're gonna go with January 1st because she existed before regular calendars did, oops.
History: Don't talk to me, I'm angy. TW for emotional and physical domestic abuse, violence, murder and World War II. She is from a choice-based game so here is her specific world state too.
Personality:
Persephone is a person who chooses to no longer be a victim after many millenia of being defined as one. Though she was originally charmed by Hades advances towards her, she soon saw him for what he was and her disgust at her foolish youth is palpable. But not as much as it is for the man who kidnapped and kept her prisoner. There is absolutely no love lost between her and her dead husband. She makes it clear she has no regret in killing him to free herself, to give herself any sort of life beyond being Hades' property. It was mentioned that Idols choose their successors based on the familiar- given Persephone's last successor was also a woman under the thumb of an abusive man (who she swiftly killed) it would not be a stretch to say her existence is filled with continuing to fight against being a victim. In every life she chooses, she chooses to fight back.
She has no small amount of bitterness towards her family. First for their inability to help her in her captivity, and again when they punished her for solving the problem herself by ripping away the throne she felt was rightfully hers. She feels they will only ever betray her- sees them as cowards she cannot turn her back on lest they plunge a knife into it. It's made her resistant to letting them (or anyone) close to her again, holding the belief that the only person she could ever rely on was herself. Even if her family have attempted to make amends, she has shut them down. She holds onto her grudges for millennia (Hermes even alludes to her "having a book" of grievances against people) and the other Idols have eventually learned to keep their distance- which is just how she likes it. Apollo especially gets the brunt of this- she was thrown into an apoplectic rage anytime he dared to so much as breathe in her general direction. He was the one who failed her when she needed him most, after all, and she planned never to let him forget that.
Watching her mother get killed in the War devastated her. Demeter was one of the few Idols she still loved, one of the few she didn't actively loathe. Seeing her mother get gunned down was what killed what was left of "that long-haired goddess who loved her garden". It was the final nail in the coffin, hardening her heart even more than it already was. She can be manipulative, too. She lies to Grace in order to get her to the Underworld, promising she could find the recently deceased Freddie and also speak to the Fates to find out who sent the Furies to kill Calliope. Ultimately, all Persephone wanted was a means to get to her throne, using Grace, Apollo and their connections to Hermes to do it. She is deeply sorry for the deception, admitting even if she could not change the rules of death, she had hoped that Grace might find Freddie's spirit to say goodbye.
She's also not immune to uncertainty and doubt in herself. Though this Persephone is unromanced- should you choose to romance Grace, Persephone admits she doesn't know if she's falling for Grace for herself or because she has a piece of Calliope within her. That frightens her, the idea that she might be stringing someone along, using them the way she once was herself.
Despite all of this, and despite how hard she exudes an aura of spitting venomous anger, she's not heartless. She loved Calliope with everything she had, and the loss of her former lover weighs heavily upon her, even with the knowledge that one day the next chosen muse will regain her memories and she'll return. Persephone can warm up to Grace- especially if the other shows understanding, patience (and just a tiny bit of spunk) towards her. She shows a great amount of concern when she sends Grace off after clues- continually asking her to be careful. After the events of the game, she even makes strides towards forgiving her family. She might not forget what they did, but she does, at least, now tolerate them existing in the same room with her. She'll even jab light jokes at Apollo. Regaining her throne, and being a fundamental part of the shake-up she felt the Idols desperately needed breathed new life into her. Nothing would heal the deep wounds of her past, but she was, at least, finding better ways to cope with them.
Time of Arrival to Kaisou: October!
In The Underworld! A green, spooky place surrounded by souls. She keeps trying to move towards her throne, but every step toward it that she takes, the further it seems to move from her.
Items:
- The clothes on her back!
- The key to the Underworld which does not work here, sucks to be her.
Retained Abilities: Plant growth- she can "grow a field of corn like no one's business". I'll limit this to roughly the equivalent of the 3-point plant growth power in the Earth element.