Post by Persephone on Aug 12, 2010 22:32:56 GMT -7
How did you find us? There is nowhere else to be.
Name: Persephone
Age: Older than eons can count
Height/Weight: 6'1", 135 lbs.
Eyes: Green in springtime and away from the Underworld. Purple when emotional or in Hades (the place, not the God, LoL)
Hair: Dark Brown
Character description/personality: A bit of a masochist, Persephone both loves & hates Hades. She is often ambivalent to anything that doesn't involve springtime or the Underworld. She is often loathe to admit that she does indeed love Hades, as she is bitter about how their union was formed.
Persuasion: Neutral
Type of Creature: Goddess
Powers: Power over the dead, Queen of the Underworld, Earth's fertility, influence over the change of seasons. A deity that symbolizes a type of life-death-rebirth. Her return above during Spring signifies new life.
Weaknesses: Hades, both the place and her Consort. Demeter, her mother.
History:
For a quickie: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persephone
The daughter of Demeter, the Goddess of harvest and the seasons, and the God Zeus, Father of Gods and men. Persephone has no real place in the Olympian pantheon, living away from the other deities as a goddess within nature herself long before man planted seeds and nurtured the plants.
Demeter rejected offers from other Gods to have Persephone as their consort. Among these Gods were , Ares, Apollo, and Hephaestus. Rejecting their gifts, Demeter hid her daughter away from the Olympian deities and Persephone lead a peaceful life. Until Aphrodite interfered.
Believing that all beings should experience love, she became convinced that Hades, God of the Underworld deserved a bride. And so she coerced her son Cupid to bring this vision of hers to life.
Persephone often admired flowers near the entrance to the Underworld often, as unique and amazing flowers bloomed there that grew nowhere else. Aphrodite sent Cupid, who caused a great commotion enough to catch Hades' attention. And so the God of the Underworld came forth only to be pierced by Cupid's arrow. He fell instantly in love with Persephone and whisked her back into the Underworld, where she was to become his queen.
Demeter, quite stricken with grief and filled with rage, sought to destroy Hades. However, Persephone had already claimed her place below after eating a single pomegranate seed. If one ate or drank while in the Underworld, they were forever confined there, which infuriated Demeter all the more. So wounded was Demeter that she refused to allow the seasons to change, instead they yielded to her sullen mood. Perpetual fall & winter reigned until a bargain was struck that allowed Persephone to resurface, hence returning spring and summer with her reunion with Demeter.
Hades tended to Persephone as no other God had treated his Consort. He gave her every comfort he could, gifted her with rare and beautiful things, and wrote to her often loving poems and notes. Though she secretly adored this, and him for it, she most often refused to show it. Instead seeming put off by his advances. However, she also yielded to him, as deep in her heart she loved him. How could one not love another who was so devoted, and who doted on her every whim?
Wanting Persephone to be happy Hades also created gardens for her to grow and tend to her favorite flower, though when she left his realm for her seasons, the Underworld suffered as Hades did with her departure. It seemed that whatever Persephone did caused sadness. Either to her mother, Demeter while she was in the realm of the dead with Hades. Or to him when she surfaced to bring her mother happiness. Both places would suffer without her, and so her role in the cycle of seasons, the turning of the wheel became more prominent.
*From Hades' bio:
"One year, when the summer was reaching its end, Hades couldn’t wait. He waited at the entrance his wife would be using, his heart literally aching for her. And then, a nymph caught his eye. She looked so much like his beloved Persephone even. Sick of waiting, they began to make love in the field. And then his love turned on him. The arrowhead lodged in his immortal heart burned hotter than any flames of Tartarus, and Hades screamed in agony. Whether it was curiosity or concern that drove her, Persephone quickly arrived on the scene. Without hesitation, she turned the nymph into a sapling. Hades fell to his knees, clutching his slowly-calming heart. He knew his wife had been unfaithful, but being disloyal to her hurt him far more.
Again, the world continued turning. As civilizations rose and fell, the gods shifted. Through the Fates, the pantheons of the world gradually became aware of each other. Some were wary, yet placid. Others waged wars against each other. Others still learned to cooperate, share and work together. During this time of exchange, Hades met Osiris, the Egyptian lord of the dead. As wars mounted and death tolls rose, they thought it was time for a deal. Every one hundred years, one of the gods would get to take a vacation for one year while the other took double duty in the Greek and Egyptian afterlives. To avoid inter-pantheon relationships, Hades gave Persephone his blessing to take a vacation as well, so long as her mother kept the seasons as they were."
Canon or Original?: Canon
Character is from (series, book, creator, or author, if it applies): Greek Mythology
Name: Persephone
Age: Older than eons can count
Height/Weight: 6'1", 135 lbs.
Eyes: Green in springtime and away from the Underworld. Purple when emotional or in Hades (the place, not the God, LoL)
Hair: Dark Brown
Character description/personality: A bit of a masochist, Persephone both loves & hates Hades. She is often ambivalent to anything that doesn't involve springtime or the Underworld. She is often loathe to admit that she does indeed love Hades, as she is bitter about how their union was formed.
Persuasion: Neutral
Type of Creature: Goddess
Powers: Power over the dead, Queen of the Underworld, Earth's fertility, influence over the change of seasons. A deity that symbolizes a type of life-death-rebirth. Her return above during Spring signifies new life.
Weaknesses: Hades, both the place and her Consort. Demeter, her mother.
History:
For a quickie: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persephone
The daughter of Demeter, the Goddess of harvest and the seasons, and the God Zeus, Father of Gods and men. Persephone has no real place in the Olympian pantheon, living away from the other deities as a goddess within nature herself long before man planted seeds and nurtured the plants.
Demeter rejected offers from other Gods to have Persephone as their consort. Among these Gods were , Ares, Apollo, and Hephaestus. Rejecting their gifts, Demeter hid her daughter away from the Olympian deities and Persephone lead a peaceful life. Until Aphrodite interfered.
Believing that all beings should experience love, she became convinced that Hades, God of the Underworld deserved a bride. And so she coerced her son Cupid to bring this vision of hers to life.
Persephone often admired flowers near the entrance to the Underworld often, as unique and amazing flowers bloomed there that grew nowhere else. Aphrodite sent Cupid, who caused a great commotion enough to catch Hades' attention. And so the God of the Underworld came forth only to be pierced by Cupid's arrow. He fell instantly in love with Persephone and whisked her back into the Underworld, where she was to become his queen.
Demeter, quite stricken with grief and filled with rage, sought to destroy Hades. However, Persephone had already claimed her place below after eating a single pomegranate seed. If one ate or drank while in the Underworld, they were forever confined there, which infuriated Demeter all the more. So wounded was Demeter that she refused to allow the seasons to change, instead they yielded to her sullen mood. Perpetual fall & winter reigned until a bargain was struck that allowed Persephone to resurface, hence returning spring and summer with her reunion with Demeter.
Hades tended to Persephone as no other God had treated his Consort. He gave her every comfort he could, gifted her with rare and beautiful things, and wrote to her often loving poems and notes. Though she secretly adored this, and him for it, she most often refused to show it. Instead seeming put off by his advances. However, she also yielded to him, as deep in her heart she loved him. How could one not love another who was so devoted, and who doted on her every whim?
Wanting Persephone to be happy Hades also created gardens for her to grow and tend to her favorite flower, though when she left his realm for her seasons, the Underworld suffered as Hades did with her departure. It seemed that whatever Persephone did caused sadness. Either to her mother, Demeter while she was in the realm of the dead with Hades. Or to him when she surfaced to bring her mother happiness. Both places would suffer without her, and so her role in the cycle of seasons, the turning of the wheel became more prominent.
*From Hades' bio:
"One year, when the summer was reaching its end, Hades couldn’t wait. He waited at the entrance his wife would be using, his heart literally aching for her. And then, a nymph caught his eye. She looked so much like his beloved Persephone even. Sick of waiting, they began to make love in the field. And then his love turned on him. The arrowhead lodged in his immortal heart burned hotter than any flames of Tartarus, and Hades screamed in agony. Whether it was curiosity or concern that drove her, Persephone quickly arrived on the scene. Without hesitation, she turned the nymph into a sapling. Hades fell to his knees, clutching his slowly-calming heart. He knew his wife had been unfaithful, but being disloyal to her hurt him far more.
Again, the world continued turning. As civilizations rose and fell, the gods shifted. Through the Fates, the pantheons of the world gradually became aware of each other. Some were wary, yet placid. Others waged wars against each other. Others still learned to cooperate, share and work together. During this time of exchange, Hades met Osiris, the Egyptian lord of the dead. As wars mounted and death tolls rose, they thought it was time for a deal. Every one hundred years, one of the gods would get to take a vacation for one year while the other took double duty in the Greek and Egyptian afterlives. To avoid inter-pantheon relationships, Hades gave Persephone his blessing to take a vacation as well, so long as her mother kept the seasons as they were."
Canon or Original?: Canon
Character is from (series, book, creator, or author, if it applies): Greek Mythology
