PERSEPHONE

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Persephone Serpius.


Persephone, Proserpina (Roman equivalent), Kore, Cora. But please, just call her by the Greek standard.


Alien (Olympian).


Her actually age spans many lifetimes, but looks around 20-25 years old.


Classical Greece Era.


Greece.


Female.


Female.

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There is a certain affect of kindness about Persephone, the sad type of weak smiles and glimmering eyes that show a vague amount of pain within them, but it is small enough for it not to be upsetting to the people around her. Persephone is always generally uncomfortable around people despite her attempts to learn about them. However she seems extremely determined about the future and tends to lean towards tomorrow rather than the present (and certainly not the past). Her love for all types of fauna has brought her some solace fortunately but that does not rid her of the aches of her own marriage. Her tongue is sharper than a knife — she's constantly on the defensive, and always wants the last word in an argument.[break][break]

It is not hard to say she is stubborn, very much so, actually. She wants to live her own life, make her own decisions... so she keeps everything to herself. Somethings not even her husband knows.[break][break]

Even flowers can keep secrets before they bloom.




The daughter of Zeus and Demeter, she was isolated at a very young age by her overprotective mother. Mostly because even when she was young, she was often proposed with suitors, some of them rumored to be other Gods. But Persephone did not desire to marry — she was fine with being alone and naming all the flowers, trees, weeds, and shrubs in the world. And that is what she did.[break][break]

However one day as she was puzzled on naming a rather interesting bush a large hole in the earth opened up, and she was easily ambushed and kidnapped by Hades and was brought to the Underworld. Her mother, now worried since her child did not return home, searched night and day for her lost daughter. Demeter despaired so much nothing on Earth grew, and the mortals begun to suffer from the lack of food. Without the grass there were no deer to hunt, and without the deer they would starve.[break][break]

Demeter quickly brought it to Zeus' attention, and he found out that Persephone had been taken by Hades. He ordered Hermes to travel to the Underworld to retrieve her. But Hades tricked her into eating a pomegranate from his garden, and once this was found out she was forced to stay in the Underworld... and of course, marry him.[break][break]

Her marriage to Hades brings on the change of the seasons. The three months she is with him in the Underworld brings about fall and winter, and the days she is on Earth with her mother bring spring and summer. But even now as she disguises herself in the city of Kingsport, the seasons still change. Her marriage keeps the world afloat and due to this she must stay with him.[break][break]

After all these years, does she love Hades? She could answer yes and that would be true. But she could also say no... and that, too, would be true. But for now she has a shoppe full of bursting, blooming flowers that seem to never wilt, even bushes and sapling trees have taken root in the floorboards. Doubling also as a small café and her place of residence, it's a modern mystery — people flock to it as of it is a museum. It keeps her busy.

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In the Underworld, you either break or live long enough to break someone else. Persephone has broken, but the aftermath has left her consciousness a literal empty space. She knows right from wrong, and despite living in a version of Hell for most of her life... she has relatively good morals. But her state of mind is so serendipitous that it is extremely hard to crack it. Powers that sway emotions or induce them are null to her as Persephone has actually achieved what most people are looking for: inner peace. She's calm in almost every situation, no matter how dire (however she is still weak to people with telepathy; her thoughts can still be read and used against her will).



Persephone in Greek Mythology was described to look very similar to a flower herself. She was born to create vegetation, help it grow, and to nourish life. Suffice to say she has an extraordinary green thumb and can use plants to her own personal gain. A small tree sapling under her care and power can grow into a mighty oak in only a day, she can summon vines from the ground below her to fight in her stead, even bring dead or wilted plants back to life — to name a few abilities that fall under this. Every step she takes flowers sprout and bloom almost milliseconds afterwards, and you can tell if Persephone has been somewhere for a long period of time when there is plant life beginning to grow inside of a building. Anything from weeds to fungi, Persephone can manipulate it and bring it all to fruition.



Not all of her powers bring good tidings or beautiful flowers. As the Queen of the Underworld, Persephone can curse people and inanimate objects. She can determine the amount of time the curse lasts and how much damage it does to the person influenced by it. It usually falls under anything to having really bad luck to causing your death. But Persephone isn't really intent on hurting and if she does use this, it is always just to simply teach a lesson to someone who annoyed her and it would only last for about a day or two maximum.



The power to turn her entire body into a dark mist. She becomes intangible, making it easy to go through walls or listen in on conversations without being caught. However this ability only works at night; during the day seeing a shadowy fog following you around is very obvious.



Comes with the sub-sets of enhanced speed, enhanced reflexes, and general immortality. However she seems to lack having any form of enhanced strength. But then again Persephone was made to govern over the domain of flowers, not to wage war or hurt anyone.