Persephone

Juno Inferna, Queen of Haides, Iron Queen, Great Mistress, Mistress of the Dead, Mistress of the House of Hades, Lady of the Underground, Lady of the Upside Down, Bringer of Death, Harbinger of Destruction, Queen of the Darkest Spring

## Relationships

### Ancestors

Khaos (Progenitor)
Ouranos (Ancestor)
Gaia (Ancestor)
Kronos (Grandfather)
Rhea (Grandmother)

### Parents

Zeus (Father)
Demeter (Mother)

### Siblings

**Paternal Half-Siblings**
Hephaestus, Athena, Artemis, Apollo, Ares, Hermes, Dionysus...

### Children

Zagreus (Son)
Rowan Anderson (Son)
Melinoë (Daughter)
**Adopted Children**
Adonis, Macaria
**Stepchildren**
Nico di Angelo, Bianca di Angelo, Hazel Levesque

## Personal Status

### Ranking

Principal God
Pseudo-Chthonic God

### Affliations

House of Hades
Greco-Roman Underworld
Realm of the Dead
Mount Olympus
Chthonic Deities
Olympian Deities
Greco-Roman Deities
Greco-Roman Pantheon

### Abilities

**Ethereal Energy*** Earth Manipulation
* Plant Manipulation
* Fertility Manipulation
* Underworld Manipulation

### Power Scale

**Rank**: E-Ranked
**Class**: Primordial-Class

## Portrayal

### English VA

Allegra Clark

**Persephone**, also called **Kore** or **Proserpina**, is the Goddess of Springtime, Vegetation, and the Underworld from Greco-Roman Mythology. She is oldest daughter of Zeus and the niece-wife of Hades, thus making her Queen of the Greco-Roman Underworld.

## Overview

In Greek mythology, **Persephone**, also called **Kore** or **Kora**, is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter. She became the queen of the Underworld after her abduction by Hades, the god of the underworld, with the approval of her father and brother-in-law, Zeus.

The myth of her abduction, her sojourn in the underworld and her temporary return to the surface represents her functions as the embodiment of spring and the personification of vegetation, especially grain crops, which disappear into the earth when sown, sprout from the earth in spring, and are harvested when fully grown. In Classical Greek art, Persephone is invariably portrayed robed, often carrying a sheaf of grain. She may appear as a mystical divinity with a sceptre and a little box, but she was mostly represented in the process of being carried off by Hades.

Persephone as a vegetation goddess and her mother Demeter were the central figures of the Eleusinian Mysteries, which promised the initiated a happy afterlife. The origins of her cult are uncertain, but it was based on ancient agrarian cults of agricultural communities.

Her name has numerous historical variants. These include **Persephassa** and **Persephatta**. In Latin, her name is rendered Proserpina. She was identified by the Romans as the Italic goddess Libera, who was conflated with Proserpina. Myths similar to Persephone's descent and return to earth also appear in the cults of male gods including Attis, Adonis, and Osiris, and in Minoan Crete.

## Appearance

Persephone appears as a beautiful woman in her 20s, with flawless skin and a voluptuous body. She has long, straight dark-brown hair and purple eyes. She is said to have a calm and serene aura.

She wears a black-and-redd dress decorated with beautiful roses and white ruffles, black fishnet stockings, and designer high-heeled shoes. She also wears a crown formed from roses and a golden necklace encrusted with a bright-red jewel. When she first appeared, she wore a dress that shimmered with colors and flower patterns which changed and bloomed - roses, tulips, and honeysuckles.

## Personality

Persephone is a goddess from mythology well-known for her kind, caring, and generous personality, most famous for her marriage with Hades, her uncle and the God of the Dead. She is clever, and is an extremely fair and just ruler to the shades of the deceased, especially to those belonging to her domain of the Greco-Roman Underworld.

She is a very gracious and welcoming hostess who is always opening her arms to help those who are in need of her help. She is also described as someone extremely polite, with impeccable manners befitting for her status as the Queen of the Underworld. However, she can be easily angered if her guests aren't treating her with the same respect she has shown them, even to the point of cursing them right at the spot without any sign of remorse.

She has a strong maternal instinct through her nature as a Mother Earth Goddess and a Fertility Goddess, and will go to great lengths for the safety of her children. She also has a habit of claiming young children she encountered to be her new children, which often causes many problems with their parents, especially if those children are demigods.

Despite this, she is an incredibly sly and cunning individual. She has shown to have no problem sacrificing servants and allies alike as long as it means advancing her own plans and further polishing her family's safety and reputation. She is also mentioned by her siblings to be extremely ruthless in her actions, having neither care nor mercy toward those who could endanger her, her family, or those she cares about.

As the first of the younger Olympians, being born to Zeus and Demeter during the Titanomachy, she isn't unfamiliar with war and violence. She has a cruel and sadistic streak of her own on the battlefield, one great enough to be feared among the gods and monsters of Greco-Roman mythology.

According to Ares, her younger half-brother, she was someone who the younger gods are all terrified of, saved for a collective few such as the Elder Olympians or her children, and to be under her wrath is said to be a fate worse than death.

## Trivia

* Her name "Persephone" means "female thresher of grain" or "bringer of destruction".
* "Kore" is another name for Persephone, meaning "girl" or "maiden".
* Her attributes include the pomegranate, seeds of grain, torch, flowers and deer.
	+ Her sacred plants are the asphodel, narcissus, willow, lily, and mint.
	+ Her sacred animals are black rams, bats, monkeys, and parrots.
* She likes pomegranates, good-quality alcohol (especially wine), and gardening.
	+ She hates smoking and being restrained.
* Her ethereal aura is comparable to the "scent of the earth after the first rain in spring".
* She is considered a triple goddess, representing the maiden, alongside Demeter and Hecate.
* Homer describes Persephone as the venerable queen of the underworld, who carries into effect the curses of men upon the souls of the dead.
* In Ovid's version of the myths recounted in his Metamorphoses (Book V), Aphrodite saw Hades riding in his chariot and tasked her son Eros to shoot one of his arrows into Hades' heart and make him fall in love with Persephone.
* The 26 Proserpina is named after her Roman form, Proserpina.
	+ The 399 Persephone is also named after her.
	+ Kore, one of Jupiter's moons, is named after her.