Persephone

Persephone is the Goddess of Springtime, Vegetation, and is the Queen of the Underworld.

She is the daughter of Demeter

Generally when claimed, a plant grows in front of the demigod and sprouts a pomegranate.

Her emoji is 🥀

Persephone children live in Deme 4 in the Persephone cabin

### Major

*Chlorokinesis* (Major or Minor)

* The ability to manipulate plants
* Children of Persephone can manipulate fruit plants easier.
* 1-3 Alter a plant’s current condition by making it bend and make it grow 5 feet or start to decay. 3 Uses before getting tired.
* 4-6 Alter a plant’s current condition by making it bend, as well as grow 10 feet and can almost completely kill a plant. 6 Uses before getting tired.
* 7-8 Alter a plant’s current condition by making it bend, grow up to 15 feet, and kill or make plants sprout from the ground. 9 Uses before getting tired.

*Dead Plants* (Major or Minor)

* Children of Persephone can also control dead and shadow plants.
* Level 1-3: They can make dead plants bend and shadow plants grow 5 feet. Children of Persephone can use this power 3 times a day before exhaustion
* Level 4-6: Shadow plants can grow 10 feet. 6 uses a day
* Level 7-8: Shadow plants can grow 15 feet and children of Persephone can use this power 9 times a day.

### Minor Powers

*Queen Bee* (Minor)

* Children of Persephone have limited command over bees and can command them to protect them, sting. However, bees normally die after stinging once so beware of that.
* Level 1: They can control 25% of the bees in a 25 meter radius
* Level 2: 50% in a 50 meter radius
* Level 3: 75% within 100 meters

*Pollen Manipulation* (Minor)

* Children of Persephone can manipulate pollen. This ability may inadvertently breed flowers and the user is pretty much guaranteed to get some in their eyes without eye protection. Drawbacks may include fatigue after use and headaches.
* Level 1: They can manipulate the pollen from one flower
* Level 2: They can manipulate the pollen of 3 flowers
* Level 3: The number increases to 5

*Necromancy* (Minor)

* Unlike Hades children, Persephone’s kids cannot rise, or summon the dead. Instead, when they rise or are summoned by someone else, Persephone demigods are able to command them.
* Children of Persephone can communicate with the dead spiritually. They cannot do this constantly, and it puts massive strain on them. If the spirit is extremely close to them, it won’t put as much pain on them.
* Rising skeletons. Persephone kids CANNOT raise them. It’s the same thing when the dead are risen, they possess some sort of influence over them.
* Level 1: They can use this ability once every 35 days
* Level 2: Twice every 35 days
* Level 3: 3 times every 35 days

*Geokinesis* (Minor)

* Children of Persephone with this power are able to create walls using the earth, however it is extremely hard for them to concentrate so it doesn’t collapse. They are also able to make very small fissures in the earth, and create earthquakes(up to Richter 3). Their walls can stay up for up to 3 turns, if they are only focusing on that one aspect. The fissures can be up to one foot/30 cm wide, and will stay open for up to 3 turns.
* Level 1: They are able to use this power up to once a day
* Level 2: up to three times a day
* Level 3: up to five times a day
* They will pass out if they use their powers more than that many times. Otherwise, they will deal with exhaustion, a headache, or nosebleeds each time they use their power.

*Umbrakinesis* (Minor)

* Children of Persephone with this power are able to heal minor injuries such as bruises and small cuts. They are also able to cloak up to one person for up to 3 turns. Finally, they are able to shadow travel to the underworld, but they will almost definitely pass out.
* Level 1: They are able to use this power up to once a day
* Level 2: up to three times a day
* Level 3: and up to five times a day
* They will pass out if they use their powers more than that many times. Otherwise, they will deal with exhaustion, a headache, or nosebleeds each time they use their power.
* *Where My Stuff Goes* (Minor) - Subpower
	+ Children who can control shadows can also unlock a special dimension of sorts, where they can store things. It can't be anything too big, like a car, but something like a weapon or some snacks for a trip can be stored. The item must be retrieved soon, though, or it has a chance of being lost. This can be unlocked at level 3 of the Umbrakinesis power, with higher levels having better luck.
	+ 3: The dimension is able to be used, but anything that is stored has a 50% chance of being lost if stored for more than 3 days.

*Pomegranate Seeds* (Minor)

* Children of Persephone can grow… A few pomegranate plants and can eat their seeds to heal them over time. The pomegranate plants would disappear after the demigod consumes the fruit. The child ofPersephone cannot grow the plants for the next 24 hours. The seeds only heal the person that grows the plants.
* Level 1- Children of Persephone can grow one pomegranate plant and eat its fruit to heal minor cuts and bruises.
* Level 2- Children of Persephone can grow a few (3-5) pomegranate plants at a time and are able to eat its fruit to heal cuts and wounds.
* Level 3- Children of Persephone can grow up to a dozen of pomegranate plants, by eating the pomegranate the fruit could even heal broken bones, but it would take a long, long time.

### Given

*Seasonal Alteration* (Given)

* The ability to make the area around them more like spring. Embracing the elements of spring, it makes the area around them warmer, the air would smell like fresh cut grass or flowers, plants might grow faster, animals would emerge, and more metaphorical aspects of Spring. This is sort of based on strong emotion, so depending on the emotion is how it affects the area around them. They cannot do this in certain places like the underworld.
* Uncontrollable Plant Growth. Since it’s based on emotion, the stronger the emotion the less control they’ll have over their surroundings. This will only affect grass, flowers, and trees only if it’s about to sprout.

*Months* (Given)

* They tend to be happier in the spring and summer months.
* Children of Persephone are sometimes said to be bipolar because their personalities drastically change depending on the months.
* Children of Persephone are naturally stronger in the spring or when surrounded by plantlife.

*No Achoo!* (Given)

* Since Persephone is the goddess of spring, children of persephone are less likely to get hayfever (allergies), the child of persephone also can alleviate temporarily (around 1 hour a day) allergies symptoms in 2 individuals of their choosing.

*Zoolingualism* (Given)

* They can only talk to animals that come out or born in the Spring such as Lizards, Hedgehogs, Queen Bees, Frogs, Grass Snakes, etc.

*Command* (Given)

* Children of Persephone have slight command over Furies and Hellhounds.

*Strength of the woods* (given)

* Nature children get empowered with fighting in areas filled with plants and it makes all of their physical abilities slightly increase (this does not heal them)