Persephone

**Persephone**, also known and worshipped in Ancient Rome as **Kore** and **Proserpina**, is the Pagan Goddess of Springtime, Vegetation, Growth, Fertility, Rebirth, and the Underworld from Greek Pantheon.

She is the God-Queen of the Greek Underworld, more commonly known as the Realm of the Dead. She is a former member of the Alliance of Hell - a terrorist organization that was originally lead by Hades before being taken over by Ahriman, Avatar of Angra Mainyu.

She is the first-born daughter of Zeus with his older sister Demeter, making her the first heir to the throne of Mount Olympus. She is the oldest sister of Hephaestus, Aphrodite, Ares, Athena, Apollon, Artemis, Hermes, Dionysus, Enyo, Eileithyia, Hebe, Eris and many more gods and demigods through her father's numerous affairs.

She is married to her uncle Hades, and the mother of Zagreus, Macaria, Melinoë, as well as the adopted mother of Adonis and Orpheus. Persephone is one of the GMs (Game Masters) of the Azazel Cup.

## Overview

Persephone is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter from Greek Lore. She is the goddess of vegetation that is married to Hades, leading to her becoming a goddess and queen of the underworld. There are many variations on the myth about what happened, but most have Hades kidnapping her and taking her to the underworld.

Persephone's mother refused any deity that wanted to be with Persephone and kept them away from her, and it was said that Zeus gave her to his brother Hades which was an act that Demeter, Persephone, and Hades himself resented and were extremely bitter towards Zeus for.

Another version tells that Persephone, having grown tired of his mother's overbearing and nagging nature, wandered off into the forest where she came upon the entrance to the Underworld. Her curiosity got the better of her and upon entering she was met with none other than Hades himself.

While Persephone was wary of Hades at first, she would slowly begin to see a side of him that not even his own family are aware of. Persephone noticed that unlike his brothers, Hades was kind and compassionate towards her. He never forced himself on her, did not abuse her, never raised his voice, and would provide her space, comfort, and nourishment. During her time with Hades, her feelings of affection was mutual and she soon fell in love with the Underworld god.

## Appearance

In a Past, Persephone is a beautiful fair-haired maiden dressed in regal robes, wearing intricate jewelry crafted from the finest of precious metals and jewels.

Persephone is often depicted as invariably wearing robes, carrying a sheaf of grain. She may also appear as a mystical divinity with a sceptre and a little box. Most of the arts often depicted her while being carried off by Hades.

Currently, Persephone appears as a beautiful young woman in her 20s, with flawless skin and a voluptuous body. She has long dark-brown hair and stormy-blue eyes, which are described as the color of the sky during a thunderstorm. She is said to have a calm and serene aura.

She wears a noble black-and-red dress, decorated with beautiful roses, and black fishnet stocking. She wears designer high-heels shoes. She also wears a crown formed from roses and a golden necklace with a bright red jewel attached to it.

## Personality

Persephone is a well-known goddess from Greek Pantheon for her generous and kind personality, most famous for her marriage with the God of the Dead, Hades. She has a dark sense of humor, which is shared by the majority of chthonic deities.

She greatly loves her husband with all of her heart and, in contrast to popular knowledge, married him in her own free-will, having staged the entire kidnap story to mislead her overprotective mother.

She is an incredibly sly and cunning individual, whose ambition "shoots through the heavens and reaches the angels' abode". She has shown to have no problem sacrificing servants and allies alike to advance her plans and to further polish her and her family's reputation. She is extremely ruthless in her actions, having neither care nor mercy toward those who offend her and her family.

As the first Second-Generation Olympian, being born to Zeus and Demeter in the earlier days of the Titanomachy, she isn't a stranger to violent and war, having a sadistic and cruel streak of her own that is infamous amongst the immortals and monsters of Greek Pantheon.

According to Ares, she was someone who the Greek gods are all terrified of, saved for a collective few such as the Elder Olympians and her children, and to be under her wrath is a fate worse than death. She is also the one who created the Fields of Punishment on top of Tartarus, with the majority of the punishments there she personally invented in her free time.

According to Chronos, if it weren't for her marriage with Hades and her ascension to the throne of the Greek Underworld, she'd become the next participant of Ouranos' Curse of Patricide, killing Zeus and claiming the throne of Olympus.

She has a strong maternal instinct through her role as a Mother Earth Goddess and a fertility goddess, and will go to great lengths for her children. She also has a habit of claiming young demigods to be her new children, which often cause many problems with their divine parents. Similar to her son Zagreus, she is an alcoholic and possesses one of the greatest liquor collections across all the mythological worlds.

## History

One of the Gods of the Realm of the Dead, Persephone is one of the Gods who have been active since the time of Ancient Greek and Rome.

### Early Life

Persephone was born in the later years of the Titanomachy, the direct result of a one-night-stand between Zeus and Demeter in the form of a pair of giant snakes. Growing up in one of the Greek Pantheon's darkest and bloodiest eras, she was quickly pushed into the battlefield, where she thrived as one of the greatest warriors on the side of the Olympian, responsible for the deaths of numerous Titan gods.

Despite being the first child of Zeus, she doesn't have a position in the High Olympia Council, parts due to her mother's dislike toward politics and didn't want her daughter to deal with such annoyances, parts due to the Elder Olympians, including her parents, were afraid of her powers and didn't want to chance to see her becoming mad with power.

Because of this, Persephone mainly resided with her mother in Eleusis, alongside several of her mother's most loyal nymphs. Here, she took on the role of a Nature God, responsible for maintaining the natural order and governing the growth of plants. Occasionally, her father would send her half-siblings to her and asked her to train them in various subjects, mainly in combat and magic, in order for them to take on the duties of a god.

### The "Rape" of Persephone

When she was around 1,800 years old, she and Hades entered a relationship with each other, with Persephone being the initiated. However, as her mother was extremely protective of her and didn't want to see her daughter married off to some gods, they decided to keep it a secret from every.

One day, Persephone became tired of keeping it a secret and decided to elope together, not caring about what the other gods, especially her mother, would react. Aidoneus, reluctantly, agreed to this, as he wanted to proudly claimed her as his wife without any fear.

Together, they planned a scene where Persephone was kidnapped by a Titan on his chariot in order to fool the nymph servants, as well as all the gods who could possibly see them. Just like they thought, the plan showed to be a success, as no one could recognize the Titan was Hades in disguised and believed that Persephone was truly kidnapped from Mount Etna. They then married each other in Hades, with the closest allies of them being the attendants, such as Nyx, Thanatos, and Hecate.

They then lived in marital bliss for decades, before Hermes arrived to report Zeus' order to bring Persephone back to the world above, something that angered her so much that she almost ripped her half-brother apart just for being the messenger, only to be stopped by the combined effort of the chthonic gods. She then ordered Hermes to return and told the gods that if they made her return against her will, she would kill each and every single living being within the Grecian cosmology, as well as bringing forth undead armies to plague the world with endless chaos and discord.

In order to please both his daughter, who promised to end the world with the zombie apocalypse, and his sister, who promised to end the world with mutated plant monsters, Zeus decided that for every year, Persephone would stay in the world above for 8 months with her mother to help governing the natural world, while the other 4 months she would spend in Realm of the Dead, ruling beside Hades as the Queen of the Dead. After some exchanges between her and Demeter, resulting in the Olympus Palace needed to be rebuilt, dozens of islands sunk to the depths of the Mediterranean seas, and Zeus' ballsacks needed to be reattached by Apollon, the mother and daughter duo then agreed to the conditions after Hestia suggested to balance everything out by making her spend half the year (6 months) in each realm.

### The Poplar Tree and the Mint

Following the reveal of her marriage with Hades, many females started to see him in a different light than before, less of a dark, malicious, and cold king of the dead, but rather a charming and extremely wealthy potential lover. While many had thought about the idea of seducing him like how his two brothers were easily seduced and cheated on their wives, these ideas were soon crushed when they heard about the tale of Leuce and Minthe.

#### Leuce

During one of Aidoneus' visits to the world above, he was noticed by **Leuce** - the most beautiful daughter of Oceanus, whose white hair and green eyes gave her an exotic look in comparison to her sisters.

She tried to seduce him with her body, and when that failed, tried to force herself on him when he was drunk, trying to trick him into thinking he raped her and forced him to take consequences for his actions and made her his concubine.

However, this action didn't go unnoticed by Persephone and she quickly flew into a jealous rage. She ripped the nymph's bones out one by one while Leuce could do nothing but to scream and begged for mercy, then her body was burned by the most powerful flames in the Depths of Tartarus, which made her screams echoed throughout Realm of the Dead.

Still not feeling satisfied, she then ordered the Erinyes into taking her soul to the cruelest place in the Fields of Punishment to be tortured daily by the Kindly Ones themselves, while her bones were planted and thus the white poplar tree was born - an example to those who dared to make a mockery of her and her husband.

#### Minthe

**Minthe** was a naiad of the river Cocytus that runs through Realm of the Dead, who was taken to the world above as a favor of Hades.

Because of this, she became obsessed with him and thought he was madly in love with her. She then bragged loudly with overweening words and raved foolishly for jealously, saying that she was nobler of form and more excellent in beauty than the dark-eyed Persephone, and boasted that Hades would return to her and banished the Spring Goddess from his halls.

Angered by such foolish words, Persephone trampled upon her with her feet and crushed her, spreading her body across the hill where it would later be named Minthi (Μίνθη) after her to remind the world of the Queen of the Dead's wrath.

Her body would then turn into the first mint herbs, which the Ancient Greeks would use in funeral rites and not simply to offset the smell of decay. Similar to Leuce, Persephone then ordered the Erinyes into taking her soul to the cruelest place in the Fields of Punishment to be tortured daily by the Kindly Ones themselves.

### The Thrice-Born

Years after her marriage with Aidoneus, their love finally bloomed into a young god named Zagreus.

### Adonis

One day, Aphrodite came to Persephone and Hades and asked them to help her raised a young boy named Adonis.

Originally, she saw him as nothing more than a chore and a burden placed upon their family by the Throne of Judgement, but through time, she began to warm up to the young Divine Spirit and saw him as her own child.

Growing up, Adonis' natural beauty began to shine bright, to the point where tales of his beauty would spread across the Grecian world, as mortals began to create cults dedicated to him. Numerous figures, from mortals to gods to monsters alike would gather just to see a glimpse of his famed beauty.

Because of this, Persephone became immensely protective of her son, forbidding anyone to even venture near the area he was in. However, this didn't help him escape from the eyes of Aphrodite - the one who had given him as a young child to the king and queen of Hades to be raised.

Astonished at his ethereal beauty, the Goddess of Beauty began to develop romantic feelings for the young boy, seeing him as a potential lover rather than just simply an experiment than before. One day, she enchanted the eyes and ears of the queen of Hades and appeared next to the adolescent boy, luring him to her bed and slept with him under the cover of the night - something that she would continue to do for several more times before being discovered by an enraged Persephone.

Because of this, the two goddesses entered a battle of epic proportions, resulting in immense damage to the world around them, with the most prominent being the destruction of countless lands and cities. The battle would only be stopped when they heard the news of Adonis' death, killing himself in order to put an end to this meaningless battle.

The news of her second son's death put Persephone into a catatonic state, as her body slowly withered away alongside the natural world itself. Plants would not grow, seasons would not change, rivers would not run, and the sun would shine no more. Seeing this, the Elder Olympians came and begged their former mentor Chronos for assistance, as Aphrodite herself had sealed herself back into her temple and refused to communicate with anyone, including her lover Ares and her son Cupid.

## Powers and Abilities

**Immense Strength:** Persephone is noted to be one of the most powerful Olympian deities from Greek Mythology, being the first-born and most powerful daughter of Zeus and Demeter - Two powerful Elder Olympians. Because of her strength, she is known as the Iron Queen of the Underworld, with her authority often considered to be on par, if not even greater than her husband's by the shades of the dead dwelling there.

**Transcended Deity Physiology:** Persephone possesses all the standard traits and abilities of a pagan deity.

* **Divine Energy Manipulation:** Persephone could generate and manipulate her own divine energy. She could radiate a burgandy-colored aura that could be imbued in her attacks and weapons with to increase their overall destructive power.
	+ **Divine Energy Constructs:** She could turn energy into tools, objects, weapons and other items, and create semi-living constructs of varying permanence. She created a pair of sickles to fight against the Evie troop when her main weapon Proángelos was being repaired.
	+ **Power Bestowal:** She could grant multiple powers to individuals in the forms of divine blessings, as long as these powers are related to her domains.
	+ **Deification:** Through the usage of divine substances such as ambrosia and nectar, she could grant mortal beings an *apotheosis*, elevating them to a divine status. In order for a human to become a god, they must have a pure soul, benevolence, and righteousness. The gods turned by her are often minor deities associated with either nature and/or the underworld, such as Adonis (God of Vegetation) and Macaria (Goddess of Blessed Death).
	+ **Avatar Creation:** She could create avatars to freely interact in the human world with less restrictions and more freedom. The avatars created by her are often being Ultimate-class in terms of power.
* **Telekinesis:** Persephone possesses telekinetic ability, which allows her to control objects with just the power of her mind for both offensive and defensive purposes.
* **Omnilingualism:** Persephone possesses the ability to speak or communicate in any known language, dialect, and even those of alien origins, as long as this language could be spoken using a human's vocal cord. However, this power only translates to speaking and hearing these languages, but couldn't write or read them.
* **Cosmic Awareness:** As a pagan god born of the powerful of the world and the belief and reverance of humanity, Persephone possesses a minor level of cosmic awareness that allows her to connect with her domains on a universal scale. She possesses a connection with the natural order and could feel the shifts and changes bring forth by grand feats or actions capable of unbalancing it.
* **Worship Empowerment:** Through her worshipers, Persephone could have any of her abilities bolstered to a higher degree, depending on the number of worshipers she gains. The more religious and pious her worshippers become, the more powerful she will become. Depending on number of her mortal devotees, she may even develop new and special abilities unique to her.
	+ **Belief Empowerment:** As a pagan god, she was shaped by the belief of humanity. Depending on how strong the belief on her worshippers truly is, she may even develop new and special abilities unique to her. According to Hermes, with how popular the romance between her and Hades is in the modern era, she not only gains more power but also a minor authority over love.
	+ **Sacrifice Empowerment:** Through offerings and sacrifices, she could have any of her abilities bolstered to a higher degree, depending on the number of offerings she received. Depending on the number of offerings and sacrifices she received from her followers, she may even develop new and special unique to her. Many cults dedicated to her are still growing strong in the modern era, such as the Secret Society of Modern Eleusinians or the Covenant of Our Lady Underground.
* **Immortality:** As a god, Persephone is an immortal being who could live indefinitely unless she's either faded or killed. However, if she doesn't received the necessary faith and offerings she required, her powers will become weakened through time and her body will physically become weaker and older.
	+ **Nigh-Invulnerability:** She cannot be harmed or killed by conventional weaponry, aliments, or diseases. Only immensely powerful supernatural poisons and weaponry are capable of affecting her.

**Master Magician:** Persephone is a Master Magician, capable of casting spells and performing rituals on-par with a Magic God on her own. She possesses in-depth knowledge about a wide range of magical subjects, many of which dated from ancient times and many even lost to history. She is the best friend/mistress of the Greek Goddess of Magic Hecate and had learned many arcane knowledge from her handmaiden. She is one of the gods worshipped in Wiccan, specifically as a Triple Goddess representing the maiden alongside Demeter, representing the Mother, and Hecate, representing the Crone.

* **Olympus Magic:** The Magic System used by the Greek gods, espcially by the Olympians. She is one of the first wielders of the system, having mastered it in combat during the Titanomachy against the Titanian gods. She is extremely skilled in this system
	+ **Curses:** She is extremely skilled in cursery, with the people of Ancient Greece prayed for her to deliver curses upon the spirits of the deceased. She is the leader of the Arae - Daughters of Nyx and divine personifications of curses - and through them, she could spread her curses throughout the world with little efforts.
* **Healing Magic:** Persephone could perform Healing Magic onto others to heal them of their wounds and injuries. Due to her domains having close connections with healing, renewal, and rejuvenation, her magic is said to be on-par with Gods of Healing and Medicine such as her brother Apollon or her nephew Asclepius. She was able to easily heal the curse of Medusa's Eye on Cao Cao with a single wave of her hand.
	+ **Fertility Magic:** She could use Fertility Magic to make land, living beings and plants fertile, allowing them to reproduce or grow, or make them infertile, making them unable to reproduce or grow.
* **Necromancy:** Persephone could use necromancy to manipulate the dead, death, the death-force and/or souls for various reasons. She could also communicate with the deceased – either by summoning their spirit as an apparition or raising them bodily – for the purpose of divination, imparting the means to foretell future events or discover hidden knowledge. Her level of necromancy is noted to be beneath Hecate's, on-par with her husband Hades', and above all other gods and magicians of Greek Mythology.
	+ **Undead Magic:** She is capable of performing magic associated with the undead. She summoned several skeletal butlers and maids to serve Team DxD during their staying in Hades' Palace in the Isle of the Blessed.
	+ **Chains of Iron and Silver**: A special spell created by Persephone for the purpose of capturing spirits who wonder off from their designated path and don't enter the Greek Underworld. It creates special chains made out of gleaming iron and glittering silver that will automatically seek out and capture those souls, regardless of where they are or how powerful they are, and drag them down into the Realm of Hades. According to Hermes, these chains were bathed within the water from the rivers Lethe (Forgetfulness) and Cocytus (Wailing) so that the spirits captured by them won't be able to fight back.
	+ **Unnamed Vampire to Human Spell:** It is rumored that she has invented a magic spell that could revert the vampirization process and transform a Turned Vampire back into a living human. This, however, is neither confirmed nor denied by her and other gods within the Court of Aidoneus.
* **Teleportation Magic:** Persephone could use Teleportation Magic to travel between locations. Due to her status as the God-Queen of the Greek Underworld, she's capable of traveling to everywhere within the Greek Mythology's territory.

**Master Combat Specialist:** Persephone is one of the most powerful combat specialists amongst the Greek gods, being a warrior who had fought in both the Titanomachy and the Gigantomachy. She is known amongst the chthonic gods as the "Springtime Trigger-Happy Queen of Sadism" due to her sadistic fighting style. She is the most powerful daughter of Zeus, even greater and more skilled than her battle-orientated siblings such as Ares, Athena, and Artemis and could easily defeat all of them at once in direct combat.

* **Master Hand-to-Hand Combatant:** Despite being heavily focused on swordsmanship and magic-casting as her main fighting style, Persephone is a master hand-to-hand combatant, as shown when she fought against both Astraea and Nike on equal ground. Her attacks are extremely well done and possess terrifying effectiveness, being described as ruthless and always aiming toward her opponents' fatal points, which in combination with her immense knowledge of multiple different fighting styles, make her an extremely dangerous opponent. She is also the one who tutored the immortal centaur Chiron the art of *pankration* - The world's oldest mixed martial arts spoken of in Ancient Greek tales.
* **Attack Prediction:** Persephone could interpret and predict enemy attacks and react to the incoming attack, brush off or avoid the incoming attacks even from a dead angle.
* **Combat Perception:** Persephone could instantly understand an opponent's method of thinking and fighting, allowing her to anticipate the moves of the opponent. Once she understands her enemies' strategy, she is able to find their flaws and weakness and take them down with little effort.
* **Weapon Proficiency:** Persephone is proficient in multiple forms of weaponry.
	+ **Master Swordswoman:** She is able to wield a sword with supernatural proficiency in speed, power, and skill, allowing her to perform seemingly impossible feats with ease, such as cutting through intangible materials, blocking or deflecting things that should be impossible to block/deflect and even slash targets from any distance.
	+ **Master Scythe Wielder:** She could wield a scythe with tremendous dexterity and skill, accurately and precisely slicing through the enemies without being hindered by the scythe's heavy weight. Before switching to her current weapon and Symbol of Power, she used to wield a war scythe as her weapon through the Titanomachy, having used it to slay countless enemies.
* **Master Technician:** Persephone is a very skilled Technique-type fighter, having spent millennia perfecting her skills and abilities to the utmost perfection. Her techniques are said to be on par with several war deities themselves.

**Plant Manipulation:** Persephone could create, shape and manipulate plants, including wood, vines, plants, moss, and parts of the plants, such as leaves, seeds, roots, fruits and flowers. She could cause plants to grow, move/attack or even rise from the soil and "walk", mutate plants by rearranging DNA structure and revive withered or dead plants. She could also control plants in their altered forms, i.e. concentrated forms, such as cotton clothing/fabric, paper, etc.

* **Plant Transformation:** Persephone could turn anything beneath her in terms of power and within her field of vision into plant matter, including wood, vines, plants, moss and parts of the plants, such as leaves, seeds, fruits and flowers. She was known in mythology for having turned both the Oceanid Leuke into a white poplar tree and the Lampad Minthe into the mint plant for trying to seduce her husband Hades while she was on the mortal world.
	+ **Flower Transformation:** She could turn anything beneath her in terms of power and within her field of vision into flowers or anything related to flowers. She turned Bedeze Abaddon's attacks into flurries of flower petals with a single wave of her hand.
* **Flower Manipulation:** Persephone could create, shape and manipulate flowers. She could cause flowers and parts of the flowers, including petals, stems and pollen, to grow and bloom, move/attack, mutate flowers by rearranging DNA structure, and revive withered or dead flowers.
	+ **Mandragoras Screech**: She stomped the ground in front of her, making several brushes of mandrakes to burst out from the ground, which would then let out a terrifying screech powerful enough to break through concrete before withering away.
		- **Barrier of Mandragoras**: A more advanced version of the previous technique. Instead of stomping the ground to summon the mandrakes, she actively forced them to burst out of the ground with her divinity and formed a barrier around her. The mandrakes will then let out piercing screeches capable of exploding human's brain and even shatter magic barriers and will not stop unless she deemed it appropriate to stop.
* **Grass Manipulation:** Persephone could create, control, shape and manipulate grass, including the "true grasses" of the Poaceae/Gramineae family (cereals, bamboo, the grasses of lawns/turf and grassland), the sedges (Cyperaceae) and the rushes (Juncaceae, such as papyrus). She could cause grass growth, move/attack or even rise from the soil and "walk", mutate grass by rearranging DNA structure, and revive withered or dead grasses.
* **Vine Manipulation:** Persephone could create, shape and manipulate vines - Tendrils, stems or runners of the plant with a growth habit of trailing or climbing stems or runners, the specialized stems, leaves or petioles with a threadlike shape that is used by climbing plants for support, attachment and cellular invasion by parasitic plants, generally by twining around suitable hosts. She could cause vines to grow, develop thorns, move/attack or even rise from the soil and "walk", mutate vines by rearranging DNA structure and revive withered or dead vines.
* **Wood Manipulation:** Persephone could create, shape and manipulate wood and woody plants, including trees, shrubs and lianas. She could cause wood to grow, move/attack or even rise from the soil and "walk", mutate wood by rearranging DNA structure, revive withered or dead wood or manipulate the dead wood as well as living.
	+ **Cage of Persephassa**: She rose dozens of trees from the ground of the Netherworld to recapture the escaped Titans during the Demonic Beast Riot. These trees were shown to be sturdy enough to not only withstand the attacks of the Titans but also showed no signs of damage even after the relentless attacks of the powerful Anti-Monster Jabberwocky, which was said to be at least God-class in terms of sheer destructive power.
	+ **Hades' Embrace**: When fighting against a partially awakened Gaia, she created a giant wall formed out of hundreds upon thousands of trees as a way to block the Primordial Mother Earth Goddess' attack. These trees were formed out of her own divine energy and imbued with the spiritual energy of the underworld where Gaia's influence was the weakest, thus allowed the wall formed by them to block her attack. However, due to the overall destructiveness of Gaia' attack, it could only block around 3/4 of its destructiveness before entirely disintegrated by the attack.
* **Plant Growth:** Persephone could influence and accelerate the growth of plants causing flowers and other plants to bloom instantaneously, causing them to mature with supernatural speed, grow to unusual size, and produce in abundance. She could cause plants to grow from seeds to mature plants in moments, cause them to flower and produce fruits, seeds, etc. outside season, cause a cut plant to grow roots and other similar feats.

**Agriculture Intuition:** Persephone has immense knowledge of agriculture/aquaculture using all types of methods, techniques and skills. She was often worshipped as an agricultural goddess alongside her mother Demeter in the time of Ancient Greece and Rome.

**Fertility Manipulation:** Persephone could create, shape and manipulate fertility - The natural capability for living beings to reproduce (in terms of animals) or grow (in terms of plants). She could make land, living beings or plants fertile, allowing them to reproduce or grow, or make things infertile, making them unable to reproduce or grow.

* **Fertility Inducement:** Persephone could induce fertility - The natural desire and capability of growth and reproduction, including restoring fertility to infertile/sterile area/beings. In animals this increases both the number and health of offspring's, and gives the parents, in plants in increases the fertility in soil causing healthy botanical growth.
* **Infertility Manipulation:** Persephone could create, shape and manipulate infertility, the inability of a person, animal or plant to reproduce/grow by natural means. In ancient times, she would punish kingdoms and cities that failed to properly worship her and her mother by making their crops incapable of growth and their trees unable to bear fruits, leading them to starvation and destruction.

**Nature Manipulation:** As a Mother Earth Goddess, Persephone is connected directly to the natural world and thus can communicate, influence, manipulate and control nature: all living beings and plants and natural phenomena, such as the weather and geology of the Earth, and the matter and energy of which all these things are composed. She could manipulate, tap into, blend and/or become elements of nature, as well as controlling animals and plants and mimic their abilities and forms.

* **Cycle Manipulation:** Persephone is a Cycle Deity with some influence and control over the cosmic cycles, such as the seasonal cycle or the cycle of life and death. In ancient times, she was envisioned as the goddess whose arrival on Earth brought forth springtime and new lives and her departure into the underground would allow the frost to come and the crop to wither. In ancient Orphism, she was believed to be an ancient goddess with dominance over the cycle of rebirth and the souls.
	+ **Life Renewal:** She could renew the life essence and age of mortal beings to any point she wants. This allows her to reward those who pleased her with a second youth, regressing their age and recover/replenish all the energy and strength they had lost over the years.
	+ **Season Manipulation:** She is able to manipulate the seasons, as well as draw from the concepts each season is connected.
		- **Spring Manipulation:** She is able to create, shape manipulate and induce the season of spring and the powers/forces it represents: the growth, renewal and new life (both plant and animal) being born. She is empowered during the time of spring.
			* **Spring Inducement:** She is able to bring the season of spring, causing the growth, renewal and new life of both plants and animals.
				+ **Circadian Manipulation:** She is capable to control the movement and rotation of planets, manipulating and changing the flow of day and night: time still flows naturally, but planet is simply rotated faster or slower. She could turn the Earth's axis, causing springtime to come forward.
			* **Beauty Manipulation:** She could create, shape and manipulate beauty in/on/off anything, including physical, mental, natural, conceptual, etc. optical phenomena such as sunsets, natural scenery, plants, gold, gemstones, crystals, etc.
			* **Weather Manipulation:** She could sense, create, shape and manipulate weather, i.e. the meteorological patterns, creating rain, wind, hail, lightning, snow, sleet, fog, and temperature changes. This includes the ability to generate various natural phenomena or control the intensity of the weather in highly concentrated (inside room) or vastly extended (continental) areas. According to Hermes, amongst all of Zeus' children, her power over the weather is on a league of its own.
	+ **Bio-Cycle Manipulation:** She is capable of using her own divine bio-energy to manipulate or influence the natural processes of life and death in living beings. She could heal, harm, create, destroy, remake, reconfigure, restore, deconstruct, resurrect nearly all non-immortal living or non-living using her bio-energy.

**Underworld Lordship:** Through her marriage with Hades and ascension to the Queen of the Realm of Hades, Persephone became one of the Lords of the Underworld, possessing authority and duties in the underworld - A place where the souls of the all recently departed go, an afterlife or Realm of the Dead located below the realm of the living. She could command the dead, and have powers related to life, and death, souls in general as well as power to bind and restrict (dead are expected to stay there after all).

* **Underworld Manipulation:** Persephone could control the Greek Underworld, also known as the Realm of the Dead, and everything within, including any creatures that may reside in it and even the souls within.
	+ **Underworld Beast Manipulation:** She could create, manipulate, and destroy monsters native to the Realm of the Dead. She could control them to do her biddings like, help her during situations, use them against foes, use them to see locations and get information about a particular place, use them for battle, use them for spying on others, etc.
	+ **Undead Manipulation:** She could create, manipulate, and destroy physical and ghostly Undeads, command the dead souls, condemn them to torment, or steal the souls of the dead/dying to increase the legions of the undead. However, undeads with sentient and free-will such as vampires will not be affected by this ability, only hearing her power and manipulation as a nagging voice inside their mind and nothing more.
* **Soul Manipulation:** Persephone could manipulate the soul - The incorporeal and immortal essence of a living thing, souls are usually most obviously present in sentient beings. At some level all biological organisms have souls, and even non-biological entities (such as rivers and mountains) possess something that is analogous to a soul.
	+ **Soul Reading:** She could perceive and read the souls, whether free (i.e. dead, astral projection, etc) or in body. She could study and observe the nature of one's soul and find weaknesses based on the nature of the observed souls. By reading soul, she could see/feel the being's characteristics, personality, feelings, memories, whether they even have a soul, damage others' souls have endured, and whether or not another entity is possessing or influencing the person on a spiritual level.
	+ **Soul Absorption:** She could absorb souls, while removing them from the source, into her body and use it in various ways, gaining some form of advantage, either by enhancing herself, gaining the drained power, using it as a power source, etc., either temporarily or permanently.
	+ **Phantasm Manipulation:** She could create, manipulate, and destroy ghosts/specters and their energies. She could induce fear into the hearts of others, use spirits to cause great chaos and control the souls of others when they are dead. In ancient times, it was believed that she would send violent and vengeful specters to haunt those who had committed crimes against her and her husband's authority.
* **Dark Energy Manipulation:** Persephone could create, shape and manipulate dark energy, directly drawn from the core of the Realm of the Dead. It can be channeled to a variety of effects as an absence of light, a solid, gaseous and/or liquid substance that can be shaped/manifested in various ways. Unlike Darkness Manipulation, which draws from the similar source, dark energy focuses on direct, destructive and violently outward directed aspects of the spectrum.
* **Death-Force Manipulation:** Persephone could create, shape and manipulate the essence of Death, which is present in all mortals throughout the universe and is the opposite power of Life-Force Manipulation; as whereas life-force is the essence which allows life to flourish, death-force is that which causes things to wither, rot, weaken, and eventually die.
	+ **Death Inducement:** She could kill nearly any mortal being using varying means, either instantly, slowly over time, after certain conditions are met, or after a certain period of time has gone. She's required to make physical contact with them to do this.

**Love Manipulation:** Persephone could sense and manipulate all the aspects of love, of themselves, people, animals and other creatures, whether by increasing, decreasing, causing or otherwise channeling love, even manifesting the emotional energy to a physical level. However, due to her only gained this domain through her and her husband's love story being popularized in the modern era, her power over love is weaker than genuine love deities such as Hathor or Qetesh.

**Flight**: Persephone has demonstrated the ability to stay afloat in mid-air.

## Equipment

**Proángelos** (, *Purōnjirōzu*): A *kopis* created from a mixture of adamantine and Stygian Iron, engraved with hieroglyphs dated from since the times of the Titans and had a hilt crafted from priceless garnets, it is Persephone's main weapon and Symbol of Power. It is a conceptual weapon, created by Hephaestus as the crystalization of her myth as "*She who Destroyed the Light*", thus granting it an advantage against all those of divine or semi-diving nature. It was reforged from the war scythe she used in the Titanomachy.

**Páli Emvryo** (, *Pārī Emuburyo*): The Páli Emvryo are a set of jewel-like monster fetuses, as small as marbles and carry no distant smell or aura of its own. When used, it cracks and creates a baby-like monster which will grow bigger and bigger until it reaches the size of a goliath, with obsidian skin and molten magma in place of their blood.

## Quotes

* *"Persephone, Daughter of Zeus, blessed. Only begotten, gracious Goddess, receive this good offering, Much honoured, you, overpowered by Pluto, you are beloved and lifegiving, You hold the doors of Hades under the depths of the earth; Transactor of Justice, your beloved hair the sacred olive branch of the enemy Mother of the Eumenides, Queen of the Underworld, You, maiden from Zeus through secret begetting."* — Orphic Hymn to Persephone.
* *"the gods fulfilled his curse, even Zeus of the nether world and dread Persephone."* — Iliad.
* *"Althea prayed instantly to the gods, being grieved for her brother's slaying; and furthermore instantly beat with her hands upon the all-nurturing earth, calling upon Hades and dread Persephone."* — Iliad.
* *"And come to the house of Hades and dread Persephone to seek sooth saying of the spirit of Theban Teiresias. To him even in death Persephone has granted reason that ..." —*Odyssey.
* *"Mistress Demeter goddess of heaven, which God or mortal man has rapt away Persephone and pierced with sorrow your dear heart?"* *—* Homeric Hymn to Demeter.
* *"I start to sing for Demeter the lovely-faced goddess, for her and her daughter the most beautiful Persephone. Hail goddess keep this city safe!"* *—* Homeric Hymn to Demeter.
* *"Now go Echo, to the dark-walled home of Persephone."* — Pindar, Olympian Ode.
* *"Aecus showed them the way to the house of Persephone and nymphs, one of them carrying a ball."* — Pindar, Olympian Ode.
* *"Island which Zeus, the lord of Olympus gave to Persephone;he nodded descent with his flowers hair."* — Pindar, Olympian Ode.
* *"You splendor-loving city, most beautiful on earth, home of Persephone. You who inhabit the hill of well-built dwellings."* — Pindar, Olympian Ode.
* *"O Persephone, grant us indeed a glorious victory!"* — Electra, The Libation Bearers.
* *"Thou Mistress Demeter, the most valuable friend and thou Persephone, grant that I may be able to offer you!"* — Mnesilochos, Thesmophoriazusae.
* *"O you brave and best hail, sitting as attendand Beside's Hades bride Persephone!"* — Alcestis (play).
* *"It is said that any of the dead that stand beside Persephone, that the Danaids have left the plains to Troy."* — Hecuba (play).
* *"Flashing thunderbolt went down to the halls of slender-ankled Persephone to bring up into the light of Hades."* — Bacchylides*.*
* *"For since she had not died through fate, or by a well-earned death, but wretchedly, before her time, inflamed with sudden madness, Proserpine had not yet taken a lock of golden hair from her head, or condemned her soul to Stygian Orcus."* — The Aeneid.

* "*Well Hades, just because you're my uncle, doesn't mean I couldn't call you my daddy.*" -Persephone to Hades.
* "*Why should I need heal you? You already in my preferred state - Bloody, bruised, and begging.*" -Persephone to Ares.
* "*I like you boy, you're now my son. I'm not asking any permission.*" -Persephone to Adonis.
* "*Why on Gaia would you want another dog, you already have like... a hundred aunts and uncles each. Besides, don't you think Cerberus will get jealous?*" -Persephone to Macaria.

## Gallery

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## Trivia

* Persephone's appearance is based on Rosetta from "Granblue Fantasy".

* Kore is another name for Persephone, meaning "maiden".
	+ Additionally, Kore happens to be a moon of Jupiter.
* She likes pomegranates, alcohol (especially wine), and gardening.
	+ She dislikes smoking and being restrained.
* According to Artemis, she isn't a natural brunette and her original hair color is golden-blonde.
* She is the only daughter Zeus' afraid of.
* She is often considered a triple goddess, representing the maiden, alongside Demeter (The Mother) and Hecate (The Crone).
* 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.
* Her divine aura is comparable to the "scent of the earth after the first rain in spring".
* The 26 Proserpina is named after one of her aliases.
	+ The 399 Persephone is also named after her.
* Her sacred plants are the pomegranate, asphodel, narcissus, willow, lily, and mint
* Her sacred animals are black rams, bats, monkeys, and parrots.
* Her Mesopotamian counterpart is Ereshkigal.
* Her Norse counterparts are Frey, Freya, and Idunn.