Persephone

Ravka, Epione, Helh, and Hestia (Sisters)

Thanatos, Phaeton, and Orpheus (Brothers)

Dante, Damien, Vergil, Alastor, Renae, and Honiahaka (Half-Siblings)

## Application Sheet

Persephone was the dark-furred, pale-eyed Necrolyte daughter of Hekate and Janus of Vektren. Littermate to Epione, Ravka, and Thanatos, her other siblings include older brothers Dante (Hellion), Vergil, and Damien, and younger siblings Phaeton, Orpheus, Helh, and Hestia. She also had three half-siblings she never met: Honiahaka, Alastor, and Renae. She vanished in the midst of the war with Aryn. She was created and RP'd by Halkuonn.

## Personality

* ***Spoiled and Vain*.** Seph knows nothing but the feeling of being constantly overindulged, tended and nurtured. Always well-fed, comfortable and at the spotlight of education, she is a typical self-indulgent child, even if trained to extend her kin the due respect. She measures others with a twisted view of her favored place, often believing that they have not achieved goals out of laziness and not because they come from a less blessed life. Seph also gives too much valor on appearance, despite however being more concerned with her own image than the looks of others - she avoids getting into physical activities for the sake of a clean and unscathed pelt, grooms herself constantly and takes criticism to her appearance harder than one should.
* ***Canny but Affectionate:*** With a deep sense of business likely inherited and fed by Hekate, Seph knows a good deal when she sees it. With a sharp mind attuned with the interests of Vektren and her family, she calculates everything and turns the odds to her or her pack's favor, depending on whom she's currently dealing with. However, Seph lacks the weakness the Mistress does not have, and takes the matters of love and affection in a different way. Not exactly a hard wolf to reach the heart, she holds her family and friends very dearly and directs this business sense fully to their benefit.
* ***Pious and Compliant.*** Not unlike her siblings, Persephone is deeply connected to Vektren's religion and will follow its word down to a T. Moving a single inch beyond the Lady's rules causes her physical discomfort and you will not see her speaking against any of their divine traditions. This often causes her to be extremely intolerant towards less traditional views of the religion regardless if it is actually allowed to have a less strict view on it, which often causes her to butt heads with Hellion who follows the cult on his own way. To Hekate's much pleasure, she claims to love Senisteros and Xibalten more than she loves her own parents and siblings.
* ***Convivial and Sensible.*** Despite the close-minded mentality regarding meritocracy and worthiness, Seph is actually a very approachable and is known to fall on most wolf's good graces. Fitting for her desired role of Necrolyte, she knows when to be silent and to lend a friendly ear and shoulder, and does her best to extend opinions and advices with sympathy and prudence, even if they're laced with her limited view of struggle. As a friend and kin, she's trustworthy and loyal, and strives to keep thriving relationships with those around her - that is, until you hurt any of Vektren's holy laws.
* ***Systematic and Pedantic.*** Likely something that bleeds out from her religious behavior, Seph is extremely stressed with protocols and may find herself briefly lost if she's prevented of doing exactly what she's used or demanded to. Rules are there for a reason and she will very well follow them without contesting. Aiming always for a perfect execution of her own tasks and actions, she's easily hurt by supposed lack of performance. Similar to her exaggerated vanity, criticism is taken heavily by the little lady and Seph constantly hurts herself with unfair judgments directed to it.
* ***Chaste and Virtuous*.** A trait highly encouraged by her father, Seph grows being against actually using herself as a wildcard or bargain ship, and takes a turn to chastity instead by living with the mentality of remaining untouched to a future, single worthy lover, taking relationships very seriously. She avoids the sinful thrills of empty flattering and flirting and has little interest on casual relationships or dalliances, measuring each possible suitor with a strict eye and seeking high standards to match her own. That does not inhibit her of putting it to offer, if deemed necessary and an effective way. With high views of herself and a malicious sense of business, Seph advertises her own purity as a prize and enthralls her targets on a web of promises, never actually allowing them to achieve the ultimate goal and discarding them as soon they're no longer of use.

## Pre-Group History

Born in late winter to Mistress Hekate and the viper Janus. Hekate, the chosen herald and Mistress for new Vektren - a cult like pack of skilled mercenaries and assassins who survived off of the bounties of hired contracts and missions - rebuilt the once glorious brotherhood by gathering the most feared of all Domain. Vektren thrived like a dark gem and it soon gathered more of the strongest and more capable wolves; its rumors claimed the attention of Janus, one that had indirectly gotten involved with the fall of the previous pack and sworn his life to the Dread Father. Janus rose within the ranks of the Brotherhood, and even though Hekate already had her first litter of heirs, she "persuaded" Janus to give her a second one.

## Group History

Persephone was raised alongside her siblings, doted upon by their mother. Persephone showed an interest in the divine, and would eventually take on the task of Necrolyte. The most notable actions taken by young Persephone were when her mother entrusted her to bathe and clean Merrill after the Arynian's time in the pits.

Persephone was kind to Merrill - outwardly. But her words were laced with venom, with disdain for Merrill's past god, for her former pack, for the *weakness* that allowed her to reject the One and give in to Vektren's reeducation.

Persephone vanished from the pack one day later. Nobody knows what became of Hekate's Necrolyte daughter, but since a body was never found, it is assumed she is alive out there, somewhere.

## Trivia

* Seph excels at her task of Necrolyte, embracing the religion to a level one dare say dangerously exaggerated. Sinking deep into Vektren's ancient traditions, she turns to history research alongside the religious side and seeks the old rituals and teachings, bringing the charm of her duty to a conservationist way that surpasses even her mother's and reviving many of Vektren's old costumes and bringing more devoted followers of the cult with her.
* Persephone envies Hellion's position deeply. She finds him unsuitable for a leader, yet knows he has potential to be so, threatening her ambitions. Seph rarely talks about her brother with any praise in her voice and isn't keen on bonding too tightly with the older sibling, used to the companionship of her father and her littermates instead.
* Persephone's type of manipulation takes a more "innocent" and delicate type of approach, often by faking naiveté or exaggerating her supposed lack of competence.
* She has no qualms on being a child planned out of practicality, being instead grateful for being picked to be born in such litter.
* Not as physically-able in comparison to others, Seph has a sharp eye to hunt small animals, specially birds, which she detests.

## Quotes

* "To trust a god in the lightning is *nothing*. But to trust one in the dark... *that* is faith." (to Merrill, *Faith -* adapted from the quote by Charles H. Spurgeon)

## External Links

* Official Application Sheet
* Halkuonn's deviantART Gallery