Persephone Devland

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## Other Information

### Owner

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**Persephone**, also known as **Persephone Devland**, or **The Mirror Ghost**, is a childlike godish entity with unknown but great powers. Their role as a character is unknown but it's heavily implied they are a huge antagonistic figure.

## Appearance

Persephone, in their humanoid form, is a pale, childlike person with short white hair, black eyes with red diamond pupils, and black clothes. Their clothing aesthetic heavily references clothing from the 17-1800's, following a more formal look, which may imply the time period Persephone lived as an actual person, however this information remains unknown. Underneath their eyes, are 2 red streaks, implying they may have some form of connection to the existance of Lamp Demons.

Their ghost form showcases a dark humanoid figure with red outlines and almost scribble like sharp red eyes. When in the ghost void, cyan glowing orbs generally follow them around.

## Backstory

Persephone's year of birth is unkown, however right after their birth on April 14th, they were placed into an orphanage in Tyret' 1-Ya (поселок Тыреть 1-я), Russia, with their twin sibling Anastasia.

Persephone and Anastasia grew up together in this orphanage, however the higher members of staff treated them like outcasts to the rest of the children due to the twins both being born as intersex. The higher-ups would convince some of the kids to mistreat the twins, however Persephone wasn't having it, and they stood up to the harassment. Some of the children started to look up to Persephone for their courage and strength to stand up for themself and their twin, and soon enough Persephone would start to gain positive popularity among the children, and eventually those who were tormenting them had stopped. Anastasia however didn't gain anything, most ignored them still and so they started to hold a slight grudge against Persephone, and eventually kept to themselves and made their own little world where they wouldn't have to deal with the others.

One day though, around the time that Persephone was 7-8, an extremist religious cult stopped by the orphanage to spread their message, however it wasn't done innocently, the leader of the cult held a musket to the orphanage owners head, threatening to shoot if the owner didn't impliment the groups religious views into the teachings and way of life of the orphanage, so the owner gave in, and rewrote the education system and the daily schedule for the orphans to impliment the religion into the way of life.

The religious cult however, took great interest in this orphanage, especially the Devland twins, who amongst the other kids, appeared quite unique due to the markings on their face, and their eyes, there was something about the twins that made the cult do this, and eventually they stopped by another day and decided to overthrow most of the staff of the orphanage, minus maids and cooks, the owner was as well kicked out and replaced.

The children being young and naive, gave into this new change in their lives, accepting the new cult. The leaders started doing experiments on some of the children, pushing their limits and making them do things kids normally wouldn't do. Persephone took a great liking to the cult, and even offered to help the leaders, aiming to join them and gain a leadership role, however Anastasia was the opposite, they hated the cult, their views, and the fact they were losing their twin to this madness. Anastasia started to try to convince some of the kids to turn away, face the truth, and eventually run away from the orphanage, but Persephone found out about their siblings plans, and so one day they held an event in the orphanage, where they would go to execute their sibling in front of everyone, all in the name of their religion. Now there was only one twin, the other killed off trying to save the others.

All the children and other staff members took a liking to the execution, having been brainwashed by the cult, so eventually one day, the leaders decided to plan for a big sacrifice to their god, this sacrifice would be killing every child who did not obey the orders of the higher-ups. They started keeping notes on the kids, tracking down who misbehaved, listening in on convos, and eventually, they gathered all the info they needed.

To follow up with the plan, one day they gathered everyone in the orphanage into the auditorium, they passed out wristbands to every child who they knew did not follow the religion, and called everyone with the wristbands up to the stage, once every child with them was up, the main leader held a speech, this speech being in Russian originally, however this is the speech in english:

"To every member of our sacred community, today is a great day, the gods have spoken to me, ordering me to hold a holy sacrifice, this sacrifice resulting in many fortunes for our community after. Today we have gathered 24 children up to the stage, who have been disobeying the words of our gods, once this sacrifice is over, their souls will be returned to the hands of the holy spirits, to turn them back to what was always right, our words meant nothing to these children, but our actions will, so in the name of the holy gods above us, may we start this sacrifice, to save their souls and earn our fortunes."

After the speech, the marked children were all shot to death on stage, their bodies dropping to the floor. Everyone celebrated afterwards. Persephone though, looked distraught, even though they had killed their sibling for the same reasons, seeing 1/10th of the children in the orphanage die was horrifying, but they had to stay strong.

One day Persephone asked the leaders to sacrifice them too, not because they lost faith, but because they needed to see for themselves whether these gods they worshipped were real, but they didn't tell them that, they told the leaders instead that they needed to be sacrificed as a thank you for doing well to the community, so the leaders went ahead with it, they held another event, sacrificing Persephone, now Persephone was dead.

After dying at the age of 8, they found out that the gods weren't real after all.

## Talents and Abilities

Their talents and abilities are unknown but it's heavily implied that they are at a god like level in terms of power.

## Personality

Persephone in their dead form is noted to be a very bored person, easily getting tired of things and wanting to spice it up a bit, they're very deceptive towards those they meet and easily get the tendency to manipulate the person into doing the things they want.

When Persephone was alive they were very bold and quick to stand for what they believed was right, however sometimes they let things get to their head and ended up hurting others in the process of trying to do good. Persephone was however very naive, quick to believe others and was very prone to change if authorities pressured, this being a huge contrast to their current form, where they believe that only they are right and they refuse to hear anyone else out.

## Diagnosed Stuff

Nothing is here due to the lack of mental health research in the time period that they lived in, however its suspected now that they have the following disorders:

* OCD
* Narcissistic Personality Disorder

## Relationships

### Familial

#### Anastasia Devland (twin sibling)

* Persephone and Anastasia were very close for most of their lives, the two were like magnets to each other, being inseperable, always doing activities together, and sticking together like glue through thick and thin, however when Persephone had enough of the bullying from the other children and they decided to stand up for themselves, the bond was slowly lost as the other children flocked to Persephone for their courage while they ignored Anastasia. Anastasia started to grow a grudge for Persephone, hating them for only helping themselves and not sticking up for their sibling, getting all the love from everyone. This grudge was held until Anastasia's last moments where they were murdered by Persephone in the name of a cult that had taken over the orphanage they lived at together.

### Non Familial

#### Yelisei Baladin (Cult Leader)

* Yelisei took over the orphanage that Persephone resided in when persephone was around 7 years old, Yelisei was the main leader of the cult he ran and his main goal was to spread the word of his beliefs, however he had taken it too far. Yelisei took a great interest in Persephone due to their odd appearance, he started to believe that they were related to the gods that he was worshipping. Persephone took a great interest into helping the leaders so they offered to become the personal assitant of Yelisei, he enjoyed this a lot, having someone to do things for him, however this soon turned dark as he started imposing harsh beliefs onto Persephone, telling them that horrible things would happen if they didnt help out, which pressured Persephone to do more and more work as time passed. After the execution of the non-believers, Persephone decided to ask Yelisei to execute them as a favor for their gods.

## Extra Stuff

* Persephone is Non-Binary and uses They/It pronouns
* Their name means God of Death (Persephone) and Misfortune (Devland)
* Their birthday is considered a cursed day (April 14th)
* Despite being born in Russia, having a Russian accent, they aren't fully Russian, their mother was Greek, and their Father was born in Russia, but moved to Greece, the two were also criminals, who had fled from authorities and went back to Russia to start a new life and have kids, however when the kids were born, their parents had already been found, so the kids were placed in an orphanage while the parents were taken back to Greece to be executed.