Persephone

**Persephone** is the wife of Hades and the God with a temple in the hidden stage of the 30th floor (The beyond)

## Personality

As shown from her first appearance, Persephone initially appeared to be a very kind hearted and friendly goddess. As seen where she cordially greeted Yeon-woo and interacted with him in friendly, almost maternal manner and offered him food and drinks as she welcomed him as her guest. She initially portrayed herself as a loving-devoted wife, having personally requested Yeon-woo to locate her husband Hades and help him due to the issues arising in Tartarus and her later getting enraged at Brahm's mention that he could have been possibly killed by the revolting Gigantes and Titans.

However, this would later be revealed as nothing more than a façade to hide her real personality. A devious and manipulative woman, as seen where she betrayed Hades and the rest of her family by aligning with the Great Mother and the Titans and Giants and helped overthrow them from Olympus and Tartarus. Persephone herself later stated that she resented her husband for kidnapping her and forcing her to marry him and her resenting the rest of her family for agreeing to it simply because they did not want to antagonize Hades and believed that the match was perfect as he was extremely powerful God. Despite this however, Persephone herself noted that there was indeed a time where she almost fell in love with him and return his affection for her, but this quickly faded when she was reminded of her resentment of him.

Persephone herself has implied that she deeply loved her mother and was deeply frightened of being separated from her and longed for her love. However, due to Demeter's lack of affection for her, this allowed the Great Mother to manipulate her by pretending to love her. This all shows that deep down, Persephone is a very insecure and paranoid woman who yearns for genuine affection.

As admitted by her, Persephone has no desire to be a leader due to her not wanting to take the necessary responsibility needed and is content simply being an underling. As seen where made it clear to Yeon-woo that she wanted him to be her ally not her subordinate due not wanting the responsibility of leading him or anyone.

Upon becoming the Great Mother's Apostle and partially fusing with her, Persephone has show to have gained some of the Primordial Goddess's personality traits. This is seen where she has the same narcissitic arrogance and vanity as her and has displayed little to no shame or tact in her actions. As seen where she had the audacity to try and make Yeon-woo her ally despite his hate and contempt for Viera Dune.

## History

Persephone was artificially created by her "mother" Demeter using her own Divine Factors and the Factors of other Powerful Transcendents. She was then grown in a test tube as a result of Demeter's yearning towards attracting Zeus' attention and gain vengeance against her younger brothers for what they did to their father. During her childhood, Demeter would frequently rant on about her feelings about her father's "death" and how much agony it caused her and told her about how Persephone was the "hope" of their family. This only intensified Persephone's loneliness and yearning for parental love, as she grew jealous of her mother's loving relationship with her father and caused her to yearn even more for motherly love. Demeter primarily kept Persephone secret and did no allow her to leave her home, because of that Persephone primarily spent her childhood and loneliness and would talk to herself frequently to pass the time, causing her to also desire freedom and see the outside world.

Noticing Demeter's strange movements and her going to a mysterious location, Hades followed her and soon found Persephone. Falling in love with her, he immediately whisked her away before her mother could return. Despite the hastiness of their "marriage" it would soon be respected by the rest of Olympus due to Hades's immense power. Despite finally leaving her childhood home, Persephone was still miserable as Hades's wife, as she was not required to live with him in the Underworld (Tartarus). During her time there, Persephone would become acquainted with Hades's Apostle, Lam, who would tell her about the upper world above, causing Persephone to want to see it for herself and escape the Underworld.

During sometime in the past, Persephone would be noticed by the Great Mother, who sensing Persephone's immense potential, proceeded to begin manipulating her and taking advantage of her desire for maternal love and freedom to live outside the underworld. The Great Mother would then have Persephone become one of her Apostle and from there, begin plotting about how to usurp the Tartarus and Olympus from the rest of the Gods.

## Abilities

As a Olympian Goddess of the Second Generation, Persephone is shown to possess the typical powers common to a God. However it was stated that she was significantly more powerful than an average God despite not reaching the same level of power of her half siblings and uncle.

As observed by Kronos, Persephone herself is in truth an artificial clone of Demeter created by using her [Divine Factors] and the Divine Factors of other powerful beings to artificially create a Transcendent and as such she was stated to possesses immense above average power.

### Apostles

As a god, Persephone is able to designate players as her apostle.

So far, Persephone has shown to have taken two Apostles, Bodi and Doyle and granted them substantial amounts of power by giving them her blessings.

* **Descent:** For the sake of seeing Hades as soon as possible, she designated Doyle as her apostle so that she can see through his eyes as he follows Cha Yeon-woo back to Tartarus. As seen where she talked to Brahm, when Persephone possess and descends into the Lower Floors, Doyle's eyes become pure green.
* **Blessings:** Like any other God, Persephone can give out divine Blessings with her power that can empower and strengthen any player that has caught her attention. The blessings that Persephone gives to her Apostles were noted to be superior to the Blessings she can give out to a average player.

### Apostle of the "Great Mother"

At the same time, this can be applied to her. She accepts the Great Mother, becoming her apostle.

After being transformed into the Great Mother's Apostle, Persephone received a massive boost in power and was now likely gifted with the [Powers] of the Great Mother that embodies her "concept" as a Goddess. Persephone herself was shown to be now powerful enough to overpower her husband Hades and usurp his holy power and territory for herself using the strength given to her by the Great Mother.

* **Thorns:** Persephone has shown to have the ability to create shadow like thorns from her own shadow. These Thorns were shown to be large enough to easily wrap around and pierce the gigantic bodies of the Titans and kill them in mass. It was observed by them that the Thorns themselves were created and fused together with **Hydra Venom**, making them highly poisonous for Transcendent Beings and was stated to be strong enough to kill lower ranked Gods with a single drop. The poison within the thorns were also stated to contain the Nemean Lion’s fangs, Chimera’s flame, and other substances. All of these elements were then fused with the Great Mother's Divine Power, increasing their toxicity and infused into the Thorns. Making them extremely deadly to the point that they could easily slaughter the Titans in mass, despite them having used Kronos's power to increase their power.
* **Channels:** Due to her becoming the Great Mother's Apostle and thus her representative, Persephone was stated to now be connected to all of her channels with the Gigantes and the Titans. This is seen where she was stated to be both mentally and spiritually connected to all of them and could keep track of all of their movements, actions and to a degree their thoughts and coordinate them while in the midst of battle.

### Holy Power

Due to her being a Goddess and an Apostle to a Primordial God, Persephone was stated to possess immense Holy Powers.

* **Holy Power of the Great Mother:**
* **Holy Power of Kronos:** Like the Titans and Gigantes, Persephone was also given a small portion of Kronos's Holy Power by the Great Mother. Persephone herself detested using this power as it gigantified her and required her to use the authority she gained as Hades's Wife to effectively use.
	+ **Giant Form:** Upon activating this Holy Power, Persephone was able to transform into a giant, lava-covered wooden figure. Out of all the Giant forms gained by the Titans and Gigantes, Persephone's Giant form was noted to be the most powerful and had the potential to completely ravage Tartarus.

### Powers

As a Goddess, Persephone herself possess several supernatural skills that embody her "concepts" as a God.

* **Depressed Plant:**
* **Icy Frost:**
* **Decomposed to Waste:**

### Authorities

#### **Goddess of Spring**

As a Goddess of Spring time, Persephone was shown to possess immense power and control over everything related to spring. As seen where she could manipulate plant life, sunlight, temperature, nature and the weather as she wants to match springtime.

Like all Gods, Persephone is able to manifest and create her own divine territory when she descends down to the lower floors from the 98th Floor. With her Imaginary World taking the form of a calming meadow, forest land in Spring that emits a very calming and peaceful aura. Persephone has also displayed power to create thorny vines for more offensive purposes imbued with her holy power that allows her to bypass the territory set up by a Dragon Human.

#### **Goddess of Winter**

As a Goddess of Winter, Persephone has also displayed power over frost, cold, ice and snow. This is seen where her divine territory set up in Tartarus was a Winter frost covered area.

#### **Goddess of the Underworld**

As wife of Hades and Queen of the "Beyond", Persephone possess immense control and divine precedence over death and the "beyond" (Afterlife). Due to Hades's disappearance 200 years ago, Persephone was stated to have taken over his responsibilities in governing the Underworld and Persephone likely obtained more power over the Underworld.

Persephone in particular has stated that she has free access to the "list" of deceased Players within the Obelisk and was implied to personally oversee where their souls go to after death. This is seen where she was aware that Cha Jeong-woo didn't move on to the "Beyond" after his death.