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Personality [ ]

Persephone was a sociopathic and deeply bitter individual. Being forced to wed Hades after the latter tricked her and being subsequently abandoned by her fellow Olympians, made her murderously vengeful. Angry at their betrayal to marry a man she did not love, Persephone sought vengeance to genocidal levels as she spared no one. She was so bitter that she devised a scheme to destroy the entire Greek world along with her, purely to end her own misery.
Although she was more than willing to die to achieve peace, this alone did not satisfy her. She sought vengeance that would engulf all of her perceived wrongdoers and bring ruin to them for what happened to her. Persephone could be considered deranged and unhinged, for she did not have any qualms about bringing destruction even to people that had nothing to do with her misery, but had shown sadistic glee in being able to achieve her goals even if it meant taking down innocents in her wrath.
Persephone was dangerously scheming, underhanded and manipulative. She concocted a rather complex plan to succeed in her endeavour which included being able to free Atlas from his imprisonment without any God, not even Hades, realizing Atlas was freed until it was too late. She was also able to instruct him to kidnap Helios from the sky and even secured an alliance with Morpheus whose hold on power grew unchecked with his natural enemy restricted. As an added layer of security, knowing that Kratos would be chosen to solve the situation, Persephone deliberately lured him into a trap though his daughter Calliope in order to ensure that Kratos would disarm himself out of love for his daughter, although this ended up backfiring. Considering that if her scheme was successful it would bring chaos to the world, it is likely that Persephone may have potentially lied to Morpheus, or he might have been able to survive the affair somehow.
A nihilist from the bottom of her heart, Persephone looked at Kratos with contempt for chosing Calliope over his mission, mocking him for having created a situation in which Kratos fundamentally doomed everyone, including his daughter, despite Persephone being well aware of Kratos' history, showing not a sliver of compassion or comprehension. It can be deduced that Persephone is so warped by her circumstances that she believes in absolutely nothing positive, seeing only betrayal and machinations, something she excelled in all to well. Despite her visible repulsion towards Kratos and his decision, she was interestingly one of the few villains who had no personal conflict with Kratos himself, for she sought to end her own life while he was merely an obstacle.
It is hinted that in her youth, Persephone was considerably more guillible and trusting, as Hades not only kidnapped her but made her eat a Pomegranate, the fruit of the Underworld, which forced her to spend half of every year in the Underworld, with the Gods being unable or unwilling to correct the situation, or interfere before matters were made worse. It was this sequentiality of events which turned Persophone for the worse.


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Physical description [ ]

Persephone often possessed a mysterious and intimidating demeanor, incredibly pale likely from the time spent within the Underworld, she always held a distant look in her eyes as though she was disinterested with her surroundings. She wore part of her long black hair in a ponytail-like bun held together with a gold band while the rest was allowed to fall free down her neck.
She wore a long black strapless dress that trailed behind her that was split from her shoulders in a V-shape exposing most of her back and part of her buttocks. She also had several gold bands with blue gems locked around her arms and wrists, and two gold chains along her waist as a belt.
When battling Kratos on the Pillar of the World, Persephone donned a set of black armor with gold highlights, and sprouted two pairs of black-feathered wings, the upper pair being larger than the lower one.


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Powers and Abilities [ ]

In her final battle with Kratos, Persephone displayed numerous types of special abilities. Able to fly at great speed thanks to her sets of wings, she was able to deliver diving strikes at Kratos with her fists. Furthermore, Persephone could throw projectiles through telekinesis, as well as conjure large rocks to serve as projectiles. She could also summon multiple large pillars of energy that protruded from the ground, and shoot large beams of energy. As a goddess, she was immortal and possessed superhuman senses, agility, stamina, speed, strength, durability, endurance, and accuracy.
When she took her last breath, she released a death blast similar to, but weaker than, Ares that was potent enough to vaporize the very durable pillar of the world.

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Greek Mythology [ ]

In Greek mythology , Persephone (Περσεφόνη), was the goddess of spring and was also the Queen of the Underworld . She was the daughter of both Zeus and Demeter , and quite favored by her mother. She was usually portrayed robed, carrying a sheaf of grain and smiling with the " archaic smile " of the Kore of Antenor . The Romans called her Proserpina .
She was an innocent goddess who was abducted by Hades while she picked flowers in a field with Nymphs , at the behest of Zeus who advised and helped Hades kidnap Persephone. Demeter searched everywhere for her daughter for nine days, until she was informed by Helios of what happened. Despite Helios's attempts to reassure the goddess that her daughter's marriage was honorable, the seasons changed because of Demeter's depression, and mortals began to starve because their crops were dying. Cries from the mortals' hunger forced the gods who heard their anguish to confront Zeus and Demeter. With Demeter telling them she would not give life to the crops and vegetation unless her daughter was returned, Zeus asked Hades to return Persephone, sending Hermes to retrieve her. Before doing so, however, Hades either tricked/forced Persephone into eating three pomegranate seeds or Persephone ate them herself, which seasons are based on Demeter's mood during each time of the seasons. Demeter begins to mourn that her daughter is going to Hades which creates Autumn, she griefs which creates winter, she is happy to have her daughter back which creates spring and finally she enjoys her daughter on earth which creates summer. Some stories claim that Persephone never loved Hades, but a more popular story states that Persephone ended up falling for Hades and in one story, Proserpina (Persephone) turned the nymph Minthe into a plant out of jealousy and anger for the poor nymph that tried to seduce Pluto (Hades). However, this never occurred in Ancient Greek mythology. Nonetheless, there was no notable bad-blood between Hades and Persephone In Ancient Greek mythology. Indeed, Persephone and Hades never had any “affairs” in Ancient Greek mythology.