Name: Persephone
God/Goddess, Human or Titan: Goddess
God/Goddess of: The Underworld
Powers: can pull the life force out of living things, disappear/travel through shadows and darkness
Brief Bio: The daughter of Demeter, Goddess of the Harvest. Persephone was picking flowers in one of her mother's fields when Hades abducted her to be his bride. Her mother protested this to Zeus, who ordered Hades to return Persephone. But before he did so, Hades tricked Persephone into eating seeds from his garden. Since she partook of food of the Underworld Persephone was trapped there. Demeter, distraught by this, mourned for her daughter for months. Crops withered and died and would not grow back. Finally the outcries of the mortals were heard by Zeus who decreed that Persephone must spend half of the year in the Underworld with Hades and half in the realm above with her mother in order to make everyone happy. But while Persephone is gone Demeter mourns, hence the winter months where nothing grows.
Persephone hates Hades, but she also loves him. She hates the powers she has acquired as Queen of the Underworld, having been taught by her mother to respect and give life. She spends her time in the Underworld depressed at being surrounded by the dead. Everything mortal she touches, be it a flower or an animal, dies.
She has often thought about escape, but if presented with the opportunity would she even take it...?
