She gave me peace in a lifetime of war

[interjection]

Hades & Persephone.

Persephone was gathering flowers with the Oceanids along with Artemis and Athena—the Homeric Hymn says—in a field when Hades came to abduct her, bursting through a cleft in the earth. Demeter, when she found her daughter had disappeared, searched for her all over the earth with torches. In most versions she forbids the earth to produce, or she neglects the earth and in the depth of her despair she causes nothing to grow. Helios, the sun, who sees everything, eventually told Demeter what had happened and at length she discovered the place of her abode. Finally, Zeus, pressed by the cries of the hungry people and by the other deities who also heard their anguish, forced Hades to return Persephone. Hades indeed complied with the request, but first he tricked her, giving her some pomegranate seeds to eat. Persephone was released by Hermes, who had been sent to retrieve her, but because she had tasted food in the underworld, she was obliged to spend a third of each year (the winter months) there, and the remaining part of the year with the gods above. but even that hardest of hearts unhardened suddenly when he saw her there: persephone in her mother’s garden, sun on her shoulders, wind in her hair, the smell of flowers she held in her hand and the pollen that fell from her fingertips. and suddenly, hades was only a man with a taste of nectar upon his lips To live your life in darkness is no easy task. Evil may be just a point of view - one you may not ascribe to yourself - but a black heart or a ruthless mind is hardly quieted. While you don't regret what you've done, at least not outwardly, you do wonder if there isn't something more. Grey morality has discolored your world. That is, until you see them. They are beautiful, pure, good: everything that you are not. You should be annoyed or at least ambivalent to their presence; after all, they serve you no purpose, promise you no gain. But oddly enough, you are drawn to them, and not even in hopes to destroy or corrupt. No, you want to have them, to keep them with you. What to do with this newfound feeling? Act on it, of course. You've never let anything stop you before. What you don't realize (or perhaps do, you just don't exactly care) is that the object of your...affection may not be too keen on being taken what they see as prisoner. Yet you only have their best interests at heart! Still, you do care for them, in your own fashion, more than almost anyone else, so surely a deal can be struck... You just couldn't bear to lose them. This meme, obviously, is inspired by the myth of Hades and Persephone. Feel free to be as literal or as loose with your interpretations as you'd like. Comment with your character, canon, preferences, and what role you'd like your character to play. Reply to others. Play anything and any scenario that fits within the theme.

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mantis | gotg vol 2 | f/m

[innerbeauty]

[ Persephone. ]

belle ❀ beauty and the beast (2017) → f/m

[uglydress]

[ YEEEEES this is my absolute favorite dynamic. Persephone all day every day, right here.

I love assumed CR, crossovers (♥ ♥ ♥), convoluted scenarios, combustive attraction, bickering, first time, arranged marriage AUs, culture differences, ingenue/gruff, worldly man, inhuman characters, Beauty and the Beast dynamics because duh, fairy tale/fantasy settings, magic, passionate reunions, redoing first times that didn't go so well. sneaky trysts, risk of discovery, emotions spilling out in private, and much, much more.

Ridiculously into Tolkienverse (dwarves yes pls), ASOIAF/GOT, HP (my kingdom for a Newt Scamander or Lupin), and MCU right now and equally into AUing Belle to fit in any of them, but check out my slightly embarrassing dream list of shit I'd like to play. ]

Scarecrow | Batman Arkham Knight

[doctor_terror]

[Most definitely the Hades in this scenario. Preference for m/m shipping, m/f is negotiable.]

Michael Corvin | Underworld | M/M

[lycanhybrid]

[Is most likely the one spirited away]

Morgana Pendragon | Merlin

[youwillgotohell]

[Depends on canon point you want, but super definitely can be a solid Hades type for all your abduction needs.]

[gentleman_trickster]

[ ooc: care to steal him or be stolen? ]

Alexandra "Ali" Compton, OC

[doubleplays]

[ A literal daughter of Demeter. So she's heard this story before. ]

John Watson | Sherlock | OTA

[ihadabadday]

[I would love love love to play John as the Persephone against someone as the Hades. Would make my day~]

[herrin]

( #yolo - hades for being overall manipulative and scary, AU where they all still think sherlock is still dead? )

orihime inoue | bleach | ota

[disallows]

[ persephone, most definitely. ]

Wanda Maximoff || MCU || F/M

[scarlettwin]

[ooc: Persephone.]

Eren Jaeger | Shingeki no Kyojin | M/M

[preciousbrat]

[Persephone]

Karen Page | MCU

[howbraveyouare]

Alex Reagan | The Black Tapes Podcast

[11calls]

[Persephone.]

Anastasia/The Red Queen | Once Upon a Time: In Wonderland.

[gameboards]

[Persephone or Hades.]

Selina Kyle | Nolanverse Batman |

[uppitiness]

Karla | Fire Emblem

[swordprincess]

[Persephone.]

Shuichi Saihara | New Dangan Ronpa V3 | M/M

[perjurer_ultdetective]

[Persephone]

Kravitz | The Adventure Zone | M/M

[feathers_and_bones]

[Hades. He's suuuuuuch a big nerd you guys. Open to crosscanon as well!]

ooc

[idioticprince]

[Open t a magical genius and crown prince?]

Theo Raeken | Teen Wolf

[firstchimera]

((Probably Hades))

Danny Mãhealani | Teen Wolf | M/M

[dannydoesknow]

((Persephone))

Loki | MCU | OTA

[mischiefandice]

[It could vary depending on the canon point we choose, but he is a lot more likely to be Hades.]

[shornhaired]

( most likely hades to her persephone - post the dark world? )

bellatrix lestrange | hp | ota

[scinlac]

( just fuck me up tbh )

he can't believe he's the persephone. i'm just making shit up.

[malificence]

[ Lucius Malfoy would laugh in the face of anyone who claimed he was in any regard pure or good, right before cursing them out of his sight. He's never been kind, after all. He's always been cruel. The darkness has been with Lucius for his entire life, and he's always been all too eager to follow it down the road it leads.

Perhaps, though, there was a chance for him, a girl he loved once who made him wish to be a better person than he was. Perhaps even time, her marriage to someone else, and a trip to Durmstrang were all combined not to get his head on straight. Perhaps one day in a bookstore, he might have wryly said he was thinking of looking her up again, and his head might have been too deep in a book of rituals to see his companion's real reaction.

Perhaps that's why he wakes up one morning having not really remembered going to sleep, in a room he doesn't recognize, locked to a bed with a spell he can't quite figure out how to break with the way his head's still spinning.]

Clancy Gray | The Darkest Minds | OTA

[wouldhaverun]

[Character has mind control and emotional influencing powers which can be seen on his journal here, with minor spoiler warning for the books.

DEFINITELY is the Hades in this scenario.]

Hel | Norse Mythology/OC | OTA

[ingloriousdead]

[[An avatar/loose interpretation of Hel from Norse mythology, more info available on her journal. Most likely the Hades in this scenario, but always interested in role reversal if there's a good angle!]]

[askmenosecrets]

[He would absolutely hate being the Persephone and yet is 100% the Persephone. Thoughts about a charming destructive mischievous Greek?]

Joscelin Verreuil | Kushiel's Legacy series | open

[damnedcassiline]

(Most definitely the Persephone, more likely bound by honor than anything else.)

clark kent | smallville

[awkwardlasers]

[persephone, but red kryptonite clark could probably be tweaked into being a hades]