bakerstreet | She worshipped her night flowers. She forgave the darkness.

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.
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[ooc; either]

[ooc; probably hades, but open to persephone]

[ooc; probably the persephone? could go hades, too]

( i'm prepared to either use the myth as a loose inspiration or go whole hog by playing up the classical motif of the devil as a hunter, ie the Wild Hunt or Der Freischütz. VOTE IN THE COMMENTS BELOW hit the bell like subscribe

profile under construction but tl;dr he's a riff on the dichotomy between the 'bad' wolf and the 'heroic' woodsman/huntsman archetypes in fairy tales. what if they're two sides of the same person? maybe, if there's even a little chance, the wolf wants to be better, to keep himself in check. )

Edited 2021-02-05 02:47 (UTC)

( Most likely Persephone. )

[Persephone.]

(Persephone. My kingdom for a Descendants' Hades to play off of, but OTA.)

[either role.]

Edited 2021-02-05 05:19 (UTC)

( m/f. def the persephone. )

[Likely Hades.]

( persephone! )

Edited 2021-02-05 08:34 (UTC)

{ Persephone, but embodying more of what her name means: Bringer of Death. We all know she truly holds her own in the Underworld. }

[ either! down for ancient greece, a weird star wars deity mash up, or just... star wars lbr. ]

Edited 2021-02-05 15:36 (UTC)

[ Ben knows who she is. He's seen her around the senate complex on multiple occasions, at times more unnoticeable than others. That said, there's always been something about her. Something he hasn't been able to put his finger on and only left to wonder, both at the sense and about her in general. He learned before he ever took over his mother's senate seat that while plenty of people may be plotting, and it was certainly safer to assume so, they weren't all as obvious with their machinations and the too-obvious ones might just be masking their real intent.

He knows that she's First Order. Not an advertised fact, at least no more than it was for some of his rival senators to be supporting that regime behind the scenes. But he inherited several of his mother's connections, aside from her insight — and warnings — about who and what might be best to keep an eye on.

It would be a lie to say he hadn't wondered if something like this might happen one day. Danger always lurked by virtue of his name, of his blood; whatever role he took in life didn't change that other than to alter or add to the threat. He hadn't quite expected it to happen like this, though.

The binders on his wrists are a point of discomfort as Ben sits at his dining table but his gaze is on her as she watches the security feed to verify his bodyguard wasn't lingering after escorting him to his residence. ]

They won't return until morning unless I call. [ he remarks calmly. She had already taken his communicator so that was a moot point.

Quietly watching her with some curiosity, Ben sits back a little, lacing his fingers together in a thoughtful pose unhindered by the restraints. ]

This isn't a mission, is it? You're alone. They wouldn't send you alone. [ He hesitates perhaps half a second before finishing his thought, the Solo in him having enough impulsivity to refuse to leave it at that. ] ... This is personal, isn't it?

[ persephone ]

[ stares directly into the camera ]

( ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )

[ooc: Either role.]

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She worshipped her night flowers. She forgave the darkness.

ben k̶y̶l̶o̶ ̶r̶e̶n̶ solo. STAR☆WARS. ota

jyn erso || rogue one || ota

cassian andor || rogue one || ota

rey || star wars || ota

ben solo || star wars || ota

bodhi rook || rogue one || ota

the huntsman | fairy tale oc | m/f

princess zelda | loz: twilight princess

Jiang Yanli | Mo Dao Zu Shi

Padmé ⋆ Star Wars

Evie | Disney's Descendants | ota

Jin Guangyao (Meng Yao)| The Untamed|m/m

Xiao Xingchen|The Untamed|m/m

marta cabrera 🔪 knives out

dazai osamu | bsd

Xue Yang | The Untamed | OTA

aerith gainsborough | ffvii | ota

yennefer | the witcher | m/f ; f/f

rey (star wars, ota)

no subject

alina starkov (grishaverse, ota)

persephone (lore olympus, ota)

persephone (greek mythology)

hades | lore olympus | ota

Nico Acosta | OC | M/F

Evie Montgomery | OC | OTA