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If I look back, I am lost.

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 a 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: Let's be honest. Unless either someone is far worse or it's an AU, this guy is gonna be the Hades of the relationship.))

[ Definitely the Persephone figure, if one who'll call Hades out on his bullshit.

Here's a newly updated infopost on Ruth's background and abilities, if that might help! I'm into both canon and cross-canon CR and am happy to do assumed CR and/or AU her into other canons as needed. ]

[ ooc; persephone ]

((ooc; either role, tho probably best to do a little bit of planning))

((ooc; persephone))

[persephone ]

[ either ]

[Persephone most likely.]

[ooc: Either role.]

[ Big Hades energy. ]

((Definitely the Hades in the relationship, ...unless perhaps this is an AU where the B.S.A.A. takes him into custody.))

[ canon; persephone, or au; rey palpatine, hades. ]

[ ooc: He's a dumbass, but he's no Hades. ]

( ooc: If you have to ask... )

[He's definitely the Hades in several of his canon's bad endings - morally grey, willing to do questionable things in order to keep the world safe, deeply distrustful of most people and convinced other people cannot be reasoned with. As the keeper of a substantial amount of magical artifacts and at least one active portal between worlds, Zak comes with the built-in possible set-up of "your character stumbled through a portal into his house and he decided not to send them back". But I'm open to suggestions.

Open to crosscanon, cross medium, assumed CR, and male, female and nonbinary characters. Come at me, I live for this shit.]

_{(Dude is a Hades all the way. Come be a pain in Dutch's ass/apple of his eye. That's the same thing, right? Right. He's the leader of a gang of roving outlaws, set in the late 19th/early 20th century. I'll be willing to take him out of his era into late 20th/early 21st, and I'm for cross-canon, cross medium. M/F only if you don't mind, or y'know. Gender-ambiguous works too.)}

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