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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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[ info, probably hades. quick rundown: legislator/adviser to the Sacred Council and the Senate of his country, inspired by Ancient Greece/Rome. manipulative and controlling at his worst, charming and charismatic at his best. talks a lot of bullshit, but makes it sound good. infamous for his orgies. chaotic neutral. assumed cr, canon mashing and multiversal shit is go. ]

[ Character info in journal. The Persephone ~~but why isn't she Orpheus~~. Assumed CR and AUs are all welcome. ]

[ probably the persephone. ]

( m/f, either role. would adore an irisviel for this. )

[[Definitely the Hades in this scenario.]]

( my favorite trope for him. definitely the hades )

[Would you like a prince?]

[ persephone ]

[ More apt to be Hades, but either role works. ]

[Either role! She's certainly bright and sunny enough to be a Persephone, but it might also be very interesting to have her as a Hades...]

[ good with either role; can do 'never went dark' AUs or Sith AUs as well. happy to play as fast and loose with the theme as desired, whether keeping it light or full-on mythological AU shenanigans. also fine with something that's more gen than shippy. leaning more toward cross canon for this but open to canonmates and timeline fuckery (prefer no Reys unless we have prior CR or there happens to be a male!Rey around ~~or a Cal to fill that role~~). ]

[ the Hades; she's been likened to Lucifer multiple times and her name does mean death in an ancient language. just here to have fun with the theme! Destiny does love mythology so good to do something wildly divergent (far-future after the current threat has been averted and she has even greater power? a timeline where she has dominion over the Ascendant Plane? more nonsense with pocket universes and additional realms?), or full-on AU shenanigans in a different world. fantasy, urban fantasy, celestial alien goddess pops up in your character's verse, etc. this lends itself best to cross canon/media or original characters but canonmates are always welcome. ]

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