𝐄𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋 𝐁𝐀𝐆𝐆𝐀𝐆𝐄.
been cheated on | been bullied | had your heart broken | broken someone’s heart | told a horrible lie | been betrayed | been framed / set-up | stolen something of value | overdosed on drugs | been drunk | cheated | bullied | been publicly humiliated | punched someone in the face | been beaten up | broken a bone | been admitted to a hospital | put someone in the hospital | had a near - death experience | been drugged | done drugs | smoked | been arrested | been homeless | been forced to commit a crime | died and come back to life | kissed someone you weren’t attracted to | bled severely | killed someone | been forced to kill someone | had an attempt on your life | made an attempt on your own life | lost someone | loved someone | watched a loved one die | failed to save / help a loved one | felt helpless | watched your world die / disappear | had your life’s work stolen / destroyed | gone without food for over three days | gone without sleep for over three days | been tortured | been shot | been stabbed | been poisoned | been held prisoner | been trapped | been buried alive | been held hostage | held someone hostage | been stuck in a different world / universe / time | been slapped by a parent or higher up | been abused by someone who should have loved / appreciated / valued you | had a panic attack | had night terrors | been in a car accident | lost your job | lost a fight | had sex with a stranger | been divorced | been abandoned | passed out from pain | cried yourself to sleep | spent a whole day in bed | hurt yourself | taken your anger out on yourself | taken your anger out on someone you love | been used | been manipulated | felt used | manipulated someone else | had your memories / mind wiped / stolen or tampered with | been taken over by a hostile force | been terrified | played a cruel game on someone | been forced to smile | felt too many things at once | laughed when you felt like crying | been in denial | been denied | faced your demons
tagged by : @godbanes
tagging : the dash. take it. love it. let me read it.
fyi, it’s persephone’s job to think up punishments for those who have earned it. and she can be very creative. she does love doling out her justice.
after talking to @denieddeath, we have decided that the game of thrones winter exists the way it does because when persephone threatened eternal winter in order to keep her son, zeus never weighed in, or his decree was ignored, and aphrodite took adonis against his will. persephone kept her eternal winter promise. the real winters™ happen when persephone is especially distraught over the loss of her son. the long summers happen when adonis visits persephone. demeter of course supports persephone because she went through literally the same thing, except demeter and persephone aren’t entirely sure that adonis is happy with aphrodite. his relationship with aphrodite did get him killed, after all.
fun fact, persephone’s only ever had sex with one man.
in my head cerberus gets pouty whenever persephone leaves and honestly that’s 95% of the reason persephone keeps pushing back the date when she comes back up.
- Persephone: I have done nothing wrong, ever, in my life.
- Demeter: I know this, and I love you.
MUSICAL AESTHETICS (#1)
Rules: Bold what applies to your muse, repost & tag some friends!
tagged by: a bitch sTOLE IT
tagging: @sonofshadow, @theharvestmother, @skullkceper, @pontia, @indxstress, @intellxctual, @herateleia, @ofironandbeauty, @chalceus,
HAMILTON
wax seals. writing in ink. that moment when your stomach drops and you realize something horrible is about to happen. a single candle in the dark. heated arguments. ballroom dancing. stacks of paper overflowing a desk. fresh beginnings. the ticking of a clock. loud arguments. hand kisses. the barely-there trace of a word that’s been erased. passive aggressive texts. icy faces and wet cheeks. blood on the ground. forgiveness. quiet gasps into silence.
FALSETTOS
the tetris music. a pen scraping against paper. dayenu. the muffled sound of crying in your mother’s room. tense silence at the dinner table. a chess board left in the middle of a game. carefully placed decorative pillows. stimming. red hoodies. kisses in the back of a dark bar. baseball. a hand on your thigh. sweaters. prayer shawls. too much champagne. the beeping of hospital instruments. hickeys all over your body. boxes full of old polaroids. fresh flowers on a gravestone.
IN THE HEIGHTS
piragua. flags blowing in the wind. muffled latin music. champagne bottles popping loudly. fireworks. slushies being slurped through a straw. pigeons picking bread-crumps. candles in a blackout. the hottest day of the summer when the air seems to turn liquid. fire-escapes. taxis. dress-shirts and black ties. record scratches. graffiti. streetlights. winning lottery tickets. gossip at the salon. stacks of school books. the sound of a train going by. secrets kept away from the neighbors. coming home at the end of the day.
SPRING AWAKENING
wildflowers. white sundresses. first kisses. clammy hands holding each other. flower crowns. haylofts. tingly feelings all over. goethe. endless darkness. cold hands. silent screams. chalk against a chalkboard. all-nighters. wine yards. too-tight braids. bruises. innocence lost. graveyards. love letters. adults that don’t get it. piano lessons. study dates. phantom touches. whispers that stop when you get close. rolled down knee socks. your dad’s gun.
LEGALLY BLONDE
tiny dogs. red bull. pink. hello kitty. getting cat called. corduroy. leather messenger bags. the sound of high heels against tiles. scented paper. unworn fancy dresses. smeared lipstick. walking up on stage during your graduation. the flow-feeling you get into when studying something you actually care about. the scent of department stores. the tense atmosphere in court rooms. finding unexpected sisterhood.
WAITRESS
the scent of freshly baked pies. flour on your hands. old diners from the 60s that still look the same. southern hospitality. those dreadful minutes after you take a test and have to wait for a result. feeling lonely at night while someone else is asleep right next to you. contorted guitar chords. old recipe books passed down through generations. knowing something is wrong but doing it anyway. nights spent curled up on the couch with true crime shows.
“Do you even want to see anyone?”
💀. ʟᴏɴᴇʟʏ ᴍᴇᴍᴇ ; ( 🌸 accepting. )
SHE FEELS LIKE a little girl again, in the worst way possible. there’s nothing she wants more than to hide behind her mother’s skirts. she was right; of course her mother was right. persephone had never trusted zeus, even as a child, but she hadn’t thought … but of course she hadn’t thought. any creature with two legs was a target to him, even his own child. he’d never been great at protecting individuals. why would he consider protecting his daughter? it got in the way of his happiness — his happiness and the momentary pleasure of his cock.
SHE FEELS SICK. disgusting. dirty. she’s had thousands of baths drawn up and still she cannot get clean. the water burned her flesh and made her eyes water and still she is not clean. she wants her mother. more than that, she never wants to be above again. she’d closed the underworld to anything that isn’t dead. her underworld gods cannot leave and the olympians cannot return. but she’d make a special exception for her mother. of course she would.
ALTHOUGH, TRULY, SHE has no idea if the travel ban is being upheld. she hasn’t left this guest room. her marriage bed is sullied, the bedroom cursed. she wants it all burned.
SHE WANTS HER mother. she wants her husband, but the sight of him makes her ill. how is she supposed to know it’s truly him after all? she cannot trust her own eyes. she cannot trust anything or anyone and she’d know that if only she’d listened to her mother. persephone stares at the miniature budding flowers at her fingertips. she feels more kore now than when it had actually been her name.
ONE DAY SHE will have her revenge.
THAT DAY, HOWEVER, is slow in coming.

“ NO. ” SHE IS a liar. she wants to see him, wants to be held by him and told meaningless platitudes until she feels once again the destroyer, queen of the underworld, persephone. or she wants to see her mother, who will stroke her hair and cluck about how all men are untrustworthy cods, bringing her back to the passive and soft kore. she does not know who she is at the moment. “ no, no one, ” she says, louder this time, to be heard through the door.
IS HER FATHER bragging? telling all who will hear how he raped and fucked the great iron queen, his daughter? that is how hades will find out, she knows. he will hear it through gossip, if he hasn’t already. that aches, and yet she cannot tell him herself.
bold what applies to your muse: flaws edition !
feel free to add more.
easily scared | whiny | repetitive | selfish | arrogant | easily excitable | too silly | stubborn | blank minded | overly cautious | loud | easily bored | untrustworthy | disloyal | manipulative | over sensitive | possessive | clingy | obnoxious | gullible | annoying | judgmental | tactless | merciless | unlucky | soft-hearted | sarcastic | reckless | paranoid | unsophisticated | pushy | self critical | smart-ass | infamy | solemn | erratic |
casual reminder that pomegranates supposedly taste like human flesh and are persephone’s favorite fruit
say a prayer
1. This is a private blog. That means I will only roleplay with mutuals. This is just to keep me sane. Please don’ take it personally.
2. Please don’t godmod. That’s just basic rp etiquette. I might go to you and ask that you change your reply if you godmod. I might not. You should know what’s god modding and what’s not. Look it up on urban dictionary if you want.
3. I will be extremely selective with who I smut, if I smut. I am of age. Persephone is a married goddess with an active sex life; likelier than not, there will be smut reblogged. It will be tagged 💀. ʙᴇʜɪɴᴅ ᴄʟᴏsᴇᴅ ᴅᴏᴏʀs ; ( 🌸 nsfw. ) to keep certain blogs away. That being said, there might be triggers on this blog. Persephone is a goddess, and one that is feared and for a reason. She is not afraid to spill blood. I will tag accordingly. If you need anything tagged, please tell me. I am always more than happy to do so.
4. Please don’t reblog asks with a response. Like, go ahead and reblog the ask, no problem. Just don’t add a reply while reblogging. This goes only for actual ask posts. Nowadays, since tumblr loves to fuck up the formatting in asks, I tend to answer IC questions in their own post. Feel free to continue those if you'd like!
5. I do not RP with, or follow, duplicats. This means that if you are a Persephone blog (or a multimuse with Persephone as one of those muses), I will not follow. It's a self-esteem thing. Thank you for understanding. However, if you are a Greek god multimuse, there's a nine out of ten chance I do want to write with one of your muses, and just refuse to follow because of the Persephone. Feel free to like starter calls and whatnot if this is the case.
6. Do not underestimate Persephone. She is a goddess. Unless your muse is also a god, she is stronger than your muse. I will contact you before she does something violent to your muse, that way we can drop the thread if you don't want that done to your muse. I will however, warn you what Persephone is going to do before I post the reply. While Persephone is not all-knowing, she as a goddess she has access to more information than mortals. Please let me know if this discomforts you; I am more than happy to plot something out.
7. My name is Jackee and I only bite if asked. I'm twenty-one and have been writing Persephone on and off since 2014 on another blog. I have a google doc available with a more in depth look into which verison/combination of myths I use as canon to my Persephone, as well as a longer version of my rules there if you're interested.
verses
- MAIN.
- AU.
- GROUP.
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💀. ɢʀᴇᴇᴋ ᴡᴏʀsʜɪᴘ ; ( 🌸 main. )
This verse follows the myth of Persephone and Hades, if a bit into the future. She adores both her mother and her husband, and will often slip out when she's supposed to be Above to visit her husband. When in the Underworld, she will go Above to see her mother, though not often, because she thinks Demeter will begin to suspect that she also does it during the warmer months. While her visits to the Underworld are secret for fear of her mother's wrath, as Queen of the Underworld, she is free to do what she wants, when she wants it. Persephone cares deeply for her kingdom and her subjects, but she is not afraid in any way to strike fear into them when needed. She is Iron Queen, Dread Queen.
💀. sᴘʀɪɴɢᴛɪᴍᴇ ᴘᴜʀɪᴛʏ ; ( 🌸 innocence incarnate. )
This verse is before her kidnapping and marriage. Persephone does not exist; there is no Underworld Queen. She goes only by Kore. The goddess of spring and rebirth, but she is not yet Queen. Instead she is her mother's handmaiden, a minor goddess. She struggles with her personality, darker than what she thinks a springtime goddess should be, but has a strong control on her darker thoughts, and is careful not to voice them. She is kind, she is sweet, she is beautiful; spring in its purest form. Although Kore is a virgin, she's being courted by Apollo, Ares, Hephaestus, and Hermes, in what she considers good fun. Her closest friends are Aprhodite, Athena, and Artemis. -
💀. ᴍᴏᴅᴇʀɴɪᴛʏ ; ( 🌸 present times. )
Though no longer as widely worshipped, Persephone is still tied to her six months both on Earth and in the Underworld. She laughs, just a bit, at all the different religions, but she will not correct them; the gods will punish them in due time, and their lack of coins between their teeth will stop them from ever reaching the Underworld, though often she feels bad for them and, as Queen of the Underworld, lets them through regardless. Those in Christian religions and extensions of it regard her as Lilith, wife to Lucifer. She is quick to correct them. In the Underworld she goes only by Persephone, and those who call her Lilith will regret it, as will those who call her husband Lucifer, Satan, or the Devil. They are gods, not demons.Above she continues to bring spring and grow her flowers. As a goddess she is perpetually unemployed, wandering wherever she may please, though more often by her mother's side. She is unafraid to call herself both Kore and Persephone, though occasionally introduces herself as Stephanie, because the looks of shock and disbelief, one that she knows means the humans think her insane, irritates her.
💀. ᴘᴜʙʟɪᴄ ʀᴏʏᴀʟᴛʏ ; ( 🌸 godly celebrity. )
The gods have come out to mortals as real. They are public figures who hold press conferences and interviews. They willingly preform miracles for fun on TV. People doubted them at first, as the world was largely christian, but after 90 years of not aging, people started to believe and pray to them and ask the questions during conferences. -
💀. ᴀ ɴᴇᴡ ʀᴜʟᴇ ; ( 🌸 all queen. )<
This is based on a group verse from a very, very long time ago, which I am more than willing to revive if there is interest.Some time after its beginning, the gods created mankind, and allowed the species to live upon the Earth. Epimetheus gave beauty and agility to beasts, leaving humans defenseless. Prometheus stole reason and fire from the gods, thus angering Zeus. The King of Gods punished Prometheus, chaining him to a rock. Eagles feasted upon Prometheus’ liver, and since Prometheus was a god, it continued to regrow in an endless, painful punishment. He would only be freed if Prometheus, God of Forethought, revealed to Zeus which of his children would overthrow him.
Prometheus did not speak, though eventually Zeus’ demigod son, Hercules, freed him from his pain. The god knew, of course, knew who would overthrow the King. Most assumed it would be Ares, God of War. Still, since Prometheus would not say, the subject soon died. Zeus ruled; he had children and often forgot them. If he did not forget them, they were underestimated. Truly, who would have guessed that Goddess of Spring, of chirping birds and blossoming flowers, forgotten wayward child, would be the one to ignite a rebellion? Who would have guessed that Hades, freed by his younger brother, would follow his wife’s rage-fueled words?
Hades, cast to the darkness of the Underworld. Persephone, underestimated and forgotten. Rulers of the Dead. Too lightly taken, too easily forgotten. Respected by those who knew their true power, ignored and disrespected by those Zeus’ kingdom. With the power of their dead and the gods who lived Underworld. They raged war, and won.
Hades: King of Gods and of the Dead. Persephone: Queen of Gods and of the Dead. Zeus: Chained as he had Prometheus.
the silver over which he rules.
Mother, he stares at me as if I am,
more fearsome than all the creatures,
in his kingdom.
Mother, he worships me as if I am the,
only goddess he knows.
Mother, he holds me as if I am fragile,
but kisses me as if I am stronger than,
Atlas himself.
Mother, his eyes are precious stones,
I fear they’re worth more than all my,
flowers Above.
Mother, his rare smile shines brighter,
than Apollo’s sun.
Mother, he tells me I am a queen and,
places a crown of flowers and iron and,
bones upon my head.
Mother, his laughter is water and I am,
the thirstiest I have ever been.
Mother, his touch is golden and I am,
rich.
Mother, his anger shakes our kingdom,
whole and thrills my very bones.
Mother, he tells me rage is natural and,
takes me to his Fields of Punishment to,
scream it away.
Mother, he’s shown me even the dead,
can bleed and given me control of,
justice.
Mother, he’s watched me rip limbs from,
the dead and kissed the blood from my,
fingers and still found me beautiful.
Mother, his skin is ice and I am melting it.,
Mother, he is a maze and I have lost,
myself in him.
goddess spring and rebirth
Independent Queen Persephone, Goddess of Spring and Rebirth, Necromancy and Ghostly Visits. Semi-private; semi-active; selective.
Myth basted, neither Percy Jackson nor Lore Olympus related.
Written by Jackee. Established July 30th, 2014, revamped August 27th. Previously nonvictimam.