Lore Olympus Theory: Persephone’s Not Really 20 Years Old?!
I’ve been re-reading Lore Olympus again, and I’ve been noticing a lot of inconsistencies with the morals and ethics that Demeter’s been teaching her daughter.
In Episode 11, Artemis reminds Persephone that her mother doesn’t allow her to have a cell phone. But then in Episode 62, if you look really close at Demeter’s panels, you could clearly see she’s holding a phone.
In Episode 107, when explaining to Hades why she doesn’t have a bank account she she explains that her mother told her that banks are run by greedy and corrupt people. But then In Episode 63, we can see her making out a check to Hermes. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m pretty sure you can’t make out checks without a bank account.
When I first noticed these things, I thought: “Wow this lady’s a hypocrite!” Then I thought about the other shady things that Demeter was able to get away with: She lied to Persephone about her being a fertility goddess, she bribed Hermes and Helios to keep Persephone’s wrath a secret, she also managed to make Hades and Persephone forget about their first encounter.
What if Demeter’s lying about Persephone’s age too? What if she isn’t 20 years old?
I don’t believe the incident Helios explained to Thanatos in Episode 109 and was shown physically in the Season 1 Finale, happened recently. However, we never fully saw the full conversation of what Helios told, so we don’t know the full details of what actually happened.
However, I did notice something: did you ever notice that when Eros had a wrath in Episode 69, it was immediately notified by sending amber alerts to all the Gods in Olympus, so someone could step in to prevent more causalities from happening. When Persephone had a wrath, no one from Olympus no one came to stop her.
Whether if you believe Minthe, Thetis, and Thanatos’ story about Persephone or not, don’t you think it seems a little suspicious that the Gods were never notified that a Goddess was going on a rampage in the mortal realm? Which is our first clue that the wrath happened years ago, since Olympus most likely didn’t have the advanced technology to detect a God or a Goddess committing mass murders yet.
Which leads me to the second clue. If you notice, the flashbacks are very vague. They don’t say specifically how many days/weeks/months/years it’s been, so it’s possible that most of these events happened ages ago.
In Episode 30 Hera says this to Persephone, and then in the next panel she looks worried as if something happened in the past...
I know the terms: “I haven’t seen you in forever” and “It’s been so long” are exaggerated, but what if Hera really meant it. What if she really hasn’t seen Persephone in so long?
So here’s what I think happened...
I’m starting to believe that Persephone’s wrath happened many years ago, when Persephone was an actual 18-19 year old. After it happened Demeter had to think fast in order to salvage her daughter’s reputation.
Remember the greenhouse that keeps showing up in Persephone’s dreams?
What if it wasn’t a dream? What if it was a memory and it actually happened?
This is what I believe: Demeter built that greenhouse in order to privately perform a spell that keeps Persephone from remembering what she did. While Persephone’s in that greenhouse, Demeter gives her some kind of drug (like something similar anesthesia) or she’s filled the greenhouse with toxic plants that puts Persephone in a coma. Then once she has been put under, Demeter performs her memory wiping spell.
Once Persephone wakes up, Demeter makes it seem like it was all a bad dream and she’s been asleep for a normal amount of hours, when it’s really been days/weeks/months/years (like what happens to a lot of comatose patients).
However the spell isn’t 100% effective, because someway somehow she keeps remembering what she did. Either something triggers her to remember it or Persephone keeps getting angry and loses control of her powers.
It becomes an endless cycle of Demeter wiping away Persephone’s memories everytime she remembers what happened. Which prompts her to continue to make more changes and restrictions for Persephone’s life. New name, no phone, no bank account, etc.
One more thing, what if Demeter’s spells comes with a side effect? While it does clear someone’s memories, after the spell’s been performed it damages the person’s body. What if the consequence of Demeter putting a spell on Persephone is slowing down her age process? Well at least for a Goddess, since they all stop aging at some point, but I think for Persephone her aging stopped prematurely, because of what Demeter’s done to her.
This is why Persephone said:
I wouldn’t trust Demeter since she’s liar and kept so many secrets from everybody, so it’s possible that she’s lying about Persephone’s age too, and she’s really a lot older than she actually is.
Also I believe Demeter put the same spell on Hades too after his first encounter with Persephone in Episode 114, and a consequence for him is that the spell took away his fertility. And in case if you’re wondering, I don’t think Hermes and Helios are the only ones that have been bribed by Demeter. I think there’s more, and they’re playing along.
