[everythingloreolympus]

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₊ ˚ ⊹ #EVERYTHINGLOREOLYMPUS 𓂃 ࣪ ˖ .ᐟ

a writing / source blog for anything and everything related to the universe of the webtoon Lore Olympus, created by Rachel Smythe.

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Do you except yandere requests?

Yes, I do! Sugar baby!Persephone is specifically yandere coded.

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₊ ˚ ⊹ THE GODDESS OF SPRING 𓂃 ࣪ ˖ .ᐟ

There are three versions of Persephone that will be available for "x reader" fanfic and headcanon requests

♡ ♡ ♡ sociopath!persephone ♡ ♡ ♡

similar to canon, she doesn't have a biological father and was created by Demeter but the key difference is that erebos had a hand in promising Demeter a child and the trauma of being blessed with divine wrath by Eris, as a newborn infant, has irreparably altered kore's brain and personality (intense trauma with effects her frontal lobe) making her refer to Demeter by her name as not as "mother" -- simply seeing Demeter as her creator. She is a high functioning (self aware, highly intelligent and analytical) sociopath that puts a much tighter leash around her emotions after massacring those villagers for murdering her nymphs.

This version Persephone sees people as subjects to study, is a master manipulator, uses Hades infantilization and sexualization of her to her advantage, etc. She sees Hades, her primary subject, as the key to power for herself. She also cares for the lives of her nymphs and loves her mother very dearly.

♡ ♡ ♡ self aware!persephone ♡ ♡ ♡

since the first episode, she's been aware from the very beginning that she's the main character of lore olympus. she's been aware that all of this is a story meant to bend to her will and get her the happy ending she deserves. Hades is wrapped around her finger. Minthe had it coming for ratting her out and Apollo? Oh poor, sweet dumb Apollo is the villain that every barfs at.

As for Persephone? Well, duh! She's going to girl boss her way to the top with lovely readers like you rooting for her! This is her story! Everyone else is background noise. Of course, some people have to be cut if they make it all about them. Aren't you like, excited? Your favorite main character that's suffered through it all (in those brand new designer heels she got from Hades by the way!) is getting the CEO billionaire and getting her bouquet of flowers for being the absolute best!

♡ ♡ ♡ sugarbaby!persephone ♡ ♡ ♡

she's possessive and self centered and yet is a sweet as a button when it comes to you. She's got the perfect body, the right curves and a manipulative power hungry attitude that could shatter the Greek pantheon to back it up! And yet she knows how to mask it like the crack of a whip. The sweet unassumingly naive and too kind for her own good, nobody goddess that has a soft spot for wrapping you around her finger and is determined to have you all to herself while stirring up mischief to toss in a little drama with the gods to have them at eachother's throats.

Hera? Forget about her. Minthe? Ugh, old news. All you need is Persephone and she's always happy to live in your head rent free when it hurts that her absence drives you crazy.

[asphodelon]

Bringer of Spring

It’s the First Day of Spring, and Persephone is preparing to depart for the upper world.  A century may have passed since she made the famous compromise, but saying farewell is still far from easy.

Bringer of Spring is a collaboration between me and my lovely friend kata-chthonia, awesome writer and author of Receiver of Many.  It’s been three months in the making, so I’m very excited to finally show it to everyone.  Please click the “Read More” to see the rest, and I hope you enjoy! :)

(Apologies in advance to mobile users. There are lots of images!)

Edit 8/5/14: Finally posted the art that was originally planned as the ‘cover’ for the comic. :)  Check it out!

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The Uncanniness of Episode 165, and What Could Have Been

Alright, let's cut right to the chase, because this is like, the third time I've had to re-type this entire post because Tumblr has this stupid bug where it deletes my entire post up until the first photo upload every time I hit CTRL+Z to undo something 😒 (I have zero clue why it does this.)

Episode 165 has always... bothered me. I admittedly forgot about it in recent months, as the ongoing degradation of LO S2.2 onwards continues to rot my brain, but after stumbling upon it again, I was reminded of just how strange this episode is.

From the start, nothing really feels amiss. It picks up right where 164 left off, revealing the aftermath of Hades post-pomegranate and his first formal meeting with Hecate.

But it's as soon as we jump out of that flashback and return to the present - Hades standing before Persephone, the pomegranate tree perched peacefully in the background, that things start to get weird, in a way that I still honestly can't put my finger on.

And the spiraling into uncanniness begins with these two panels.

There's this rule in creating webcomics and writing stories - don't show or say anything you aren't intending your audience to pick up on. And when these panels were first released? I can tell you, as someone who was FastPassing back then, these two sets of panels threw the fanbase into an absolute riot. The fairly unanimous opinion from the fanbase was that Persephone had stolen the fruit for herself.

And can you blame them? The way the tree is framed, and repeated, with the camera shifting its focus, lacking the pomegranate in the shot completely, immediately told readers that it was gone. Of course, it wasn't, as was later clarified through the S2 finale and through Rachel's own wording; I believe she later stated that the pomegranate just 'wouldn't have been visible from that angle', hence why it was missing, but again, this is visual storytelling, it doesn't matter if the pomegranate TECHNICALLY wouldn't be seen from that angle, if you're going to remove it from the shot, that means you're telling your audience it's gone. It just feels too intentional, at best I might assume that that was the plan at one point, only for it to somehow end up changed along the way.

And it doesn't help that that scene is IMMEDIATELY followed by Persephone playing 20 questions with Hades.

These questions are all very specific, to-the-point, and hypothetical, concerning the pomegranate specifically, what it's done and what it's capable of doing. She's asking these questions not just for curiosity's sake, but with an ulterior motive - the writing on the wall is clear, she fully intends to eat the pomegranate, but is testing the waters with gentle but hypothetical questioning so she can gauge whether or not it would get her what she wants. Hence why she asks the marriage question - would marriage be enough, or would I have to make the trade with Erebus?

And then, of course, just as she gets the information she needs, she playfully changes the subject.

Hades does not look comfortable here. Some may argue that he's just nervous to have his photo taken with the girl he's lusting after, but again, it seems fairly obvious what's going on here. Hades has just made himself vulnerable* to the girl of his dreams (*i.e. trauma dumped and love bombed on her but that's another topic for another essay) and is now being cornered and interrogated by her. I know it's LO Hades, but I'd like to think he isn't that stupid. The sudden topic change isn't just to get a cute photo of him, it's to throw him off the scent, to make her seem innocent despite all of that earlier questioning.

In hindsight, we know now that she didn't take the fruit. She never planned to overthrow Hades. And while she wants to take things slow and 'do all the things', she does genuinely want to be with him, without it feeling forced. But I can't help but still feel unnerved at the sight of him in that selfie, watching the gears in his head turn, wondering what Persephone's going to do with all this new information after prying it out of him like a rat scavenging for its next meal.

Which brings us to Persephone. We know now that her wrathful side is purely wrath, gifted to her by Eris. Of course, often times her red eyes are applied to any sort of non-default emotion, including lust, but these are also the same red eyes attributed to her trademark appearance as the Dread Queen, foreseen by the Fates.

Again, I need to make it clear, in visual storytelling, do not show or tell anything you don't want your audience to know or infer. Why else would they suddenly draw her red eyes here after asking about the one thing that would grant her that Dread Queen status?

With Episode 165 and its strange toning in mind, let's turn to Zeus.

Zeus wasn't always an antagonist to Persephone. Zeus once supported the idea of Hades getting with her-

-but eventually shifts his opinion, after finding out about the Act of Wrath and Demeter's role in covering it up, eventually coming to the conclusion that Persephone specifically is planning to overthrow Hades. Not him, Zeus, the King of the Gods, nor any other God, but Hades. This suspicion has nothing to do with what Persephone actually did, and it's played off as a misunderstanding during the trial to set the stage for the creation of Elysium, but with the implications of Episode 165 still fresh in my mind, what if Zeus had been right? What if those suspicions weren't entirely unfounded?

Episode 165 feels like a preview for a story we never got. One that quickly and quietly changed gears halfway through and decided to shy away from the concept of Persephone actually being conniving and deceitful. I would love to say that RS set up this foreshadowing in a way that was brilliant, if it had actually paid off. All of the pieces were there, the pomegranate was gone, the stage was set - but instead, we now have Persephone playing house with Hades, hardly even doing a damn thing with her new title.

There is no Dread Queen.

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Persephone never cared about Alex getting beaten, she only cared about it hurting her reputation. Smfh. (╯°益°)╯彡┻━┻

She never tells Hades that beating Alex within an inch of his life was wrong, she never acknowledges the severity & extremity of this action, she never even apologizes to Alex. The whole time, she's keeping herself the center of the problem and practically playing the victim bc HeR fEeLiNgS wErE hUrT. (ಠロಠ) Obviously, Hades the Groomer enabling everything she does & constantly feeding her ego don't exactly make it any better. (ノ_<。)

Then when she has Hades return Alex's eye to him, she isn't doing it bc she feels terrible about what happened to him. Literally all she's doing it for is to save face and get in Alex's "good graces" again. And she even has the audacity to call him "rude" for being angry & understandably terrified of being left alone with the scumbag who mutilated him in the first place.

Like, wtaf girl??? She's just so far above everyone else, how dare they even think of getting testy with her uwu bby gorl boss babe self & her uwu sad boi sugar daddy?1!?

The comic constantly gives the notion that Persephone "has empathy for others" bc she's #notlikeothergods, but underneath it all her only priority is making herself look good. I previously thought this behavior started in S3 (I'll never forget "I can't be responsible for killing the Queen of the Gods"), but it was there all along. The blinders are off, the reality has hit, Persephone was always just as heartless as the other gods. (눈_눈)

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hades and persephone icons!

like/reblog if u plan to use and/or save them!

don't repost. that's all :)

i have returned! i literally binged so much content tonight because i got so caught up with work that i Forgot about the comic entirely . how tf .......

ANYWAY!! enjoy :D

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Icons of Persephone from Lore Olympus; a thread

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Persephone, bringer of death

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PERSEPHONE APPRECIATION POST BECAUSE THE 100th EPISODE CAME OUT. THANK YOU RACHEL SMYTHE 💗🙏!!!!!!!!