Random Thoughts: Hades and Persephone Pt. 2
Persephone: Also known as Kore/Kora, which I will be using because it is shorter and spelling is dumb. She is not an innocent maiden. She is someone who is unflinching and tenacious, to see winter and the Death it brings and choose to start again, even though she knows it won't change. She is someone who isn't squeamish, to see corpses staining the ground and use it as fertilizer. She is someone who looks at dead things and grows over them, someone who creeps moss over building to allow for things to grow. She is someone who ate a fruit that looked of blood and loves a man whom most fear. She is someone who was not afraid to walk into that abyss at the edge of the field, who was not afraid to follow the voice and her curiosity. She is someone who looked at her life, found it wanting, and was not afraid to change it.
So while Hades deals with the others, she deals with the bad. She listens to each boast about every bad deed, each hit they throw or take and she decides whether to give them another chance after some punishment, or to chop their soul into bits to feed to Ceberus. And she is not scared.
Persephone is not a tainted lily, nor is she a caged bird. She is not that which is soft against the skin nor that which can be stolen and kept. She is the wind whistling through the cave. She is the flower blooming in a skull and the rot that covers a corpse. She is a garden full of posion all the more beautiful for being untamed. She is a hunter and she is a shield.
