# OFVERDURE: an independent, selective and highly private portrayal of the goddess persephone, patroness of verdure, queen of the dead. draws heavy inspiration from the following sources in order: hades (video game franchise), had.estown (musical), sundry mythos and personal headcanon. by jay (21+, they/them). please do not follow me first.
my affiliated demeter is @winterdecay. i am not willing to write against other demeters. this is nothing against any other portrayals; adaās dem is just in my sephās dna, i fear.
i do not write especially much on here. for that you will be better off finding me on discord. this blogās purpose is mostly to collate information and aesthetics. (i will happily write threads here, but i will be slow.)
my persephone is a woc. i will not change this for you. i will not accept requests to make her appearance more 'canon-accurate' to the hades games. truly baffling that i have to state this.
i am autistic. if i do something to upset you, please tell me that. generally speaking, lead with compassion and i will do the same.
i will not remain mutuals with those who rb more signal boost type posts (rpc drama, etc) than character-related ones.
as previously stated, i write more often on discord than i do here. in fact i help to administrate a hades rp server there! if you'd like the link, feel free to ask. most canons are taken but we have desperate need of hera and megaera.
in brief, my 'canon divergencies' (as far as hadesgame goes) can be summed up by saying that persephone did not lie to the olympians anywhere near as much as she had to in the canon hades epilogue. she did go with hades willingly, and the pomegranate did bind her to the underworld half the year. her relationship with demeter is complex but not abusive by any stretch of the imagination. ditto her relationship with hades.
my primary ships for seph are hermes, hades and nyx. i will assume an open marriage in threads where that is relevant. she may be messy, but she isn't cheating on her husband messy in this canon. as far as she knows, he hasn't done anything to deserve that lol
i do write smut. i find it fun. my sincere apologies if this is sacrilegious to you. feel free to block the following tags: nsft, nsft tw.
i hear theyāre making a tangled live action. if victoria hamilton-barritt isnt mother gothel in that thing itās a wasted opportunity and they should just pack it up.
iāve said it before iāll say it again. the difference between hermes (psychopomp, god of travellers, winged creature with a train whistle) and persephone (seasonal, transient, our lady of in-betweens, spring flowers and autumn leaves) is that hermes can make a home anywhere, and persephone doesnāt feel at home anywhere for longer than six months.
lady of spring - 2 oz vodka, 1/2 oz elderflower liqueur, 1/2 oz lemon juice, 1/2 oz lavender syrup. sweet and floral with an acid kick! sheāll get you drunk quick and youāll have a good time getting there. best enjoyed laying in a field of wildflowers with someone you love.
tagged by: @nymfernal, thank you!
tagging: whomsoever wants to do it <3 say i tagged u!
i think a lot about how n.yx probably knows pers.ephone better than anyone else, absolutely including had.es. night is the domain of secrets and pers.ephone has So Many Of Those. she can't tell had.es how out of place she feels in his kingdom, she just has to make it work - otherwise he'll feel guilty and try to fix it and it doesn't need fixing, it's just what is. she can tell n.yx. she can go to n.yx and be held and understood and just Exist without fear or discomfort.
SHE WASNāT, but what does it matter? sheās too young for anyone to care what she thinks and too old to take that lying down. itās a miserable age.
persephone - not kore; she is past that now and her mother should be too - plants her feet and scoffs. ā right. how exactly have i displeased you this time, mother? ā
ā But really that's not true, this place was like my escape. My escape from everything else. ā (she's showing mama her garden i think <3)
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the good lady demeter had always felt much better in the company of the allmother's creations, so it does not surprise her, that at least that much, her and her daughter still seem to share. though she knows deep down persephone is not growing these plants in her memory, but the memory of her father... peraps it is better that way.
demeter herself has enough mortals worshipping her, praying upon her altars. it is good iasion still has someone to remember him. " i never thought so much could grow here... " she admits. " i... i am glad, that you have a place such as this. even in this realm. "
EVEN IN THIS REALM. it's an almighty effort, taking such a thing charitably. having demeter in her home makes her defensive, wound high and tight like a cat backed into a corner, and there are at least six different ways persephone could start a fight off the back of a phrase like that - just because you only choose to see the dank and dreary doesn't mean that's all there is down here. she almost does before she remembers: she is not supposed to be looking for that sort of foothold in her mother's rhetoric anymore.
hard-won serenity softens her face, and the queen kneels before her little plot of repurposed gravedirt, rolling up her sleeves. her crop is coming in nicely. " i didn't either. some things just don't need the sun, it turns out. "
