yikes okay drizzle here introducing my trash child persephone!! i’m 19, from sweden but gonna return to scotland for uni in a few days ( save me ), and generally pretty chill so pls come talk to me?? anyways let’s focus on this kid!!
this is unnecessarily long and ramble-y i am not even kidding i apologise, you 100% don’t have to read it all & if you do ???? you’re an angel, truly incredible
key stats: 24, pureblood, death eater af, sweet serial killer, demigirl, she/her, heterosexual ( demiromantic ), former model, currently runs an art gallery in diagon alley
persephone is The Worst i’m so sorry but let’s just dive into it
so an important thing to note is that her parents don’t actually hold any true loyalty to any side but are just looking out for their own skin which !!! makes this a really interesting verse for persephone honestly. in like ‘normal’ verses after the order wins the war they openly claimed that they were loyal to them all along but couldn’t help out because the danger they were in as purebloods closer to the blood supremacist crowd ( in reality they’re like..... not even remotely Relevant but sure jan ), but in this verse since the death eaters won it’s the opposite. so after the fact and the battle of hogwarts was lost they spewed some bs lie and swore loyalty to the death eaters basically, but still tried to remain in the background bc they don’t want to bring too much attention to themselves ???
essentially her parents just want to be on the winning team without actually doing anything to contribute to the cause or put themselves in danger
they were not even Remotely interested in having kids, persephone was a complete accident and they were planning on getting an abortion but word got out and they felt they had an image to uphold ( even tho they honestly didn’t????? ) so they decided to go through with the pregnancy so not to cause a ~scandal ( in their eyes ) and then somehow ??? deal with it ??? later ???
basically very very soon after she was born they hired a nanny so they wouldn’t have to deal with her at home themselves but just in public
a big thing for her parents is that they want to be relevant and hold an important place in society and be rich & live a lavish life, and though they’re purebloods they’re not from the sacred 28, they’re not very rich and with the jobs they hold they weren’t really gonna ever reach the place they wanted ??? but they realized very quickly that persephone was beautiful, and you can make money off of beautiful, and so she became a bit less of a burden for them
her modelling career was a bit slow at first but then it truly kicked off and it’s one that many would desire. and it’s made up such a huge part of her life bc it was one of the only things her parents thought she was good for so even tho she went to hogwarts ( sorted into ravenclaw ), she spent more time out of school doing photoshoots and the like, and it basically took priority to everything else in her life.
tho her parents treated her pretty horribly at home, every time they were out they would brag about her to everyone because of her career ( though if you listened closely, the praise had more to do with the daughter they raised, than persephone herself ), and showed her lots of love that was such a stark difference from their actions at home, which really confused her when she was younger but she figured she had to be doing something right you know and just continued
very much raised to be seen and not heard, be extremely obedient and polite and kind, that her body/ life isn’t really her own & she doesn’t have a say in what happens to it. a lot of the modelling gigs she did were totally fine and many were even quite fun because of the creativity involved, but then some just made her extremely uncomfortable and sexualised her at too young of an age. when she was younger she tried to bring it up to her parents for help, but the rage she was met with caused her to just remain silent from then on & follow their wishes
okay so if we jump back a bit in time to when she was younger, her parents began to realize that the war wasn’t really going to end any time soon, which honestly just terrified them. and tho after the battle of hogwarts they decided to openly side with the death eaters bc they won, they never shared their beliefs and most of their actions afterwards downright disgusted and terrified them. they had just underestimated what would follow the death eaters winning that battle. and tbh they also thought they were a lot more important than they actually were, so they were afraid the death eaters would find out that they weren’t actually loyal at all to them and were just there to protect themselves. and they were terrified they would be punished or killed bc of it, even if they hadn’t even taken the mark and were just supporters. so they tried to come up with a way to contribute to the war & the cause without again actually doing anything themselves/ putting themselves in harm’s way, and the solution was persephone
so yeah although her parents don’t actually share the blood supremacist views, they made sure that she was raised with them and those beliefs are so deeply ingrained with her now she will probably never believe anything different. plus all the reading she did at hogwarts mostly from the restricted section really contributed to deepening and upholding them. and tho her parents were like !!! yikes !!! at the thought of having slaves they kind of had the nanny and persephone mostly interact with them so they would feel a bit less guilty, and when persephone got older she was kind of taught to practice various dark spells on them so she could be as good death eater as possible when the time came
which honestly just made her extremely confused and angry and conflicted with herself because on the one hand she was meant to be polite and quiet and obedient, and on the other when/ if the time came she was supposed to join the death eaters and essentially be ready to dedicate her whole life to it/ kill and it’s in a way such conflicting expectations and she didn’t really know how to deal with or process it, so it just added to a pile of suppressed emotions
but her parents kind of figured that if she did well they’d be relatively safe plus they improve their social standing bc look at their only daughter, out there doing the dark lord’s work and making everyone so proud
right so persephone never really learnt how to deal with her emotions in a healthy way, or establish new/ long-lasting relationships. she’s so used to being obedient and quiet and only speaking when directly spoken to, so reaching out to make friends at hogwarts was such a strange concept and she wasn’t really sure how to go about it ??? plus she was always pulled out of school for her modelling career, so that also got in the way of making deeper connections with people so tbh i feel like she had very few friends throughout her time in hogwarts. mostly sought comfort in her art & the library
this girl has years and years of anger and hate and frustration bottled up but the one comfort really was that when she turned 17 she could use her money to move away from her fam and just do her own thing while fighting for the cause, but her parents actually managed to find a way to move the money to their own vault at gringotts so her plan failed and she wouldn’t leave them and tbh when she found out it just led to all that pent up anger and frustration bursting out
so she murdered them
yeah
liKE to be fair they were very emotionally abusive, didn’t even really see her as a person just as a pawn, took her money + were not loyal to the cause which in her mind led to the very logical conclusion of Murder
......... got her money back tho????
i do believe that like upper level death eaters would know that she was the one who killed them ( kind of for the first time she showed them really what she could contribute, how loyal/ dedicated she was ), but publicly it was said that the order murdered them and used it as anti-rebellion propaganda
these days slaves don’t last long in her household :|||| she likes to murder more and more and try out new spells so, tho she usually goes for more muggle means interestingly enough ( axes/ knifes etc. - wants to feel the control of being the one to do it, not the result of a spell you know )
finds the sight of blood very aesthetically pleasing ///: kind of has to make each kill a work of art
pretty much a loose canon at this point still trying to break free of the mental cages she/ her fam has put on her even tho she’s been technically free for a while now
#i came out to attack people and i’m honestly having such a good time right now
If hatred is what
You’ve decided to
Decorate your children’s
Childhood mornings with,
Don’t look surprised
When they start
Resembling your
Worst nightmare.
They have all become
That hate,your hate.
Turning Into Our Parents by Aishah Malak (via aishahmalak)
Look at me. For once in your entire life, look at me, and see the fangs in my smile. Because I was never soft, like you thought. All this time, I was a wolf and you tried to imagine me into a sheep.
a girl is told she is nothing. she hums
into the soft dark - just wait,till i come back
& eat you bare.till your heart cries blue.
till your bones are fear
Scherezade Siobhan, log #1 (Published in The Undertow Review)
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