( soft pink outfits , the smell of fresh cut flowers with ever move she makes , the stains of pomegranate juice on her fingers and lips ) â wait ! Is that ( abigail cowen ) ?? No , according to their file thatâs ( persephone ) from ( lore olympus ). ( she ) ( is ) known for being ( loving ) , but also  ( overwhelmed ). if you âre looking for ( her) youâd have a good chance looking in ( the town gardens ). itâs very clear that they are a ( aries ) since they have ( cry baby ) playing by ( melanie martines ) on repeat. Letâs hope they can navigate through the fates safely. ( ooc : duckie , 24 , she/her , est ) other information : housing preference ? ( dorms ) occupation: intern at the bank any triggers: N/A
Tw: sexual abuse
all her memories are whipped but i plan on having them come back as she meets people/ has things remind her of being a goddess. basically everything in her life is just a parallelÂ
GENERAL
Name: âpersephoneâ
Age: 20; April, 4
Place of birth: Savannah, Georgia
Spoken languages: English
Sexual orientation: pansexual
Occupation: student, owner of persephoneâs pizza shop
â donât apologize , youâre trying something new , no shame in that. â sabrina said assuredly , encouraging the plight in interest. as she finished shuffling and organized. placing out a three card spread. â so youâre unclear about where youâre headed , â she summarized her words out loud. and she flipped over the three cards and displayed before them is the empress , the hanged man , and the hermit. a smile graced her lips , â the harvest is in your future⌠but you should be weary â a stranger could come and threaten that peace. you may find yourself letting go of something or someone , but everything will be okay ⌠so long as you donât make any hasty decisions. â she recited the meaning of the cards as her irises raise to meet hers.Â
persephone gave the blonde a soft smile, happy to see that she wasnât being pushed down for wanting more like her mother would have done and did for so many years. she watched the cards being layed out and tilted her head. she of course didnât know what any of them meant but she was going to find out. âbut what does the harvest mean? something good i hope?â not that the sound of someone threatening something sounded all that great in her opinion. âand how am i supposed to know who is bad? almost everyone here is a stranger to me.â persephone sighed more sadly. she kind of wished the cards could be more clear. âthank you, though. for reading my cards! can you read your own or is that against some rules?âÂ
the bubbly personality before her was endearing , contagious as hellish lips couldnât resist to smile at her eagerness.  â itâs simple , â she assured with an art of calmness as a breath seeped past her lips as she dexterously shuffled the tarot deck before her. â just give me a topic youâd like insight on , a question you desire to have clarity on , none of what the cards say is absolute - a window to what may be. â informing her on this , wanting her to be aware that it wouldnât tell a fixed future if thatâs what she sought out for.Â
presephone looked down at the deck of cards with her large bright eyes. she had no idea how any of this could work, or if it was all that true. of course there were skeptics but persephone was always a girl with an open mind. âyou mean i get to pick? im sorry for being so closed on this stuff... i just always thought it was about your future. well, if itâs anything... i want to know how i will make it out here on my own.â she sighed a bit and shrugged. âiâve been feeling pretty lost. i will even take a window of what might be if thatâs all i can get.âÂ
this was all her fatherâs idea. her role as heiress to his throne. of course everything came with a twist , sabrina was hardly an obedient women. the sentence alone was laughable as no one could effectively tell her what to do. the apple truly didnât fall too far from the tree in that aspect. flashing a smile to the person who approached her , â are you here to have your fortune told ? Iâm kind of surprised you believe in this sort of thing. â her words rang a coy melody. oh but the terrors that would bleed through her predictions as obsidian finger tips press along the ends of the cards.Â
âwell, iâve been trying to do new things! and guess what!â she started with a fling of jazz as she fluttered her fingers in the air. âthis is my first carnival and the first time i could have my fortune told.â she said clapping slightly. persephone woke up randomly in front of the carnival and instead of finding that strange the girl only loved the idea of having fun. âso, what am i supposed to do!âÂ
âTrust me, itâs more common than you think and everyone messes up. I canât tell you how many times Iâve turned my whites pink. Not the worst thing in the world, but still.â Aerith starting to help her sort through things, making sure that everything was in its right place. âLetâs see⌠For me, I only do a little sprinkle of laundry soap. All you really need is a tablespoon,â she continued to explain. âBut hereâs the trick⌠For darks and brights, youâre going to use cold water. For whites, youâre going to use hot water.â
âreally?â well that did make her feel better. sometimes she felt like she was just at a complete loss. that she had missed out on too much in life to really be able to do anything on her own. âi love pink so i donât even think i would be upset if that happened to me.â she laughed. pink was a persephone signature color. she watched as the girl explained everything, grateful she wasnât alone doing this. âyou know, this is really nice of you to do all this. my name is persephone by the way.â she closed the lid on the machine and looked at the settings. âso... this is a cold wash.â she said clicking the button and hearing water coming through. âyes! we did it!âÂ
THE GROTESQUE TUNES imprinted themselves upon his conscience. angelusâ claws gripped tightly against the bars of where his soul should be. â kind of ominous that the carnival likes to subject us all with a warning , huh ? never was a fan of them. â he murmured honestly.Â
persephone had only been thinking about how much fun a carnival sounded. and the music alone only amped her up more. but to hear uncertainty she rose a brow. ânot a fan of the carnival? but they always look like so much fun! all the rides and i hear the food that they have is the best. how can you not like all that stuff?â optimism ran through her as she spoke. âIâve never been to one but from what i hear they are a lot of fun.â
a laundromat wasnât exactly where anyone could picture hades and to some degree, he understood the hesitance for those who thought they knew him. but, he had found that this was, quite possibly, the best place if he needed anything dry cleaned. owned and operated by an adorable, old couple, he couldnât resist when the older male talked his ear off about this and a little about that. which resulted in his elongated stay.
âi donât know if iâd be that helpful, unfortunately.â his eyes cast toward his hands where they worked to fix a cuff-link that had gone slightly awry. he sounded a little bit dismissive but, not in an effort to offend. he truly didnât know how â his eyes met those of the redheadâs and her expression alone caused him to fall silent.  âi-i can try.â he extended his hand to take the coins that she carried so that he could start to count them out for her. his overall stance might be overwhelmed with sudden anxiety but, he could surely count out quarters.  âcoins first, then weâll worry about soap. once your clothes are in, weâll, uh, deal with those buttons last. sound like a plan ?â
the man was certainly not someone she would have pictured to be in a laundromat, but perhaps everyone had a reason for something. who knew if he was even there for laundry? but aside from that she did notice how nicely she was dressed. her being in the classic âlaundry dayâ last thing there was to wear outfit.Â
she laughed a bit and ran her hand across the back of her neck which was hot which only meant that her cheeks were flushed too. âright, take it one step at a time. thatâs pretty smart.â not that the girl knew what any of the setting really meant. âokay, well one load is... $4.25. this looks pretty large. right?â she said as she had shoved so many clothes into the machine that she could fit. big doe eyes looked at the man and she smiled. âthis is really nice of you. thank you.â she said hopeful that the saying two heads are better than one would help in this case. âits kind of my first time having to do all of this on my own.âÂ
She nibbled on her lower lip. âThatâs okay! Really. Itâs hard when you first start doing laundry on your own,â she consoled the girl, offering her a reassuring smile. âLetâs start with the basics⌠When you do laundry, you usually want to separate your different colors. I usually do three different groups which are dark colors, bright colors, and whites. If you separate them, youâre sure that none of the colors will bleed,â she explained. âWhy donât we take all of that out and sort it, hmm?â
âyou could say that again. my mother back home did everything for me. i... honestly didnât even think about laundry when i moved out until i wound up only having sweats left to wear.â she said with a laugh and tugged at the oversized but extremely comfortable pants. presephone only laughed at herself. âsure, alright. well, i mostly wear brights so i think that will be the biggest load. see. i needed to take a class on washing clothes. why do they make clothes that bleed!â she put it out on the counter and started to sort out everything. âadulting is hard and this is only the start.âÂ
Aerith had decided that, since it was her day off, she might as well get a few loads of laundry done. When she wandered into the landromat, she secured two machines and went about sorted and starting her loads. She was just about to open up her book and read while she waited when she noticed a girl a few machines over from her looking very confused. She was just about to offer her help, but the girl beat her to the punch. âOf course!â Aerith told her, hurrying over to her. âLetâs see⌠What kind of load are you doing? Whites? Darks? Brights?â
it took a second for persephone to catch her breath. she had always been known to work herself up into something when she felt lost. the girl looked down at the full load and back at the friendly face. âim... supposed to sort out the laundry too?â she asked as she saw all the colors mixed in. âi just threw everything in, i didnât know you had to go by color.â persephone hoped she wasnât going to be a total loss at everything. it took so much to convince her mother to let her come out to the town on her own. if she was going to fail at laundry what else was she going to ruin?Â
laundry day. this always turned into a disaster for a girl whoâs mother had always done her laundry for her and the machines, well she was stuck on her own now. the girl had found a cheaper laundromat that wasnât constantly being in use like at the dorms and they even had a nice vending machine that sold ice cold pomegranate juice while she waited. but as she stood in front of a full machine with a hand full of quarters the girl gulped.Â
âokay... so how much soap am i supposed to put in? what if i press the wrong buttons!â she began to panic. turning to the first person she saw she put on the best puppy dog eyed look that she could. âcan you help me?â Â
( soft pink outfits , the smell of fresh cut flowers with ever move she makes , the stains of pomegranate juice on her fingers and lips ) â wait ! Is that ( abigail cowen ) ?? No , according to their file thatâs ( persephone ) from ( lore olympus ). ( she ) ( is ) known for being ( loving ) , but also  ( overwhelmed ). if you âre looking for ( her) youâd have a good chance looking in ( the town gardens ). itâs very clear that they are a ( aries ) since they have ( cry baby ) playing by ( melanie martines ) on repeat. Letâs hope they can navigate through the fates safely. ( ooc : duckie , 24 , she/her , est ) other information : housing preference ? ( dorms ) occupation: intern at the bank any triggers: N/A
Tw: sexual abuse
all her memories are whipped but i plan on having them come back as she meets people/ has things remind her of being a goddess. basically everything in her life is just a parallelÂ
GENERAL
Name: âpersephoneâ
Age: 20; April, 4
Place of birth: Savannah, Georgia
Spoken languages: English
Sexual orientation: pansexual
Occupation: student, owner of persephoneâs pizza shop
APPEARANCE
Eye color: blue
Hair color: red
Height: 5â˛2â˛â (not based of abigailâs height)
Scars: no major scars
Tattoos: none
FAVOURITE
Color: pink
Entertainment: flowers, cutting her hair, Netflix, clothes, social media
Pastime: Gardening, learning how to be dependent
Drink: water, pomegranate juice, cola
BIOGRAPHY (from the memories she thinks she has)
- persephone grew up under the very watchful eye of her extremely protective mother. So protective that the girl never was really brought up in the real world. The girl was home schooled and this led her to be 100% dependent on her mother or the woman her mother would allow to teach persephone. This gave persephone a very adolescent personality and she had been living life in this perfect bubble away from what her mother considered human temptations.
- most of persephone time was spent gardening. Finding herself having a green thumb and able to bring life to anything and everything and eveRhone who got to glimpse at her elaborate garden they marveled. But after a few years it wasnât persephone garden they were looking at but the extremely naive girl herself. She had grown to be one of the most beautiful things most had seen and this furiated her mother. To make sure persephone didnât get anyour bad ideas her mother would punish persephone any time someone showed interest in her and soon the girl saw attention as something evil and bad. Making her afraid to even talk to someone in fear her mother would lock her in her room again.
- At the age of 19 persephone finally stood up to her mother and with the help of one of the girlâs to tutors she learned about a sorority she can join with very strict rules. persephone figured if she joined she could go to college with regular people and be watched by one of the sisters to make sure persephone stayed only concentrating on her schoolwork. Luckily and to a huge surprise her mother agreed and persephone went off to school.
- It wasnât long before persephone learned how closed off her life had been and instantly was overwhelmed with college life and the temptations of parties, boys, and substances that her mother warned her about. It was hard for her of course but she wanted to prove she can live without being in a bubble. Only it got so difficult. People presented to be her friend, used her, and she just fell for it every time. She did manage to make some friends who swore to protect her but even that seemed impossible since the girl does just about anything you tell her.
- It took a lot for persephone to learn and to make sure she stayed to her word and didnât let sin grab her she took on an internship for her professor, an older handsome man who had very quickly took an interest on persephone and even though he has been nothing but kind and offered a friendship with the girlâŚshe canât help but feel there is something more they are both fighting.
- thenâŚthe worst happened. One night the sister who took her under her wing had her older brother visit. And like most boys was instantly drawn to persephone and had tricked her to have sex with her when she was in a vulnerable state. She tried to say no several times and eventually just let the man have her; the night full of tears and regret. The asshole even filmed the experience. Even to this day only one person knows and they have been trying to get persephone to come forward and claim the brother raped her. She is too afraid nothing will come of it and instead of facing her problems she has kept it a secret.
HEADCANONS
- She loves pink and can usually be seen wearing the soft color
- If she feels like she has upset you she will bake you food, she fears being disliked so anything she can do to change your mind about her she will do.
- persephone cries sometimes when she is frightened.
-she opened the pizza shop as a passion project, after seeing the previous owner not doing well with the business she bought it telling her mother she needed money for donations toward her sorority; persephoneâs pizza has award winning greek pizza and food and is completely themed like a Grecian garden, statues of gods, artists Â
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