So I started reading Lore Olympus as a young teenager, right when the series first came out.
I don't think it's a coincidence that my favorite episodes back then were the ones that followed Eros and Psyche. I also don't think it's a coincidence that I started out kind of liking Persephone and Hades, being excited to see where their relationship went, and how they would have interacted as characters and then... being bored by them going in circles.
SO, I will be sharing a few things I remember thinking were stupid back when the episodes first came out. I was about 14/15, but some of my gripes are from later in the series. Some of them are major things, some are minor details.
#1: Persephone not having pierced ears.
You're 19. Getting a sewing needle and just do it at home. You have a phone, you can look it up. Why is this such a big deal?
Why? Why is this a thing? Ew.
#2: Persephone being 19 years old.
She is a deity. She's not meant to have an age. She is the embodiment of spring. You could still have the same "innocence" to her character because of her existing only on the mortal plane.
#3: Persephone's "Innocence"
I didn't like this part of her character at all. I really hated that it was especially played up while she was with Hades. I hated how it was used to baby-fy her. I also hated how her naivety was contrasted with her supposed "intelligence." Tell my why someone who was a math champion and got great grades does not have a bank account. Tell me how she became those things while living in "the mortal realm," aka ancient Greece, where there wouldn't have been a modern education system. Tell me why someone who regularly hangs out with nymphs is that innocent about sex. What I really didn't like about this part of her is that I could never tell if it was the "core" of her character. Sometimes it seemed like a mask for her inner rage. Sometimes it seemed like an effect of living in the mortal realm. Sometimes it seemed like who she really was. I could never tell.
#4: Persephone's "Wild Spring" Only Happening Once
I thought it was cool that Persephone actually did something for spring. It was explicitly show that spring was boring before her. Her entire purpose for being, her entire connection to Hades before they actually met each other, was just a fluke. Wow.
#5: Persephone discovering her flight powers.
Again. She is a goddess. Why? Why did it take so long for her to figure out she could fly.
#6: Persephone's rage being de-fanged.
Her rage was my favorite thing about her. Every time she got angry it kind of shattered her "Mary Sue" characterization for me. Ares said it himself, she was the angriest goddess in the pantheon besides Hera. And then she just... wasn't. She got stopped every time her eyes turned red by The Plot™. It never really felt like she got to "release" that quiet, burning rage fully. I wanted to see her be the goddess whose name wasn't said out of fear for getting her attention. It seemed like she was a lot more threatening than she actually was.
Her actually not being as rageful with the villagers who killed the flower nymphs pissed me off. Her only having it because Eris gifted it to her pissed me off. Her turning Minthe back pissed me off. And then in later seasons it just turned into pettiness.
#7: Her looking exactly like Rhea.
Hello, creepy implications.
#8: Her friendships/experiences with Hermes, Hecate, and Ares meaning nothing.
You can't tell me that Persephone, the most helicoptered child of all time, wouldn't have been sneaking into Hecate's room all the time when she was there, asking her about everything. You can't tell me that getting manipulated by Ares wouldn't have made her trust people a lot less.
#9: Her dynamic with Ares getting ruined.
I really liked their dynamic at first. I wish it would have continued. He made her more interesting.
I liked that he didn't fall for her "innocent" act. He wasn't obsessed with her, he just found her rage entertaining. There wasn't any "real" sort of attraction going on between them, it was all surface level. It was refreshing to see a character that just did not care that much about her.
#10: Persephone having no money, while having money?
She's getting paid for her internship, she has money underneath her bed, it's implied that she doesn't pay rent while living with Artemis, and she's an heiress. So why does she need to sell the comb?
#11: This not meaning anything
Such a cool design that didn't go anywhere. Would've loved to see this Kronos.
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