Bio

Hometown:	Necropolis
Employer:	Erebus, Tartaros, Elysium; occasional business trips to Eleusis

It's not easy being queen of the dead. But, actually, it's kinda cool. Let me tell you about myself. My name (obviously) is Persephone. My mother is Demeter, the goddess of grain, and my father is Zeus, king of the gods. Mom's cool, Dad is kind of a jerk, but try telling him that. One might wonder- "How is such a sweet, lively young thing the queen of the dead?" I wasn't supposed to be. So there I was, sitting around the house while Mom was away visiting. Lo and behold, my sister Aphrodite shows up and decides that I need to get out more. Well, there's no reasoning with her, so I decided- why not? So I went out with her into the fields, because the flowers at that time of year are nice and pretty. I'm picking them, and I see this one that's absolutely gorgeous- black and violet and silver. As you might imagine, it's a colour scheme that my parents don't approve of in the least. So I pick it up. The earth starts shaking like a hairless cat in winter, and this great chasm opens up beside me. Out comes a dark chariot, and in it is at once the most wonderful and terrible thing I've ever seen- Hades, lord of the dead. He grabs me around the waist and drags me down into the underworld. Contrary to popular belief, he's actually a very nice man, and once I got over the shock of being abducted, we hit it off right away. Actually, we fell in love. And got married. I would have quite happily stayed there for the rest of my life, but then my father sent us a message that my mom was freaking out, not letting any crops grow, that sort of thing. We both knew that if I left Erebus, she would never let me come back. But there's an interesting thing about the pomegranates in the underworld- if you eat one, you are forever bound to the land of the dead. Hades gave me one before my brother Hermes showed up to escort me back to Olympus. Eventually, we worked out a deal- I spend six months with Mom and Dad, six months with Hades. If you have any comments, questions, drop me a line!