History Literature / ReceiverOfMany

* TeleportersAndTransporters: Most gods can travel through ether to quickly move from one place to another. However, for each god this process looks differently. For example: Hades travels through black smoke, because of his role as the King of the Underworld. Persephone, on the other hand, opens a portal framed by the flaming river Phlegethon, showing the connection of her powers to Tartarus.

* TheDarkArts: The book of Tantalus that contains knowledge forbidden for humans, like the secret of immortality.
* TheLegionsOfHell: The Keres fulfill this to some extent. They are not evil, but they are a horde of terrifying monsters even Hades is wary of.
* TheOldGods: The oldest generation of the gods born from Chaos are called Protogenoi.
* TheTalk: Persephone is given not very informative by a nymph, when one of her companions comes back pregnant with Apollo’s child. She tries to ask Demeter for more details, but she only gets to hear that the act of sex is very painful and bloody.

* ComingOfAgeStory: Big part of the story is how Persephone changes from a sheltered, young girl into a powerful Queen of the Underworld and how she learns to build more mature and healthier relationships with people around her – especially Hades and Demeter.

* DecadentCourt: On Olympus gods pass their time eating, drinking, having sex, gossiping and playing power games. That’s one of the reasons both Demeter and Hades shun Olympus. When Persephone visits court of the gods for the first time as the Queen of the Underworld she finds the place off-putting as well. She especially doesn’t like how other gods openly gossip about her and her husband.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Since the story is set in bronze age Greece, values expressed by many characters are different from the ones a modern audience will probably hold. Women in the world above are treated as second-class citizens, both among the mortals and the gods. They have no say in who they will marry and are given away by their fathers or other male relatives. They may be also carried away and forcefully married. Wives are expected to sever most ties with their former lives. A husband holds power over his wife and can demand whatever he wants from her (including sex, even if she doesn’t want it) and punish her as he sees fit if she misbehaves. This can be seen well in the way Zeus nonchalantly gives Persephone away without caring much for Demeter’s permission. Demeter naturally assumes that the marriage to Hades means that Persephone will never see her again. Persephone herself carries many such beliefs as baggage into the marriage and has to take a lot of time to unlearn it.
* DitchTheBodyguards: Persephone sneaks away from Artemis and Athena to investigate if she really heard the voice of the strange man from her dream (unknowingly to her at this time – Hades) from a sacred grove. What she doesn’t know is that Artemis and Athena are aware of this, but were ordered by Zeus not to interfere.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: Hades and Persephone. After many disagreements and obsoletes, they finally reconcile and find a way to be together for at least part of each year.

* EroticDream: Hades unintentionally appears in Persephone’s dream naked and embracing her, a result of both his and hers subconscious desires.

* ForcedToWatch: In the nightmarish illusion weaved by Cronus for Persephone this happens in two ways: illusionary Hades is forced to watch how Cronus rapes his wife and real Persephone herself is forced to see this scene play before her eyes.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: After Hades and Persephone make love during the Midsummer all pomegranate trees in Eleusis loss their flowers and form fruit. [[spoiler: Persephone thinks this is a good omen that she had conceived a child with her husband. She is wrong. It’s actually hinting at her and Hades’ role in restoring earth’s fertility.]]

* FrameUp: When he stole her immortality, Sisyphus put glamour on Merope to make her look like him. Because of this, in the Underworld she was judged as if she was Sisyphus and put in Tartarus.
* GirlOfMyDreams: Invoked by Hades, who visits Persephone for the first time, in a dream to introduce himself as her future husband. However, due to both of them having newly awakened subconscious desires, dream turns out much more erotic than he has intended.
* HealingFactor: Godly bodies heal momentarily whenever they are injured and scars on a god are almost unheard of. However, if a god is weakened for some reason or the wounds are very severe, they will heal more slowly and leave scars.

* Irony: Basically everyone who believes that Hades cannot father children because he's the god of the dead, including Hades himself (who believes that since he once ate asphodel roots as a self inflicted punishment, he has become infertile), will face this as its Hades and Persephone who control fertility itself. Also the Moirai reveal to Persephone that they have three not-yet-woven threads for Hades and Persephone's children, who are supposedly to be born at aeon's end.

* WarIsHell: Having to live through Titanomachy was a very hard experience for all involved. It was a bloody fight for survival, not glorious combat.

* WomensMysteries: The knowledge of ancient, sacred rituals like hieros gamos is almost always passed from woman to woman. Nyx taught Hecate and Hecate passed this first on Demeter and later on the Lampades. However, there can be expectations from this rule.
* YourWorstNightmare: Part of the illusion Cronus shows Persephone. She is presented with a vision of herself getting raped by Cronus and her husband chained to the a rock, ForcedToWatch this play before his eyes and having his insides eaten out by eagle, screaming her name in anguish.

* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: At the end Hades and Demeter conclude that the whole mess could have been avoided if Hades went to Demeter instead of Zeus (who never really took part in rising Persephone) and explained that marriage to him wouldn’t cut Persephone from Demeter (as she had assumed) and if Demeter had been a little less headstrong.

* Irony: Basically everyone who believes that Hades cannot father children because he's the god of the dead, including Hades himself (who believes that since he once ate asphodel roots as a self inflicted punishment, he has become infertile), will face this as its Hades and Persephone who control fertility itself. Also the Moirai reveal to Persephone that they have three not-yet-woven threads for Hades and Persephone's children, who are supposedly to be born at aeon's end

Summary for Receiver of Many:

Summary for Destroyer of Light:

''Receiver of Many'' is a story by [[http://archiveofourown.org/users/KataChthonia/pseuds/KataChthonia KataChthonia]] based on Myth/ClassicalMythology.

The story can be read [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/690880/chapters/1269360 here]].

* [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/1184398 A Box of Beauty]]: Psyche comes to Persephone to fulfill the last task set before her by Aphrodite
* [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/2143725 The Last Seed]]: Ares meets Aphrodite for the first time. Steamy sex on the beach ensues.
* [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/2675174 A First Press of Olives]]: Hades and Persephone take a day off of judging shades. Steamy sex ensues.

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Since the story is set in Greek Bronze Age values expressed by many characters are different from the ones modern audience will probably hold. Women in the world above are treated as second-class citizens, both among the mortals and among the gods. They have no say in who they will marry and are given away by their fathers or other male relatives. They may be also carried away and forcefully married. Wives are expected to sever most ties with their former lives. Husband holds power over his wife and can demand whatever he wants from her (including sex, even if she doesn’t want it) and punish her as he sees fit if she misbehaves. This can be seen well in the way Zeus nonchalantly gives Persephone away without caring much for Demeter’s permission. Demeter naturally assumes that the marriage to Hades means that Persephone will never see her again. Persephone herself carries many such beliefs as baggage into the marriage and has to take a lot of time to unlearn it.

* FoodChains: Like in the original myth eating the food of the dead binds one permanently to the Underworld. But how long someone may be forced to spend there each year appears to depend on the amount of food eaten. It's suggested that Persephone's six seeds aren't enough to keep her in the Underworld for six whole months, even if the Pomegranate Agreement states that she shall spent half a year with her husband underground and half a year with Demeter on the surface.

* AmIJustAToyToYou?: During their first quarrel Persephone accuses Hades of carring her away not out of love, but because he sees her as an object – either as a property that is due to him because of the pact her parents made with him or a sex toy to warm his bed.
* ARealManIsAKiller: Ares plays this trope straight. Hades who fought in the war against the Titans doesn’t see anything glorious in killing.

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''Receiver of Many'' is a story by [[http://archiveofourown.org/users/KataChthonia/pseuds/KataChthonia KataChthonia]] based on ClassicalMythology.

* HopeSpot: The Pomegranate Agreement from Demeter’s perspective. After a long fight she is about to finally get her daughter back only for her to heart that Persephone has eaten pomegranate seeds and thus bound herself to the Underworld for all eternity.

* TheirFirstTime: Hades and Persephone have sex for the first time in a chariot right after Hades carries Persephone away from Nysa. This strange time and place is justified, since the immediate consumption of their marriage [[spoiler: is needed to protect Persephone from any attempts of Demeter to permanently transform her daughter into a tree.]]
* ThisMeansWar: Hades tells Hermes that the scroll with Zeus orders he brought is more or less a declaration of war, since it’s a breach of their original peaceful terms.

* WarIsHell: Having to live through Titanomachy was a very hard experience for all involved. It was bloody fight for survival, not glorious combat.

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Since the story is set in Greek Bronze Age values expressed by many characters are different from the ones modern audience will probably hold. Women in the world above are treated as second-class citizens, both among the mortals and among the gods. They have no say in who they will marry and are given away by their fathers or other male relatives. They may be also carried away and forcefully married. Wives are expected to sever most ties with their formal lives. Husband holds power over his wife and can demand whatever he wants from her (including sex, even if she doesn’t want it) and punish her as he sees fit if she misbehaves. This can be seen well in way Zeus nonchalantly gives Persephone away without caring much for Demeter’s permission. Demeter naturally assumes that the marriage to Hades means that Persephone will never see her again. Persephone herself carries a lot of such believes as a baggage into that marriage and has to take a lot of time to unlearn it.

* ComingOfAgeStory: Big part of the story is how Persephone changes from a sheltered, young girl into a powerful Queen of the Underworld and how she learns to built more mature and healthier relationships with people around her – especially Hades and Demeter.

* GhostShipping: Thanatos and Merope, since she is already dead. Also any dead woman Thanatos has sex with.

* FisherKingdom: After some time spent in the underworld Persephone notices that her hair got darker and her breasts and hips fuller, and she starts looking a little older than she did before. Hecate confirms that it’s the Underworld changing her “into the goddess she was born to be”.

* LawOfInverseFertility: Demeter states that divine offspring are usually conceived during the first time god or goddess have sex with someone. This explains why Zeus has so many bastards running around despite the fact that he rarely beds the same women twice. However, Persephone, who actively wants to have children with her husband cannot conceive, despite her best efforts. Everyone thinks that’s because Hades is infertile. [[spoiler: The truth is that Hades and Persephone can create life together, but it doesn’t take a form of a child but energy that renews earth each time Persephone comes back to the surface.]]
* LongDistanceRelationship: Due to the Pomegranate Agreement Persephone is supposed to spend half a year with her husband in the Underworld and half a year with her mother on the surface. This means, at least in a theory, six months of separation for Hades and Persephone.
* LovePotion: Golden arrows shoot by Eros are very potent in igniting love and desire. Even being close to one can make someone aroused against their will. Being scratched by the arrow causes Hades to obsess over Persephone. If it has actually reached its target – his heart – he would probably be driven mad with need and snatch her away and had sex with her the moment he found her.

* MorningSickness: When she wonders if she may be with a child, Persephone recalls that these of her nymph companions, who got pregnant showed symptoms of MorningSickness and observes that she herself doesn’t. [[spoiler: That’s because she is not with a child.]]
* MundaneAfterlife: Dead who are not sent to Tartarus end up in the Asphodel Fields, no matter how many good deeds they performed during their lifetime. They wonder through them until they are reborn again. [[spoiler: Subverted when Hades’ and Persephone’s hieros gamos creates Elysion. They agree that from this point on it will be a place for these who lived truly good, heroic lives.]]

* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Celeus and Metaneira lost all their daughters and would have lost both of their sons as well if it wasn't for Demeter's help. One of said daughters was only two weeks from her wedding.

* RingOfPower: The Key of Hades manifests as several rings. They let Hades hear the souls in his kingdom, travel between the worlds and seal of his realm. When he takes them off he stops hearing the dead. However, the power of the Key cannot simply be transferred by giving the rings to someone else.

* SeductionProofMarriage: Apollo tries to seduce Persephone, when she visits Olympus. It doesn’t work because Persephone loves her husband very much and has no intentions of cheating on him even if they don’t see each other for six months.

* LawOfInverseFertility: Demeter states that divine offspring are usually conceived during the first time god or goddess have sex with someone. This explains why Zeus has so many bastards running around despite the fact that he rarely beds the same women twice. However, Persephone, who actively wants to have children with her husband cannot, conceive despite her best efforts. Everyone thinks that’s because Hades is infertile. [[spoiler: The truth is that Hades and Persephone can create life together, but it doesn’t take a form of a child but energy that renews earth each time Persephone comes back to the surface.]]

* GirlOfMyDreams: Invoked by Hades, who visits Persephone, for the first time, in a dream to introduce himself as her future husband. However, due to both of them having newly awakened subconscious desires the dream turns out much more erotic than he previously intended.
* HealingFactor: Godly bodies heal momentarily whenever they are injured and scars on a god are almost unheard of. However, if a god is weakened for some reason or wounds are very severe they will heal more slowly and leave scars.
* HeirClubForMen: Ares is theoretically the heir to the heavens on the virtue of being Zeus’ only legitimate son. After Persephone sets the Pomegranate Agreement, impressed Zeus tells her that he would like to have her as his heir instead, if only she was male.
* HopeSpot: The Pomegranate Agreement from Demeter’s perspective. After a long fight she is about to finally get her daughter back only for her to heart that Persephone has eaten pomegranate seeds and thus bound herself to the Underworld for all eternity.

* InvisibleStreaker: Anyone who wears Hades’ Helm of Darkness becomes invisible along with anything they are carrying or touching. However things remain invisible only as long as they are in contact with the wearer. If one removes their clothing it will suddenly appear out of thin air.
* LawOfInverseFertility: Demeter states that divine offspring are usually conceived during the first time god or goddess have sex with someone. This explains why Zeus has so many bastards running around despite the fact that he rarely beds the same women more than once. However, Persephone who actively wants to have children with her husband cannot conceive despite her best efforts. Everyone thinks that’s because as the Lord of the Underworld Hades is infertile. [[spoiler: The truth is that Hades and Persephone can create life together, but it doesn’t take a form of a child but energy that renews earth each time Persephone comes back to the surface.]]
* LongDistanceRelationship: Due to the Pomegranate Agreement Persephone is supposed to spend half a year with her husband in the Underworld and half a year with her mother on the surface. This means - at least - in a theory six months of separation for Hades and Persephone.

** Hades and Persephone have sex for the first time in Hades’ speeding chariot.
** Eris and Thanatos have sex on the battlefield.

* MorningSickness: When she wonders if she may be with a child, Persephone recalls that these of her nymph companions, who got pregnant showed symptoms of Morning Sickness and that she herself doesn’t. [[spoiler: That’s because she is not with a child.]]
* MundaneAfterlife: Dead who are not sent to Tartarus end up in the Asphodel Fields, no matter how many good deeds they performed during their lifetime. They wonder through them until they are reborn again. [[spoiler: Subverted when Hades’ and Persephone’s hieros gamos creates Elysion. They agree that from this point on it will be a place for these who lived truly good, heroic lives.]]
* NoManOfWomanBorn: Demeter swears by Styx that no Olympian will have her daughter. What she forgets is that Hades, against whom she intends to protect Persephone, the most is no longer an Olympian.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Celeus and Metaneira lost all their daughters and would have lost both of their sons as well if it wasn't for Demeter's help. One of said daughter was only two weeks from her wedding.
* PortalDoor: How Persephone opens the path through ether. She creates a portal framed by Phlegethon
* PrisonDimension: Tartarus is a section of the Underworld that serves specifically to imprison enemies of the Olympians and these mortals who have committed hideous crimes. The whole Underworld became this when Cronus imprisoned the entire house of Nyx there.
* ReincarnationRomance: Hades tried to invoke it for Demeter and Iasion by giving him water from the pool of Mnemosyne before rebirth, thus giving him a chance to regain some of his memories from the previous life. It didn’t work and he never tried again. [[spoiler: Many centuries later Demeter meets Iasion reborn as the Eleusian prince Triptolemus.]]
* {{Reincarnation}}: Souls don’t stay in the Underworld forever. They can drink from Lethe to forget their time there and be reborn again in our world. Until Persephone spreads this information among her follower mortals simply assume that death is a permanent end.

** It’s suggested that Zeus tries to do this by introducing Persephone to Apollo during her visit on Olympus. Engaging in an affair with Apollo would probably keep Persephone above the ground for longer periods of time, which in turn would mean shorter winters. It doesn’t work because Persephone loves her husband very much and because Apollo is a first class jerkass.
** Demeter tries to break up Persephone’s and Hades’ marriage, believing he will hurt her anyway in the future. [[spoiler: She sends Minthe to seduce Hades. It not only doesn’t work, but backfires and ends up with Minthe dead at Persephone’s hand and Demeter almost losing her daughter for good this time.]]
* RescueRomance: Demeter falls in love with Zeus when he frees her and the rest o their siblings from Cronus. His face is the first one she sees after many years in darkness.

* RingOfPower: The Key of Hades manifests as several rings. They let Hades hear the souls of the dead in his kingdom, travel between the worlds and seal of his realm if he ever needed to do this. When he takes them off he stops hearing the dead. However, the power of the Key cannot simply be transferred by giving the rings to someone else.
* RulingCouple: Hades and Persephone rule over the Underworld jointly and share power equally. This is a big surprise for most gods of the world above, who expect Persephone to be nothing more than a Hot Consort. In the upper world it’s not usual for a king to share power equally with his queen, that’s how things look between Zeus and Hera.

* SeductionProofMarriage: Apollo tries to seduce Persephone, when she visits Olympus. It doesn’t work because Persephone loves her husband very much and has no intentions of cheating on him even if they don’t see each other for six months.
* ShootTheMessenger: When Hermes brings a decree that annuls Hades’ and Persephone’s marriage, Hades’ first reaction is to try to furiously strangle him.

* ThatWasNotADream: When Persephone first wakes up after being carried away by Hades, she is sure that she has fallen asleep in Nysa and the whole abduction was just a dream. However, she quickly realizes that she is really somewhere else and that events of the previous day were real.

* TheOldGods: The oldest generation of the gods born from Chaos are called Protogenoi.
* TheTalk: Persephone was given not very informative by a nymph, when one of her companions comes back pregnant with Apollo’s child. She tries to ask Demeter for more details, but she only gets to hear that the act of sex is very painful and bloody.
* TheirFirstTime: Hades and Persephone have sex for the first time in a chariot right after Hades carries Persephone away from Nysa. This strange time and place is justified, since the immediate consumption of their marriage [[spoiler: is needed to protect Persephone from any attempts from Demeter to permanently transform her into a tree.]]

* UnequalPairing: Demeter and Triptolemus. While they are both immortal, Demeter is the powerful goddess of harvest and bounty, when Triptolemus is a little more than an immortalized human. She is also thousands of years older than he is.

* WarIsHell: Having to live through Titanomachy was a very hard experience for all involved. It was bloodied fight for survival, not a glorious combat.
* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim?: Apollo (and at least some other Olympians we can presume) has this stance on Persephone’s insistence to remain faithful to her husband. He sees him as a cold and unresponsive god, no much better from a corpse, who probably cannot give his wife not only love but even “real pleasure”.
* WomensMysteries: The knowledge of ancient, sacred rituals like hieros gamos is almost always passed from woman to woman. Nyx taught Hecate and Hecate passed this on first on Demeter and later on the Lampades. However, there can be expectation from this rule.
* YourWorstNightmare: Part of the illusion Cronus shows Persephone. She is presented with a vision of herself getting raped by Cronus and her husband chained to the rock, ForcedToWatch this play before his eyes and having his insides eaten out by eagle, screaming her name in anguish.

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: After his quarrel with Persephone Hades announces to Nyx and Hecate that he is sending Persephone back to Demeter, since he no longer believe their relationship could ever work out and thinks she will be happier in the world above. Nyx asks him if he would really be ok with Persephone going on with her life without him, potentially taking a lover. Hades’ own angry reaction at the prospect of his wife in another man’s arms shows him that he is still isn’t able to let go of his love for her, no matter what he may be saying.

** Hephaestus and Aphrodite. Because of how powerful Aphrodite is, she was married off to one man who couldn’t challenge Zeus’ rule. In contrast to Hades and Persephone, they are both unhappy with this union. Faithfulness is not in Aphrodite’s nature and she doesn’t fell much for Hephaestus, so she is having affairs left and right. Hephaestus himself is very much aware of this trait of his wife as well as the fact why he was chosen to be her mate, which he find to

* BarredFromTheAfterlife: These who don’t have a coin to pay for transport to Other Side remain stranded on the banks of the river forever.

** Hades and Persephone have sex right after their first quarrel, when the anger and desire get mixed together. It doesn’t end well and they both regret is afterwards.
** Thanatos discusses this trope, when he points out that there is still tension between him and Hecate and that they could relieve it in some way other than arguing. He does it mainly to further annoy her and Hecate knows it.
* BestHerToBedHer: Suggested to be the case with Kyrene. She spent a lot of time looking around for someone, who could bet her. She apparently succeeded, when she met Apollo, since the next time she shows up she is already pregnant with his child.
* BeyondTheImpossible: It’s believed to be impossible for anything truly alive to grow in the Underworld. However, Hades and Persephone through their love and shared dreams manage to awaken the pomegranate seeds lying dormant, since the beginning of time. The trees that spring forth are truly alive, unlike Asphodel that grows in the Fields and in palace’s gardens. [[spoiler: Later, during their hieros gamos they also create Elysion.]]
* BodyguardBetrayal: Demeter asks Athena and Artemis to protect Persephone from Hades. However, Zeus orders his daughter to back off and let Hades take Persephone.

* DarkestHour: For Hades and Persephone the moment when it’s already decided that Persephone will return to the surface, but before she has an idea to eat the seeds. They both think that the situation is hopeless and try to make the best of this last – as they presume – night together.

* DecadentCourt: On Olympus gods pass their time eating, drinking, having sex, gossiping and playing power games. That’s one of the reasons both Demeter and Hades shun Olympus. When Persephone visits court of the gods for the first time as the Queen of the Underworld she finds the place off putting as well. She especially doesn’t like how other gods openly gossip about her and her husband.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Since the story is set in Greek Bronze Age values expressed by many characters are different from the ones modern audience will probably hold. Women in the world above are treated as second-class citizens, both among the mortals and among the gods. They have no say in who they will marry and are given away by their fathers or other male relatives. They may be also carried away and forcefully married. Wives are expected to sever most ties with their formal lives. Husband holds power over his wife and can demand from her what he wants (including sex even if she doesn’t want it) and punish her as he sees fit if she misbehaves. A lot this can be seen in way Zeus nonchalantly give Persephone away without caring much for Demeter’s permission. Demeter naturally assumes that the marriage to Hades means that Persephone will never see her again. Persephone herself carries a lot of such believes as a baggage into her marriage and has to take a lot of time to unlearn it.
* DitchTheBodyguards: Persephone sneaks away from Artemis and Athena, to investigate if she really heard the voice of the strange man from her dream (unknowingly to her at this time – Hades) from a sacred grove. What she doesn’t know is that Artemis and Athena are aware of this, but were ordered by Zeus to not interfere.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: Hades and Persephone. After many disagreements and obsoletes, they find reconcile and find a way to be together for at least part of each year.

* FisherKingdom: After some time spent in the underworld Persephone notices that her hair got darker and her breasts and hips fuller, she starts looking a little order than she did before. Hecate confirms that it’s the underworld changing her “into the goddess she was born to be”.
* FlorenceNightingaleEffect: Demeter saves Triptolemus from death and nurses him back to health. While he is already devoted to her as the Great Lady of Harvest it’s also obvious that her saving him plays a big part in his feelings for her.

* FrameUp: When he stole her immortality, Sisyphus put glamour on Merope to make her look like him. Because of this in the Underworld, she was judged as if she was Sisyphus and put in Tartarus.

During the war with the Titans, Zeus and Demeter promise their yet unborn daughter Persephone to their brother Hades as his future wife. However, after the conflict ends and the lots are divided, Demeter, abandoned by Zeus in favor of Hera, decides that she could never let Persephone by hurt the same way she was. She vows to never let any man, especially not Hades, have her daughter.

* AmIJustAToyToYou?: During their first quarrel Persephone accuses Hades of taking her not out of love, but because he sees her as an object – either as a property that is due to him because of the pact her parents made with him or a sex toy to warm his bed.

* NoManOfWomanBorn: Demeter swears by Styx that no Olympian will have her daughter. What she forgets is that Hades against whom she intends to protect Persephone the most is no longer an Olympian.

* PayEvilUntoEvil: People who unapologetically

Many thousands years pass. Persephone lives in Eleusis as Kore, maiden goddess of flowers, under the watchful eye of her mother. Her life is simple and uneventful, at least until the day that Hades finally decides to claim her as his bride. This sets in motion a chain of events that will shake the balance of power among the gods, shifting it forever.

* AboveTheInfluence: When Persephone runs into Lethe she loses her memories from the previous day. This means that she does not remember how Hades abducted her and is still very much the girl eagerly awaiting her mysterious suitor she was right before the kidnapping. When she wakes up to Hades she is very happy and very willing to have sex with him right then and there. Despite being tempted to go through with this Hades rebuffs her advances and gives her water from pool of Mnemosyne, which restores her painful memories. When Persephone accuses him of pricking her with golden arrow to make her fall in love with him, Hades thinks that she should have already understand thanks to this incident that he would never use trickery to have her.
* AdultFear: Having your only child taken by away to never see them again.

* ARealManIsAKiller: Ares plays this trope straight. Hades who fought in the war against the Titans doesn’t sees anything glorious in killing.

* NoPeriodsPeriod: Adverted. Persephone not having her period, while in the Underworld makes her consider that she may be pregnant. [[spoiler: She bleeds immediately

* A Real Man Is A Killer: Ares plays this trope straight. Hades who fought in the war against the Titans doesn’t sees anything glorious in killing.