[ he bows his head, amused. ] It's not that simple. [ nothing ever is — he supposes raven might come to see that with the greek gods if she's to find herself too curious to simply leave it at that. bellamy grips the edges of the table he leans against as he tries to figure out the best way to tackle a rather convoluted love story. ]
[ he looks up at her. ] Each story differs. But the one that's pretty prevalent with them is that Hades kidnapped Persephone. She was in the fields one day and Hades, on one of his rare trips upstairs, saw her and fell for her. Love at first sight. [ he shrugs at that. he doesn't really believe in it, but he's seen some people fall head over heels for a pretty face. finn had been that very person, but bellamy doesn't really give much of a shit about the love affairs of the original hundred. ]
The earth opened up and swallowed them whole. Demeter, Persephone's mother, was rightfully pissed. She threatened to make the earth barren forever if she didn't find her daughter. Which is serious, since if there's nothing growing on the earth, humankind's screwed.
She went searching for her everywhere and asked a goddess where her daughter was. [ and maybe it's easier to keep that goddess out of the equation for now, since hecate doesn't really matter in this. keeping it simple for raven is simultaneously difficult and simple. he does what his mother never did — leave a few names out so she can't get too caught up with the tangents. ] The two of them went to Helius, the sun god. He sees everything on Earth, so, he was able to tell them Hades took her. But he approved of Hades as a husband for Persephone. Unsurprisingly, Demeter wouldn't listen.
There's no real way to get to the Underworld unless you're dead or Hermes, the god of travellers. So, Demeter was kind of screwed. She decided to be pissed at the earth and brought on a famine that lasted a year. So, Zeus, the god in the sky and Hades' brother, decided to send Hermes down to the Underworld to get Persephone back, because everyone would be dead if this continued. He went down there and Hades said okay. [ bellamy shrugs his shoulders. aurora had told him he'd shrugged his shoulders, caring really little by such a proposal. he finds himself imitating it, even if raven doesn't know why. ] Just like that. He'd let her go. Persephone hadn't eaten anything while she was in the Underworld, and so he asked her, before she'd go, if she wanted to eat something. She was really hungry, so you'd think the guy was just giving a shit.
Except if you eat the food of Hades, you've got to stay in the Underworld forever. And Persephone ate a pomegranate seed.
But Rhea — she was a Titan and the mother of Zeus, Demeter, and Hades — decided to put her foot down and proposed that Persephone stay in the Underworld for part of every year. She ate the food. [ bellamy shakes his head. ] You can't really break that rule.
Some of the stories have Persephone willingly eating some food in the Underworld, but I like the one where she's stubborn and wants to stick it to Hades for kidnapping her in the first place. Persephone's kind of cool. [ that's a tangent, though. ] But Demeter was happy in the end, and that's all that mattered. Whenever Persephone came back to the earth, it would be fertile and beautiful. When Persephone had to go back to the Underworld, it'd be cold and barren. They might be husband and wife, but that's why they had to live the way they did. To keep everyone happy and the world living. [ his smile becomes wide. ] And to give everyone a break in the Underworld from Persephone. She was a badass.
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[ he looks up at her. ] Each story differs. But the one that's pretty prevalent with them is that Hades kidnapped Persephone. She was in the fields one day and Hades, on one of his rare trips upstairs, saw her and fell for her. Love at first sight. [ he shrugs at that. he doesn't really believe in it, but he's seen some people fall head over heels for a pretty face. finn had been that very person, but bellamy doesn't really give much of a shit about the love affairs of the original hundred. ]
The earth opened up and swallowed them whole. Demeter, Persephone's mother, was rightfully pissed. She threatened to make the earth barren forever if she didn't find her daughter. Which is serious, since if there's nothing growing on the earth, humankind's screwed.
She went searching for her everywhere and asked a goddess where her daughter was. [ and maybe it's easier to keep that goddess out of the equation for now, since hecate doesn't really matter in this. keeping it simple for raven is simultaneously difficult and simple. he does what his mother never did — leave a few names out so she can't get too caught up with the tangents. ] The two of them went to Helius, the sun god. He sees everything on Earth, so, he was able to tell them Hades took her. But he approved of Hades as a husband for Persephone. Unsurprisingly, Demeter wouldn't listen.
There's no real way to get to the Underworld unless you're dead or Hermes, the god of travellers. So, Demeter was kind of screwed. She decided to be pissed at the earth and brought on a famine that lasted a year. So, Zeus, the god in the sky and Hades' brother, decided to send Hermes down to the Underworld to get Persephone back, because everyone would be dead if this continued. He went down there and Hades said okay. [ bellamy shrugs his shoulders. aurora had told him he'd shrugged his shoulders, caring really little by such a proposal. he finds himself imitating it, even if raven doesn't know why. ] Just like that. He'd let her go. Persephone hadn't eaten anything while she was in the Underworld, and so he asked her, before she'd go, if she wanted to eat something. She was really hungry, so you'd think the guy was just giving a shit.
Except if you eat the food of Hades, you've got to stay in the Underworld forever. And Persephone ate a pomegranate seed.
But Rhea — she was a Titan and the mother of Zeus, Demeter, and Hades — decided to put her foot down and proposed that Persephone stay in the Underworld for part of every year. She ate the food. [ bellamy shakes his head. ] You can't really break that rule.
Some of the stories have Persephone willingly eating some food in the Underworld, but I like the one where she's stubborn and wants to stick it to Hades for kidnapping her in the first place. Persephone's kind of cool. [ that's a tangent, though. ] But Demeter was happy in the end, and that's all that mattered. Whenever Persephone came back to the earth, it would be fertile and beautiful. When Persephone had to go back to the Underworld, it'd be cold and barren. They might be husband and wife, but that's why they had to live the way they did. To keep everyone happy and the world living. [ his smile becomes wide. ] And to give everyone a break in the Underworld from Persephone. She was a badass.