20 Sentences: Persephone
20 Sentences: Persephone
For tinyangl, obviously ♥
Zeus
Kimura tells her she must return and though she cannot refuse his demands, she can feign ignorance when Shota asks if she’s hungry and shows her five pomegranate seeds laid bare in his palm.
Hera
Yuko is the only one who attends their wedding; Yuriko is dressed in black and Shota is dressed in white and after they both take a pomegranate seed from her palm into their mouths, Yuko kisses Yuriko on the forehead and wishes her an eternity of happiness.
Poseidon
Smells like fish.
Amphirite
Smells like fish and vegetables.
Hades
She glides toward him on winged feet upon her return, barrels straight into him and presses a satisfied smile against his chest when she hears the breath knocked out of him.
Dionysus
Drinks too much; in love with her sister.
Demeter
Becky has eyes like sunflowers and hair like fresh, ripened wheat and her laughter rings full of life; Yuriko always wanted what her older sister had, but her eyes were the color of dust and her hair was blacker than ash and she never quite found anything amusing enough to laugh.
Apollo
Too bright.
Artemis
Sometimes Yuriko thinks that if she hadn’t ruined Meisa’s favorite bow and arrow, and if Meisa hadn’t then had to take it to Ohno and ask him to make it invincible, unstoppable, unable to miss its mark, perhaps Jin would still be alive.
Hermes
Yuriko has always wanted to fly and it isn’t her fault that the thief god himself is so careless with his belongings-Yuriko takes flight and wonders what it would feel like to fly too close to the sun.
Athena
Yuriko wonders how Maki might look painted in anger; ten-thousand books later and she still never gets to find out.
Hephaestus
Crippled foot; beautiful hands; would make a good pet.
Aphrodite
Satomis is pretty, Satomi is vain, Satomi is in love with two gods and everyone has an opinion on it, but who cares; sometime after everyone finds out, Satomi comes over and just sits, with her lips pressed tight together, in Yuriko’s lap as she runs her fingers through Satomi’s endless, beautiful curls.
Ares
Everyone dislikes Jun for some reason or another-his temper is too quick, his tongue is like poison and his very presence makes your pulse quicken and your blood bubble over in rage-luckily, Yuriko doesn’t have much of a pulse in the underworld and her blood runs thin, so when Jun comes for a visit she smiles and gives him a hug before leading him into the dining hall where Shota is waiting with plenty of wine.
Hestia
Everyone thinks Mirei is warm, but Yuriko thinks her eyes are blacker than coal and colder than the eyes of the dead.
Eros
Needs to wear a shirt.
Psyche
Shihori tells her first, a secret, her breath tickling her ear as they’re making crowns of wild flowers, “Hiro tells me that Shota is in love with you.”
Heracles
Moobs.
Megara
Girlfriend of Moobs.
Persephone
They pity her, she knows, they think it must be awful for a young goddess so full of life to have been snatched away into the darkness, to share half of her year and her life in death; they are wrong, she has never felt quite at home on Olympusyama, it was always far too bright, far too happy, and far too full of endless contradictions for her to ever really belong there. (They pity her, she knows, they can’t imagine that a life split between life and death could ever be satisfying; they are wrong.)
For tinyangl, obviously ♥
Zeus
Kimura tells her she must return and though she cannot refuse his demands, she can feign ignorance when Shota asks if she’s hungry and shows her five pomegranate seeds laid bare in his palm.
Hera
Yuko is the only one who attends their wedding; Yuriko is dressed in black and Shota is dressed in white and after they both take a pomegranate seed from her palm into their mouths, Yuko kisses Yuriko on the forehead and wishes her an eternity of happiness.
Poseidon
Smells like fish.
Amphirite
Smells like fish and vegetables.
Hades
She glides toward him on winged feet upon her return, barrels straight into him and presses a satisfied smile against his chest when she hears the breath knocked out of him.
Dionysus
Drinks too much; in love with her sister.
Demeter
Becky has eyes like sunflowers and hair like fresh, ripened wheat and her laughter rings full of life; Yuriko always wanted what her older sister had, but her eyes were the color of dust and her hair was blacker than ash and she never quite found anything amusing enough to laugh.
Apollo
Too bright.
Artemis
Sometimes Yuriko thinks that if she hadn’t ruined Meisa’s favorite bow and arrow, and if Meisa hadn’t then had to take it to Ohno and ask him to make it invincible, unstoppable, unable to miss its mark, perhaps Jin would still be alive.
Hermes
Yuriko has always wanted to fly and it isn’t her fault that the thief god himself is so careless with his belongings-Yuriko takes flight and wonders what it would feel like to fly too close to the sun.
Athena
Yuriko wonders how Maki might look painted in anger; ten-thousand books later and she still never gets to find out.
Hephaestus
Crippled foot; beautiful hands; would make a good pet.
Aphrodite
Satomis is pretty, Satomi is vain, Satomi is in love with two gods and everyone has an opinion on it, but who cares; sometime after everyone finds out, Satomi comes over and just sits, with her lips pressed tight together, in Yuriko’s lap as she runs her fingers through Satomi’s endless, beautiful curls.
Ares
Everyone dislikes Jun for some reason or another-his temper is too quick, his tongue is like poison and his very presence makes your pulse quicken and your blood bubble over in rage-luckily, Yuriko doesn’t have much of a pulse in the underworld and her blood runs thin, so when Jun comes for a visit she smiles and gives him a hug before leading him into the dining hall where Shota is waiting with plenty of wine.
Hestia
Everyone thinks Mirei is warm, but Yuriko thinks her eyes are blacker than coal and colder than the eyes of the dead.
Eros
Needs to wear a shirt.
Psyche
Shihori tells her first, a secret, her breath tickling her ear as they’re making crowns of wild flowers, “Hiro tells me that Shota is in love with you.”
Heracles
Moobs.
Megara
Girlfriend of Moobs.
Persephone
They pity her, she knows, they think it must be awful for a young goddess so full of life to have been snatched away into the darkness, to share half of her year and her life in death; they are wrong, she has never felt quite at home on Olympusyama, it was always far too bright, far too happy, and far too full of endless contradictions for her to ever really belong there. (They pity her, she knows, they can’t imagine that a life split between life and death could ever be satisfying; they are wrong.)