Percy had the impression that in the world above, she would be more beautiful and even brilliant. Persephone wore a dress that billowed around her like smoke which made Percy to initially think it was white, but he later realized that it was made of all sorts of changing colors - red, blue, and yellow flowers blooming in the fabric - but it was strangely faded. In The Last Olympian , Persephone was said to look totally different from the last time Percy had seen her, due to it being summer: She had warm brown eyes and lustrous black hair.
Persephone wore a dress that shimmered with colors and flower patterns which changed and bloomed - roses, tulips, and honeysuckle. In Percy Jackson's Greek Gods , Persephone was described to be an incredibly beautiful young goddess with tender expression.
Before the seasons began, her eyes were sky blue like her father's and her hair was blond like her mother's. Her beauty was enough to attract the attention of Hades, who hardly ever left the Underworld.
Even Adonis had trouble choosing between her and Aphrodite. She wore a pale gray and green dress, "the color of frost on grass". When Orpheus visited the Underworld, she wore a yellow and grey gown, akin to the sun behind winter clouds. The differences in Persephone's physical description throughout the novels could be attributed to the fact that her appearance changes just like the seasons.
Furthermore, she has the ability to assume any shape she desires as a goddess, though it must be noted that she retains her stunning beauty no matter what physical manifestation she adopts.
Persephone can change her appearance into her Roman counterpart of Proserpine. As Proserpine, she becomes more disciplined, warlike, and militaristic. The Greeks believed Persephone's return from the Underworld signified the rebirth of crops, whereas the Romans thought that Proserpine preserved their seeds during the winter.
As the daughter of two Elder Olympians one of them from the Big Three and Queen of the Underworld, Persephone is extremely powerful, more so than a demigod though less so compared to an Olympian. She is considered a minor goddess. Persephone grew up very close to her mother , to the point that the elder goddess became dependent upon her daughter and is only happy when the two are together.
After Hades kidnapped Persephone, she wanted to return home, but she came to value the time away from her mother. Demeter never could accept that her daughter had married Hades and left "her poor mother". When Hades kidnapped her, Persephone didn't want to stay with him and wanted to be rescued, causing tantrums in his palace and destroying his riches.
Her attitude started to change after she saw the fields of magnificent plants Hades asked for her. In Hades' order, his gardener Asklaphos tricked her into eating the pomegranate seeds, which would forced her to stay with Hades for half of the year. Nico di Angelo , her step-son. Persephone and her stepson Nico mutually dislike each other, as he is a reminder of Hades' affair with Maria di Angelo , the only lover Hades loved as much as his wife which can suggest she's just as hostile to her husband's demigod children as Hera is to the demigod spawn of Zeus.
As stated by him in The Demigod Files , Persephone turned Nico into a dandelion during a "family spat". According to Nico, Persephone is trying to be nice to him. In The Mark of Athena , he carries around some pomegranate seeds from her personal garden in case of an emergency, which he used them when he was trapped by the giants Otis and Ephialtes.
Persephone is played by Rosario Dawson. Unlike in the books where she first appeared in The Last Olympian and The Demigod Files , she is one of the first of the gods Percy meets in the film. Her personality and relationship with Hades are the exact opposites of what they are in the books and in mythology; Hades apparently keeps her prisoner in the Underworld. When Luke spoke about her, he says, "Needless to say, she hates it there.
So she has Although she only made one appearance, she was vital to the success of Percy's quest in two ways. Unlike in the book, where Percy received the magical pearls from Poseidon through a Nereid, in the film the pearls are owned by Persephone and there are apparently dozens of them around the world, with three currently in the U. Although from a different source, their use is still virtually the same: you crush them under your feet and visualize where you want to be taken.
Persephone mainly used them as a way for her 'secret visitors' to escape quickly and easily from the Underworld. Percy manages to behead her and claim the pearl, which somehow ended up on her bracelet. They also take her head with them to retrieve the second pearl, which they find on the crown of Athena's statue in the Parthenon in Nashville. Percy uses Luke's flying shoes to get it and then uses Medusa's head to petrify the Hydra that guards it disguised as the Parthenon's five janitors.
The third and final pearl caused their biggest setback; it was held in a roulette wheel in the Lotus Casino in Las Vegas, which was actually the home of the Lotus-eaters. Percy, Annabeth, and Grover are doped by the Lotus flowers and accidentally spend five days there they thought it was just a few hours , but Poseidon breaks the trance on Percy through telepathy and the trio escape, taking the pearl with them.
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Zeus commanded that Hades release Persephone. Persephone was overjoyed. However he tricked her into eating some pomegranate seeds before she left the underworld. He knew that if she ate anything from the land of the dead, she would have to return to him for a part of each year. This figure may represent Demeter's daughter Persephone. She holds a pomegranate.
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