Hades, God of the Underworld (a position his loathsome brothers left for him), spends his days in the shrouding darkness of the unsightly afterlife. He lets mortals suffer, their dreams die un-lived, and the darkness in his heart infect his soul.
He does not care for the world. He does not care for anything. Not until he meets Y/n, son of Demeter.
Y/n is everything Hades is not. Y/n is vibrant, living his life underneath the sun. Y/n is the God of Vegetation, responsible for keeping the fragile lives of wildflowers and fruit trees from withering. It was such a useless domain, but Y/n took to it like a fish to water.
Y/n is full of life and love, and Hades desires to drag him down into the underworld to tear it all out of him. To make someone like Y/n as dark as he is.
Or, perhaps, Hades wishes to suck the darkness out of his hellish kingdom using one of Y/n's warm smiles. The sort of smile that touched the younger god's face, crinkled his nose, and lit up his eyes.
Oh, what Hades wouldn't do to have Y/n.
A retelling of the myth of Hades and Persephone --
For as long as Persephone can remember it has always been her and her mother. Until one day, a stranger appears, causing her to have unfamiliar feelings-her world changes when her mother persuades her to go to the Underworld with him. In a place much different than the sheltered one she is used to, she will learn things about herself that were unknown even to her. Will she learn to embrace them or shy away from them altogether?
Hades has always been content to remain in the Underworld, ruling over the dead just as intended. He learned to settle for what he had been given long ago. But after an unplanned visit to his sister, he may have just changed his mind. Will his new guest embrace the darkness of his world, or will he remain within it alone for eternity?
#4 in Hades and Persephone category 7/14/2019
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