Characters

WAX

Persephone

Throughout his life, it felt as though he never lived his life, always worried about others, what would they say and think, he lived with others' expectations raising high. He felt like he was never himself, never having a say in what he wanted or what he desired in life.

Being dictated by his parents, the second his mind was able to think of himself as his own, had taken a toll on him mentally throughout the 21 years of his life. He always questioned himself, if his motives are what his parents would desire, every decision ran by the approval of his parents. Every disagreement caused great shame and guilt, feeling as though to make everyone proud and happy, was listening, obeying, and doing exactly what they expected of him. He felt as though this was his life, as everything was going right, he acted upon the vulnerability and had accepted his fate of decisions being made for him, without a single question, without a single thought.

Ironically being named Persephone, the bringer of death, mother of mortality, the one that was abducted against their will to a suiter. Feel the slight familiarity of being abducted against their will. Instead of it being physically, mine mentally, here yet by the people that were to bring me safety and comfort, would become the exact opposite.

But with how ironic that may be, rebirth is what brings this to the utmost reality, the sudden realization that that was possible, he was his own person, and he had his own mind and free will. Therefore it all stopped at his coming of age, his maturity reaching its peripheral stages, he started to realize that this wasn't his life, he was living but rather his control thriving parents. He felt he needed a change in his life, he felt as though he needed the control that was swept away right in front of his eyes or he would lose himself entirely in the spiral of mental captivity and manipulation.

FLAME

Hephaestus

An orphan with traumatic experiences, and painful memories, that even the worst of the worst wouldn't be able to bare. The god of fire, born of flames and the only one who can stand the relentless heat, and whips, and burns it inflicts on him. Alone he withstood the burns, the intense flames, the scorching scars that every moment until now has left him with.

The fierce exterior protects the broken person inside, who was so deprived of every form of love and affection that he forever yearns for it in someone. Once he is able to find that someone there is nothing he would not do to protect his obsession, his someone. They will be iron gated in his need, want… desire.

He matured fast, he grew old quickly but despite that, his cries and need to be a child are buried within ready to erupt in the right company. The lava that conceals his so fragile heart, shields it from the painful reality of the world that surrounds him but also is the reason why he is unable to overcome the hellish past he barely escaped from. That small traumas have caused this child so full of hopes and dreams to be shut off from the world in his own deception.