Where is Persephone? (Closed!)
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Where is Persephone? Why did she pawn the comb? Who is helping her?
Why did she sell the comb?
PAY BACK TGOEM
Kiera: I believe that Persephone [pawned the comb] to either pay off the tuition, in order to be with Hades and not feel guilty...or to get money for an apartment so she doesn’t have to see Artemis and Apollo. Either way, she is leaving TGOEM to be with Hades and tells him what Apollo did to her. This will cause a fight to break out between Zeus and Hades and everyone will side with Hades because they see the true Zeus (and Hera threatens them).
a.n.d.y.s.a.r.t (IG) - I think the money is to pay back the scholarship so she can leave TGOEM
s.k.is.tired (IG) - Maybe she is planning to get her own place so she can leave the goddesses of eternal maidenhood, pay off her scholarship and live on her own as an adult
esm.equestrian (IG) - Pay off the tgoem for her scholarship out of guilt or so she can defend the nymph from apollo without being terrified of him destroying her scholarship (and also so she can be with hades 😍😍)
Incarnationofpersephone (IG) - Maybe because Apollo has those images and she doesn't want to be blackmailed, she is going to use it to pay the scholarship. Then, she’ll tell everyone what exactly happened, without any fear and pressure.
Start a new life / Passage elsewhere
strawberry_milkshake_art (IG) - This sounds pretty oblivious but I think she just needs money for something perhaps traveling or finding a new place to live?
alexis.desmall95 (IG) - Eros with the passport...he knows where she is. Pawning it was to have cash, so she has no paper trail. This is what some abuse survivors do to get away. She's trying to vanish and not be found.
juliquirozc (IG) - She needs the money to run away
xeybhls (IG) - My speculation is she is either renting a room or Hotel to lay low for the moment. She needs a space of her own
mamabird_jeannette (IG) - I think she’s trying to get out of town and needs whatever money she can get. Maybe she’s planning on telling Daphne what happened even though she’ll be exposed, but if she gets away before the pictures get out she won’t have to deal with the results of doing the right thing.
Give money to the shades
venus__tea (IG) - I bet she’s doing it to get more coins to give to all the people she killed in the Underworld, so that they can pass over the Styx and not have to wait 100 years.
random_person616 (IG) - I think shes going back to the Underworld to make up her mistake from the accident by killing those people.
awakeningofladyviper16 (IG) - She's going to give coins to those that don't have money to cross the river.
houdarrssn (IG) - She pawned the comb to get coins so she can give them to the souls/shades who are stranded at the shore (most likely the ones Persephone killed during her rage)
Where did she go?
Underworld
MissT - Persephone is hiding at Hades’ house (unseen). Also in the vein of “In Plain Sight” (chapter title), Persephone has been to Hades’ house before and presumably knows about his famous helm of darkness, with in myth grants him invisibility. So, she could just be chilling there. Why? Cerberus didn't seem to care about Artemis breaking in and Cordon Bleu was growling in the closet chewing a coat for no apparent reason (other than being Cordon Bleu). There was an interesting hazy look to some of the panels in the episode where Hades, Artemis, Eros, and Ameplus were talking at the dining table.
queeniemadhatter (IG) - I think she is in the Underworld because Hades said that Apollo can't go there.
Aurora_0offical (IG) - I think she's down in the underworld selling her comb to get more coins to give to the mortal so they can pay the fare.
celtrose (IG) - She's trying to start a new life in the underworld, by herself, for herself... You are the only person you can count on.
Kore.cob (IG) - I think (and hope) she's hiding somewhere in the underworld
Ac_kb_milligan (IG): She’s in the Underworld. Apollo doesn’t go there. It’s the only place away from his creepy prying eyes. As for selling the comb (working under the assumption it actually happened), she pawned it to try to get the rest of the money to pay back TGOEM.
Olympus
MissT/Miss_Understood - She went to Tori and Alex. Her plan could be to get ahead of Apollo and make real on her threat to not only tell Artemis and Daphne but all of Olympus! She’s said before how she only cares about her reputation with the people who matter to her (when the first tabloids came out). This could cause serious waves with the reaction of Demeter, Hades, Zeus, Hera, Artemis, and of course, Apollo. Why did she sell the comb? As a financial offering to pay him back for the camera Hades broke.
Miss_Understood - She’s hiding at Eros’ house. Eros was the first place Artemis went to look in a chapter called “In Plain Sight.” This is possible because he isn’t that concerned about her and would also be funny if he was hiding her while his mom is hiding Psyche, and all the little kids are like “my family is a such a mess.”
Emchapman13 (IG) - I actually think she has reached out to Hera for help - remember Hera on the phone and being all secretive about it? "I'm not going to tell Zeus, he's an arrogant buffoon who flies off the handle at the drop of a hat." What if Perse remembered what happened and wants to pay for the shades to move on herself, and went to Hera for help about that, or about the whole not being a virgin anymore.
4llysonwonderland (IG) - I don’t think she’s running away at all. I think she’s trying to get enough money to pay back the TGOEM so she can be with Hades without feeling guilty. Selling things & canceling her phone plan for one less bill to get just enough. I also think she’s going to try and go to Hera to have her as a backup with Hestia & her mom, but Zeus will be who’s home & that will set any trouble/punishment in motion since he’s already mad with everyone.
Aijahnaebyrd (IG) - I think she’s at Daphne's for some reason.
Mortal Realm
MissT/Miss_Understood - Persephone went to Hephaestus in the mortal realm. Yes, we don’t know this character yet, but he was in Persephone’s book of suitors. I believe he’s either in the mortal realm or the Underworld (or the border) as his domain is volcanos. Why Hephaestus?
1) In myth, he shares a workshop with Athena, a member of TGOEM. They might run into each other there and she’d get good advice.
2) In myth, he’s an outcast and not part of the main Olympian society. He might be an old friend of hers and have good advice in that regard.
3) Ares/Aphrodite vs. Hera/Zeus debacle in Season 1 - It felt like there may be some payback coming Ares and Aphrodite’s way from Hera for the black eye and deceit about Aphrodite’s *ahem* incident with Zeus. In myth, Hephaestus is married to Aphrodite (and not very willingly on her part). That storyline could serve as a cautionary tale to Persephone, who fears being married to Apollo against her will.
4) Persephone might be going to Hephaestus to make a badass super-scythe weapon to enact her revenge on Apollo old-world style.
Teapartywithzombie (IG) - I think she's going back home.
alexa_swift_gomez (IG) - I think she went to the mortal realm to live with the mortals and she pawned the comb so she has some money to start off in the realm of mortals.
OCEAN REALM
Anonymous: In episode 118, “No Respect,” we see Hades, Eros, Artemis, and Ampelus getting ready to search for Persephone. We know that the four of them are splitting the search between them, Hades looking in the Underworld and Eros, Artemis, and Ampelus searching in the Mortal Realm and Olympus. They do not seem to be searching in the Ocean, we know that much. This was the plan from the beginning. Rachel has been planning our season 2 for a while and she purposely didn’t mention the Ocean so people could forget it as a possibility only to add more suspense when she reveals it later.
Perri_the_dogypus (IG) - Can she be in the Ocean Realm? In the new episodes when splitting up to search for Persephone Hades, Eros, and Artemis fail to have the idea to search the Ocean Realm so maybe since they didn’t mention it that’s where she could be??
norse pantheon
Joelle: When she was trying to figure out a way how to get out of the goddesses of eternal maidenhood she came up with the idea of going to the Nordic peninsula. I think she was getting money to run away and the reason why she was selling Hades hair piece because it will remind her too much of him if she did leave. She maybe even threw in her mothers brooch in the process of selling it too.
aspaisia (IG) - She's going to hide in the Norse Pantheon. I just know it. Racheal foreshadows alot in her dialogue.
Willpwazza03 (IG) - Remember when she thought about running away to the Norse gods ages ago? What if she low key just shows up in Valhalla and Frigg just rings Hera and is like “hi I got one of yours here ... yea she’s pink ... she likes flowers and lanky blue guys? ... yea you can come pick her up”
Valeriux03 (IG) - I'm kinda thinking that she is going to the norse pantheon... In episode 75 she said she wanted a way out of the TGOEM and she thought about going there. So I'm kinda thinking she went there because maybe no one there knows her. So I think she sold her comb to buy a ticket to go there.
Other Theories
Floralrobustas (IG) - Lowkey she’s with Rhea
emily_rose559 (IG) - What if she uses the money to buy a pomegranate phone and that would ‘link’ her to Hades (maybe no one else knows her number and she’ll use it to only contact him). That would be the stand in for the pomegranates she ate.
elizabeth_angela2014 (IG) - Something secretive like paying a hacker or person to hack / steal apollo’s phone for the pictures.
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