#/ seph loves orpheus but not like that xD

[calledkore]

@anonymous: Did you want to sleep with Orpheus?

"Orpheus?" There's a sharp quality to Persephone's voice, caught between strangled surprise and a cackling laugh. Now, they had to be playing, didn't they? Orpheus, really... Oh, she knew he was a sweet boy. She'd go so far as to say the poor thing was one of her champions. Surely, she loved him -- the way that a God loved someone who called on them, the way a Queen may love her subjects.

"Don't be silly. Ain't never felt nothin' like that, not for him."

Send my muse anons about their relationships.

[alyona11]

on the topic of broadway if it’s true what if it is how orpheus speaks of revolution, of the workers, and just a tiny bit of eurydice that makes Persephone be like oh yeah he loves her. bc hades constantly uses the workers as pawns in trying to gain Persephone’s love so she could see what orpheus is doing as the same even though orpheus is talking of revolution. To Seph the use of the workers could be synonymous with showing a deep love because that’s what hades does in his misguided way.

It's an interesting thought and I wouldn't have thought about that xD But I think that there's one thing that's missing: Persephone doesn't consider industrialising hell and using the workers are tools love which is pretty visible in Chant. She doesn't see his "big gestures" as a real declaration of love which is actually why this conflict even takes place in Chant.

Also it also makes me think about that Chant II Persephone's verse: "Take it from the woman of my age/Love is not a guilded cage/All the wealth within these walls/Would never buy a thing call love/Love was when he came to me..." etc. Where it's visible that for her there is this opposition: destructive and egoistic love vs true love. First being all that Hades does during the moment when Ht takes place (taking her early, destroying nature, industrialising, using people), second being what Hades did before that when they were younger (aka loving he in a normal human way r as he should).

Like of course we can ignore this verse since it's a part of NYTW production and didn't make it to Broadway while preview and London versions had more of a natural and right vs industrial and wrong opposition 🤔 Which has kinda the same goal metaphorically. But I think Chant II verse only shows the idea expressed in Chant I more vividly.

So I kinda don't really see her reading it as love? I just think that Bw also wants us to think that Persephone was touched by that 1st verse, but kinda fails because this 1st verse is so weak.