Tuesday: Female Characters

[merryghoul]

merryghoul here again, and it's now time to show love to our female characters. Femslash, gen, or solo fics, it's all welcome, as long as there are female characters present.

The rules:

• No more than three prompts to a single fandom
• No more than five prompts at a time
• No spoilers in the prompts and if your fill has spoilers, please warn and and leave at least three spaces

Format:

• Fandom, Character, Prompt
• Fandom, Character/Character, Prompt

Examples:

• Leverage, Parker/Sophie, forced to dance together
• Torchwood, Tosh/Suzie, celebrating Suzie's birthday
• Sherlock, Donovan, a break from the Yard and Sherlock

Can't find anything that matches your interests? There's always the lonely prompts.

tag=FemaleCharacters

Comments

untitled, PG, a bit of Hades/Persephone (of course)

[tigriswolf]

Let Zeus have the sky and Poseidon the sea - Demeter has the Earth and the people there. Hestia has the home (every home, yes, the hearth and the heart) and Hera the marriage bed and the children. Hades has the dead.

But Demeter – Demeter has the world. She lies down in a field, with a lioness curled at her side, cubs nursing, and a lamb in her arms. Demeter is the harvest; she is life. Without her, her siblings would have nothing.

She laughs as one of the lion cubs bats at the lamb because everything is so alive.

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Demeter only ever has one child of her body. She teaches her daughter everything, shows her the world and the brilliance there. Let Hera have Olympus; the mountain has long grown cold. Let Hestia rest in fireplaces, let Poseidon brood in the deep, let Zeus run from his wife and curse women, if that is his wish –

Demeter is a mother and a queen; where her daughter steps, flowers bloom.

She should have remembered Hades.

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Persephone sits on the throne of the dead and does not weep. Nor does she smile, or laugh. She never dances.

She calls her husband lord and never speaks his name.

Her father, king of the gods, has spoken.

Her mother, queen of the earth, has defied.

She, queen of the dead, holds her head high.

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Let Zeus have the sky and Poseidon the sea, Hestia the hearth and Hera the marriage bed. Let Hades sulk in his cold realm, barren when Demeter’s daughter walks free.

The earth is hers. And without her, the gods’ worshipers would starve.

Demeter lies in a field, her daughter curled with her, and flowers bloom all over the world.

Re: untitled, PG, a bit of Hades/Persephone (of course)

[doreyg.livejournal.com]

Oh, this is beautiful! I especially love how powerful they both are, and how they don't need anybody else because they've got everything that they want themselves. <333

She laughs as one of the lion cubs bats at the lamb because everything is so alive. <- Favourite line. :DD

Re: untitled, PG, a bit of Hades/Persephone (of course)

[tigriswolf]

I'm so very glad you like it!

Demeter lies in a field, her daughter curled with her, and flowers bloom all over the world.

[natural-blue-26.livejournal.com]

Oh my God. Just ALL of this is spectacular - love the rhythm to everything. Gorgeoussssss ♥

Re: Demeter lies in a field, her daughter curled with her, and flowers bloom all over the world.

[tigriswolf]

Thank you so very much!

Re: untitled, PG, a bit of Hades/Persephone (of course)

[with-rainfall.livejournal.com]

"barren when Demeter's daughter walks free" - I love that inversion of the traditional "female is barren without the male" trope. Well done!

Re: untitled, PG, a bit of Hades/Persephone (of course)

[tigriswolf]

Thank you for reading!