Episode 131: Interview with the Barley Mother
Editor: Bre BoswellReleased: 15 November 2020Photo from Webtoons
“It’s like my powers have nowhere to go.”
Persephone
“The frustration to be hidden in plain sight. The fear of only being known as a cereal mascot.”
Persephone moves on to discussing how the Act of Wrath happened. That she told the flower nymphs, her “first friends,” to leave her alone right before they died.
She ran to their garden and shouted at the mortals who dug up the bushes, but the men shoved her to the ground, unafraid of her as a minor goddess.
The final image is Persephone seeming to grow larger with red eyes explaining to Hades, “the feeling could not be stopped.”
She wonders if Demeter was afraid. She says she’s glad Hades saw her “version” of Spring, and that she’d gotten in trouble for letting it get too out of control that year. Her mother put her in more school activities to cheer her up or keep her busy.
The feeling grew stronger. She mentions how the cereal brand was frustrating because she was hidden in plain sight.
A small flower grows in her water glass as she talks.