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Demeter is the Goddess of the Harvest, Fertility, Sacred Law and Agriculture and Seasons. She is the sister of Hestia, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and the sister/lover of Zeus, and the half-sister of Chiron. She is also the mother of Persephone and a member of the Pantheon who resides on Olympus. Demeter had a union with Zeus in the early years of the world and from that union Persephone was born, whom Demeter loved with all her heart. When she reached adulthood, Demeter began to look for a husband for her, but none caught her daughter's attention, until one day Persephone disappeared and a terrified Demeter searched for her in the heavens and on earth. Finally, she found her in the Underworld and tried to convince her to return to earth, but Persephone had fallen in love with Hades, a worried Demeter told her that he had nothing to give her and tried to force her to go with her.

However, Persephone had already made her decision and chose to consume six pomegranate seeds from the Underworld, binding herself to it forever. Demeter, devastated and furious at her daughter's decision, told the other gods that Hades had kidnapped her daughter and in her anger cursed the earth with an endless frost until her daughter was returned.

To prevent mortals from continuing to suffer Demeter's wrath, Zeus declared that Persephone would live six months with her and the other six would be spent with Hades, because Persephone ate six seeds, each seed symbolizing a month.

Demeter has light skin, golden yellow eyes, and beautiful blonde hair tied in a bun with a gold and white headband with pink petals. She wears a long white gauze dress with a gold necklace around her neck and she wears dark gold bracelets.

Demeter possesses the conventional superhuman physical attributes of an Olympian God, Demeter is also immortal, so she cannot die in any conventional human way, and her body remains in good condition no matter how many years pass; it is also long-lived, so she will never age and therefore will always be the same age or stage.

As the Goddess of Agriculture and the Harvest, agriculture, and earth, Demeter can control all types of plant life and vegetation. Demeter can also generate parasitic spore infestations that can kill mortals quickly and weaken Gods.

Demeter can observe and listen to others through plants. They can show her what is happening in any location on Earth or even in Olympus and is also able to utilize plants in combination of physical combat.

Demeter secretly concocted a beverage that lifts away the effects of spores infestation.

Demeter can teleport via plants, merging into an element and appearing anywhere else from the same element.

As the Goddess of the Seasons, Demeter can manipulate them on a massive scale. When her daughter is with her, she allows the land to be warm and fertile in spring and summer, but when she is gone, the land becomes cold and arid in autumn and winter.

She also possess extraordinary expertise in stealth and can conceal herself extraordinarily well.

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Demeter is a stern, imperious woman. Like the other gods, she expected Zeus to follow his own laws, and her respect for him waned with each scandal and flippant act he committed, despite his position as the King of Olympus. As such, when Hera declared war against Zeus and those who stood with him, Demeter stood with her sister, indicating she agreed with Hera and deemed Zeus no longer worthy of the throne.

Another facet of Demeter's character is her role as a mother to her daughter, Persephone. According to Persephone, however, while she acknowledges that her mother loves her and means well, she has described her mother as "difficult." Indeed, Demeter holds her daughter closely, both figuratively and physically, and wants what is best for her, as she deems it. This includes "encouraging" Persephone to marry, and to choose someone Demeter herself approves of; one such suitor was Ares, while ignoring Persephone's own thoughts and feelings on such matters.

When Persephone defied her mother and bound herself to the Underworld so Demeter could not separate them, Demeter allowed the whole world to share in her anguish by letting the plants wither. The climate becomes cold, endangering the mortals. This forced Zeus to make a compromise: Persephone would spend half the year on Olympus with her mother and the other half in the Underworld with Hades, resulting in the change of seasons.

Demeter (more or less) made peace with this arrangement, but ignores the pain and heartache it causes Persephone and her own family, even once laying blame at Persephone when she brought up how hard it was to leave her children. This toxic response indicates Demeter does not know or care about her grandchildren and is passive-aggressive and condescending towards her daughter's marriage with Hades.

Demeter acts like a caring mother, but she is actually as spiteful and cruel as her sister, Hera, if not more so.

All of Demeter's actions show she is as power-hungry as her siblings and just as arrogant, vile, and cruel. Even her love for her daughter is twisted by her selfishness and lack of understanding or respect for Persephone's thoughts and feelings, acting almost like she "owns" Persephone.

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