Tag: hades and persephone

the Descent: the Heroine’s journey as depicted in The Force Awakens

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TL; DR: in which I drink too much wine and try to comprehend why Star Wars is my life now. 

The person who looks outward dreams, the person who looks inward awakens. – Carl Jung

I wasn’t really expecting to have a visceral or emotional attachment to The Force Awakens.

I had hope, which is what all fans have even when they’ve over-familiarized themselves with the basic plot beats beforehand (major character deaths included). I’m an unrepentant spoiler-philiac. I knew what I was going to see. But I don’t think I could have ever anticipated what I saw, a fact which I have taken a month and half to process and the reason I am rambling on it now.

Weiterlesen

Classic reylo meta paralleling the protagonists of The Force Awakens to characters from the Hades and Persephone myth (and not always in the way you think).

Pioneer work done in the early days of the reylo fandom and still as relevant as back then.

COBWEB BRIDE (Trilogy) by Vera Nazarian

Many are called…
She alone can save the world and become Death’s bride.

Cobweb Bride is a history-flavored fantasy novel with romantic elements of the Persephone myth, about Death’s ultimatum to the world.

What if you killed someone and then fell in love with them?

In an alternate Renaissance world, somewhere in an imaginary “pocket” of Europe called the Kingdom of Lethe, Death comes, in the form of a grim Spaniard, to claim his Bride. Until she is found, in a single time-stopping moment all dying stops. There is no relief for the mortally wounded and the terminally ill….

Covered in white cobwebs of a thousand snow spiders she lies in the darkness… Her skin is cold as snow… Her eyes frozen… Her gaze, fiercely alive…

While kings and emperors send expeditions to search for a suitable Bride for Death, armies of the undead wage an endless war… A black knight roams the forest at the command of his undead father … Spies and political treacheries abound at the imperial Silver Court…. Murdered lovers find themselves locked in the realm of the living…

Look closer — through the cobweb filaments of her hair and along each strand shine stars…

And one small village girl, Percy—an unwanted, ungainly middle daughter—is faced with the responsibility of granting her dying grandmother the desperate release she needs.

As a result, Percy joins the crowds of other young women of the land in a desperate quest to Death’s own mysterious holding in the deepest forests of the North…

And everyone is trying to stop her

Check out this book on Goodreads: Cobweb Bride (Cobweb Bride Trilogy, #1) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17727308-cobweb-bride

A determined young woman and a dark knight who will redeem himself try to save their world from total annihilation.
A dead princess and her murderer may find happiness together.
A many-faced Hades will try to win his twisted, mad Persephone back.
Three couples, many reylo feels…

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