Persephone Collins is the main protagonist of The Fearless Five series. She is also the main protagonist of Bash and Persephone: The Magical Looney Story.
Bio
Persephone is the lead singer and establisher of the city-famous band, The Fearless Five. While she's imaginative, creative and fun, a deeper side of her shows a side of anxiety, shyness, and social awkwardness. But, she tries not to let that stop her from achieving her dreams, and keeps an optimistic attitude.
Personality
Persephone is overall portrayed as friendly, chill, goofy, musical and outspoken. She is also very awkward when someone expresses interest in her.
In Fearless, Persephone suffered from severe anxiety and refused to go to crowded places in fear that her heart condition would worsen. This caused her to lose trust in her family and friends, but after braving it through her first live debut, she managed to regain the trust of her peers.
In the series, Persephone is more confident in her actions, but sometimes awkward and shy. The series also shows a different side of Persephone where is protective over her family and friends, and will lash out on anyone who gets angry or blames them, especially Bash. Despite this, she is generally easygoing and friendly, but not oblivious.
Since conquering her anxiety, Persephone develops a trait which shows her assertiveness when needed, protecting her loved ones, no matter what the cost. She will also stand against those who treat others unfairly and will stand by the underdog's side. When doing so, she can be extremely stubborn and refuse to listen to anyone whom she thinks is in the wrong. She still can listen to reason, however, if the offenders offer to make peace with her or her friends, thus, she will listen, but will keep her guard up. Though her shyness is a cause of her lack of public speaking skills, Persephone still works behind the scenes to make sure everyone is treated with respect and kindness.
Persephone is also not prone to peer pressure, and often has a mind of her own. She also doesn't give into the latest trends, and boldly wears her own style with a smile. She is also super difficult to push around and can easily stand up for herself, showing how much she's changed since she conquered her anxiety.
Despite being more confident and courageous, Persephone is quite awkward when it comes to romance. She is often tongue-tied and nervous around guys she likes, including Pepe Lew Pew and sometimes Bash when her feelings for him show through.
She is also shown, on occasion, to be attracted to guys with suave accents, such as French, Spanish, or Italian. She tries denying this fact, due to many girls also liking this trait in a guy and her trying to avoid peer pressure and standards. However, she only likes them if they have a friendly demeanor, thus confirming that Persephone counts on the heart, not the looks.
Persephone also has some qualities that does not count her as being completely feminine. While she enjoys hanging out with boys more than girls, she also has a disinterest in fashion and makeup, and is less sophisticated and more aggressive, sarcastic, and energetic. However, her tomboyish side does not hide her compassion whenever someone needs help, and her heart is still at large when her tomboyish urges break through.
Despite her impulsive antics, Persephone is surprisingly intelligent and has a strong moral code. She knows how to solve problems in a unique way and come up with ridiculous yet effective ideas. She claims that she doesn't act like she is smart because she "doesn't want to be arrogant because belittling others with your brains is annoying", adding on to her moral code.
Despite being a young adult, Persephone has an active imagination. She likes coming up with various scenarios and stories and can have her head in the clouds for hours. She also likes posing as her alter ego, The Persephonator, when doing various things, like cleaning the kitchen or settling a dispute at a Comic Con. She also enjoys creative writing, often coming up with plot twists and alternate reality stories in her re-writes of bible stories, even if they aren't exactly like the original.
Appearance
Persephone is a humanoid-like person with salmon skin, brown hair in a ponytail, and brown eyes. She usually sports a half ocean-blue half white sweater with white stripes on the sleeves and a lavender heart in the middle and a black collar. She also wears dark grey leggings and ocean blue boots white soles and buckles.
Trivia
- Persephone is a HUGE animal lover, and her favorite animal is the Star-Nosed Mole.
- Persephone's expressions are inspired by the expressions used in The Amazing World of Gumball.
- Persephone's birthday is August 2nd.
- She met Bash on March 25 when she was seven months old.
- Persephone's weaknesses include chocolate, small fluffy animals, and good-hearted men with suave accents.
- Persephone is shown to have four phobias throughout the series.
- Phobophobia: Fear of anxiety (or her anxiety returning)
- Thantophobia: Fear of losing someone (mainly Bash)
- Metathesiophobia: Fear of change
- Claustrophobia: Fear of enclosed spaces
- Persephone's name was given to her due to being born among a field of flowers. This is a reference to the goddess Persephone, who was the goddess of the harvest, usually associated with flowers and other planets.
- Persephone prefers to be friends with boys than girls, due to her being extremely uncomfortable with sugary affection in female relationships.
- It is confirmed by TheFearlessCreator that Persephone is heteromantic greysexual. Signs of her greysexuality include:
- Disinterest in a man's physical appearance, such as muscles, chiseled features or abs.
- Showing disgust towards public displays of affection or innuendos.
- Several failed attempts to flirt.
- Developing crushes on those she has gotten to know a lot better.
- Pinpointing the time when she will have intercourse once after she's married only for means of reproduction.
- Never having an infatuation on any guy.
- Persephone collects teddy bears. The first one she ever got was Murphy, a bear she got in the hospital when she was being treated for her heart condition.
- When a loved one is in danger, Persephone pulls out a baseball bat with the words "Righteous Bat" engraved in it and tries to scare off the offenders.
- Contrary to popular belief, Persephone is actually an introvert.
- Also contrary to popular belief, Persephone is not that expressive and mostly prefers to keep a chill, casual, and easygoing attitude.
- Persephone does not like being big and flashy in front of strangers.
- Persephone struggles with public speaking.
Persephone likes wearing mustaches, shown in several episodes as she uses her mustaches as a disguise.
- It is hinted that Persephone may have Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), since she has trouble focusing for long periods of time.
- Persephone's alter ego, The Persephonator, is a reference to the Arnold Shwarzennegar character, The Terminator.
- TheFearlessCreator describes Bash and Persephone's dynamic as "Mickey Mouse Meets Gumball", though Persephone is more introverted than Gumball.
- Persephone can sense when people are being pretentious or genuinely nice, thus will look past outward appearance and focus on someone's true intentions and whether they are truly kind or not.