Guys have the hots for you.
You have power over people.
You’re not Persephone.
You’re Hades.
FROM: GWEN
TO: ART
That’s what you like about me?
FROM: ART
TO: GWEN
No one would have messed with you the way Lance messed with me You’re not weak like me I want to be more like you
Hurry. People asking where you are.
FROM: GWEN
TO: ART
You don’t know me. I’m not strong. I’m not strong at all.
FROM: ART
TO: GWEN
Uhh definitely too much bubbly
FROM: GWEN
TO: LANCE
I made a mistake
FROM: ART
TO: GWEN
Elaine says you’re in the bathroom
Do I need to come get you
FROM: GWEN
TO: ART
Just need a minute
FROM: GWEN
TO: LANCE
I love you, Lance
I want to be with you
But I don’t know how to be with you and still be me FROM: ART
TO: GWEN
You locked the bathroom
Open the door
FROM: ELAINE
TO: GWEN
WTF???
Got them to delay crowning 5 mins
HURRY
FROM: ART
TO: GWEN
I’m yelling through the door
Can you hear me?
FROM: GWEN
TO: LANCE
Lance . . . please . . .
FROM: LANCE
TO: GWEN
I’m here
FROM: GWEN
TO: LANCE
What?
FROM: LANCE
TO: GWEN
Outside Camelot. Calling you but line keeps dropping Which tower are you in
FROM: ART
TO: GWEN
You okay in there?
Janitor’s getting me the key.
Please answer me.
FROM: GWEN
TO: LANCE
Tower A. 2nd floor bathroom.
FROM: LANCE
TO: GWEN
Open the window. I’ll climb up and get you.
FROM: ART
TO: GWEN
Got the key.
FROM: LANCE
TO: GWEN
Hear me? I’m calling your name
FROM: GWEN
TO: LANCE
Can’t hear or see you
Glass is thick and frosted on the inside
Where are you
FROM: LANCE
TO: GWEN
Don’t worry, I’m climbing up
Try opening it
FROM: GWEN
TO: LANCE
I can’t. It’s jammed.
FROM: LANCE
TO: GWEN
Push harder.
FROM: ART
TO: GWEN
You dead-bolted the door! WTF.
Gwen, open it!
FROM: GWEN
TO: LANCE
Art’s ramming against the door
FROM: LANCE
TO: GWEN
Gwen. You have to push harder.
FROM: GWEN
TO: LANCE
I can’t do it.
I can’t just . . . leave.
FROM: LANCE
TO: GWEN
Why?
FROM: GWEN
TO: LANCE
What about Art?
FROM: LANCE
TO: GWEN
Art has the whole world to love him. He always will.
FROM: GWEN
TO: LANCE
What do we have?
FROM: LANCE
TO: GWEN
Our own screwed-up little kingdom with a broke-down palace where nothing can stop us from being together. And I will stay up here on this ledge, outside the window that you won’t open, while I text with one hand and hold on with the other until you get it through your thick skull. I love you, Gwen. Rich or poor; ugly or fair; young or old; inside and out.
I love you.
I love you.
I love you.
FROM: GWEN
TO: LANCE
Catch me if I fall
FROM: ART
TO: GWEN
They pushed me onstage.
I’m onstage, Gwen! In my crown!
FROM: GWEN
TO: ART
My beautiful Art
You’re right. I am Hades.
Kidnapping your Persephone.
But one day you’ll look back and see that only someone as pure as you could bring together two broken souls FROM: ART
TO: GWEN
What? Gwen, please
They’re announcing you
I need a queen!
FROM: GWEN
TO: ART
Long live Arthur
All Hail the King
FROM: ART
TO: GWEN
Gwen?
FROM: ART
TO: GWEN
Gwen!
SAMANTHA LANE’S VILLAIN CHALLENGE TO SOMAN CHAINANI:
A Modern-Day Mash-Up of the King Arthur Legend and Persephone-Hades Myth
THE BAD GIRL HALL OF FAME
BY SAMANTHA LANE
dreadpersephone
377 posts 100.8b followers 12 following
Persephone ? lover of pomegranates and winter
The choice was simple. I’d either be a maiden all my life, controlled by my overbearing mother, or I’d take an opportunity to escape to another world. Just didn’t expect to transform myself into a formidable queen, more feared than my husband! #sorrynotsorry
Comments
Samanthalane commented on your post: Coming-of-age tales and villain origins have a lot in common. Teens are fighting for their independence and against familial pressures. Villains are frequently fighting against societal and moral expectations in their origins. One of the reasons I love the Persephone myth is that she combines both. Though I do not view her as a villain, many do, as she is associated with death.
Villains’ backstories are all about opportunities and choices. Throughout, we are shown the various crossroads where they could have turned back and continued to live a life of good. We, the audience, are torn between wanting them to cross over to the dark side and hoping that maybe this time they won’t. Characters with agency are more complex, which is why I love them so much. Villains do horrible things, and we still root for them in spite of that. We are drawn to people who make mistakes, like us. Very few of us are stalwart and true 100 percent of the time. Villains represent what we cannot and will not do in real life.
As I see it, Persephone made a series of choices that led to her becoming one of the most feared goddesses in the pantheon, instead of continuing to live a simple life with her mother. In “Gwen and Art and Lance,” Gwen made the choice to be with someone who her high school society viewed as the wrong choice. Villainy is liberating.
bornwicked
788 posts 500k followers 3k following
The Wicked Witch of the West ? it’s not easy being green
Am I really so wicked? Or did the world paint me that way simply because I am different? And if I am wicked, was I born that way or made wicked by the world’s reaction to me?
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Samanthalane commented on your post: The other route for villains is the view that they are simply victims of circumstance—that they have been tricked into becoming villains, by fate or by those around them. This question has been explored by modern retellings time and time again. Are some people just destined to become villains, and they don’t have a choice in the matter at all? Historically, fairy tales and myths took this route, depicting people as either good or evil for no reason. But modern society has turned away from the view of passive characters and wants characters to be active participants in their destiny.
In “Gwen and Art and Lance,” Gwen takes an active role in what unfolds. She manipulates the situation around her to suit her needs and doesn’t apologize for it. She isn’t simply along for the ride, but is in charge of the entire operation.
killersingers
186 posts 300k followers 0 following
The Sirens ? follow me into the sea
ONCE HANDMAIDENS, WE HAVE BEEN REBORN. NOW WE SERENADE YOU, TEMPTING YOU TO JOIN US.