Surrender the Victim
It is said in mythology that once, long ago, there existed an innocent maiden so beautiful that even the lord of the underworld wished to have her. When one is the dark lord Hades, however, a wish is nothing; he reached out and TOOK her. She was dragged down with him to his realm, and she cried out for her mother's aid.
Her mother heard her cries too late, and she struck the Earth with a terrible fury born of grief. From it grew nothing, for if Demeter was to be deprived of her daughter, then the world would be deprived of her bounty in turn. Humanity starved, and Zeus heard the wails of the dying.
He sent a message to Demeter. "Why do you withhold fertility from the world?" the message asked.
"My daughter is gone," she replied. "Bring me back my daughter, or leave me be!"
Zeus tried to change her mind, but in the end she left to wander the world on her own. He was left to listen to the starving world, and he felt pity. He sent a message to his brother Hades, asking him to give Persephone back.
Hades did, of course, because even dark lords do not defy the will of the king of the heavens. But before she went, he persuaded Persephone to eat three seeds of the pomegranate, thus condemning her to spend half of her life with him as his wife.
One wonders, what Persephone felt, being brought from the light down into the dark. Was she afraid of it? Did she feel some sort of connection to it? There is little ever said about the victim herself, despite how she was traded back and forth between the world and underworld without consideration of how she felt about it. She held out so long without tasting the food of the dark realm, only to be ripped away from the loving arms of her mother once more by a mere morsel.
He had to think, though, that she must have been tempted beyond endurance by those three sweet red seeds. How they must have burst on her tongue, quenching her thirst with their tart juice, but ultimately being too small to stop her hunger. They must have set off such a craving in her, to taste what she could never have. Forbidden fruit for a child of the day, belonging to the light but secretly coveting the night. That agonized decision to stay as what she was, but that horrid craving of what she couldn't have was a familiar one to him.
Perhaps, like him , Persephone felt relief because she could keep her grace as Demeter's daughter, yet be wed to Hades. Remaining innocent because the choice was taken from her...but she could at last have her fill of the pomegranate.
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Believe it or not, that would be TM2 Dinobot's take on the Persephone story. Dinobot always wanted to be a Predacon after becoming a Maximal, but he didn't quite dare take that last step into the underworld. When the choice was taken from him under Megatron's cloning of his form, he was able to keep the heroic image of his former self and live as a Predacon as well. I simply gave the myth his perspective.