Macaria

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CONTENT WARNINGS: MENTIONS OF PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL & SEXUAL ABUSE

Macaria, mostly referred to by her nickname Maci (pronounced MACK-ee), is the main character of the Elysium'verse... according to her. The daughter of King Hades and Queen Persephone, she is the Crown Princess of the Underworld, and the Goddess of the Elysian Fields. Maci is a short-tempered nymphomaniac brat, admittedly with several tragic backstories, sloooowly but surely becoming a better person over time… millennia… eventually.

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=Appearance= Maci’s physical appearance is that of a young woman in her early twenties despite being over 2,000 years old. She has light pink skin, violet eyes, and very long neon yellow-blonde wavy hair, which reaches down to her ankles when it’s not in her signature ponytail. She has fangs and pointed ears: two traits passed down from her father, while the rest of Maci’s color scheme matches her mother’s look. She is 6’0” tall.

Maci’s typical hairstyle features two face-framing pieces of hair, with the rest pulled back and up. True to the standard of the Underworld, Maci wears goth makeup, e.g. heavy black eyeshadow, exaggerated winged eyeliner, and black lipstick, and she is always dressed in black chitons, which are usually arranged to be extremely low-cut and formfitting. An important part of Maci’s everyday outfit is her wide black choker necklace, sometimes stylized as a tied black scarf/fabric material. This choker disguises the faded remnants of a scar across her throat from centuries ago and she is rarely seen publicly without it.

Her signature chiton pin is a skull.

Powers & abilities
As a goddess, Maci shares the basic abilities most deities possess, such as full immortality, teleportation, and the ability to summon objects at will.

Maci is pyrokinetic and has the ability to create and manipulate fire, as well as (to a lesser degree) smoke. She is fully flame-proof and heat-proof and is able to completely burst into flame on command, or uncontrollably when emotionally triggered by strong emotion such as anger or fear. When “flaring up,” Maci’s eyes turn fully yellow, her skintone changes to orange, and her hair is overtaken by orange flame.

=Personality= ...Maci is more often than not the absolute worst.

On a surface level, Maci is loud, brash, and aggressively outgoing. She is self-absorbed, always flirtatious, very promiscuous, and has no filter; she will often share her opinions and thoughts regardless of how egregious or offensive they may be. Unfortunately immature, Maci will throw a fit when things don’t go her way, or if she doesn’t get what she wants, as her upbringing involved very little of the word “no.” She has a short fuse and can blow up (literally) from 0 to 100 in anger on a hairline trigger.

Much of Maci’s aggressively boisterous demeanor has been carefully constructed as a shell after a childhood and past history of neglect and abuse, and beneath that air of stuck-up confidence is a goddess who is insecure and desperate to be loved. She will do literally anything, absolutely anything, to win the fleeting attention of anyone, a ripple effect from being ignored and put down during her formative years.

Maci’s best and redeeming personality trait is her overwhelming love and loyalty to her family and friends (who are more like her family). She is intensely, fiercely protective of the people within her bubble, and will do anything to keep them safe and at her side – and will raise hell on behalf of anyone who’s been hurt. To be loved by Maci is to be adoringly suffocated.

=Pre-canon events & backstories= This section contains information about Maci from before the canon Elysium’verse began - events that have taken place essentially “offscreen,” but are still canonical to Maci’s history.

Early life & childhood, ages 0 to 10
Macaria is the only child of Hades and Persephone (“Seph”), King and Queen of the Underworld. Though initially opposed to the idea of having a child, Hades conceded at Seph’s insistence, and Maci was born in the fall, several decades after they had first been married. Arrangements were made with Demeter to allow a temporary exception to the Pomegranate Agreement that dictated Seph’s seasonal location, permitting her to remain fulltime with baby Maci and Hades in the Underworld until Maci’s 5th birthday. For 5 years, the three of them were a close-knit family, and the little Princess, first of her title in the kingdom's history, was showered with unbridled love and attention from her parents and their subjects.

When Maci was 5 and this arrangement ended, she began to travel with her mother each spring/summer season to stay with her and Demeter during the traditional six-month span. Persephone and Demeter’s springtime cottage was a very different setting than the gothic kingdom that baby Maci called home – for one thing, each of the nymphs, led by the obnoxious crusade of Demeter herself, tried their hardest to convert Maci into the Olympian light. Already upset at having to leave her regular life and her father behind for no reason, Maci did not take kindly to this. The attempts to turn her against her dad and her home combined with Maci's misery at being uprooted turned the first year of her spring presence into a six-month battle between a loud and moody 5-year-old Underworld Princess and her intensely condescending and toxic Olympian-bred grandmother.



For the next five years, Maci continued to travel with her mother seasonally. Her spring-summer sessions were spent in increasing hostility, a combination of Demeter’s typical nonsense coming up against Maci’s short-tempered predisposition. Armed with the rage of a spoiled princess and actual literal pyrokinetic superpowers, Maci reacted to her grandmother’s mistreatment and the general judgment of the Olympians around her by acting out a reign of terror: picking fights, fighting back, and setting things on fire. Meanwhile, autumn-winter time back home was enjoyed as a life of luxury, doted upon by her reunited parents, and spending time with her closest and only friends, twins Hypnos and Thanatos. When Maci was 10 years old, Seph petitioned Demeter to allow Maci to make an active decision on whether she would prefer to continue travelling seasonally or stay fulltime in the Underworld. Maci chose to remain in the Underworld, where her perfect Princess life and friends were.

Adolescence, ages 10 to 17
By the age of 10, Maci had never known her father without her mother at his side. The version of Hades who existed when Seph was home in the fall was Maci’s hero; though always stiff in nature, and usually slightly bowled over by Maci’s overwhelming energy, he held a soft spot for his little daughter next to the spot reserved for his wife. Hades had also, of course, never been responsible for taking care of Maci without Seph there with him. It was easy to bounce Maci’s high-maintenance hyperactivity against Persephone, who was mellow and cool, and usually unshakeable. The disposition of Hades - easily irritable and short-tempered himself - was less equipped to handle Maci’s whims and moods without her there, and in the immediate aftermath of Seph’s first absence from them both, he did not have any interest in learning how.

And so, during the first spring that she spent home, Maci was instead confused and dismayed to suddenly discover that the springtime version of her father was shut down completely, and he had not chosen to invite her in. Rather than bonding to cope with the absence of Persephone from the Underworld together, Hades instead chose to ice Maci out completely, and retracted himself from her both physically and emotionally. Reeling from this abandonment, Maci first found comfort in the arms of Hypnos and Thanatos, who by this point had been her best friends for the past four years of her life...

✧*̥˚ A brief interlude: Maci & the twins *̥˚✧

Hypnos and Thanatos, inseparable twin sons of Nyx and Erebus, had met Maci when she, age 6, had found them, age 10, bickering in the Fields of Asphodel. Immediately fascinated by both (and enamored with Thanatos especially), Maci had clung to them, and they had remained friends ever since. Except...

Maci knew them the way everyone did: Hypnos, God of Sleep, a gentle and sweet kid prone to bouts of narcolepsy; and Thanatos, God of Gentle Death, very cool, suave, and charming even with a teenage sneer. But Maci, just like everyone, was oblivious to the truth of the twins’ dynamic: that beneath his carefully charming smile, Thanatos lacked empathy. His only goals were violence and power, and his darkest secrets were stained with blood and ichor even by this young age. Armed with a scythe and relentless cruelty since early in their childhood, Thanatos had already tamed Hypnos to cow behind him in fear, and for these past years while Maci fawned in what she thought was mutual friendship, he envisioned a future in which he could use and abuse her as well. Thanatos had quickly learned how to blend in and act perfectly normal, even likeable, and Maci had no way of knowing who her best friend and childhood crush really was on the inside. And so...

✧*̥˚ Anyway *̥˚✧

With Hades pulling away during this first year, Maci pushed closer to Thanatos and Hypnos, spending even more time than usual with them at the House of Nyx. Hades didn’t seem to care about her absence in any significant way, save for some grumbling of disapprovals that Maci would interact even tangentially with Nyx’s ridiculous tangle of offspring – but he allowed her to do as she wished without any real interference, perhaps grateful to have her out of the way. His aloofness frustrated Maci to no end, and even more so when Seph returned that autumn like nothing was wrong. Unwilling to “ruin” the normalcy that had finally come back with her parents reunited, Maci didn’t mention how she had felt. When her mother left again the next year and Hades withdrew once more, Maci’s frustrations skyrocketed within the first few weeks of spring and turned to rage. She quickly realized that Hades noticed her again only when she was acting out, and Thanatos, who had been observing the fracture forming since last spring and sensed an opportunity presenting itself, enthusiastically encouraged Maci to continue picking fights with her father instead of approaching him to talk. Hades was temperamental to begin with, and was growing more irritated with Maci's behavior... personality, and presence, day by day. He fell for the bait she laid each time as she instigated arguments, and by the age of 11, Maci had decided to believe that the best and only way to interact with her father was by provoking him into a screaming match. Once again, Persephone returned in the fall, and the toxic environment Hades and Maci were constructing together snapped back to peace. Hades did not wish to upset his wife - Maci did not wish to upset her mother - a mutually agreed upon silent decision was made to play nicely together in her presence. Maci made it a point to be a little louder, a little cockier, a little meaner, knowing that Hades would never engage while Seph was home. By the time Seph left again and Maci was 12, the situation worsened.

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=Beginning of canon events=

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Relationship with Chal
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