Macaria

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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.

Macaria
Portrayed by	April
Species	Goddess
Realm	The Elysian Fields
Titles	Princess of the Underworld
Nicknames	Maci
Born	Unknown (October 7)
Parents	Hades (father) Persephone (mother)
Spouse	Alastor
Children	Neona Rasmus Chalasmos (adopted) Celos Pyralis Eisa (stepdaughter) Einmyria (stepdaughter) Skiophoros (stepdaughter) Korakinos (stepdaughter)
Other relatives	Demeter (maternal grandmother) Melinoe (half-sister)

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 released from 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

Make no mistake, 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 longstanding 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 eternal 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 topside during the traditional six-month span. Persephone and Demeter’s springtime cottage was a very different setting than the gothic kingdom palace that baby Maci called home – for one thing, each of the nymphs, led by the constant obnoxious crusade of Demeter herself, lived an aggressively anti-Chthonic lifestyle and tried their hardest to convert Maci into the Olympian light. Already upset at having to leave both her regular life and her father behind for seemingly no reason, Maci did not take kindly to this attitude. The attempts to turn her against her dad and her home combined with Maci's stewing 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 amongst increasing hostility, a combination of Demeter’s typical obnoxious nonsense coming up against Maci’s short-tempered predisposition. Armed with the rage of a slightly 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 as Seph was obligated to 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

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 had set aside a designated soft spot for his little daughter next to the spot reserved for his wife, and Maci cherished every second she could spend with her father. Hades had also, of course, never been responsible for taking care of Maci without Seph there with him.