Kore / Persephone

The goddess of spring, daughter of Demeter and heiress to the Barley Mother fortune.

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• Adaptational Badass: While Olympus' Persephone had her moments, she was overall rather quick to cower and fawn when in a dangerous situation and would often hide behind someone else (usually a friendly male god and usually Hades) when she didn't want to deal with something. Rekindled's Persephone's reaction to finding herself in Hades' home is to deck him and then try to strangle him with her hair for seemingly kidnapping her. She is also far less likely to take crap from other people, even sneaking in a Stealth Insult at Minthe when the river nymph attempts to pick a fight with her.
• Adaptational Personality Change: While in Olympus Persephone was so naive and sheltered she bordered on being The Ingenue, Rekindled's Persephone is far more mature and savvy, having a skeeved out reaction after waking up in Hades' home. Additionally, unlike in Olympus, this Persephone also isn't quite as much of a doormat and much more of a Deadpan Snarker.
• Adaptational Relationship Overhaul:
  • Unlike in the original, Persephone and Apollo are dating and their relationship is mutual and consensual.
  • Her relationship with her mother Demeter is significantly less rocky, mostly thanks to Demeter losing much of her overprotectiveness.
• Age Lift: To lessen the original massive age gap between her and Hades, Persephone is aged up from 19 to 1900.
• Big Beautiful Woman: Downplayed. Persephone is designed to be visibly somewhat thicker here than she was in the original comic but is still treated as a major beauty.
• Boyish Short Hair: She prefers to keep her hair styled in a short pixie cut, befitting her more mature and somewhat tomboyish personality.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Its hinted several times that something bad happened in the Mortal Realm and that she was either partly or wholly responsible for it. Persephone often freaks out when thinking of the Mortal Realm, when Hades inquires about the notable gap in her resumee she insists on changing the topic and she ends up running into Tower 4 after she seemingly hears the voice of a nymph she recognizes.
• Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: The primary reason she moved to Olympus. Kore felt like her work in the Mortal Realm ultimately wasn't that significant or meaningful and resents that everyone sees her mainly as "the Barley Mother Girl" so she moved away from home and started university biochem classes in the hopes of finding something she could excel at.
• Embarrassing Nickname: "Barley Mother Girl". It reminds her of her rather laughable status as her mother's brand mascot.
• Forgotten First Meeting: She gets so black-out drunk at the Panathenea she forgets she introduced herself to Hades as 'Persephone' and gave him her shoes to hold, before stumbling into his car trying to retrieve them and passing out. When she wakes up in his mansion in the Underworld, Kore thinks Hades kidnapped her and attacks him.
• Good Is Not Soft: While usually a nice person, she won't take insults lying down and isn't afraid to fight back when she thinks she's being threatened or attacked, as Hades found out the hard way.
• Hopeless with Tech: Justified. Persephone has some growing pains when starting her internship at Underworld Corp, running into error after error — but this is due to Minthe deactivating her modules, which would've given her access to the software.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Being on the shorter side, she's tiny compared to the large Hades.
• I Have Many Names: Unlike in Olympus, she mainly goes by Kore here. Though while she's drunk, her darker personality introduces herself to Hades as "Persephone".
• Inconvenient Attraction: Persephone sees her attraction to Hades this way, repressing her feelings out of shame, since she's in a relationship with Apollo.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: "Persephone" means "Bringer of Death" and it's heavily implied Kore was given it as a direct result of whatever happened in the Mortal Realm that she was involved in.
• Prehensile Hair: Kore can move and grow her hair on command, which is first demonstrated by her using it to restrain and strangle Hades after mistakenly coming to the conclusion that he kidnapped her.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Whenever her darker side resurfaces, her sclera turn red.
• Repression Never Ends Well: When Persephone realizes she has a crush on Hades, she buries her feelings to stay loyal to Apollo. This is exemplified by Kore's dull, lifeless eyes when she heads home.
• Red Is Violent: When she delves into her darker side her sclera turn red and she becomes much more devious and confrontational.
• Reluctant Fanservice Girl: While getting ready for the party, Persephone complains that the dress Artemis gives her is skimpy enough to show her underwear. She only gives in when Artemis assures her that they won't be at the party for too long.
• Transflormation: Persephone's body bursts with flowers and leaves in response to strong emotions – in this case, realizing she has a crush on Hades.
• Trauma Button: Whenever she's reminded of the Mortal Realm, Kore starts to panic. When she sees a nymph at the Panethenea, she starts hyperventilating and flees outside.

The goddess of the hunt and the moon and twin sister of Apollo. She's Persephone's housemate on Olympus.

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• Action Girl: She's an ace sharp shooter and partakes in daily hunts in the Mortal Realm.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: While still strict and confrontational, she's far less controlling than her Olympus counterpart and comes across as more friendly as a result.
• Insistent Terminology:
  • She takes offense to Apollo referring to The Goddesses of Eternal Maidenhood as a "girls' club" and corrects him that they're a women's support organization.
  • Artemis only refers to Leto as her and Apollo's mother, whilst Apollo refers to her as their creator.
• Locked Out of the Loop: She had no idea Kore and Apollo were dating and she's not happy once she finally finds out.
• My Sister Is Off-Limits: Gender-inverted. Artemis is less than pleased when she finds out Kore's been dating her brother behind her back, but it's less to do with being overprotective of him and more to do with the fact that Artemis knows Apollo's love life is messy at best and doesn't want Kore to get her heart broken or worse.
• Sibling Rivalry: She and Apollo bicker and compete a lot, to the point that when they start up again at the Panathenea Kore just resigns herself to it and Hermes remarks that it's a new record.

The god of the sun, music and healing and twin brother of Artemis. Persephone's boyfriend.

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• Adaptational Heroism: The most drastic example out of the cast. In Olympus he was a complete and utter scumbag who raped Persephone on her second day in Olympus and only became worse from there. In Rekindled, while still not perfect, he's a decent guy and his relationship with Persephone is completely consensual.
• Adaptational Relationship Overhaul:
  • He's Kore's boyfriend here and the two of them knew each other long before Kore came to Olympus, having had a secret relationship behind Demeter's back.
  • Artemis' and his relationship is far more relaxed and not tainted by Apollo being a raging sexist, though they still butt heads a lot.
• Adaptational Sexuality: Inverted. In Olmypus Apollo's bisexuality was pretty much erased, since he was only shown to be interested in women and none of his mythological male partners were even mentioned. Rekindled reverses this by having Artemis mention Hyakinthos, arguably Apollo's most famous male lover, while also making him Kore's boyfriend, establishing that he's interested in both men and women.
• Promoted to Love Interest: He was an Abhorrent Admirer to Persephone in Olympus while here their relationship is both mutual and consensual.
• Sibling Rivalry: Artemis and he tend to argue whenever they're in the same room together and very often will result to bow-shooting competitions to determine who is better.

The god of wine and madness and an old friend of Kore's and Demeter's.

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• Adaptational Relationship Overhaul: As a result of his Age Lift, Dionysus' relationships with the main cast have changed significantly. Kore is no longer his adoptive mother, but more of a mixture of little sister and daughter figure. Hades and him have an extremely antagonistic relationship with Dionysus disapproving of Hades' interest in Kore and even attacking him at one point. Him and Zeus are also close enough that Dio calls him "pops", whereas in Olympus Zeus planned to drop Dionysus off in the Mortal Realm right after his birth and they didn't have much of a relationship aside from Zeus being his biological parent.
• Age Lift: Dionysus was a newborn baby in Olympus and a young adult by the end. In Rekindled he's a lot older than Kore.
• Beware the Silly Ones: He might seem like just a perpetually drunk party animal but he's also the god of madness, so riling him up is not a good idea. Hades finds this out the hard way when him provoking Dionysus ends with Dio giving him horrifying hallucinations.
• Big Fun: He's a tall burly god whose domains are parties and drinking, among else.
• Honorary Uncle: He's a good friend of Demeter and as a result of hanging out alot, Persephone sees Dio as a surrogate uncle.
• Papa Wolf: He's very protective of Kore and doesn't like that Hades has his eyes on her. He tells Hades multiple times to stay away from her and when he happens to hear Hades brag about Kore being on his payroll, Dionysus straight-up attacks him.

The king of the gods, god of the skies and Hades' younger brother.

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• Annoying Younger Sibling: Hades is frequently annoyed with his antics and bossiness, but Zeus always manages to drag him into stuff.
• Awful Wedded Life: Him and Hera do love each other but they make for an awful couple. Zeus, despite claiming to love Hera, can't keep it in his pants and sleeps around at every opportunity, which causes Hera to lash out at his affairs and do things she knows he wouldn't approve of, like using Ganymede to serve their guests. As a result their marriage consists of constant arguing and petty sniping.
• Mum Looks Like a Sister: Gender-inverted. Due to the gods not aging after reaching adulthood he doesn't look that much older than most of his children.
• Related in the Adaptation: Downplayed. He was unintentionally involved in Kore's creation when he struck a flower bed Demeter made to make some nymphs with his lightning, which resulted in their powers mixing and creating a new goddess instead. So in a way he is Kore's father, but they're not biologically related like a mortal parent and child would be.
• Shock and Awe: As the god of the skies, he has the ability to control and throw lightning.

Queen of the gods and goddess of marriage and women.

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• Awful Wedded Life: As in the myths, her marriage with Zeus is not a harmonious one, due to him constantly cheating on her and her lashing out in anger as a result. Ironic, since marriage is her domain.
• The Dreaded: Due to her extremely vengeful nature, both mortals and immortals are terrified of her and avoid setting her off at all costs. Artemis all but flees the TGOEM building when Hera enters since she knows, as a bastard child of Zeus, Hera would not be happy to see her and Kore is walking on eggshells the entire time she spends at the royal palace.

A satyr attending the same university as Persephone.

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• Adaptational Sympathy: The photographer in Olympus was mainly portrayed as a sleazy jerk who didn't care that the picture he took would ruin Persephone's reputation and somewhat had his brutal torture at the hands of Hades coming. While it's acknowledged in-universe that Hades went too far, the satyr is frequently made unsympathetic so Hades doesn't come across as too hate-able. In Rekindled, it's made clear that Alex had no idea his picture would be used to slander someone to this degree and that he only even took it because he needed the money. He's also much more fleshed out through his friendship with Persephone, which makes Hades having him kidnapped and torturing him hit much harder.
• Tabloid Melodrama: He was the one who took the photo of Persephone in Hades' car, stirring the rumor of Persephone being Hades' "dark concubine."
• Composite Character: He takes on both the role of Tori, Persephone's classmate who ends up befriending her, and Alex, the photgrapher who snaps a picture of Hades and Persephone together that ends up in a tabloid. Sadly, he also shares Alex's fate of being kidnapped and tortured by Hades, which ends in him hospitalized.
• Eye Scream: Hades rips out his eye to punish him for taking a picture of Persephone.
• Secretly Selfish: While Alex does genuinely come to like Kore, his initial reasons for befriending her and helping her ward off their nosy classmates is guilt over making her situation worse. Hades even calls him out on it, pointing out that for all that he claims to be her friend, Alex neglected to tell Kore that he was the one who took the tabloid picture of her and Hades.

Zeus' personal cupbearer, a mortal boy who was brought to Olympus due to Zeus becoming enamored with him.

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• Nervous Wreck: Thanks to his situation, he's always fidgeting and watching his back.
• So Beautiful, It's a Curse: He was plucked from his old life in the Mortal Realm because Zeus took note of his beauty and is now forced to serve his kidnapper and (at times) his extremely volatile wife.

The god of the dead and king of the Underworld.

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• Blue Is Calm: Subverted. Hades might seem more down to earth than his brothers on the surface as his blue coloration suggests, but he's really quick to fly off the handle when his buttons are pushed.
• Everybody Hates Hades: He's widely feared and avoided, largely due to ruling over the Underworld but also because he's just not really a pleasant person.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Deconstructed. Hades thinks he is the responsible sibling to his more immature brother Zeus, often openly judging him for his numerous affairs and general lack of responsibility. But it's made pretty clear that, between his tendency to be rather flighty in relationships, his Control Freak nature and his superiority complex, Hades isn't half as much of a functioning adult as he'd like to believe and is really Only Sane by Comparison.
• I Have Many Names: The business cards he hands Kore has several aliases listed, including Pluto, Aidoneus and Dark Zeus.
• Judge, Jury, and Executioner: As the King of the Underworld, Hades not only has the authority to sentence deceased mortals, he can also autocratically punish anyone who transgresses the laws while in his realm. Case in point, Alex.
• Like Father, Like Son: Played for drama. When Hades sets about punishing Alex for snapping a picture of Persephone and selling it to a tabloid, the terrified satyr briefly hallucinates the king of the Underworld as his tyrant creator Kronos.
  • Similarly, he assumes this wrathful state to silence Minthe when she accuses him of killing Leuce.
• Smells of Death: Inverted. No matter his cologne, health or hygeine, Hades always smells of death.
• The Lost Lenore: It's heavily implied that he had a relationship with Leuce, an oceanid, and that it ended with her untimely death. Hades is still hung up on her, getting angry or melancholic whenever he's reminded about her passing. Intentionally or otherwise.
• Tragic Keepsake: When Leuce died of mysterious circumstances, she left behind small pieces of coral for him to remember her by. Hades keeps these in his work drawer.
• Mean Boss: Hades doesn't really seem to care about his employees' well-being unless it somehow affects their productivity. And even then, the most he'll do is chew them out for falling behind schedule. His first interaction with Thanatos has Hades reprimand the Psychopomp for seemingly slacking off and not racking up the same numbers as Hermes. Even though, as Thanatos points out immediately, Hermes has Super-Speed, so him managing to escort more souls than Thanatos makes sense and isn't necessarily a sign of Thanatos not doing his job.
• Pet the Dog: When he discovers a drunk Kore in his car he lets her stay in his guest room, tries to comfort her over being drunk and promises not to tell her mother about the incident when Kore begs him not to.

The goddess of witchcraft and an old friend of Hades'.

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• Adaptational Heroism: Unlike in Olympus, she isn't an accomplice to Hades' brutal punishment of Alex, with her role as a gleeful spectator being taken by the Furies instead.
• Glove Slap: Hecate whacks Hades with her left glove over his public breakup with M Inthe.
• Hiding Behind Your Bangs: Her eye with the black sclera is hidden by her bangs most of the time, emphasizing her mysterious nature.
• Mad Eye: Her right eye has a black sclera, while her left eye has a regular white one.
• Multiple Head Case: In her true form, she has three faces who all speak in their own voice. When they pop up while she's chewing Hades out over the tabloid article about Persephone and him, he has to remind her to have the voices talk separately.
• Only Sane Man: Hecate has no interest in gossip or social climbing, keeps her private stuff private and has no personal baggage, in contrast to most everyone else. Which often makes her the only one keeping everything together and everyone from killing each other.
• The Weird Sisters: She has three faces in her true form, all of which are her and speak what she is thinking.
• What, Exactly, Is His Job?: No one in Underworld Corp, Hades included, knows what exactly Hecate's function in the company is. When Persephone asks her directly, Hecate just dodges the question. But whatever she's doing, she's apparently so good at it no one's willing to further press the topic.

The god of death, responsible for escorting the spirits of the deceased to the Underworld.

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• Adaptational Nice Guy: As a result of losing his "Well Done, Son" Guy characterization, Thanatos isn't immediately overcome with jealousy upon seeing Kore get preferential treatment. He's far less antagonistic in general and more apathetic to the drama going on around him instead of craving it.
• Adaptational Personality Change: He's a lot more willing to stand up for himself than his Olympus counterpart and isn't easily strung along by Minthe, though he still tries to help her out occasionally.
• Deadpan Snarker: He doesn't hold back with the snippy remarks
• Jerkass Has a Point: While Thanatos is a bit of a douchebag, he's correct in pointing out that Hermes' financial situation came about largely due to Hades investing in things like drone delivery services that made the herald of the gods superfluous and that Hades only gave him a job because he felt guilty.
• Psychopomp: Thanatos's job is to bring the souls of the dead down to the Underworld.
• Ultimate Job Security: As Thanatos points out to Hades during his performance review, as the god of death Hades literally can't fire or replace him, no matter how lacking he finds his work ethic.
• Winged Humanoid: Can manifest a pair of white wings and fly around with them.

The three sisters in charge of spinning, measuring, and cutting the fabric of fate.

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• Adaptational Costume Change: All three fates have been redesigned for Rekindled.
• Cassette Futurism: Just like in Olympus, the Fates' record the past, present and future in the form of VHS that individuals can check out as rentals, if need be.
• Cool Shades: All three fates wear fancy, retrofuturistic eyewear.
• Cryptic Conversation: Atropos will frequently give out vague, unprompted and ominous premonitions, seemingly out of entertainment.
• Cyberpunk for Flavor: In a setting like the Underworld, which revolves around modern fashion and aesthetics, the Fates look like they jumped straight out of Edgerunners with their explicit homage to futuristic punk.
• Practically Different Generations: Inverted. Despite the Fates appearing to be in different age brackets, Lachesis claims they're all the same age.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Clotho argues the tapes are hers, and since Atropos gave her the go ahead, she claims can do whatever she wants with them.With this authority, she offers to watch Kore's tape for Thanatos since it can't be lent to him, breaking the "no meddling" rule.
• Sibling Rivalry: Despite their solemn work as the keepers of destiny, the Fates – or at least, Clotho and Lachesis – can't help but bicker on who their tapes actually belong to. 
• The Hecate Sisters: The Fates are triplets who work together to sew the destinies of mortals and gods alike, and they each appear to be in different age brackets.

The ferryman of the Underworld and Hades' personal chauffeur.

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• Adaptational Dye-Job: Charon in Olympus was orange-colored and seemed to be bald. In Rekindled he's light purple instead and has white hair.
• The Driver: In addition to his main job as The Ferryman, Charon also acts as Hades' driver, picking up his cars when the king of the Underworld himself is too busy or just not in the mood to do it himself.
• The Ferryman: He's the Trope Codifier. Charon ferries the spirits of the dead across the river Styx for a small fee, so they can receive judgement by Hades.
• Headphones Equal Isolation: Played for Laughs. The souls he ferries think of him as cold and mysterious since he has never spoken to any of them. Turns out that's because he has earbuds in all the time and simply couldn't hear them. Hades has to remind him to take them out.
• Mystical White Hair: His hair is colorless and he's known as the mysterious boatsman of the Underworld. Though some of the mystery is lost when you realize he isn't being ominously silent on purpose. He just can't hear anyone.

A river nymph who works as Hades' personal assistant. The two of them have an on-again-off-again relationship.

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• A-Cup Angst: While wondering why Hades likes hanging around Persephone so much, she briefly puts her hands on her chest with a dejected look on her face.
• Adaptational Upbringing Change: In Olympus, Minthe had a neglectful single mother. Minthe in Rekindled washed up on the shore several hundred years prior, spat out by the great river Kokytos.
• Adaptational Villainy: While she wasn't the nicest in Olympus either, in the original comic Minthe was at least willing to leave Kore alone after the Tower 4 snipe hunt, if only so the goddess wouldn't rat her out to Hades. In Rekindled, Kore's attempt of forcing a truce via Blackmail actually fails, due to Minthe's paranoia making her unwilling to believe Kore will actually let bygones be bygones. Instead she intentionally sabotages Kore's intern training so she'd never get the hang of the shade coordinating programs and get fired for incompetence.
• Blood Bath: Downplayed. When Thanatos sees her bathing, the water is stained red — but it's not actual blood, just her hair and skin partially melting.
• Expressive Hair: When Minthe is upset, her hair drips and melts.
• Gold Digger: Deconstructed. Minthe isn't ashamed of taking advantage of Hades' wealth, but it's also made her financially dependent on him. If it weren't for Hades, she couldn't even pay the rent for her apartment. It's yet another factor that makes their relationship unbalanced and toxic.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Minthe immediately clocks that there's something between Hades and Kore and is incensed at the thought that Hades could leave her for the latter.
• Insecure Love Interest: To Hades. Minthe is very aware of the difference in class and social status between them, not helped by the other Olympians making it no secret that they think Hades could do much better than her. This is one of the main reasons why she becomes so paranoid that Hades will leave her for Persephone: the latter is a goddess and therefor seemingly a far more suitable match.

• Tempting Fate: Minthe pulls this a few times throughout the story.
  • The first is when she asks Persephone's alter-ego if she'll be turned into a pig over the Tower 4 incident.
  • The second is during her breakup with Hades, when she's about to accuse him of killing Leuce. Hades then assumes his wrathful state and dares Minthe to say Leuce's name, asking if she's willing to "test the resolve of a King who has nothing to lose."

The Goddess of Fertility and Harvest and Persephone's mother. She is the current head of Barley Mother cereals.

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• Adaptational Heroism: In the original comic, she was an overprotective mother who sheltered her own daughter from the rest of the world and is very antagonistic to Persephone. In Rekindled, she is much more heroic as while she is still protective, she is much more reasonable and her relationship with Persephone is much more stable.
• Adaptational Relationship Overhaul: As a result of losing much of her overprotectiveness, her relationship with Persephone is much less strained.
• Mama Bear: Demeter is protective of Persephone, but it's very downplayed compared to how bad it was in Olympus. While still very distrustful of Olympians and reluctant to let Persephone go study abroad on her own, Demeter agreed to let her daughter make her own choices in the end and didn't shelter her to the point she was completely ignorant of stuff like sex until early adulthood. Notably, the nightmare Persephone had in Olympus about Demeter locking her up forever in a greenhouse with no exit is changed to Dream Demeter asking Persephone to stay inside for only a little bit longer in Rekindled, showing her as still a tad overprotective but far more reasonable than her Olympus counterpart.
• Properly Paranoid: She is rather skeeved that Persephone has a job in the underworld but Persephone assures her that there's nothing wrong. Considering that Hades literally ripped Alex's eye off for taking the tabloid photo, she has every right to be suspicious about what's going with Hades.