✧˚˖୨ PERSEPHONE SALIS ୧⋆。🩰✧
“OOH, SEE THAT GIRL, WATCH THAT SCENE…”
“…DIGGING THE DANCING QUEEN.”
FULL NAME: PERSEPHONE AMELIA SALIS
NATIONALITY: Greek / British
FAMILY: Persephone was born to her single parent Greek mother Demeter Salis, their side of the family had a tradition of Greek mythology. She didn’t know very much of her British dad Jeff Richards, other than that he was a multi millionaire who didn’t want to be associated with Demeter, and that he lived in the U.K.
LIFE: Persephone was born in Athens, grew up poor for the first 6 years of her life. Her mother Demeter worked 3 jobs to get by, their family had a history of being poor. She was never distressed, she lived happily as an only child with her dearest mother - there wasn’t a moment in her childhood where she was sad. She didn’t know her father, he provided minimal income to her mother to take care of her. A stingy rich.
The first time she ever met her father was when he came to discuss the monetary arrangements with her mother age 6. He wasn’t there for her, hardly spared a glance for her at first - she was practicing ballet in the living room for an upcoming recital, the Greek music echoing throughout the house. Perhaps that was the pivotal moment that Jeff realised that his daughter could make him money.
Not a day later, her mother passed away in a ‘car accident’. They say that her brakes stopped working, but no police report would change little Persephone’s mind that her father had done something to her.
Her father claimed full custody and she was flown to London within a day, shaking, terrified. Mourning. She was thrown into the Royal Ballet School in London, trained over the span of age 6 to age 16. She hardly knew her father she lived with, he hardly acknowledged her unless it was at formal events or if she’d made him some sort of money or fame.
She felt more like a chess piece than a daughter. She went en pointe 4 years earlier that normal, at just 8 years old.
Age 15 she met her father’s new wife, Rachel, a blonde woman who was only 8 years older than her. His friends would call it incredible, she would call it disgusting. She was quickly pleased to get to know Rachel and learn that she was only in it to eventually strip her father of his riches, and they bonded almost like a mother and daughter.
She excelled in ballet, becoming the youngest Prima Ballerina of her time aged 16 after her graduation. Her solo debut came around, something meant to make her father a whole lot of money, yet at the night after her debut, he passed away from a heart attack.
All of those funds went straight back to Seph, and her and Rachel split the funds equally and sold the house, despite her father not even having the audacity to leave Seph in his will - he’d tried to leave it all to Rachel. She gave all the businesses to Rachel, wanting no ties with her father, and the pair moved to NYC, living together until Seph turned eighteen.
She managed to hold a permanent spot in the American Ballet Theatre, and performs solo and groups shows very often at the Lincoln Center or at the Metropolitan Opera House. She lives in a brownstone in New York with her 2 cats, and occasionally teaches Ballet programs in her rare free time.