Persephone Simmons
| Persephone Renee Simmons |
|---|
 A lot of people think I'm just a stuck-up rich bitch, and they're not too far from the truth |
| Age: 19 |
| Race: Half-Saiyan |
| Status: Alive |
| Affiliation: None |
Origin
Born to a saiyan mother and a human father, Persephone is a halfblood that spent the first half of her childhood with the social stigma that came with a very unique genetic defect: rather than brown or black, her tail was a brilliant white, a trait that is said to bring severe misfortune upon her and anyone else that dares to get too close. Having to deal with the backlash that this bore for her, Persephone toughened up and lashed out in return, earning a reputation as a bully and a delinquent during much of her school tenure. As her mentor, trainer and overall best friend, Persephone's mother tried to get her to be more open-minded about her unique 'gift,' but the way she was treated by everyone else around her gave no rise or momentum to these attempts. Persephone trained diligently under her mother's guidance not for discipline, but for self-defense, believing that her lot in life would ever be one that required her fists to do the talking. Her father is a prominent business figure in Shrike and did not play a prominent part in Persephone's early life outside of a generic father figurehead and breadwinner. Somewhere between the age of seven and eight, Persephone and her mother were training in the Phendrana Drifts when her mother was beset by two assailants near an abandoned laboratory. Persephone was unable to assist her mother before the latter was brutally killed, and forced to flee to avoid suffering the same fate. Left without the only keystone that kept her head up, Persephone began a new life with only her stand-offish father for support, sinking into a pit of bitter self-loathing (most prominently aimed at her tail) and general revulsion toward the world at large.
History
Despite her mother's passing, Persephone continued to train herself so that she would never find herself at anyone else's mercy, doubling down on her disposition for being the one who would start and end fights with neither aid nor remorse.