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Perserphone
Health
Damage	3.50 (×0.20)
Tears	×1.4
Shot Speed	1.00
Range	6.50
Speed	1.00
Luck	0
Starting Items	Bag of Seeds (×2, Innate)

Persephone is a character added in V3.2.

Traits

Starting Items

• Persephone does not have any starting items, but does have the innate item effects of 2 copies of Bag of Seeds. These item effects can not be removed.
  • Bag of Seeds causes Pullroot Saplings to appear randomly around the room.
  • Having multiple copies of Bag of Seeds increases the rate at which Pullroot Saplings are generated, and increases the minimum amount of Pullroots and Saplings that Persephone should have access to at any given moment.

Curse of the Seed

Persephone has a permanent status known as the Curse of the Seed, which has 2 effects:

• Persephone's damage stat is significantly lower than other characters, and grows more slowly with items.
• Persephone deals more damage with Pullroots (×10 damage instead of ×2.5 damage)

Birthright

"Ricoroots"

• Pullroots can now ricochet between enemies, and will always ricochet at least one.
• Pullroots are thrown with more speed.
• When rebounding off of enemies or walls, pullroots bounce back further towards Persephone, meaning they can be thrown again sooner.

Trivia

• In Greek mythology, Persephone is the goddess of nature and fertility.
  • Persephone is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter, and was abducted by Hades to be his wife as the goddess of the underworld.
• Persephone's mechanics in Retribution are inspired by the game series Pikmin.
• Persephone was originally planned to be a full character, and was developed as a part of The Gacha Update.
  • Persephone originally would have had a collection of items unique to her that would increase the rate at which she found Pullroots, and modified what types of Pullroots appeared.
    • Many of these items were reworked and introduced alongside Persephone as real items in V3.2:
      • Seed Sack.
      • Bag of Seeds.
      • Seed Packet.
      • Baby's Breath.
      • Bleeding Heart.
      • Puffstool.
      • Gloriosa.
      • Corpse Flower.

Gallery

• MenuPortrait Persephone.png

  Persephone's menu portrait.

• MenuPortrait PersephoneBaby.png

  A miniature menu portrait of Persephone, this would have been used for Afterbirth+ True Co-op mod support.

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  Persephone's icon in the co-op selection menu.

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  A Tainted Persephone co-op icon found in the files, it is unlikely this will ever appear as a real character.