Electric Idol

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of sexual content, emotional abuse, death, and cursing.

Psyche is one of the daughters of Demeter. She is also Persephone Dimitriou’s younger sister. A fashion and lifestyle influencer, Psyche dislikes the power structure and elitism in Olympian society and uses her platform to counter its anti-fat bias and the exclusion that she experiences because of her body shape. She advances this cause by working with designers and promoting their inclusive sizing.

Psyche is a keen observer of human nature; at the beginning of the novel, for example, she senses that her mother is trying to promote a marriage between her and Zeus. At the same party, she realizes that Eris Kasios has intentionally distracted her mother so that Psyche herself can escape a matchmaking session. She soon turns these observational skills to Eros when she finds him injured on his way to the same party, and she also realizes that she is attracted to him despite his fearsome and well-earned reputation as a killer and manipulator. Throughout the novel, Psyche uses her acute analytical mind to evaluate the challenges of her marriage of convenience, concerned that acceding to sexual intimacy will give Eros power over her.