𝓟𝓼𝔂𝓬𝓱𝓮

Psyche was a princess considered to be the personification of the soul, with beauty that was believed to be comparible to Aphrodite herself. The people began to worship Psyche rather than the goddess of love. The goddess herself did not react well upon learning this and sent her son Eros, the god of intense love desire, to make Psyche fall in love with the most hideous monster he could find.
However, upon seeing her for himself Eros became enamoured by her beauty, and ends up pierced by one of his own arrows. He decided then that he could not bear to give her to a monster, but he also couldn't let his mother find out.
Despite her many admirers, Psyche fell into despair. She could not fall in love with someone, and no one wanted to fall for her. She was a being to be admired from afar, afterall, not to be cherished up close. Her father, determined to find her a husband, visited the Oracle of Delphi, who ordained that she be dressed in black and brought to the summit of a mountain. There she would be taken as a wife by a winged serpent more terrible and powerful than the gods themselves.
Left there to wheep, she was eventually swept up by the mild winds of Zephyr and brought to a marvelous castle. She spent many days in that castle, accompanied by hovering voices during the day and a husband she wasn't able to see at night, but that didn't diminsh her love even slightly.
One day her husband allowed for her sisters to visit, however with them came words that swayed her mind. By the time they left she was convinced her husband must be some hideous beast. Driven by curiosity, that night she lit a candle to gaze upon her husband's true face. She felt immense relief to find her husband was not a beast, but the most beautiful of men. However her distrust wrought betrayal. Woken by a single drop of candle wax, Eros rose, leaving their bedroom without a word.
Determined to earn back her husband's love, Psyche swore to three challenges to prove herself worthy of him. Through great turmoil she passed each, earning mercy from the gods. In the end she won back her husband, and along with him she was blessed with Immortality, to live in his arms for eternity.