Athena

Athena is the Olympian goddess of wisdom and war and the adored patroness of the city of Athens, in the country formerly called Olympus. She was the daughter of Zeus and Hera and the younger sister of Ares. Being the favourite child of Zeus, she had great power. And because of that, her and her brother had a really big sibling rivalry.

## Biography

### Personality

Unlike her older brother, Athena is good-natured, calm, elegant and preserved. Athena knows how to handle things with grace and maturity, just like how her parents taught her to. Her parents seem to favor her over Ares, and it is one of the reasons why both siblings have opposite personalities.

### Appeareance

Athena is 6 foot 3 inches tall, which makes the fact that she is 2 inches taller than her older brother. She has long purple hair, and she tends to wear a long, flowy white gown to represent grace. The flow of the gown usually goes well with her movements, and sometimes she wears it during battle.

During the war between herself and Poseidon throughout the fall of Olympus, she wears a new suit with a gold armor, and a white, gold and a dark magenta color scheme. The suit is an interchangeable dress that has a skirt that can be turned into a cape.

## Story

### Background

Athena was the daughter of Zeus and Hera, and the younger sister of Ares, the God of War. She has another older brother, Hephahestus, and two half brothers, Hermes and Apollo. Zeus favors her over the rest of his other children, resulting in a sibling rivalry between the two. When she was younger, she was trained in several forms of combat and Olympian weapons, just like his brother Ares. But only difference is, she tends to have her own style where Ares cares more about the killing and the aggresion.

Athena also grew up doing activities such as gymnastics and dancing, taught by Hera herself. And Zeus gave her the spear as a gift because he favors her over anyone else.

### Rivalry

During a battle, she gave out tactics that, sadly, Ares didn't approve of. They've always wanted to participate in battle together, but however, Ares cares more about the casualities cause by him instead of caring about what should be done like what she has planned. This will then lead into them creating armies in order to cause a civil war against each other.

### The Fall of Olympus

When Olympus has fallen because of an earthquake that, according to the other Olympians, Hades caused, Athena is given a challenge from Poseidon into a battle on who will lead the new Olympus. Athena accepted the challenge---and the battle lasted for days. Athena and Poseidon met on the sacred hill of the Acropolis. Zeus, the Olympians, and the people of what would it be as New Olympus gathered to witness the spectacle.

## Abilities & Powers

### The Spear

Athena is known to use a spear in battle. Given by Zeus himself as a symbol of his love towards her, Athena spent all day practicing her combat movements with the spear.

## Character Relationships

### Allies

#### Zeus

She was her father's favorite child, and favors her compared to the rest of the children, causing a dismay to Ares. This has always been the subject of family fights.

#### Hera

She was her mother's favorite as well. Hera taught her how to dance, and also a little bit of hand-to-hand combat. However, she could get crazy, defensive and overprotective, such as when Hera told her not to play with Ares when they were younger, and sometimes, she wasn't allowed to train using the spear with Ares.

#### Ares

Athena and Ares are siblings and known rivals. Ares constantly bullies her, makes fun of her height and calls her names, such as "Gargantuan" and "Praying Mantis". However, they both care about each other sometimes. Ironically, they both are the same height, but Athena is just a few inches taller than him. During the Olympian Civil War, Ares created his own army just to set her up to fail, while Athena gets revenge on Ares by doing the same thing. However, he might have a soft side for her judging by the fact that he used to teach her how to use the spear when she was younger.

As the God of War on Earth, he would take her there and sometimes, help him fight off criminals.

#### Hephaestus

Hephaestus has shown sympathy and care towards Athena and takes her side in everything, leading to Ares' jealousy. Whenever Hephaestus works in his factory ground, he sometimes asks her for help. At one point, he created her sandals, just not to get mixed up with Ares' shoes only because they both have the same shoe size.

#### Apollo

Apollo and Athena are close friends, despite them being half-cousins. Sometimes, Athena and Apollo would explore Earth together, especially during the times where he lived his mortal life as a bartender in a Gaia nightclub.

#### Aphrodite

Aphrodite never hated her as the wife of Ares. She is like an older sister figure to her. Both women tend to have a lot of things in common, and they give each other strength. After Aphrodite's death during the birth of Eros, she went to her funeral and paid respects to her.

### Enemies & Feuds

#### Poseidon

During the Fall of Olympus, she was challenged by Poseidon to a battle where the winner gets to rule Olympus.

## Trivia

* Athena's shoe size is a Size 13 Mens, similar to her brother's. Therefore, they like to get their footwear mixed up.
* Athena prefers fighting in long, flowy gowns compared to armor.
* It is unknown what Athena does for her present-day mortal life, but she has been to Earth to go check on Apollo's job.
* Her hair turned purple because she was struck down by Zeus' lightning.
* Athena is an inch shorter than Poseidon.