Nike

**Nike**, also known as **Victoria**, is the Goddess of Speed and Victory from Greco-Roman mythology. She acts as Athena's retainer and personal charioteer during battles, in addition to being one of the four sentinels of Zeus' thrones on Mount Olympus, alongside her siblings Force, Strength, and Dedication.

## Overview

**Nike** is the the goddess of victory, strength, speed and war in Greek mythology and the archetypal portrayal of the Abrahamic angels. As the deity of victory, Nike's greatest feat was in the Titan War, in which she served as the gods' personal charioteer. It is said that without Nike, the gods couldn't have won the war with the Titans.

Nike was also at one time considered to be part of Athena. Gradually, Nike was broken away from Athena and eventually blossomed to be her own individual goddess. In artwork and sculptures of Nike, the goddess of victory that was bound to Athena was always wingless, whereas Nike as her own goddess was often winged.

She is often associated with the Roman goddess **Victoria**.

## Appearance

Nike appears as a beautiful young girl around 14-16 years old with a child-lie figure. She has dark-red eyes and long golden hair tied into two twin-tails with a pair of silver-and-black hair clips, which give her a cat-like appearance. Located on her back is a pair of wings of polished gold which glitter so brightly that it is painful to even look at.

She is mostly shown wearing an all-black Gothic-style outfit, which has a star-shaped gap at the chest of her clothing, two waist belts, five leg belts on both her legs, and two sleeves that are attached to her upper arms via belts.

## Personality

Nike is shown to be an extremely competitive and hyper-active goddess, never turning down a challenge no matter how absurd or dangerous it might be, and settles for being second-place at anything. And while she can be pretty intense and driven, she is mentioned to be a genuinely kind-hearted person at her core.

Like many of her adopted siblings, she is a full-on battle maniac, having found the utmost delight in combat and on the battlefield. According to Athena, she is more bloodthirsty than the majority of Ares' kids, even Enyalius who was the son of him and his twin sister Enyo, Goddess of Destruction.

Similar to Nemesis, she despises those who gain their victory through unfair methods, especially in competitions and festival games, as they are often held in her honor. Because of this, she tends to favor hard-workers and people who gain their fame through diligence, or rather, the "underdogs" of each battle. She is also mentioned to dislike those who win through luck, which caused some bad blood between her and Tyche, the Goddess of Fortune.

## Equipment

**Golden Spears** (金の槍, *Kin no Yari*): Nike can create and wield numerous indestructible golden spears using her divine power. Whenever one of these golden spears is broken in combat, it will instantly summon forth a small group of *Nikai* - the spirits of warriors who won a pyrrhic death - to her side to fight alongside her.

## Weaknesses

### Harming, Trapping, & Banishing

* **Witchcraft**: As witchcraft is a form of magic wielded by witches to oppose those of heavenly nature, pagan gods such as Nike are susceptible by witchery. There are many witchery spells and rituals that can be used to trap, weaken, and hurt her, with some rituals rumored to be capable of even killing immortals such as the pagan gods.
* **Celestial Weapons**: Weapons made out of sacred metals, such as Celestial Bronze or Imperial Gold, can be used against the majority of supernatural beings, including pagan gods such as Nike.
* **Lack of Worship & Offerings**: As a pagan goddess, Nike gains more power from the prayers, offerings, and sacrifices from mortal devotees, and is dependent on it to maintain her immense divinity. If she stops gaining offerings from her loyal followers, her powers may become immensely weakened. Due to her essence being tied to the Western Civilization, she can gain power from those associated and symbolized by her divine domains, or associated with her or the myths surrounding her.

### Killing

* **Divine Weapons**: The divine weapons of the gods, which are crafted from sacred metals and are imbued with their wielders' divinity, can be used to kill or injure fellow immortal gods like Nike.
* **Enochian Weapons**: Nike can be killed using weapons made out of Enochian metals.
	+ **Longinus**: As the Longinus are Sacred Gears made out of Enochian metals of the highest-ranking, forged by Heavens' forges with the highest-quality Enochian technology and are imbued with fragments of the Biblical God's divinity, those with enough skills and experience can absolutely and permanently killed Nike, to the point where she can never be reborn or resurrected again.
* **Faustian Weapons**: Nike can be killed using weapons made out of Faustian metals.
* **Primordials' Weapons**: Weapons created and wielded by primordial entities can be used to permanently and absolutely obliterate every and any being in existence but other primordial entities, erasing their entire existence from the worlds so that they can never be reborn, or resurrected again without being saved by God's omnipotence.

## Trivia

* Her attributes including a wreath or sash, an *oenochoe* and *phiale* (bowl and cup), a *thymiaterion* (incense burner), an altar, and a lyre.
* In mosaic art and coins, she is often shown holding a palm branch as a symbol of victory.
* She is closely identified with Athena and at times was little more than an attribute of the goddess.
* The sports equipment company Nike, Inc. is named after her.
	+ Project Nike, an American anti-aircraft missile system, is named after her.
	+ The Honda motorcycle company's wing logo was inspired by her.
	+ The 1988 U.S. Commemorative $5 Gold Coin has a depiction of Nike on the obverse.
* 12 Victoria is an asteroid named after her Roman form.
* The obverse face of every Olympic medal bears Nike's figure holding a palm frond in her right hand and a winner's laurel in her left.