Athena Dolores

**Athena Cassiopeia Rowena Dolores** (Born April 28th, 2419. Died September 32nd, 2451) was the mother of Cassius Dolores and former girlfriend of Pollux.

## Appearance

Athena was 5ft 5, with bright blonde hair and green eyes. She had a tattoo on her left arm of a blue sunflower in the pit of her elbow.

## Early life

She was born to Andromeda and Herakles Dolores in Magellan's most southern country, Vesper. As her parents were scientists, she spent the beginning of her life in a small research base near the south pole. She attended a small school that was on base with the twelve other childred that were there with their families.

Her mother would often take her to the closest city, Kalros, on weekends.

Athena was introduced to the drug Segraxis at 14 by a classmate of her. Segraxis was a plant being researched at the base and was taken in small doses by some of the kids behhind their parents backs as it had a halucenagenic effect. After her parents found out about this, Athena and all those that took Segraxis were kicked off base. Due to her parents being lead scientists, they were allowed to keep their positions, but Athena would have to leave. Her mother found a small house at the edge of New Alexandria for her to stay at and she helped her move in. Herakles was dissappointed in Athena and refused to help her, only muttering a goodbye to her a she left.

Athena was enrolled at a school in the city and would have to commute on her own, at first by a bike her mother had given her until she was old enough to drive. She had regular contact with her mother and eventuallyy reconciled with her father to a degree. He admitted he was too harsh and dismissive, but he would try to keep in contact with her as much as he could.

She also worked part time at a diner to earn enough Credits to survive.

## Meeting Polllux

At 16, she had become accustomed to her life in New Alexandria. She had dropped out of school to focus on resorting her house and turning it into a sheep farm. She had made several friends during her school years that she kept in contact with and met regularly to visit nightclubs or bars using fake ID's. One night, as she was parking her car, she was robbed by a M'ar man who stole her purse, but was quickly saved by Pollux. He guided her to the nightclub and she asked if he'd like to join her. They spent the night together at the club. Pollux asked if they could meet again, and she gave him her number and name.

The two could go out on casual dates every few weeks. One night, Pollux told Athena that he was a test subject for a program for creating the perfect soldier. Athena laughed as he thought hhe as joking about being a military brat. The two grew closer and eventually she invited him back to her house on the outskirts, where they would stargaze and ponder about their future.

## Final Meeting with Pollux

After two years of dating, Pollux said he was about to leave for his first tour with the military. He said he was going to be gone for at least a year before he could see her again, so he wanted to make his final days with her count. Before his departure, the pair took a photo together on her front porch.

The night before Pollux left, Athena had realised she had been sick for the past few days in the morning. On a hunch, she bought a pregnancy test and it came back positive. The next day, she had planned to tell Pollux about the baby and had asked that they met in person, but Pollux was unable to do so as he was leaving that morning. Pollux asked that she wait until he gets back to tell him the news. Without any other option, she agreed and wished him luck.

Left by herself, she contacted her parents and told them about the pregnancy. Her father was furious, stating she was too young to have a child and said he'd never contact her again if she kept it. Athena hung up immediatly and refused to let herself be dragged down by his words. She used her savings to purchase a helper Bot named Sigma to help around the house and take care of her future child.

## Raising Cassius

On October 19, 2437, Athena gave birth to Cassius Dolores. As she never found out Pollux's surname (unaware he didn't have one) she gave Cassius hers. Athena rarely spoke of Pollux, at first believing he figured out she was pregnant and abandoned her, then believing he died before he could make it back to Magellan.

## Death

In 2450, she recieved an email from her mother, the first contact she'd had with her in 13 years. Some of her classmated that were exhiled from the base had been dying of an unknown illness recently. Their bodies had been turned over to the base by the families and it had been determined thhat the Segraxis that they'd been smoking regulary as teens had ravaged their heart and lungs, killing them. This had been dubbed Segraxis Fever, and Athena's mother was concerned that she too also had it and urged her to return to get tested. She did so immediatly, leaving Cassius with Sigma until she returned.

When she arrived at the base, she was greeted by her mother. But there was little time to catch up. Athena was taken to the lab and had a scan performed on her. This scan confirmed that she indeed had Segraxis Fever and was estimated to only live for another 6 months.

Devistated by this, she left the base without a word to her parents and returned to her son, confiding to him that she was dying.

Before the disease progressed, Athena started to plan Cassius' future and even told him about his father in greater detail than she ever did before, expressing hope that he was still alive and trying to get back to her.

She ended up surviving 10 months with Segraxis Fever before the disease eventually killed her, leaving Cassius in the care of Sigma.

Athena was buried at Axton Memorial Cemetary, where Cassius visited regulary before leaving Magellan in 2455