Sofia Sapienti (Manga)

"*I am the Pretty Heroine of wisdom and warfare. I'm Sailor Athena! I will craft a plan to make you painfully apologetic.*"
— Sailor Athena's introduction
**Sofia Sapienti**
 (ソフィア サピエンタイ, *Sofia Sapienti*?) is one of the secondary protagonists of Pretty Guardians of Olympus as well as the brains of the team. Sofia doubles as **Sailor Athena**
 (セーラーアテナ, *Sēra Atena*?), the Guardian of wisdom and warfare. Her abilities as Sailor Athena are combat related (loosely), strategy based, and item creation which makes her one of those versatile.

## Appearance

### Civilian

Sofia has striking white hair with blue tones worn in a short ponytail. She has wide silvery gray eyes framed by round glasses. Meanwhile, she has tan skin with faint freckles on her nose and cheeks. Sofia is slender but also athletic in build. Her hair is tied up with a dark blue ribbon and she wore silver rose earrings up until the Dream Heroines arc where she replaces them with simple gold studs after she sacrificed them to save her sister.

Sofia frequently wore the Prometheus Academy school uniform which consisted of a very dark blue blazer with yellow accents, white blouse, a blue tartan skirt, black socks, and a blue and yellow striped tie along with shoes of her choice (black loafers). She wore a pale beige sweater vest underneath her blazer. However, when she was not in her uniform, she often wore varying different outfits but never without her glasses.

### Sailor Guardian

* Sailor Athena
* Super Sailor Athena
* Eternal Sailor Athena
* Nobility
 Sailor Athena wears the standard uniform similarly to her teammates. She wears a white leotard with a sewn in chest armor piece. She adorns a light blue sailor collar with 3 white stripes, a dark blue bow in the center of her chest, and a silvery blue round gem in the middle of the bow. Her shoulder pads consist of 3 cyan puffed fittings which matches the cyan puffed arm fittings on the top of her forearm length white gloves. Sailor Athena has a light blue skirt with a cyan v-shaped belt. Meanwhile, she has wears a dark blue choker, very light blue socks that go up to her knees, silver rose earrings, and a dark blue bow at the back of her belt. Finally, she wears a golden tiara with a silvery blue gem in the center and cyan boots that are slightly above her ankles with white laces.

After Super Sailor Olympus awakens, her front gem becomes heart shaped and she gains 2 cyan stripes on her socks. Super Sailor Athena's appearance remains mostly the same as her previous form. However, her shoulder pads become cyan shoulder protectors and her back bow becomes longer and more flowing. She continues to have the heart shaped gem in the center of her front bow and the 2 cyan stripes on her socks. Her collar's stripes are decreased to just one stripe and she now adorns a golden star in the middle of her choker with a silvery blue gem in the center. At some point in the story she sacrificed her earrings to save her sister so they are replaced by golden star shaped studs with a tiny silver gem in the center of each.

## Sailor Athena

Sofia can transform into Sailor Athena by calling out her transformation phrase as long as she has her transformation item with her.

### Phrases

* **Athena Power, Make Up**
* **Athena Deity Power, Make Up**
* **Athena Divine Power, Make Up**
* **Athena Crystal Power, Make Up**
* **Athena Crystal Eternal Power, Make Up**

### Items

* **Transformation Pen**
* **Deity Power Stick**
* **Divine Power Wand**
* **Athena Crystal Heart**
* **Athena Crystal Star**

### Attacks

* **Owl Feather Flurry**
* **Gorgoneion Aegis Ultima**
* **Snakes of Wisdom**
* **Olive Tree Spear**
* **Glimmering Wisdom**
* **Battling Triumphant Warrior**
* **Athena Snake Combat**
* **Athena Olive Grove**
* **Athena Blinding Olive Snakes**

## Abilities & Powers

As a demigoddess, Sofia has supernatural abilities outside of being a Sailor Guardian. For starters, she has hyperawareness and heightened senses which she jokingly calls her fighter instinct. Meanwhile, Sofia has inhuman levels of intellect and strategic ability; though, it is unknown if this could be counted as a power. Sofia can quickly repair and create handmade objects, even without knowing how to do so.

Due to her status as a descendant of Cassandra, Sofia is slightly prophetic but she can only sense that something major is about to happen moments before rather than having detailed visions like her twin. It functions more like a sophisticated gut feeling more than anything. She has demonstrated this in cases like when she sensed that the Phantom Mirage was arriving just before the total lunar eclipse.

## Nomenclature & Etymology

### Etymology

**Sofia:** Sofia comes from the Greek Σοφία (Sophia) which refers to wisdom and intelligence.

**Sapienti:** Sapienti stems from the latin word "sapiens"; meaning wisdom.

## Trivia

* Sofia is one of the few Sailor Senshi to have an almost consistent age throughout the story because of her birthday's placement and when the arcs happen.
	+ She spends majority of the story at the age of 15 despite being born the same year as Eleni and the others because of this.
* Sofia and Santina being twins born in Rome is a reference to the legend of Romulus and Remus; the legendary founders of Rome. However, the Sapienti twins do not meet the fate of Romulus and Remus.
* She enjoys listening to jazz music and blues.
* In the original publication and release of the manga, Sofia was born in 1976. With the rerelease, her birth year was left ambiguous and subsequently retconned to fit the ambiguity of the story now taking place in the 21st century.

## Gallery

*Main Page: Sofia Sapienti/Image Gallery*