Metis

**Metis** was the Goddess of Wisdom, Planning, and Good Counsel from Greco-Roman mythology. She was the first wife of Zeus and the mother of Athena. In 20XX, she was resurrected by Evillious as a Divine Spirit after their attack onto Mount Olympus. However, she was later defeated and killed by the demigod Griselda Quarta.

## Overview

**Metis** was one of the elder Oceanides and the goddess of good counsel, planning, cunning and wisdom. She was a counsellor of Zeus during the Titan War and hatched the plan through which Cronus was forced to regurgitate his devoured children. In an odd reversal of fortune, Zeus swallowed Metis whole when a prophecy was revealed that she was destined to bear a son greater than his father. Metis afterwards bore a daughter, Athena, within the very belly of the god and equipped her with arms and armour before she was rebirthed from the god's head.

It should be noted that most poets and mythographers describe Athena as a "motherless goddess" and no mention is made of Metis. Zeus himself was titled *Mêtieta* "the Wise Counsellor" in the Homeric poems and in this sense Metis was probably regarded as an aspect of the god rather than a distinct figure. In any case, the Metis myth implies she was wholly subsumed by the devouring god.

## Appearance

Metis was described as being a "saturated copy" of her daughter Athena, from her statuesque figure to her long light-purple hair touching her waist. The only difference between them was her golden eyes, which were described to be cold and merciless.

In Chapter XXX, she wore a black hooded-cloak over tattered dress and went bare feet. Later on, she wore a black leather duster, a dark-purple party dress with black fishnet leggings, and a pair of high-heeled leather boots, as well as a silver queen circlet on top of her head, which was attached to a black veil.

## Personality

Originally, Metis was a calm and kind-hearted goddess, who was willing to betray her fellow Titans in order to help Zeus who she had fallen madly in love with. According to Oceanus, she was an oddity even among her siblings, having a great fascination with the earth and herbology more than about the mysteries about the sea. It was her love for herbology that helped her find the herbs needed to craft the potion that forced Kronos to regurgitate his devoured children.

According to Zeus, Athena inherited her smile, in addition to her wisdom and cunningness. True to her name, she was extremely wise, sly, and cunning. It was thanks to her strategic mind that the Olympians were able to gain an advantage over Kronos' forces in the early days of the Titanomachy.

Following her resurrection, however, her behavior greatly changed for the worse, to the point where she could be described as the "psychotic archetype". She often had violent outbursts when something didn't go her way, to the point where she didn't even care about the possible outcomes of such situations. She was extremely sadistic and seemed to relish in the death, brutality, and cruelty that the Khaos Brigade's agents had caused.

## Weaknesses

### Killing

* **Divine Weapons**: The divine weapons of the gods, which are crafted from sacred metals and are imbued with their wielders' divinity, could be used to kill or injure Divine Spirits such as Metis. One of them was used by Griselda Quarta to kill her in Chapter XXX.
	+ **Hou Yi's Arrow** (太陽を殺す矢后羿の矢, *Kōgei no Ya*): The final golden arrow of the Chinese Hunter God Hou Yi which was created for the sole intention of slaying the Three-Legged Crows born of the Sun Goddess Xihe. Due to its immense size, Griselda used it as a spear to pierce through Metis' heart and core, thus killing her off permanently.

## Trivia

* Her name means "wisdom", "skill", or "craft" in Ancient Greek.
* Metis Island in Antarctica is named after her.
	+ Metis is the innermost known moon of Jupiter.
	+ 9 Metis, one of the larger main-belt asteroids, is named after her.