Medea Atenas

> The fate of the galaxy... what do I do now?
>
> Medea Atenas, discovering the Livyatan threat.

Doctor **Medea Laika Atenas** is the main protagonist of the ***Ad Astra*** trilogy and one of the POV characters throughout the series. She is a xenoarcheologist for the Deep Space Archaeological Society.

## Physical Appearance

Medea is ethnically an Ashkenazi Jew and thus retains several physical traits. She has pale, cream skin that has several small scars from cystic acne as a teenager. Her hair is coarse and a dark brown in colour, with thick brown eyebrows and heavy eyelashes. It reaches just below her shoulders but is usually worn down unless she is working, in which she ties it back in a ponytail or into a bun. Her jaw is jaw and strong, with high cheekbones and a large nose with a steep drop-off at the end. She has several scars before the beginning of Alliance. A curved scar around of her right ear from the insertion of an implant damper. A large amount of hatchmark scars are on the right side of her body around her upper ribs, similar to a burn texture. She has several scars on her palms and countless others.

## Powers and Abilities

Like many with exposure to Element NUL, Medea has the power to shape and manipulate dark energy.

* **Adept abilities:** Due to exposure in the womb to Element A, Medea has the physiology of anyone else who is exposed to it.
	+ **Dark Energy Attacks:** Shaping and manipulating dark energy to do her intent, she can release and use dark energy to attack in various shapes and intensities.
		- **Dark Energy Emission:** Release concentrated beams of dark energy.
		- **Dark Energy Blast:** Produce dark energy over a specific targeted area.
		- **Dark Energy Bolt Projection:** Product and release projectiles of dark energy.
		- **Dark Energy Cut:** Slice through with a large cut of dark energy.
		- **Dark Energy Spikes:** Create dark energy spikes.
		- **Dark Energy Vortex:** Create a vortex/tornado of dark energy.
		- **Hand Blasts:** Release dark energy blasts from her hands.
		- **Shatter Shot:** Release dark energy blasts that split into multiple bouncing fragments.
		- **Dark Matter Waves:** Launch a massive wave of dark energy.
	+ **Dark Energy Constructs:** Only done through her talent as a Vspera, Medea can transform dark matter into solid constructs. Objects such as weapons can be formed from crafting dark energy, up to entire cities.
	+ **Gravity Manipulation:** Create, shape, move, interact, and manipulate gravity, the natural phenomenon which all things with mass or energy attract.
		- **Gravity Defiance:** Ignore the effects of gravity, achieving anti-gravitational effects.
		- **Gravity Attacks:** Single shots, concussive beams, gravity beam emission, gravity downforce and upforce.
		- **Gravity Shields:** Create shields to protect themself and others from attacks; similar to force-fields.
		- **Flight:** Changing the gravity around themself to enable them to fly.
		- **Gravity Imprisonment:** Imprison entities or objects by resting strong forces around them.
		- **Gyro-telekinesis:** Interact/move/manipulate matter/objects using gravity.
		- **Gravitational Adaption:** Adapt to the gravity and pressure of any location or planet.
		- **Gravitational Wave Manipulation:** Create ripples in the space-time continuum and slow objects/matter down while moving.
		- **Wormhole Creation:** Create wormholes by distorting space-time in two seperate locations, creating a tunnel to travel between them.

Blah blah Vspera blah blah

* **Cosmic Space Manipulation:** The elemental force of space, allowing control of everything it embodies: celestial objects such as nebulas to natural cosmic energies.
	+ **Black Hole Manipulation:** Creation, shaping and manipulation of black holes, regions of space-time where gravity prevents anything from leaving.
	+ **Cosmic Weather Manipulation:** Capable of manipulating, creating and ending cosmic weather (*also known as space weather*). Things such as ambient plasma, magnetic fields, radiation and other matters in space.
		- **Cosmic Storms:** Manipulate cosmic storms that are made from cosmic matter and energy, capable of wiping out planets and unleashing chaos on a cosmic level.
		- **Geomagnetic Storms:** Control the energy from the magnetosphere and solar winds that create geomagnetic storms.
		- **Solar Flares:** Manipulate, create and stop solar flares; the eruption of a star.
	+ **Solar Manipulation:** Manipulate and shape the magnetic field, mass and gravitational field, nuclear energy and reaction of the sun. Aspects such as solar winds/flares, geomagnetic storms, UV emissions and promote plant growth through photosynthesis.
	+ **White Hole Manipulation:** Create, shape and manipulate white holes, a region of space-time where gravity prevents entry but energy and matter can escape. Used to create explosions, primarily.

## Weaknesses

### Psychological

Medea suffers from severe childhood trauma which caused post-traumatic stress disorder in her adult life. This was not diagnosed until her adult years when it formed into complex-post traumatic stress disorder due to prolonged exposure to torture.

* **Depersonalization disorder:** From trauma, she experiences depersonalization and derealization, often having out of body experiences, having a sense that things aren't real, and blanking out long periods of time on accident.
* **Complex post-traumatic stress disorder:** An psychological response to extensive and repeated interpersonal trauma. It spawns from extensive childhood trauma and manifested worse when she was exposed to torture. Symptoms relating to her trauma include:
	+ Amnesia and repression of the events in her childhood.
	+ Self perception of feeling helpless and trapped, often also damaged and worthless.
	+ Feelings of emptiness and hopelessness, as well as a distrust of both the world and people. Difficulty making friends and keeping people close, often avoiding friendships and relationships.
	+ Often in a constant state of hyperarousal, feeling as if she is alert and jittery constantly. Insomnia is linked to this and often startled by loud and unexpected noises.
	+ Physical symptoms of headaches and dizziness, as well as extreme panic attacks.

## Relationships

Jericho Atenas: /

Rafal Atenas: /

Sol kom Halvorsen: /

Aleksander Vavilov: /

## Trivia

* Medea is known to be completely fluent in both English and Romanian, having learned since birth. She is able to speak and understand but has poor written and reading abilities for both Hungarian and Ukrainian. Through the maternal passing of *the Khozhdskiy*, she can speak and understand the language of the Vspera.