Post by Athena Thornwood on Jan 2, 2024 3:53:15 GMT -5
WELCOME TO LOS EUROSIA,
Athena Paris Thornwood
"You call me a bitch like it's a bad thing."
BASICS
NAME: Athena Paris Thornwood
AGE: 31
BIRTHDATE: July 25th
PRONOUNS: She/Her
SEXUALITY: Bisexual
RELATIONSHIP STATUS: Widow
OCCUPATION: Lawyer
NEIGHBORHOOD: Grey Pebble
MEMBER GROUP: Hunters
POWERS:
Power Negation: Athena's Gift is simple but powerful in its own sense. As an immediate defense the moment someone uses their Gift to attack her, her powers activate to deactivate their Gift. For the next twenty four hours the person will be unable to activate or access their Gift. This only works on Gifts that have become a threat to her, for instance if Athena is electrocuted, if someone were to summon a beast that were to attack her, if they manipulate her emotional state or cause her to hallucinate something that causes her to fear for her safety. If a Gift is used against her to cause her physical, mental, or emotional harm her own Gift will trigger to deactivate it entirely. However this doesn't work if someone were to simply cause it to rain heavily on her, create a mist that made it harder for her to see, produced pheromones that made her fall asleep, summoned vines to restrain her, or things to that effect.
Apart from this Athena is able to activate her Gift on her own. If she happens to discover that someone has a gift she only has to make eye contact with them to make that mental link. From then on so long as the person is within a fifteen foot radius of Athena they would be unable to use their ability. The moment they step out of that fifteen foot radius however, the link would be broken and they would regain control of their powers once more. The link can be reconnected once again if Athena gets close enough and makes eye contact with them again. Reforming a connection multiple times however can cause heavy mental fatigue though which would make it harder for Athena to use her gift.
She is able to deactivate multiple gifts at once. Though so far she's only counted being able to deactivate up to four at a time. Even when it's triggered by a direct attack.
Persuasion (dormant)
THE LOOKS
HEIGHT: 5'6"
WEIGHT: 135lbs
HAIR COLOR: Dark Brown
EYE COLOR: Dark Brown
FACE CLAIM: Gal Gadot
OVERALL APPEARANCE: Many people might describe Athena as a wolf in sheeps clothing. While she seems harmless, kind, and even soft there's something about her that seems to radiate danger. Perhaps it's the way her warm brown eyes seem to stare through to a persons soul. Perhaps it's the lethal, poised elegance in the way she holds herself and the way she walks. Whatever it is there seems to be a warm, alluring call to her at first meeting that turns to something a little more sinister, a little more poisonous, once someone gets to know her. Generally there's a sort of easy and trusting air about her. In the right setting it can even seem seductive and flirtatious.
Athena is clearly a wealthy woman. She loves the finer things in life. Like expensive and beautiful jewelry and make up. Her hair and makeup always seem perfectly styled and fixed just right. She moves and holds herself with an easy confidence. She's very conventionally attractive with her high cheekbones and well defined jawline. Her skin seems flawless and unmarred by scarring save to the C-Section scar across her lower abdomen. Her hair is generally worn in some form of updo when she's out or working to keep it out of her face. When she's relaxing at home or out for a night of fun she generally wears it down, letting it cascade in waves or loose curls that frame her face. She normally has a gentle way of speaking that at first tends to come off as warm and sweet. She isn't one to raise her voice, even when angry. However, it's been noted that this gentle, soft tone of her can become disconcerting after a while.
Her wardrobe tends to consist of designer dresses, shirts, and skirts. She doesn't often wear jeans but does have a few pairs she keeps on hand. She tends to wear darker colors such as black, dark red, and dark blues. Occasionally she might be seen in white or a light blue but it isn't often. While she's already a fairly tall woman she enjoys wearing heels often. Athena is also a large fan of fragrance. She loves wearing perfumes and oils that make her smell delightful. Often one might find she has scents of warm vanilla, soft woodsy, with a gentle flora undertone to it. Never too overbearing but just enough to make someone perhaps want to hug her a little longer or stand a little closer.
INSIDE
LIKES:
- Lying
- People watching
- Pushing peoples buttons
- Violence in most forms
- Learning about other Gifted individuals powers
- Fashion and Makeup
DISLIKES:
- Being touched without her consent
- Bad liars
- Hunters and the Guild in general
- Her home being dirty or people moving her things without asking
- Other people yelling at or discipling her child
- Sour candy
STRENGTHS:
Charming and convincing: Athena is a fairly good liar because she knows how to make people feel good. She tends to come off as nonthreatening, warm, and trustworthy so usually people take her word at face value. Though if she's badly injured or just at her limit she might not have the patience to be as charming as she normally is.
Active: Athena has always been a very active person. Even from early childhood she'd always wanted to be on the move. This was of course only encouraged when she became part of the guild. Even now Athena holds a workout and training regimen that she seems to follow almost religiously.
Intelligent: Athena is generally a very intelligent woman. She loves learning and studying new things and is always happy to expand her knowledge. Whether that's in the court room or on the street. She knows how to cover up her own crimes and those of others.
Loyal: When Athena does connect with someone, when she realizes how much they mean to her, she's a force to be reckon with. Athena becomes fiercely loyal and protective. Willing to lie, cheat, and steal for them. Not that she isn't willing to do those things already but now she's doing it for someone else as opposed to just herself.
WEAKNESSES:
Manipulative: Athena generally doesn't actually care about other people or their feelings. While she has plenty of people who might consider her a friend Athena tends to only use people until she can get out of them what she wants. Then leaves them on the wayside when they no longer serve a purpose to her. This has meant that she hasn't actually gotten close to someone in a very long time.
Pathological Liar: Athena is the type of person who rarely even says "Good morning" to someone without lying twice. She's got a silver tongue and is more often quick to lie through her teeth than be honest about anything. Even little things.
Sociopathic: Athena struggles with seeing most people as actual people. She doesn't think of them as having intricate lives and feelings or other people that might love and depend on them. She struggles with empathy or caring at all for other peoples emotions. Most people to her tend to blend together and she has a hard time seeing them as unique individuals deserving of respect and care. The biggest exception to this being her immediate family.
Stone Emotions: As well as struggling with understanding the emotions and feelings of others Athena struggles with understanding her own emotions. She often over analyzes her own feelings to try and make logical sense about them. She has trouble pinpointing when she feels something, especially big emotions like anger or sadness. All she knows in those moments is something is wrong. It takes her time to properly think through and realize exactly what it is she's feeling.
OVERALL PERSONALITY:
Athena has always been more than a little strange. Always struggled connecting with people. Always struggled with understanding emotions not only in others but in herself as well. While she never really particularly understood people she enjoyed observing them. Watching their facial expressions, their body language. Other people were less like people to her and more like experiments. Things she could poke and prod and discover how they tick. Doing so from such a young age made Athena less of a person herself and more of a dangerous predator. A viper in the grass waiting to strike.
Years of practice has made it easy for Athena to sort of blend in, so to speak. On the surface she comes off as very outgoing. She's friendly and warm, even a bit playful. At first it's easy to see why she would be so loveable. She's charming with a winning smile and a silver tongue. Athena is a very good liar, whether that's in her job or with a stranger on the street. The biggest problem comes with how much Athena enjoys lying. She's the kind of person who couldn't say "Good morning" to someone without lying twice. Sometimes she does it before she realizes what she's actually saying. Which usually leads her to just going along with whatever it is.
Athena still also struggles with connecting with other people. Though she finds them fascinating she doesn't understand them. Even with those that have caught more of her interest she still finds that she doesn't actually care about them. Many people consider Athena a friend because she comes off as sweet and friendly. Always willing to offer a helping hand. Always willing to listen to whatever it is they have to say. And Athena certainly is a good listener with a very acute memory. She'll often take others to their favorite restaurant because they mentioned it once or bring them their favorite flowers when she knows they're having a bad day. She loves asking questions and far more enjoys listening to others talk about themselves. Rather than talking about herself. though all of this is done normally because she wants something from them.
It is also often that Athena becomes bored with people. Whether it's because she no longer feels there's anything to learn about them or she's gotten what she wanted. It's not uncommon that Athena will drop people like broken, unwanted toys. Sometimes that shows itself in her simply ghosting them. Not that she would avoid them but they just don't seem to exist to her anymore. She would simply walk past them on the street as if she didn't even see them. Though that would be more of a saving grace than how she would act otherwise. When Athena loses interest in someone she can also become downright mean. Sneering, insulting, cold. All that sweet and warm facade she had prior crumbles at seemingly nothing.
Though Athena can become close with others it's hard for her. Mostly because it's hard for her to realize when she's become attached to someone. Athena still has issues with recognizing her own emotions. Whether she's happy, sad, angry, it all blurs together in her mind. Even when seething with rage she will remain cool and calm simply because she doesn't understand she's angry. So, when she does start to become close with someone, it's hard for her to recognize the feeling. There are few people in the world that get to see a softer, more human side of her. With her husband dead that now falls mostly to her son. Hayden means everything to Athena. She is fiercely protective over him, genuinely affectionate, and thinks about him more than she thinks about anyone else. This is often what happens with others as well.
Once Athena realizes how much she cares for someone she becomes obsessive, protective, and often times very jealous. While she will be fiercely loyal and makes a wonderful ally she is also a bit unsettling. Always wanting to be around the object of her affection. Always wanting to talk to them, to see them. Though she does her best to keep herself reigned in she can sometimes forget to give the other person their space. In that same vein, as strong as her love is, so is her rage. Should someone hurt her. Should they break her trust or do something to shatter those rose colored glasses she had for them it will become her mission to make their life a living hell. To ruin them and everything they held dear. And she is known to hold a grudge.
Beyond her personal social issues Athena is a very intelligent and hard working woman. She loves to study, she loves to learn. When she's not up on the move she can often be found with her nose in a book. Growing up she always had perfect, or almost perfect, grades. She finds excitement in discovering new things. One of the fastest ways to get her attention is offering her knowledge on something she doesn't know.
BACKGROUND
HOMETOWN:
San Fransico, CA
FAMILY:
Oliver Green - Father - Alive
Maybell Thornwood - Mother - Alive
Casper Thornwood - Younger Brother - Alive
Hayden King-Thornwood - Son - Alive
PETS:
A cat named His Majesty Winkle Von Bonbon III aka Sir Winks
HISTORY: For all intents and purposes Athena had a perfectly normal and happy childhood. She was born the oldest child to a young couple who had gotten married exactly two months before she was born. Five years after she was born her younger brother Casper came into the world. The lived in a big blue house with a white picket fence within a two minute walk from the beach. The children never wanted for anything. They were loved and cared for and given anything they could possibly want or need. Any hobbies or after school activities were funded. They were raised to be well behaved and polite. From an outside perspective their family seemed perfect.
For most of her life Athena didn't even know she was Gifted. Her father Oliver had been working as part of the Guild for many years even before Athena was born. He had no Gifts himself, neither did her mother, and her brother showed no signs of being Gifted either. But from an early age Athena did show a talent in tracking people down and fighting. So when she was six years old she was brought into the guild as well. Raised as a child soldier who was taught to hate Gifted people with a passion. And for years she was very good at what she did. Tracking down Gifted, gathering information, hunting them down like animals, and eliminating them. The joy that she got from it should have perhaps been a red flag for most but only seemed to be encouraged.
When she was sixteen she met a boy named Lance King. Lance was strong, smart, fast, and didn't put up with Athena's shit. He was able to break through her barriers. Climb her walls until the veil of him was lifted and Athena really saw him as a person. Lance was one of the Gifted that worked with the Hunters. Another child soldier that had been found and brought in by the Guild. He had no family, no one who cared about him. Lance and Athena grew very close over the years and he made her fascinated with Gifts. Perplexed by how they worked and what they could do. It was with him that she realized that she was in fact Gifted. But instead of something flashy or exciting she could take a persons powers away. Make them almost human, at least for a little while.
When she was twenty years old Athena finally realized she was in love with Lance. After years of him attempting to woo and seduce her it finally worked. Once their relationship kicked off things moved quick. They were engaged after only a month of being together and married only two months after that. And less than nine months later Athena was pregnant with their son Hayden. And for a while things in Athena's life were perfect. They moved to Los Eurosia and got a big house together with a big backyard for Hayden to run around it. Athena had the love of her life, her son, she was studying in law school to become a Lawyer and had a job already lined up at a well respected firm when she graduated.
When she was twenty seven though everything around her came crashing down. While out on a routine hunting mission Lance was murdered. Not by the target he was hunting, but by his own partner. The man claimed that it was simply an accident. That Lance had stepped in the line of fire and been killed. But Athena knew her Lance. He had never been that careless. He was one of the top Hunters in the Guild. This had been no accident. The man who killed Lance had been a rival of his for some time now. Jealous of some nobody orphan who'd rose so quickly through the ranks, gotten the acclaim of their superiors, and gotten a beautiful wife and child. But no one seemed to care. Lance was nothing more than another dead Hunter. Killed in the line of battle. That day something inside Athena snapped.
The Guild was no longer her home and the people in it no longer her comrades. For the death of the only man she'd ever loved she vowed to burn down the entire organization from the inside out. She became a tracker for the Guild instead of one of the active hunters. And once she graduated she also became a lawyer for them. She put together assignments for other Hunters. Tracking down Gifteds, finding where they were, their powers, general information that one might need for an assignment. Then she would follow the Hunter to their assignment and take them out herself. Making it seem like an accident. Just another poor Hunter lost in the line of battle. She also worked with a few others in the group who were unhappy with their hand in life for whatever reason. Helping some escape and making connections outside as she formed her larger plan.
THE PLAYER
NAME: Apollo
AGE: 28
TIMEZONE: GMT