I need to talk about Athena from Wisdom Saga, specifically her character development and how beautiful it was.
It was a beautiful saga and it takes the crown as my new favorite. The transition of development of her character is one of my favorite things. Back in Troy and Cyclops saga, we see Athena as strict business, warrior of the mind, mentor only to Odysseus. Odysseus sees her as a friend, but the tensions get heated when Ody didn't kill the cyclops and they have their goodbye. The line of Ody telling Athena she is alone just hurts all around. Then we know she is watching in Ruthlessness from the piano motif because she was right about what would happen for not killing the cyclops.
In Monster, Ody calls her mentor and how she is in the list of people he has lost up to that point. His feelings of friendship from her were close to nothing at that point. But deep down she always still cared. The ending animatic of her holding a baby Telemachus made me tear up. The feelings in her at that moment leading to her helping Telemachus. She was always watching in some way, hearing Legendary as a prayer/plea from Telemachus to help him, and showing up to help him fight back. It was her moment to make a move, ten years had passed. From the start of their interactions, Telemachus viewed and accepted her as a friend.
The lyrics of We'll Be Fine just destroy me.
*I had a friend before, and he was a lot like you.
I helped him fight through war, but he has his demons too.
And then we grew apart, then his light went dark*
Because Ody was changing from how she designed him and she was slowly changing too.
Maybe if I made a different call,
maybe if I hadn't missed it all.
Maybe, if I help another soul,
Maybe if I helped you reach your goal,
Life could be that bright
Athena lived with years of guilt too, waiting for the right time to make her mood and try to make amens somehow. She changed, she wanted to make things right. Telemachus' pure heart is the final push she needs for her to make things right again.
*Maybe to fall is to learn one way
Maybe it's all gonna turn out great
I know its light you'll find*
I can't even begin to describe the pain going through me when Athena witnessed Ody in one of his darkest moments being haunted by everyone he has lost.
This brings us to God Games, Athena asking for a favor to free Ody. Zeus obviously will not make it easy and we know Zeus like to make people reveal their true nature like making Ody choose himself of his crew at the end of Thunderbringer. We know Athena is known to be prideful and that is often her weakness. Zeus wanted to see Athena fall and fail and she proved him wrong. So he was angered and attacked, and she stood by her desire to help free Ody all the way to the end, even when gravely injured. Athena has come full circle.
This was beautiful character development and I can't stop thinking about it.
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