I wish to learn more about Athena from the Ace Attorney games.
fuck yes…………….
if you’re asking me for the meme:
Why I like them: SPUNKY GIRL with really sensitive hearing as a superpower that’s praised but also faces realistic negative consequences, also she threw a guy at another guy (which knocked one of the guys out) Why I don’t: I feel like she’s a little too Anime™ for the otherwise semi-realistic tone of AA; she stands out a bit too much, but I’m not entirely sure how to fix it… Maybe tone down the hair? Favorite episode scene: any and all manipulating the shit out of Bobby Favorite season/movie game: Dual Destinies, no question. that’s HER game, after all! Favorite line: it’s hard to pick, and I’ll probably change it later, but her smiling and telling everyone to cheer up while she’s being arrested is amazing. Favorite outfit: PIRATE OUTFIT OTP: N/A Brotp: Athena/Apollo Headcanon: Nothing horrible happened to her dad, her mom just like…went to a sperm bank. she has no dad (other than Simon) Unpopular opinion: her being so happy and perky all the time is not a very good coping mechanism and she needs a way to express her sadness, goddamn A wish: I wanna see more of her normal non-work life with Simon An oh-god-please-dont-ever-happen: don’t give athena a love interest ever please ever. ever. unless it’s junie I guess? 5 words to best describe them: fun, energetic, STRONK, optimistic, brightMy nickname for them: ATHY
if you’re asking for a spoiler-filled infodump, though….
ATHENA’S THE FUCKING COOLEST
She was the shy, sheltered daughter of a rocket scientist/engineer/technician named Dr. Metis Cykes. Metis’s coworker’s (Aura’s) little brother (Simon) was her Metis’s apprentice/self-proclaimed samurai as well as Athena’s babysitter.
Metis spent most of her time working on making headphones that could help Athena’s ears, which meant more time in the lab and not with Athena, so Athena grew up with Simon being her main parental figure.
THEN ONE DAY A LAUNCH WAS SABOTAGED AND SHIT EXPLODED because a spy had fucked shit up, but there was a gov coverup. Simon - a prosecutor/detective - set about working to catch the fucker. He asked Metis to hold onto some evidence and do some analysis for him bc she’s way better with computers…
…and she was murdered by the spy.
Athena witnessed this murder. She was in the room. She came in, her mother was dead, spy was there holding a bloody sword. SO NATURALLY THIS 11-YEAR-OLD’S FIRST INSTINCT WAS TO GRAB A KNIFE AND SHANK THE FUCKER. She stabs him in the hand (permanently scarring him) but he gets away with the evidence.
So then Athena was alone with her mom’s corpse.
And Athena was a very sheltered, traumatized 11-year-old who had grown up with an engineer mother around machines.
You know what they say………if something stops working……take it apart and put it back together again……………..
So that’s the story of how 11-year-old Athena messily disemboweled her mother’s corpse.
SIMON WALKED IN ON THIS AND HE WAS NOT HAPPY. He knew the Phantom had did it but he also knew there was NO way to prove that with tiny 11-year-old Athena covered in blood (and with no one knowing who the Phantom is except for him and like 1-2 other ppl). This is a universe that WILL hang kids for murder btw.
So Simon, to protect Athena, set it up to look like HE killed Metis and adopted a false aggressive, violent persona.
Athena couldn’t remember a THING (trauma blocked the memory), has NO idea she gutted her mother or who did the murder, but she knows that Simon’s not a violent man and that he’s actually a nerd.
On top of that, Athena can hear your emotions and tell when you’re lying via listening to your heart rate. She could hear that Simon was lying when he said he killed Metis and sad over her death.
Athena moved to Europe, learned almost every fucking language, and proceeded to dedicate herself to becoming a defense attorney so that she can get her “dad” acquitted.
She now has a device called the Mood Matrix (that her mother invented but she only got recently) that does the same thing (interpreting heartbeats as emotions) but like 10x better and 10x more admissible in court.
In Europe, she met Miles and Phoenix, the former of which she told her story to and the latter of which she became the apprentice of. Miles went to go cahoots it up with Simon while Phoenix just kinda got vague hints.
Anyway, throw in Bobby Fulbright and me crying and that’s Dual Destinies.
No, I’m just legit beaning every boss I can that’s weak to Lvl 5 Death. Dark Spark is really useful for that, because if they’re level 21, for example, the system will round them down to 10 upon halving their level, making them susceptible. It’s fun! And a small favor when I’m only able to use these four classes. :>
unpopinion about... uh... I dunno. Food? Or maybe Fire Emblem?
Food
Nuts in cookies suck. Just let me enjoy my chocolate chip in peace.
In a similar fashion, oatmeal raisin cookies are delicious and don’t look anything like chocolate chip cookies.
Tagalongs are better than Thin Mints. Fight me. I’ll meet you behind the dumpsters at Denny’s tonight, 3am. Wear gloves. No phones.
Fire Emblem
Hector’s cool, but he ain’t shit compared to Eliwood.
My opinion on Micaiah might waffle back and forth, but she’s really not nearly as bad as I thought first time around. The game tries too hard to give her too much, but she isn’t irredeemable. Her character designs are also all really cute.
Awakening would have been 200% better if Chrom had been an decoy protagonist prior to Lucina’s introduction, or if Emmeryn hadn’t died in Chapter 9.
It has some of the best music of the series, though, along with Radiant Dawn.
I would give my left arm to get Senri Kita back as the main promotional artist for the next Fire Emblem game. I’d probably give the left leg, too, for Sachiko Wada instead.
OC Fact trade: "Valerie" is a huge weeb and a doctor who fangirl, but not many people know because it's never come up in conversation... oh god, I think I just made this character Ginger Sakaki, I need to lie down
Dirk has made at least four of his coworkers avoid initiating converation with him that isn’t strictly work-related because of how frequently he will launch into long discussions about Digimon or Gundam. Sometimes his team lead asks him about anime so he knows what the hell his daughter is talking about at home.
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Cleffa might be the cutest pokemon.
There are many contenders to ‘cutest pokemon’ in my heart, but Cleffa certainly finds an amazing balance between simple rounded design and inclusion of enough detail to add some visual pop.
