// There’s something very interesting about the way Athena does this, making judgements from appearance and present behaviour when she obviously knows better. Especially in the first instance where this was about Apollo as a child- she herself is completely different from how she was as a child, so she’d know more than anyone how someone can do a complete turnabout, especially given how immensely driven she was to that end. As for appearance? Simon. Nuff said
I can’t remember any other instances off hand, but... from what I gather from this? It’s difficult for her to break some things down if it’s not right in front of her, in the form of discord- something that’s more tangible. A lot of the time, understanding people has been reliant on understanding their literal ‘wavelength’, so when that is out of the picture, it gets hard to align or put two and two together.