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🔘 General Info

Handle: Athena
Legal Name: Mari Mackenzie
Height: 6'1"
Weigh: 196 lbs (the augments add a significant amount of mass)
Age: 35
Zodiac: Gemini
Gender: AFAB Masc-Leaning Nonbinary
Pronouns: Any
PB: Icons made on Potato Lord's Picrew + Drones on the Dronesona Picrew.

🔘 First Impressions

📻 VISUAL: Athena doesn't seem like much on first glance. Tall, slender, with a penchant for bright colors and often dresses like the local craft store exploded. They prefer loud colors, loud patterns, and often is accompanied by 1-3 drone assistants that are painted in a variety of florid colors.

📻 FASHION: As stated above: Gender Non Conforming Craft Store Explosion.

📻 DEMEANOUR: The most laid back chatterbox of a librarian that anyone ever did meet. Athena manages a digital archive at an interplanetary university and acts as peppy and up beat as the role suggests.

📻 AURAL: Variable. Athena has cybernetic augments due to medical procedures related to a disastrous accident. They were picked up and rehabilitated by a teaching star ship associated with the university to the utmost of what their technology could allow, but it is not perfect. When speaking in their natural voice, Athena fits into that middle area between a Tenor and an Alto and does their utmost to speak in as neutral a cadence as possible. Their voice takes on a tinny, radio-like quality when they are relying on their drones for a communication assist whenever the technology supporting their body goes on the fritz for whatever reason.

When they are being dramatic, they will drop into the old-time cinema Trans-Atlantic accent. For kicks and giggles.

📻 OLFACTORY: Old paper, old records, dust, machine oil, and the heady smells of herbal cigarettes.

📻 PERSONALITY: Upbeat. Chatterbox. Literally nothing can get Athena to shut up. They are stubborn and feisty, but inclined to take people at their word and trust even if it means that they get literally burned for it.

They are the sort of person that can and will call a person by their online handle out loud in a public setting, and drop puns at inopportune times.

📻 MEDICAL INFORMATION: Athena was in a space accident about a decade ago wherein a large portion of their body was crushed and they were deprived of oxygen for an amount of time that was decidedly unsafe. Their body has had extensive cybernetic augments and alterations just for general functioning. Their dominant hand, and their visual/audio processes have entirely had to be offloaded onto mechanical systems, and they are partly reliant on the drones to help them see, hear, and interact with the world. Their legs and spinal column have been partly rebuilt; their internal organs are a mostly functional mess of technology and whatever the doctors could salvage of their organic tissues.

📻 MENTAL INFORMATION: For being a survivor of extensive physical trauma, Athena is astoundingly well grounded and put together. Having an extensive and supportive network of people around you does wonders for the psyche

📻 MAGICAL INFORMATION: Athena possesses the capacity to learn some healing magic and does indeed do so over the course of the story. At base, these are not skills that are native to Athena but are easy enough to understand via the same unwasted energy principles that allows their tech run. Yes, even they are surprised that they can learn this.

📻 BRIEF SUMMARY:

"Athena", as they prefer to go by in spaces where they are uncertain about what is safe, is an archival worker on an interplanetary university that specializes in the digitization of vintage hard media but also works to maintain well-kept collections of rare antiques-- particularly music vinyls, which they like to share with their colleagues and curious university students while engaging in certain dubiously legal recreational activities with them. Born and raised in a Future Florida, Athena is no stranger to dubious deals-- and, generally, can get through them without problem. Keeping your eyes open and your hand on the nearest improvised weapon was normal.

A deal to pick up a case of rare vinyls went wrong and turned into a chase when Athena unwittingly grabbed the wrong suitcase and walked off with a case full of an unknown payload intended to sabotage the Inter-System Corporate Alliance that many of the space faring societies were a part of.

Rather than surrender despite doing nothing wrong, Athena ran and was shot down in neutral space... on a pre First Contact world.

With their ship damaged, Athena had no escape-- and no recourse but to surrender when the local government officials descended upon them and the wreckage site. In the conflict that followed, the unknown payload went live-- exploding and killing the one stranger that was trying to remedy the situation, the god-like Lord of Mysteries, Nysa. The survivors captured Athena and took them in for questioning... and, eventual medical study to figure out what kind of life form they even were. Humans as a concept were virtually unknown-- generalist type organisms did not exist on that world, and the medical professionals were confused by how Athena even functioned between this and their wide variety of medical augments.

It was only by luck that one of their drones was left alone. As a means of coping with their imprisonment, Athena sent the drone out in search of assistance and to learn about this new world while remaining vigilant for the cops to eventually find their location and descend in search for them. Unable to be connected 24/7, Athena let the Drone run an AI copy of their on personality for a degree of autonomy and charm in order to find allies that are willing to take on the empire to rescue an apparent god-slayer. Luck was on their side, and their first assist came at the hands of none other than an anarchist called Cecily Greywind and the militant trade organization behind her. With her two apprentices at hand, there were people on the outside to help.

This left Athena able to run interference on the mess that wasn't even their fault to be thrown into their face.

The powers that be, angered by Athena's association with the death of the God of Mystery and blaming them fully for the incident, demanded their death at the hands of Nysa's son, Genya.

Genya, a bastard of Nysa's but also his oldest surviving son, was one of the few Nysa trusted with the truth: there were other worlds beyond the limits of the skies, but disaster came the last time there was any contact at all. Genya informed Athena that Nysa would be back soon enough. Nysa is one of the few left of a race of cyclical immortals, who upon death return to a larval, infantile state and then starts the cycle of growing up anew with all of their memories intact. Until Nysa returned, however, Genya had to take on his duties, and needed help.

Rather than kill Athena, Genya got the brilliant idea of tasking Athena for an assist-- which would be enough to buy them all a little time and freedom until Nysa's return, and until someone came from the sky to extract Athena.

🔘 OOC

📻 BACKTAGGING: Always!
📻 FOURTHWALLING: Sure! If there's anything to Fourt Wall!
📻 PHYSICAL AFFECTION: Go ahead. Athena is very open to flirting and very tactile with their affections
📻 PHYSICAL VIOLENCE: I'd prefer a warning, but Athena is more than willing to fight back if needed.
📻 RELATIONSHIPS: Totally open, for men, women, and everyone in between. Let's just talk first if you want anything involving smut. Athena is Demi but Pansexual and open to participating in a Polycule.

🔘 EXTRA

Athena was spawned from a cross-canon AU and as such can exist in multiple AUs.

Examples include:

📻 Fate/: Caster-Class or a Master, just like the character they were AU'd from.

📻 Murderbot Diaries: A runaway corporate spy associated with the Pan System University of New Tideland and Mihira, an Augmented Human that sought refuge in Preservation and regularly trades media online with others on the Local Network -- the original AU that they came from.

📻 In General: If there's space in the canon for university archivists, hackers, cyborgs, nerds, art thieves and the like, Athena can fit into it easily.

📻 Trivia: 'Athena' is actually their preferred network tag, be it social media or in gamer spaces. Yes, they are the type to verbally call someone by their network tag when meeting in person.

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