#athena character design

[i-would-get-in-the-water-naked]

Athena character design and headcanons

the quality is shit I know, I'm sorry :((

(ART BY ME)

istg if Tumblr fucks up again I will throw my PC out of the window.

anyway.

Headcanons

She's an outsider among the other Gods. They tend to underestimate her, sometimes even humiliate her, especially the men - because she's strong, smart, beautiful, and a woman. They feel like she threatens their status.

Ares is her younger brother (they're just a few years apart, which doesn't really matter now that they're adults because Gods age differently and slower than humans). They cannot stand each other. Ares hates the fact that one of Athena's purposes is being responsible for the fairness of wars - because he feels controlled by her.

Speaking of which, Ares often annoys her in any way he can think of. Athena hates that and it often ends up in her beating Ares' ass.

One more thing about Athena and Ares' relationship: they actually care about each other very much but won't admit it to anyone - not even themselves. They might piss each other off, but they'd never EVER hurt each other. They fight a lot but they make sure blood never gets involved.

The only person who has ever shown her any open support was Poseidon. They spent a lot of time together when Athena was young, he trained her in the skill of fighting, which is one of the reasons she's so good at it.

In the modern-day world, you could say she most definitely is on the autism spectrum. She doesn't understand emotion, hers, or others. The concept of love - both romantic and physical - just doesn't make sense to her (mostly because nobody has ever shown her any).

She probably thinks she's aroace in the way "I don't need love or sex" but if someone hugged her and told her they love her, she would either giggle and kick her feet or cry. Depends on the situation.

She hardly ever cries. She bottles up her emotions because she has always been told nobody cared. She overall is very calm and collected until something or someone hurts her pride and/or ego - which she uses as a defense mechanism because she figured that others don't like her because she's better than them.

She has white owl-like wings which she keeps hidden with a spell inside of the two scars she has on her back - she got the wings in a very painful process and they are very sensitive. She can also turn into an owl and she sometimes does it just to avoid talking to people.

Oh, and she LOVES birds. Like. In her chamber in the Olympus palace, she has a whole collection of sketchbooks which she used to draw birds into when she was little. Whenever she finds out any fact about one of the birds she has drawn, she finds the page it's on and writes the fact down next to it.

She's probably panromantic? But she has never gotten the opportunity to find out (and me neither so I don't have any idea what sexuality to give her).

[tismoonie]

I hope y’all like greek mythology here…

Anyone else obsessed with EPIC??

[itspindookie]

Goddess of wisdom

[salmonpiffy]

My friends recommended me to watch 'that musical'

[lesbiamano]

FINEEE i'll draw your stupid greek mythology people

[im-an-apollogist]

I spent five hundred years doing this 😭😭😭

(Made by @destinywalender )

[pink-pone]

~ My Little Pony: Friendship is EPIC ~

i am completely obsessed with Epic: the Musical (go check it out on Youtube) and since I also love ponies, I present to you, a crossover!!

~ click read more to hear a few thoughts behind the designs ~

Odysseus has a little wedding ring on his horn cause you all KNOW he loves Penelope and has to show it and talk about it every other second for his mental health lol

Eury's lil bob tail !!!! enough said

Polites is pinkie pie coded and you cannot convince me otherwise. so he gets the curly bouncy hair !!

Athena is represented by an owl so um, of COURSE she has to be the big giant bird species in pony land, the hippogriff

I have no idea on their cutiemarks, if yall have ideas i'd love to hear

The gray tones in the art are not final, I just tossed a few in there to give depth to the sketches. I’ll figure out the colors soon hopefully lol

i am 100% drawing more for this crossover, like Penelope, Telemachus, etc. hehe

[cvmcicle]

need Hera religiously, im just saying if Zeus doesn't want her i'd be happy to

[sol-niczka]

Badass in the arena💙✨

My take on Athena for Epic: the Musical!!

[iamsweetchaos]

i had an epiphany while listening to God Games

[verchknyaz]

Another sketch dump since my computer is still broken 🥀

Here is THE pretty boy 🌞💅

I love this duo sm, it’s so random but their dynamic is just amazing

My shaky hand making sketches more cartoony and ugly messy, pipipi 😭

[irunaki]

since so many ppl liked my design for her, here is her reference sheet, explanations and headcanons :D

[ochiody]

paper drawing for once

[l-bubee-l]

THE GREEK GODS IN MY STYLE — ATHENA, APHRODITE :

The Goddess of Wisdom and the Goddess of Love are done! I love me my (olive and seafoam) green girlies. 😌

More about their designs below!

So obviously, the shade of the most prominent color of their outfits correspond to something they're linked to.

Athena with olive green because of the olive tree she planted which earned her patronage over Athens, and Aphrodite with seafoam green because of her being born from seafoam (technically it was something else but we ain't getting into that today).

I actually really struggled with figuring out the colors for Athena. She was the first to give me trouble like that. But I knew I wanted her to be green from the get go. With the amount of mortals she's helped, I feel like she'd have a pretty strong earthly connection. Plus apparently green abstractly symbolizes wisdom, so there's also that!

It was my lovely partner who had suggested to make it so that the back of her helmet was basically the face of an owl, as a reference to owls turning their heads 270 degrees. It works really well too because it is said that one of the purposes of Athena's owl is to watch her blind spots so I think it's cool to incorporate that into her outfit.

Now for Aphrodite... I have quite a bit to say.

I gave her pointed ears to signify the unusual way in which she was born. She and Poseidon share this trait, alongside the both of them having green eyes. Idk, I think it's an interesting way to show their connection to the sea.

I love how, in many different fan depictions, her bed is a clam. Absolutely love that nod to her origins. I came into designing her with the idea that I wanted to somehow incorporate that clam into her design and I did so by making it so that her cloak and trail both form the shape of one.

The white roses are meant as a nod to the Greek myth of how red roses came to be, specifically the version where, while running to save her mortal lover Adonis, Aphrodite cuts herself and her blood ends up staining pure white roses.

Finally, one thing I really love doing when designing characters is making it so that there's a fair bit of asymmetry. Namely in the case of their outfits. That's something I've been trying to implement for all the gods. But in Aphrodite's case, I intentionally made it so that what she has on is relatively even, with her actually having two of each accessory on either side of her body. This is meant to be a nod to how she was often described to have been born "perfectly symmetrical".

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[toonirl]

and then i said "i'm only gonna draw one nicktoons descendant"

y'know like a liar

@what-is-my-aesthetic

[dolcemori]

The toxic wisdom duo