athena cykes

Energetic & Fidgety: She has a hard time staying still, often jogging in place, stretching, or making expressive, dramatic physical movements. Her ponytail is known to react to her stress levels as if it were an extra limb.

Emotionally Driven: Athena has an innate ability to hear the "heart" in a person's voice, picking up on conflicting or suppressed emotions.

The Mood Matrix: She uses an AI necklace named Widget to project a Mood Matrix, which helps her find contradictions in witness testimonies by analyzing their emotional state.

Competitive & Outspoken: She is headstrong, fiercely competitive, and not afraid to speak her mind, which sometimes gets her into trouble.

Underlying Trauma: Beneath her bright, peppy exterior lies a heavy past. She lost her mother in a traumatic incident and deeply cares for those close to her, such as her childhood friend and mentor Simon Blackquill. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]

Athena is good-spirited, well-meaning and highly motivated as a person. She has strong emotions and a powerful drive to win, which can sometimes cause her to be reckless. Widget occasionally picks up on her emotions and blurts out what she's really thinking, much to her chagrin. She likes orange juice after a good workout and gratuitously peppers her speech with French, German, Spanish, and Italian, languages that she apparently picked up while studying in Europe. Athena also seems to have the habits of getting lost easily and falling asleep just about anywhere. In court, she uses Widget's holographic capabilities extensively; whereas her co-workers bring hard copies of notes and evidence to read and reference, Athena prefers to store and retrieve information digitally via Widget. Ironically, as a child, Athena was quiet and subdued, and had trouble grasping the difference between robots and humans due to her isolation. It was only after she grew up and was able to socialize more that she became the energetic presence that her colleagues and clients would come to know her for.

Beneath her external cheerfulness  was a deep-seated childhood trauma that threatened to overpower her during two of her trials. Although she would sometimes put on a brave face, Widget's expression would give an insight into her true feelings. When she was extensively ignored in court, especially when the case was going very badly for her, Athena would be reminded of her mother's murder and being ignored during Simon Blackquill's trial, causing her to shut down. In this state, her eyes would become blank, while Widget would go black to mirror Athena's emotional state. After the retrial of UR-1, she began to move on from her past trauma, no longer shutting down completely when things began to go badly for her in court. However, her self-confidence can still be fragile, as shown by her doubting herself during Bucky Whet's trial, although a few guiding (though harsh) words from Simon Blackquill

Widget: Her defining accessory is a small, high-tech AI companion named "Widget" that she wears around her neck. This device displays holographic readouts and changes color based on her emotional state.