20 Sentences: Athena
20 Sentences: Athena
For tinyangl ♥
Zeus
Kimura is the closest thing she has to a father; Maki remembers nothing before him, just his raised eyebrows and the puff of surprised smoke from his crooked smile and the hand that rested upon her helmeted head, telling her to stay a while if she wished.
Hera
Yuko is beautiful and gracious and graceful, but Maki recognizes that she may very well be the shrewdest and most powerful of them all.
Poseidon
Shun’s smiles are easy to come by and his laughter is like the slow babbling of a brook; she is glad Athens did nothing to change their friendship.
Amphirite
Yu cultivates a garden under the sea, and though Maki rarely visits, she is always amazed and a bit pleased to see her olive trees thriving even in sea water.
Hades
She does not like to be in Shota’s presence; he stinks too much of death, of the men who died in her name and for her honor.
Persephone
She finds out much later that it was Yuriko who hid all her books that day, but by then Maki regards her with more respect than resentment to strategize an offensive.
Dionysus
Maki has always preferred tea or ambrosia to wine, but Aiba remains ever determined to get her to drink at least one sip.
Demeter
Becky’s emotions run into the earth; her happiness overflows in fields of sun-kissed wheat and her sadness brings drought and snow and Maki thinks there is nothing more terrifying than uncontrollable, all-consuming power.
Apollo
Sho brings the sun every morning and the sight of his chariot streaming across the lightening skies is dazzling; sometimes Maki will rise early and have her cup of tea by her window and wait.
Artemis
“Aim for the head instead of the heart,” Maki proposes, lifting Meisa’s arrow with the tip of her spear; Meisa complies with a shrug and the shot goes straight into the deer’s forehead, “a target running on instinct is less to fear than a target that can think.”
Hermes
Nino is her teammate, she gives commands and he delivers her words and they’ve never lost a war yet; Nino is her confidant, the one person to whom she can speak freely and quickly and know for sure that he is following along with ease; Nino is her ally, the one who stops her from spinning too out of control, the one who grounds her and makes her smile even when she doesn’t want to bother; Nino is . . .
Hephaestus
She doesn’t have much occasion to speak with Ohno-if she needs weapons, she can simply relay the message through Nino-but her main spear she will trust with no one else, and so she will sit silently at his workshop and watch the metal glow volcano red hot as Ohno strikes it into shape and she wonders only how someone who works with so much fire can have such beautiful hands.
Aphrodite
Contrary to popular belief, Maki understands love, understands the necessity of it, the desire for it, but loathes the irrationality of it, the fear and the envy and lust and greed and treachery and heartache and heartbreak-it’s above all else a weakness.
Ares
If she’s honest, Maki would prefer to settle all their differences with a game of chess, but those games usually lead to Jun flipping the table and taking up his spear and if Maki’s even more honest, she rather likes the sound of her spear piercing through the softest point of his helmet and into his skull.
Hestia
Maki likes visiting Mirei because her hearth is always so warm, tea is plentiful, and her home is an architectural work of art with lines of books spiraling across every room.
Eros
Meisa is the best shot with a bow and arrow, but there is something fascinating about the way Nari pulls back the string and lets his arrow fly, a golden point whisking across the skies with the faintest line of red trailing after it.
Psyche
Maki thinks Shihori was the most beautiful in all of Olympusyama on her wedding day; who to give that golden apple to would have been an easy decision.
Heracles
Yamapi exasperates her just as often as he makes her proud; this is one battle neither Jun nor Maki will ever fully win.
Megara
Masami is a breath of fresh air for Olympusyama-she speaks her mind without any thought to the consequences; with a little wisdom, she could be a great woman.
Athena
Sometimes, when she can’t stop her brain from turning-always-she lies in bed and thinks, plans, runs simulations and strategies in her head until she is satisfied, because even though these people are like family, one can never fully trust an irrational, thinking, immortal being. (In every simulation Maki wins, she will always win.)
For tinyangl ♥
Zeus
Kimura is the closest thing she has to a father; Maki remembers nothing before him, just his raised eyebrows and the puff of surprised smoke from his crooked smile and the hand that rested upon her helmeted head, telling her to stay a while if she wished.
Hera
Yuko is beautiful and gracious and graceful, but Maki recognizes that she may very well be the shrewdest and most powerful of them all.
Poseidon
Shun’s smiles are easy to come by and his laughter is like the slow babbling of a brook; she is glad Athens did nothing to change their friendship.
Amphirite
Yu cultivates a garden under the sea, and though Maki rarely visits, she is always amazed and a bit pleased to see her olive trees thriving even in sea water.
Hades
She does not like to be in Shota’s presence; he stinks too much of death, of the men who died in her name and for her honor.
Persephone
She finds out much later that it was Yuriko who hid all her books that day, but by then Maki regards her with more respect than resentment to strategize an offensive.
Dionysus
Maki has always preferred tea or ambrosia to wine, but Aiba remains ever determined to get her to drink at least one sip.
Demeter
Becky’s emotions run into the earth; her happiness overflows in fields of sun-kissed wheat and her sadness brings drought and snow and Maki thinks there is nothing more terrifying than uncontrollable, all-consuming power.
Apollo
Sho brings the sun every morning and the sight of his chariot streaming across the lightening skies is dazzling; sometimes Maki will rise early and have her cup of tea by her window and wait.
Artemis
“Aim for the head instead of the heart,” Maki proposes, lifting Meisa’s arrow with the tip of her spear; Meisa complies with a shrug and the shot goes straight into the deer’s forehead, “a target running on instinct is less to fear than a target that can think.”
Hermes
Nino is her teammate, she gives commands and he delivers her words and they’ve never lost a war yet; Nino is her confidant, the one person to whom she can speak freely and quickly and know for sure that he is following along with ease; Nino is her ally, the one who stops her from spinning too out of control, the one who grounds her and makes her smile even when she doesn’t want to bother; Nino is . . .
Hephaestus
She doesn’t have much occasion to speak with Ohno-if she needs weapons, she can simply relay the message through Nino-but her main spear she will trust with no one else, and so she will sit silently at his workshop and watch the metal glow volcano red hot as Ohno strikes it into shape and she wonders only how someone who works with so much fire can have such beautiful hands.
Aphrodite
Contrary to popular belief, Maki understands love, understands the necessity of it, the desire for it, but loathes the irrationality of it, the fear and the envy and lust and greed and treachery and heartache and heartbreak-it’s above all else a weakness.
Ares
If she’s honest, Maki would prefer to settle all their differences with a game of chess, but those games usually lead to Jun flipping the table and taking up his spear and if Maki’s even more honest, she rather likes the sound of her spear piercing through the softest point of his helmet and into his skull.
Hestia
Maki likes visiting Mirei because her hearth is always so warm, tea is plentiful, and her home is an architectural work of art with lines of books spiraling across every room.
Eros
Meisa is the best shot with a bow and arrow, but there is something fascinating about the way Nari pulls back the string and lets his arrow fly, a golden point whisking across the skies with the faintest line of red trailing after it.
Psyche
Maki thinks Shihori was the most beautiful in all of Olympusyama on her wedding day; who to give that golden apple to would have been an easy decision.
Heracles
Yamapi exasperates her just as often as he makes her proud; this is one battle neither Jun nor Maki will ever fully win.
Megara
Masami is a breath of fresh air for Olympusyama-she speaks her mind without any thought to the consequences; with a little wisdom, she could be a great woman.
Athena
Sometimes, when she can’t stop her brain from turning-always-she lies in bed and thinks, plans, runs simulations and strategies in her head until she is satisfied, because even though these people are like family, one can never fully trust an irrational, thinking, immortal being. (In every simulation Maki wins, she will always win.)