Looks mid-20 | Female
BasicsName: Athena Lovell
Nicknames: Nothing official
Sexuality: Pansexual if you must insist on labels
Relationship Status: Open
Species: She’s a witch darling
Skills- Shadow Magic: Manipulation of darkness and shadows, ability to phase through solid objects if cast in shadow, and shadow walking.
- Light Magic: Ability to manipulate visible light for attack purposes, such as solidification of light, and light attack.
- Basic Magic: General ability to conjure, create enchantments and potions. Nothing too complex, but part of her coven’s general education.
- Persuasive skills: Athena has the ability to not only easily convince others to her line of thinking, but making them feel like that was their desire all along. A great orator, and writer, Athena is highly dynamic and uses it to her advantage.
- Flirting: Not a traditional skill, but Athena turns her flirting skills— learned from French court ladies—into a weapon when needed. Most of the time however, her flirting nature is quite unconscious.
Weaknesses- Inability to create Magic: She can’t generate shadow or light magic from nothing. Which means at night, unless there is some sort of light casting a shadow or direct light, she is unable to use her magic.
- Abandonment Issues: Due to the fact that her family and village literally wanted her dead, Athena has some trust issues and can often feel isolated despite her sociable personality.
- Self-Esteem Issues: Stemming from her abandonment issues, Athena can be quite insecure— although she hides it well. Feeling very much like she’s playing pretend, she often struggles to feel secure in her role and position within the society.
- Physicality: She’s not super strong, as most of her fighting is done with her magic, as opposed to hand-to-hand. Due to her longevity, she’s learnt basic self-defense but that’s about it.
AppearanceIndicators of her status as a powerful witch, both her crescent moon birthmark and her vibrant dark purple eyes are Athena’s most stunning features. Normally, her birthmark glows pale white, however, depending on the amount of magic Athena uses, her birthmark has been known to glow even brighter. Contrasted with her olive complexion and raven hair, her look has often been called striking. Athena, well, she agrees. A full mouth, high cheekbones and wide eyes, her conventionally attractive features, curvy figure, and deep pocket, has often been used to her advantage. While everything about her look screams woman, two deep dimples give a hint of the innocent and naive person hidden behind her assured persona.
Often clad in expensive, well-fitted clothing, Athena cuts an imposing figure despite her short height. Her air of self-assurance and confidence, coupled with her polished look have often intimidated or awed others. Easily distinguishable from the crowd, she has been at pains to ensure that her distinction from everyone has been for the right reason. Expertly covering up how insecure she is about her place and role in Black Iris, Athena portrays a confident, and vivacious persona.
PersonalityA veritable social butterfly, Athena is a naturally gregarious flirt who simply enjoys people. She loves debating with others, but has been known to quell many arguments with a simple smile and a redirect. Despite having the reputation of knowing everyone and being friends with everyone, Athena has a very small circle of close friends. With these select people, Athena drops her graceful and confident mask. With those she trusts she is silly and slightly naive, in spite of her long life. She has a strong mothering instinct towards those friends, and can fall prey to a sob-story. While highly intelligent and ambitious, Athena is not particularly cunning and can therefore, sometimes be taken advantage of.
Some have guessed that she has a tendency to surround herself with others as a means to combat her internal loneliness, but none have dared say it to her face. And if they did, well who knows what might come for them under the cover of the shadows.
HistoryBorn with purple eyes and a crescent moon birthmark, the sight of such an unnatural baby lead to panic in her household. The first known witch in her family, her mother tried to kill the young child. However, some self-preservation instinct kicked in and turned her bright purple eyes into an ordinary brown. Her once moon-shaped birthmark became a simple black mole. Convincing themselves that it was a trick of the light, her parents tried to raise the young girl as an ordinary child. Knowing from a young age that her magic was rarely if never, to be used she strangled any urge to cast. However, this forceful suppression of her magic manifested itself in uncontrollable casting. It started first in her sleep, where dreams of fairies would manifest into wispy tricks of light. But as she grew up, the strength of her magic grew too. One day, in anger, the young girl accidentally set fire to the thatch of a barn and the people in her village immediately turned her over to the Inquisition. The Spanish Inquisition had heard tales of a young girl born with purple eyes and a glowing moon on her forehead and eagerly seized the opportunity to sentence her, despite her age.
One of the youngest witches persecuted during the Basque Witch Trials, and with little training to her name, the Trial would have spelled the end of her short life. But rumours of a young, powerful witch had reached les Sorciѐres de la Lumière des Étoile— one of the oldest and most influential French covens. Saved, and transplanted from the small Basque village to the centre of Paris, she was named Athena. The newly named Athena tried her best to fit into the coven. Her earlier fear of magic turned to sheer joy as she learned French and magic at a rapid rate. Her coven mothers guessed that the suppression of magic lead to her birthmark glowing a soft, diffused white once she finally started tapping into and training her magic. Athena spent many years in Paris with the coven and helped oversee the shift to New York City as Europe became increasingly militant in wiping out all supernatural persons.
Now one of the senior most witches in her coven, Athena strives to maintain the legacy of the coven while cultivating a bright and secure future for all witches. Shedding the more restrictive rules of the coven, her coven now includes both female and male witches. And with each carefully selected member, Athena takes on a mothering role as she guides the witches to their fullest potential. For many centuries Athena was content in her role, but the security of Black Iris made her complacent. One night, during one of Starlight's rituals hunters attacked. She was able to get away and save many of her coven, however, other's were not so lucky. Watching so many of her coven fall to the hunters turned her frustration with humans into anger. What started out as an avenging quest, to kill the hunters who had murdered her coven, turned into a secret mission. To stop hunters from hunting supernaturals, by any means necessary.
MiscellaneousJenna Coleman | 801CA3
She has a black cat because she finds human stereotypes funny and also feels bad that black cats are left in shelters because of human superstitions.
Also her coven can be called SLE or Sorceresses of the Starlight if you wanna be fancy.