Athena's sketch concept art is really pretty.
I enjoy how much thought was put behind her character design, and a lot of concepts being directly tied to music notes is definitely some form of reference to her ability to hear the hearts of people.
Perhaps, her ability to hear noise would be tied to her musical intelligence as well?
No matter what, her hair is always quite wild...she is the second largest consumer of hair products in the Wright Anything Agency. The title for the first will always be held by apollo, I fear.
This early concept art for Athena is super cute. The idea of her iconic item being a form of shell/conch (a conch being a shell from which you can hear the sea) is wonderful...the different possibilities of how her hearing ability can be presented are so creative!
I wonder how conch shells sound to Athena? Maybe they're the same, but a bit louder.
I have not read the translated Japanese notes yet (since I would prefer to find an accurate translation instead of using a software to get something out of them). I should do that soon...I would definitely love to know the deep thought process behind how Athena was designed.
Also, she looks like Sorin Sprocket here. That's cute!
I actually have the official English Dual Destinies art book so here's some of the officially translated notes on Athena's concept art if you want!!
I apologize for the quality of a few of these! The lighting in my room is so bad and my camera low-key sucks 😭
