#athena musing

Athena grew up moving around a lot. Her father was in the US Army so her and her older brother, Apollo, were forced to jump from school to school. It made making friends incredibly hard, although she got used to being the “new kid” at every school. Still, she felt like she couldn’t really fit in. Her brother became her best friend and the two spent most of their days as kids playing video games, watching movies and reading comic books. By the age of twelve, Athena had built her own gaming computer so her and Apollo could play the news games with the best frame rates. It might have been weird for a girl so young to be such a gaming nerd but she didn’t care. It was fun and she loved it. It also helped for her to escape from reality when a couple years later, her father was killed in action overseas. Unable to face the fact that her father was never coming home, she delved further into her computer and video games. Better to live in an augmented reality than deal with her father’s death.

Eventually her mother put her into counseling. Athena rarely left her room except when her brother forced her to go to school. Her therapist suggested that she start keeping a diary so Athena started recording her own thoughts onto a private blog. The use of tech was more comfortable than pen and paper. Maybe surprising to her, she found herself opening up a bit more and recording her talking about video games and comics. Thus was the beginnings of her up and coming podcast, Delving In Nerd Style. She would talk about video games she played, new games coming out, discussing upcoming tech, comic and movies reviews - everything a nerd could ever want. When she wasn’t podcasting she was streaming her playing various games on Twitch. From that point on, her career took off.

Her podcast soon became a hit with millions of streams and downloads. She even won a Listener’s Choice award two years in a row. She got a studio and a whole crew to help her take off and her name was spread across the podcasting world. It was weird to be considered famous. In fact, she felt awkward when she went on tours and met people. But behind the soundboard? She was a rockstar. She would have stayed there, if she could. But fate had other plans. Athena was recording one of her podcasts when one of her crew members came in infected and started chowing down on other members of her team. She escaped out the back and ran home to her brother. The two hunkered down in her brother’s home for a few months as everything collapsed but they couldn’t stick around. Apollo knew of a place further south so they headed that direction until they arrived in Redwood.

For the past sixteen months they’ve settled there. Athena used her podcasting skills and computer expertise to help man the radio and fix any of the equipment that was lying around. She still feels weird when she has to talk to people in town and is definitely more comfortable on the radio. She’s glad that her skills are being put to good work and that she can be at least somewhat useful in helping the town survive.

Headcanons:

When she gets nervous, she tends to talk a lot. She even speaks a bit fast, although she’s trying to get more comfortable talking with people face to face. 

She likes to scavenge around the junkyard and find broken junk to try and fix. She likes taking things apart and putting them back together.