#sts:arrowfall

Here's the link to the new chapter!

It's heartbreaking, to say the very least.

She'd basically grown up with Shun; sure it was only a few years, but it was crucial development years. She considered him a friend, and when he returned from his training he devoted himself to her as all Saints did.

She cared about him and his wellbeing. And then Hades took him from her.

Maybe you consider her close with Julian, a boy who she knew through her socialite life, who wanted her hand in marriage only to become Poseidon and try to drown her in the depths of the ocean pillars while her Saints watched

Kyoko and Shoko weren't necessarily childhood friends, but Saintias are the closest thing to family to Athena. They're her personal handmaidens, some raised her from infancy why others work practically glued to her side.

She'd lost Kyoko first to Eris (who wanted Shoko instead) and then a short time later, she loses Shoko to Persephone (if you go by their striking similarities in STS:O) or she loses her to Eris (if you consider the Dryad Shoko)

What would be scarier to Athena; losing her loved ones to battle, watching them die for her sake?

Or losing them to her fellow gods; To be forced to fight them or watch them be killed knowing they had no say in the matter?

Also, little question about your last chapter.

If Aiolos trusts Aiolia to keep silence about him and the fact he's alive, why didn't he trust him with the truth?

We all like to see our little guys suffer just a little bit, because the suffering will properly lead way to a happy ending 🙂‍↕️ Surely Aiolos will understand in the long run that he's just gotta have a Bad Time for a little bit before the Good Times start!

It's not that Aiolos doesn't trust him with the truth! You have to think about this as if you are Aiolos and had NO other information

He has NO idea the status of Sanctuary, the Pope, or its current hierarchy

He already thinks Aiolia is being mistreated, but if Aiolia won't admit it he can't pursue it

He knows at the very least, Aiolia doesn't know the truth and therefore, isn't in danger like he was

If Aiolos blurts out the truth and Aiolia then goes back to Sanctuary and causes a scene, He will die. If the Pope finds out Aiolia knows ANYTHING, if he thinks Aiolia knows that Aiolos is alive and knows where he is, he may torture Aiolia to get the information out of him and Aiolos and Saori's cover will be blown WAY too early

He got close to it!

here's a silly little sketch/lazy painted picture of Atsuya/Aiolos

I wanted to nail a simple design for him to come back to later when I have to draw him again and this is the one I liked the most out of all of them. Unfortunately the gradient maps I used saturated and lightened his colors way more than I wanted but alas

It's gonna start getting rough from here on out, fellas. I apologize in advance 😔