Name: Athena Parthenos
Code Name: Thumos
Height: 6ft6
Weight: 6239lbs
Eyes: Blue
Hair: long, brown

Athena Parthenos, or more accurately, the Athena Parthenos, was a monumental chryselephantine statue often attributed to a team of artists under the supervision of the great sculptor Phidias. Brought to life by the trickery of Dolos, arguments remain as to whether the mischievous god imbued the statue with a fraction of Athena's essence itself or if her natural proclivities are just a biproduct of art imitating divine life. Having changed hands and having cropped up throughout antiquity the statue was eventually lost sometime in the first millennium. Many theories exist as to how the great statue disappeared but the truth is much simpler: she just upped and walked away.

Personality and Appearance
Athena Parthenos is a strange thing: at the same time both very much a living statue and also a woman. At rest in her natural form she towers at almost 32 feet in height, a grand and noble embodiment of the goddess Athena, a form she rarely ever returns to.

Alive, she is smaller at only six and a half feet, lithe and powerful and to all appearances, human. With a stern face and full lips that warm quickly with laughter and smiles, she has kind, patient eyes as blue and bright as Greek summer skies. Her long brown hair falls in curtains over her shoulders and down to her hips though she often braids or plaits it to keep it up and out of the way. Thumos' pale skin is evocative of the ivory from which it was carved and plated. Though she looks human there's something unmistakably constructed about her: a sturdiness, the way her hair doesn't fall quite flat, but holds shape as if carved from stone, the gentle rumble and creak of her movements like animate stone, the disproportionately heavy fall of her feet, the silence she exudes for lack of breath or bodily functionality.

The Athena Parthenos has drifted through time and antiquity, witnessing history unfold and now and again, wandering right through the middle of it. She is, by her nature, a creature of great inertia. As prone to activity and curiosity as she is pensive thought and stationary rest. Left to her own devices it is all too uncommon for her to fall into contemplation, still as stone, and stay that way for hours or days, or longer, just to rouse into activity and action the way one might wake from a nap. At her core she is gentle, and kind, and wise but like the war-goddess for who her likeness was carved, she does not abide the cruelties of Aeries and the ravages of war and as such, over the centuries, has found herself irresistibly drawn into the conflicts of mortal beings when innocent life is threatened.

Athena Parthenos is not boggled by technology although she does not take to it naturally. She finds the changing of the world beautiful and tragic at the same time, aware that the children of men grow further and further from the gods as they soar towards the sun, and wonders if like Icarus, they may someday soar too close and pay the price for it. Conversationally she seems almost human but there is a certain laissez-fair attitude and detachment that creeps through sometimes, an air of one who is a relic of history lost in time, reminding those that engage with her that she truly is an immortal statue in the shape of a woman and the frailties and concerns of fleeting mortality simply don't hold sway over her heart.

Powers and Abilities
The Athena Parthenos is long lived and far traveled but her attention is wandering and her perceptions anecdotal at best. Asking her about medieval England or colonial India or Depression era America are all like asking a tourist about their trip to the zoo five years ago: aside from some impressions and highlights, her general recollections are mostly key moments surrounded by general impressions.

Physically, The Athena Parthenos, or Thumos in the field, is an indomitable brawler. As dense as the stone and bone from which she was carved and just as immoveable. She relies primarily on her great strength and resilience though she is possessed of a certain Amazonian athleticism. Unsurprisingly, she's not prone to fear or compunction and approaches most conflicts with the reluctance of a kindly mother forced to discipline a child. The Athena Parthenos does not enjoy combat but she is good at it in a very straightforward and direct type of way.