Athena Blossom's Questionnaire

What town or city do you live in?
Athena lives in St. Andrews, a historic seaside town in Scotland known for its old universities, gothic architecture, and lingering superstitions. It’s quiet, isolated, and filled with crumbling stone and hidden alleys — the perfect place for someone like her to operate unnoticed.

Why do you live there instead of anywhere else?
She and her brother were sent there "for their education," but Athena knows the truth runs deeper. The boarding school they attend is prestigious, old, and oddly well-connected — a place that teaches more than just standard academics if you know where to look. It’s a training ground, though she’s never said for what exactly.

Describe your home.
Athena lives with her brother in a towering, ivy-wrapped dormitory built centuries ago. Their room is cramped but meticulously organized: her side is filled with old books, strange artifacts, and pinned diagrams. There's always a chess board set mid-game and a satchel packed with essentials, as if she expects to run at any moment. The stone walls are cold, but Athena feels oddly at home among them — ancient stones for an ancient ambition.

Athena gets her money through layered, often shady means. Officially, her tuition and living expenses are paid by "family funds" — an old, secretive trust linked to the Blossom name. Unofficially, she and Ares run a quiet empire inside the boarding school. Information trading, blackmail, arranging "accidents," smuggling rare books and artifacts — if it’s valuable, they have a hand in it.

Athena doesn't waste her earnings. She invests most of it back into their operations: bribes for staff, ancient texts, enchanted items, hidden safehouses across Europe. What little she spends personally goes toward tailored clothing, encrypted phones, and gifts for her brother. Power is expensive. She’s budgeting for war.

Athena Blossom is striving to become a legend, not just a leader. She wants to be the undisputed head of the Blossom family—the one who drags the old bloodline out of its whispered shadows and turns it into a dynasty that reshapes the world. She doesn't want power for power’s sake. She wants to be the mind behind the throne, the strategist that even gods would fear.

Athena would absolutely kill for it. She's already planning for it. If standing atop the ruins of rivals is what it takes, she'll do it with steady hands and a clean conscience. She would walk right up to death’s doorstep and dare it to blink. Because to her, survival isn't enough. Victory is survival.

The most defining event of Athena Blossom’s life was the death of her mother—a woman who ruled the Blossom family’s private empire with an iron fist and a genius mind. Athena was only thirteen when it happened, but she understood immediately: power doesn't protect you. Strategy does. Watching her unshakable mother fall, not to a knife or a gun but to betrayal within their own circle, planted a permanent lesson in her heart.

That moment stripped away any illusion of safety or sentiment. Athena realized the world doesn’t reward kindness or blood ties—it rewards ruthlessness wrapped in brilliance. From that day on, she stopped being a child. She started becoming something sharper.

1. Ares Blossom – Her twin brother and the only person Athena truly trusts. They’re opposites in many ways—Ares is impulsive, brash, and fiercely protective—but their bond is ironclad. Athena plans and schemes; Ares enforces and defends. He's the only person who knows the weight Athena carries, and the only one she'd hesitate to manipulate. If Athena is the mind of their ambition, Ares is the heart.

2. Professor Sinclair – The headmaster of their boarding school, and an unexpected chess piece in Athena’s larger plans. A reserved man with an eye for potential and a closet full of secrets, Sinclair suspects Athena’s ambitions—but he also sees her brilliance. Their relationship is a tense, veiled game: mentor and mentee, adversary and ally, both biding time.

3. Cassandra Vane – A rival at school and a daughter of a powerful political family. Cassandra represents everything Athena is poised to conquer: privilege, reputation, and inherited power. Their rivalry is polite on the surface but brutal underneath, and Athena knows it’s only a matter of time before one of them buries the other socially—or otherwise.