Athena

Athena is the Goddess of War and Wisdom. She has protected the peace and love of

the earth since mythological times, with the help of her many Saints. She is now the new reincarnation of Saori Kido (城戸沙織) one of the main characters of the series Saint Seiya from Masami Kurumada. Athena is of love, strategy, and hope. According to Myth, she's the goddess who inherits the control over the Earth from Zeus (her real father).

Personality

Growing up as Mitsumasa Kido's spoiled granddaughter, young Saori Kido at first did not get along well with the children who would eventually become her protectors, and considers herself a beautiful Greek princess. Although they were her grandfather's children (this blood relation to Mitsumasa was omitted in the anime series, in which they were orphans he picked up from different institutions), both in the manga and anime adaptations, she treated them like slaves. Seiya was among the few who resisted such treatment.

In the Manga, when she was 9, having to learned the truth about her origins from her dying grandfather, Saori had already matured, renouncing her spoiled lifestyle and facing both her duty as the Kido heiress and the crisis in Sanctuary with the support of the children who by then had become Saints. They helped her reluctantly at first – for example, she had to lure a distrustful Seiya in by promising to help him find his sister Seika – but the chain of events that followed convinced them that she was the incarnation of Athena and that the change in her was genuine. They slowly found their devotion and dedication to her, and forgot the grudges they had against her for her past abuses.

In Saint Seiya Heaven Chapter: Overture the only one out of the five Saint Seiya films that follows Masami Kurumada's plot, it was revealed that Athena has two siblings: the deities Apollo and Artemis.

A very important figure in the life of the twentieth century Athena was Mitsumasa Kido, in whom she saw a father and guide. His memory burns brightly in her life, and she wanted the Bronze Saints to know that he was indeed an honorable and good man who did not abandon his children out of selfishness or ambition as they all believed, but because he devoted himself to the destiny imposed on him by the stars, to protect Athena. Saori has a loyal follower in her butler, Tatsumi Tokumaru, Kido's former right hand and the only person who knew of her heritage along with his master.

Knownable Relatives

• Unnamed Mother
• Unnamed Father

Trivia

• Her name in Japanese means ???.
• Her birthday is ??? and her blood type is ???.
• Her star sign is a ???.

Voice Actresses

• Japanese : Fumiko Orikasa
• English : Emily Neves