#and yet ppl insist she must be able to stand completely alone for a trial (which apollo and Phoenix rarely do/ can barely even do)

[dyelwi]

Saw a post that was like “Apollo has it sooo much worse than Athena” and like yeah to an extent. Like if you look at the individual story beats then yeah Apollo goes through more. But it feels so weird to me to insist he has it easier and Athena has like no problems anymore when she still has severe trauma and is disabled and like. Idk I don’t think op meant to imply Athena had everything super easy forever but it felt like that to me. Which felt weird. Bc she very clearly doesn’t, we see in aa6 even how she’s still struggling a lot even when on a relatively less important case. And idk it just reminded me of how the fandom at large expects Athena to do things even Phoenix and apollo can’t or can barely do when she’s clearly very effected by her trauma and mental health issues/ disability. Idk, like I said I don’t think op meant it this way but that is just. Very much how it felt esp w how ppl talk about Athena generally.