Athena Cykes

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Hero Overview

Synopsis

Do-Gooder

Full Name

Athena Cykes

Kokone Kizuki (Japanese name)

Alias(es)

Athena Cykes

Cykes-dono

Origin

Ace Attorney: Dual destinies

Occupation

Lawyer

Powers / Skills

High intelligence

Empathy
Determination
Physical strength

Hobby

Studying languages

Studying analytical psychology
Annoying Apollo

Goals

Find her mother's killer.

Stop Simon Blackquill from being executed.
Protect her best friend from Aristotle Means. (all succeeded)

Family

Metis Cykes (mother) †

Widget (inner voice, personal computer)

Enemies

Aristole Means (Juniper's framer)

Bobby Fulbright/The Phantom (Mother's killer)
Ted Tonate
Florent L'Belle
Roger Retinz
Gaspen Payne (arrogant jerk)

Type of Hero

Determined Official

“	Analytical psychology is going to revolutionize this stodgy institution!	„
	~ Athena's determination to bring psychology into legal matters.

“	Every human being feels fear. You just can't face the feelings inside of you because you have nothing. No love, no trust [... ] I didn't have anybody to support me at first either. I couldn't face the fear inside of me, couldn't get over the trauma of my past.	„
	~ Talking to her mother's killer.

“	knock Knock! "Who's there?" This evidence and that statement. "This evidence and that statement, who?" They contradict each other, that's who!	„
	~ Comically attempting the Chewbacca defense in court.

Athena Cykes (Japanese: Kokone Kizuki) is one of the two tritagonists (alongside Maya Fey) in the Ace Attorney franchise.

She is the tritagonist of the Apollo Justice Trilogy, being one of the two main protagonists (alongside Phoenix Wright) of the 2013 visual novel Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies and one of the two tritagonists (alongseide Nahyuta Sahdmadhi) of its 2016 sequel Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Spirit of Justice.

She is one of three defense attorneys in the Wright Anything Agency, working in this capacity alongside Phoenix Wright and Apollo Justice. She is a specialist in analytical psychology, which she studied in Europe. Cykes has a special ability to pick up subtle emotions from witnesses' voices, and she examines these using a program called the "Mood Matrix". The Mood Matrix is linked to her AI partner Widget, who hangs around her neck, that changes color with her emotions.

She was voiced by Megumi Han in the Japanese version and by Wendee Lee in the English version.

Overview[]

When she was a little child Athena's mother was murdered by a man in a mask who broke into their family residence. Due to her incredibly sheltered and depressing childhood due to her hyperacusis (and her believing herself to be a tortured guinea pig by her psychologist/scientist mother who forced her to wear special headphones all the time but forgot why), Athena had a twisted mental state which made want to mutilate her mother's corpse (to try and "fix" her); the incident left her with severe PTSD. Years later Athena, who has worked hard to turn herself into a confident sporty lawyer, was accused of the murder from her childhood. The truth behind it, alongside Athena's real role in the incident, and the truth behind her mother's apparent "torture" she inflicted on her, was eventually revealed; Metis had been doing research on her ultra sensitive hearing not because she was a convenient guinea pig, but to help her. Athena's hearing was much more sensitive as a child and she couldn't go to school or be in public without getting sensory overload, so Metis made her wear the headphones because they cancelled out emotional inputs in order to dampen her sensitivity.

When Athena learned what she had done to a mother who loved her so much, she experienced a major psychological breakdown. Despite this, she was able to overcome her past via the aide of Phoenix Wright, and Apollo Justice, and has since moved on.