Y'know I've never posted Athena's ref sheet here, so have one of three! More detail + story in the read-more.
6' 3" / 190cm tall
Buff
Transbian
Canopian Catgirl
Mech pilot
Ex-MAF
The first is what I showed to my MW:D group, in the reply the second ref is a more muscular version, and the third is a nude version of the second. The last two were done for totally self-indulgent reasons.
I've totally made up a whole lot of shit that's not canon to Battletech but the game started in 3006 and nothing's going on then so here's some fun back story!
She was in the Magistracy of Canopus' armed forces (MAF). She is shown in Canopus-branded athletic wear they use during training. In particular, she was a part of the Shield Maidens, a group of Canopian special forces who were some of the best of the best. The Maidens act as a sort of cross between royal guard and army drum corps, providing both extreme training and acting as a propaganda arm of the MAF.
The actual best of the best tend to graduate out of it pretty quickly as they're too useful to keep around, while those that don't wash out can have a pretty long lasting career in it still actually doing stuff as part of the Magestrix's royal guard and not just putting on wild choreographed fights to show how awesome the MAF is.
Athena specifically... well, so, she fucked the Magestrix, and in an effort to clean up loose ends around that the Magestrix made sure she was sent as part of a suicide mission to lure overwhelming enemy forces away from the MAF's actual planned attack point. Athena did not know this was a suicide mission, and the enemy didn't know they were supposed to go all-in at this battle, so... she survived, and being one of the two entire mech pilots among a bunch of infantry did her best to help protect them as much as possible. She barely got out of it and ditched her mech, saying it was "lost in battle" and she had to eject.
Later, she posted to the MechWarrior merc board and had a dropship pick her up and she lead them to her mech to pick that up. This wound up being the merc group she's currently with to this day, although it ship-of-Theseus'd itself a little.
Regarding the three faces on the left:
Bottom: At one point she took some decohered laser to the face during a mech fight; she normally tries to be less-than-lethal but after that she was uh, angy.
Top: Don't we all feel that way sometimes?
Middle: ICE CREAM!!! She keeps a cooler in her mech with drinks and snacks (see 2nd pic for details).
