what she says: i’m fine

what she means: athena cykes isn’t treated with the respect she deserves in aa5 capcom wrote her with the same stock personality they give to every female sidekick and her entire storyarc relied on her relationship with blackquill in a scenario which gave him most of the limelight and made him a much more interesting character than her so in aa6 they had a perfect opportunity to give athena a fresh start and develop her character but instead they just gave her a tiny amount of screen-time to show her learning how to “develop into a more mature attorney” and “get people to take her seriously” even though she literally already learned that that was the whole purpose of her entire character arc from DD you can’t just recycle that into a pathetically short monkey-wrench of a case and seriously say you’re continuing athena’s character development so instead athena cykes has been effectively stunted because capcom is too lazy to spend time giving her a unique personality and her own background that doesn’t rely on blackquill it’s a complete waste of a good character with a lot of promise and i’m afraid they’ll keep forgetting about athena in future installments or even get rid of her altogether just because they don’t know what to do with her