Athys

Athys
Credit to LS_arkos1334
Characteristics
Species	Raposa Ghost
Gender	Female
Age	412
Fur Color	Orange
Hair Color	Rust (Faded)
Information
Home	Rust City (Birthplace) Rapoville (Formerly) The Wasteland
Story Role	Protagonist (BD, PSAA) Antagonist (CLW) Minor Character (SR1, SR2)
Family Members	Mother of Percate Grandmother of Circi Great-Grandmother of Milfre
Occupation	First Deputy Mayor of Rapoville Boss of the Ink Factory
Status	Deceased (Ghost)
Game(s)

“I hope we aren’t too much of a burden on your community.”

–Athys

Athys Courania is a Raposa created by GuyThatExists that appears in the short story Circi Loves Wilfre as the main antagonist and the short stories Salem Rose Pt. 1 and Salem Rose Pt. 2 as a deuteragonist. A recreation of her also appears in Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter (Wii) as Boss. She also appears in Bavel's Diary as a main character.

In the 1800s, Athys was a recurring visitor to Rapoville while Bavel was mayor, helping him uncover the Book of Life, reintroduce the Creator, complete the World Gate Project, and gave him the Book of Imagination. When his life was endangered, she gave him some of her blood, granting him rust fur abilities. She would go on to be Rapoville's first Deputy Mayor under Mayor Tegean.

Much later on, she became Circi's grandmother, and worked at the Ink Factory before the attack on Rust City. She escaped to Rapoville with her daughter Percate and Circi, although when she tried to return to Rust City, she was attacked, killed, and assimilated by the Shadow, becoming Boss. During this time, she was given a Time Machine by Kamalah and Salem Rose, allowing her to travel through time, becoming one of the most knowledgeable beings in the realm. She would go on to corrupt Wilfre and Circi with Shadow, and she was killed by the Hero after Wilfre's first attack. In her afterlife, she lives in The Wasteland with the rest of the ghosts.

Appearance

In her Raposa form, Athys has orange fur and curly, pink hair, wears a dark red blouse and dark pants. She also carries a cane with her for stability.

In her Shadow form, Athys' hair is revitalized, turning rust-colored once more, and her fur turns dark with Shadow. An aura of Shadow appears around her, and arms from her Boss form can be shot out from this aura.

Story

As a Raposa

Birth and Early Life

Athys' parents are currently unknown, but it is known that she was born in Rust City in the late-1560s as a Rust-Furred Raposa, granting her longevity and enhanced durability. While living in the city, she would become friends with Pheme, though the two would lost touch when Pheme met Eugene Shinar.

Some time before the events of Bavel's Diary, Athys met and was married to Theia. Some time after this relationship ended, she would meet and wed Phoebe, though Athys would outlive this relationship as well.

Meeting Migdal Bavel

Eventually, in the mid-1800s, Athys received a letter from Mayor Bavel requesting her presence in Rapoville to help find the Book of Life. When she arrived at the village, she met Bavel, his wife Peliossa, and his daughter Tegean, while also reconnecting with Pheme. Throughout the next year, Athys would stay with Pheme whenever she visited the village. After Bavel gives a speech to the villagers announcing his belief in the Creator, he and Athys take a trip through the woods to Deadwood, where she uses the Book of Imagination, given to her by the Creator, to wake the tree up and access the Book of Life, hidden inside.

The World Gate Project

After returning to Rapoville with the Book of Life, Athys and Bavel began studying the powers of both Books. In their study, they attempt to write in the Book of Life but are scolded by the Creator. While studying the Book of Imagination however, Athys traverses Bavel's Imagination Battle, and Bavel traverses hers. During the next two weeks, Athys and Bavel would work on creating a portal system, using the Book of Life and Book of Imagination as a base. After putting pieces of each book in a small box, taking a single strand of Athys's fur, and running a current through the system, the two of them created a small portal, the first prototype World Gate.

Once funding for the Beach Gate was acquired, Athys and Pheme began shaving to have enough power for the gate while Bavel and Athys began working on it. During this time, the Creator also commissioned a new Creation Hall, so Tubbub is brought onto the project with Athys and Bavel to help lighten the load. On the day the Beach Gate and Creation Hall were unveiled, Athys sailed to Surf Beach, where the other end of the Beach Gate was constructed. After using her fur to power the gate, both ends of the gate powered on and she stepped into Rapoville. As the rest of the village partied on the beach, Athys, Pheme, and Bavel's family drink Banya Ale in Rapoville to celebrate. During this celebration, Athys gifts Bavel the Book of Imagination to keep.

Shortly after, plans for more gates begin, including a gate to Snowy-Snow Mountain and a gate to Rust City. When the Rust City Gate began construction, Athys supported Bavel in producing a way for other to build their own gates. Meanwhile, while Bavel goes on a retreat to meet the Raposa who were exiled from the village under his father, Athys and Tubbub finalize the last of the new gates in Rapoville. Afterwards, Athys would head back to Rust City to build the other side of the gate.

Meeting Strange Beings

The next year, Athys would return to Rapoville to help study the Book of Imagination, and eventually was brought together with Bavel, his family, and Anago to supposedly receive an adventure from the Creator. When given her task however, she was told not to share it with the other Raposa. According to her later accounts, she was instructed to ascend to the top of the Ink Factory, where she was met by her future, time-traveling self, Stick, and Stick 2. She was given some information about her future spouses and told to take Stick and Stick 2 to Frostwind's shrine to help take his hoard of Shadite. It is unknown how this expedition went. Later on, after Bavel's trip to the Human realm, Bavel asked Athys to give Robert Row, a human, a tour of Rust City, so she obliges.

Saving Bavel's Life

Shortly after Robert's visit, she would be called back to Rapoville by Peliossa to help retrieve Bavel from Frostwind's Shrine. After reading through his entire journal, she believes that his overuse of the Book of Imagination is what caused him to go comatose. She begins to regret giving him the Book of Imagination in the first place and is afraid of giving him a blood transfusion to wake him, though she admits that she might not have a choice. While waiting with Bavel, she asked the Creator what Bavel saw in Frostwind's Imagination Battle, but the Creator would not answer, writing all of this in Bavel's Diary as it happened.

Shortly after this, Bavel started making strange noises, so Athys fetched Dr. Kurare to perform a blood-transfusion, granting Bavel slight rust abilities such as longevity. Continuing to write in his diary, Athys reveals that she would not tell Peliossa about his journal or the Imagination Battles to ease her nerves. She would also reveal that she met herself in her entry. After finishing her writing, she glued two pages together, concealing her entry from Bavel. She would leave the next day when Bavel woke up, forgetting her satchel in the village.

Appointed Deputy Mayor

Shortly after Bavel returned to Frostwind's Shrine and encountered Amhuluk, he began to slip into insanity, which caused Peliossa to ask for Athys' help once more. Athys tries to take the Book of Imagination away from him, but he refuses, running away into the forest. After Bavel disappeared for good, Tegean was appointed mayor, and she appointed Athys as her Deputy Mayor to help deal with the stress of the office. It is unknown how long Athys served as Deputy Mayor, though she would eventually return to Rust City some time after her term was finished, eventually becoming the head of the Ink Factory long before it was overrun by Shadow.

The Next Century

Over the next century, Athys would meet and wed three other partners - Polus Coeus, Mnēmē Morari, and Perceanus Cripontidis. During this time, she would have at least one child - Percate, whom she had with Perceanus. Some time later, Percate would give birth to Circi, making Athys a grandmother. It is unknown if she had any children with her other spouses throughout her life.

Immigration to Rapoville

Athys is next seen in the early-1970s when she, Circi, and Percate leave Shadow City to seek refuge in Rapoville. They are met by the Mayor, Wilfre, and Wilfre's father Steven. The six of them head to Percate's new home and settle in.

Death and Resurrection

In 1980, Athys begins to miss her old home, and she eats a Kaorin Berry in an attempt to make her way through the City Gate. The berry eventually kills Athys, and her body is collected by Shadow creatures. They decide to revive her using Ink, and she resumes her former role as the head of the Ink Factory, now overrun with Shadow.

As a Shadow

Serving Salem Rose

Two years later, Athys is still working in the factory when a time-travelling Kamalah and Robigo approach her and bring her back to 2042 to help Miles with his mission to punish Wilfre. She is taken to Deadwood, where Salem Rose, a corrupted version of Miles that wants to kill Wilfre, tells her to gather intel on Wilfre's movement throughout time. She begrudgingly agrees to gather intel, and she uses a Time Machine to return to 1982.

When she arrives in 1982, she finds two Shadow creatures arguing about what happened to her. Athys returns to her desk and complains about Salem Rose ordering her around. Eventually, she has the idea to use the time machine to gather intel for herself, so she takes the Shadow creatures, naming them Stick and Stick 2, and jumps into the time machine, beginning her journey throughout time. Some time during this journey, she went back to the mid-1800s to visit her past self.

After an unknown amount of time for her, Athys returns to moments after she originally left without Stick or Stick 2, and with a nearly destroyed Time Machine. She pulls out her journal and looks at her notes. She flips to a page focusing on Steven and realizes that she was supposed to kill him on that day. Sighing, she leaves the factory and kills Steven in his home. The trail of Shadow she leaves behind causes Cricket to suspect Percate and Circi in the murder.

Confronted by Milfre's Team

While Athys is busy killing Steven, Milfre, Kamalah, and Jowee from 2042 and Willham and Shadow Mari from The Void appear in 1982 Rapoville. Shadow Mari focuses on Athys, waiting for her to create a portal to leave the village. When Athys returns to the Ink Factory, Shadow Mari creates a portal to follow after her, and the group appears in her Lair. Athys is shocked to see Milfre and Kamalah again, and Kamalah explains what had happened with Salem Rose since she left. Milfre fixes the time machine and plans to take it to 2007, but Athys tells them to go to Lavasteam back in 2042 first. The group leaves and Athys returns to her work.

Corrupting Circi and Wilfre

Five years later, Wilfre gets told by the Mayor to not draw in the Book of Life, and Wilfre angrily goes home. When he gets there, he finds Athys waiting for him inside. She gives him a journal and asks him to get the Book of Life from Creation Hall. He returns with the book, and she asks him for the Pen Percate had given him 16 years ago. He hands her the pen she shoves him out of the way, taking the Book of Life and drawing in it. She explains that she returned to Shadow City earlier in her life, was killed, and reborn again as a Shadow being. She draws in the Book, creating more Shadow, and then leaves to return to the Ink Factory.

Circi and Wilfre eventually make their way to the Ink Factory and lure Athys out of the building. She berates Wilfre for telling the truth and then attacks the two with Shadow. Circi and Wilfre, using their earring and pen respectively, channel the Shadow and attack Athys, turning her into a giant Shadow monster. The two run away back to Shadow City's Outer Walls, and Athys follows them. As Circi disappears, Athys grabs Wilfre, steals his pen, and drags him back into the city.

Athys tells Wilfre about his plan to rival the Creator, and forces Wilfre to help her. She tells Wilfre about four generals that he needs to corrupt - The Icy Dragon, Frostwind, The Ancient Tree, Deadwood, The Giant Fish, Angler King, and The Armored Giant, Scorpion.

Salem Rose vs. Wilfre

When Wilfre begins his attack on Rapoville in 2007, he is intercepted by Salem Rose and two of them fight. Eventually, Wilfre leads him to Ink Factory, where Boss and Wilfre's Scorpion help fight Salem Rose. Athys pins him up against the wall with a multitude of arms while the Scorpion begins to stab Salem Rose. Eventually, he breaks away and chases Wilfre back to the outskirts of Rapoville. Athys reverts to her Raposa form and takes the Pen, creating a portal to the outskirts of town.

When she arrives at the scene, she finds Salem Rose on the ground preparing to attack with Color and ruby energy. She uses the pen to absorb both of his attacks, and she eventually drains him of all of his abilities. When Willham erases Salem Rose's Ruby Earring from existence, Wilfre panics, but Athys reassures him that it wasn't Circi's earring. After Wilfre kills Salem Rose, Athys takes him back to the Factory and closes the portal.

Death and Recreation

After Wilfre is defeated at the hands of the Hero, Athys floods the arena with Shadow, chasing the Hero out of the arena. Unaware of them still being in the room, she reconstructs the Pencil. When she turns around to leave the room, the Hero thrusts the Legendary Sword through her body, killing her. After this, Circi returns to the Ink Factory to kill Boss after breaking their vow to protect Wilfre. However, she finds that Athys was killed, and she is told to collect the Artifacts of Power to resurrect her and Wilfre. She is recreated by Circi during the events of Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter (Wii) using Wilfre's Bad Ink but this recreation is subsequently killed by the Hero.

As a Ghost

After Circi discovers the ghosts of Wilfre's Wasteland, Athys, one of the many ghosts, promises Circi that everything will be alright. Athys is one of the more prominent members of the community in the Wasteland, helping with the Stellar Showdown Housing Project and welcoming new people to the island. According to Milfre, she tells stories about her entire life, including her time serving the Shadow. Athys is one of the ghosts to witness Salem Rose destroy the Housing Project and steal the Lavasteam and Galactic Jungle Orbs. When Milfre returns to the island, she is among those who witness Meeny appear on the island, and she watches Milfre absorb the Watersong Orb. She would later speak with Mari about her time as Deputy Mayor, helping with her transcription of Bavel's Diary.

Imagination Battle

“How's this Book work? Athys wants to show you the ropes.”

–Level Description

Athys's Imagination Battle in Bavel's Diary is named Now You're Thinking With Warp Gates. It is the first Imagination Battle that Bavel traverses in the story and has three segments. This acts as an introductory Battle for Bavel, as the platforming challenges are very simple. After meeting Athys and learning about the Creator, the Book of Life, and the Book of Imagination, Bavel and Athys decide to experiment with the magic of the books. To help Bavel understand how the Book of Imagination works, Athys allowed him to traverse her mind.

Enemies

Frostnix	Green Baki

“That was easy! Now let's put these Books to good use!”

–Completion Text

Imagination Battles
Last Level N/A	Next Level A Bed for Books and Bavel

Quotes

“Hello dear. I hope we aren’t too much of a burden on your community.” –Athys “That’s no way to scream at an authority figure. You gotta do it like this!” –Athys “You think I don’t know who you are? Heh, I know more than anyone in this whole wide world.” –Athys “Draw in that old book! Date my granddaughter! Do what makes you happy!” –Athys “Trust me kid, I learned the hard way that bringing someone back to life does more harm than good.” –Athys “Did you really think I was gonna sit and wait for the Shadow to go away before going home?” –Athys “Correct me if I’m wrong but you’re the one who not only destroyed the Book but shifted all the blame onto a dead granny! How rude of you!” –Athys “We’ve been short-staffed recently! Hopefully the two of you can fix that problem!” –Athys “You thought you could get away that easily? This is my domain! I rule here!” –Boss “When I died trying to come back here, the Shadow restored me. If it wasn’t for you and your girlfriend, I would’ve been a perfect recreation of Athys, but now I’m just…well…this.” –Boss “The Icy Dragon, Frostwind. The Ancient Tree, Deadwood. The Giant Fish, Angler King. The Armored Giant, Scorpion. Corrupt these four and I’ll tell you what to do next.” –Boss

“Ugh, it feels like I was just dead for a second there.” –Athys “Well, what are we standing around for? We got a factory to run!” –Athys “If the four of us are to be working together, I want you to stay as far away from me as possible, got that?” –Athys “Gather intel? That I can do.” –Athys “Someone tried to make me their lackey a whole half-century in the future. The entire situation seemed sketchy, so the second I could, I took a time machine and came back here.” –Athys “I don’t know what that buddy act was, but it was weird. Don’t do it again. You two got names?” –Athys “Great, I’ll call you two…Flick and Stick.” –Athys “Exactly like time recon! I like the way you think, you’re Stick.” –Athys “Ok fine, you can be Stick 2.” –Athys “the amazing thing about being made of Shadow is that we’re immortal and we can be invisible. We can go anywhere we want, any time we want, for as long as we want. Any stray idea that pops into our head, we can check it out!” –Athys “Alright, everyone get in the machine. I have a place I want to visit first.” –Athys

“We don’t quite understand it ourselves, but this barrier is impenetrable.” –Athys “How did you three get here? And who are these two guys?” –Athys “I still don’t want you near me. I’m already mixing enough Color and Shadow in the factory; I don’t need to mix any more in my body.” –Athys “Hey! Kamalah! One more thing. Before you go to fight Salem Rose, take a pitstop at Lavasteam in 2042.” –Athys “You know, your friends came to me back in ’82. They told me that they were coming to stop you, and they took my time machine to do it.” –Athys “They’re time travelers, boy. Your girlfriend still has her earring.” –Athys

Relationships

Family

• Theia † - First Wife
• Phoebe † - Second Wife
• Polus † - First Husband
• Mnēmē † - Third Wife
• Perceanus † - Second Husband
• Percate † - Daughter
• Apolios - Son-in-law
• Circi - Granddaughter
• Milfre - Great-granddaughter

Allies

• Creator - Temporary Enemy
• Pheme
• Bavel
• Deadwood †
• Peliossa †
• Tegean †
• Tubbub †
• Anago †
• Robert Row †
• Dr. Kurare †
• Hero - Temporary Enemy and Killer
• Steven †
• Wilfre † - Temporary Enemy and Former Subordinate
• Mayor † - Temporary Enemy
• Robigo
• Kamalah
• Stick
• Stick 2
• Jowee - Former Enemy
• Willham
• Shadow Mari
• Frostwind †
• Angler King †
• Wilfre's Scorpion †
• Stampy
• Lock
• Eeny †
• Puck †
• Hawwah †
• Meeny †

Enemies

• Shadow - Temporary Allies
• Ink - Temporary Allies
• Miles/Salem Rose †
• Frostwind

Trivia

• Athys' name is a portmanteau of Perse and Hecate's mothers, Tethys and Asteria respectively.
• At 412 years old, Athys is currently the oldest known Rust-Furred Raposa, as her hair had almost turned entirely white.
  • However, if Pheme was born near the same time as Athys and survived past her death, she would be the oldest known Rust-Furred Raposa.
• It is unknown what effect Bavel's blood transfusion had on Athys' life, if any.
• In an early version of Circi Loves Wilfre, Steven and Athys would have met up in the afterlife and possibly become a couple.

Media

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  JumpstART of Athys' Raposa form.

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  JumpstART of Athys' Shadow form.