Athena Cykes

"Athena Cykes"

- I won't lose to anyone! Especially not you!

Athena Cykes 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 the United States. Cykes has a special ability to pick up subtle emotions from witnesses' voices, and she examines these using a device called the "Mood Matrix". The Mood Matrix is linked to a necklace she wears that changes color with her emotions.

Loss of her mother

 * Main article: Turnabout to the Future

When Cykes was 11, her mother, Mari Kizuki, was killed by an unknown spy. When Simon Blackquill found her near her mother's body holding the bloody murder weapon, he decided to take the blame so no one would suspect her. After this incident, later known as the "UR-1 Incident", Cykes studied to become a defense attorney to clear Blackquill of all charges.

Personality
Cykes has strong emotions and a drive to win. This can sometimes cause her to be reckless. She also likes orange juice after a good workout.

Name

 * "Kizuki" consists of kanji that can mean "rare" or "hope" (希) and "month" or "moon" (月). This can make her Japanese surname mean "rare moon", "rare month", "moon of hope", or "month of hope". Importantly, it sounds similar to kitzuki (気付き) which means "to notice".


 * Her given name, "Kokone", consists of kanji that can mean "heart", "soul", "mind", "emotion", "sincerity", "sympathy", or "answer (as in to a riddle)" (心), and "sound" (音). Combined, they mean "(the sound of one's) heartbeat".


 * Her full Japanese name could roughly mean "a heartbeat once in a blue moon". This may be a reference to the "heart scope" ("ココ口スコ‐プ kokoro sukōpu"), the Japanese name for the Mood Matrix. If you combine the "to notice" meaning of her last name with the "mind/heart", her full name can also mean "read someone's heart/mind".


 * Her given name "Athena" comes from Athena, the goddess of (amongst other things) wisdom, courage, inspiration, law and justice, strategy, and skill in Greek mythology. This is likely meant to link her name with the given names of both Apollo Justice (named after the Greek god of the same name) and Phoenix Wright (whose first name originates from mythology).


 * "Cykes" may be a play on "psychology" or "psyched".


 * Her last name was spelled as "Sykes" twice in a "fact sheet" for Dual Destinies ahead of E3 2013.