Athena wants her next gear to be revolving around Pokemon.
Athena is one of the hottest stars in AEW as she is building to a TBS championship match with Jade Cargill, whenever that match may be. Athena is also a major fan of anime and gaming. Athena spoke on the possibility of Pokemon themed gear on A Wild Podcast Has Appeared.
When I was in WWE, I had to do ‘inspired by’ because we have a bunch of copyrights. Plus, my character at the time didn’t really allow me to go out there and be like, ‘I’m Loki, I’m Hela,’ which I tried to do and they were like, ‘No.’ I’ve had gear and stuff inspired by things, but this is the first one I’ve done in a very long time. I’ve very excited about this. I’ve been working on it for almost two or three months. Literally, I got to a point where I got super-self conscious and I was like, ‘Christian, does this look like what it’s supposed to look like? Are you sure?’ I’ve been working on this thing for two weeks now, one thing I’m talking about, the rest of it is done,”
“Someone mentioned Cubone. I have a mask very similar to Cubone sitting in the back. ‘What if I do Cubone?’ I wanted to do Pikachu gear, but Kylie Rae kind of does that. I’m assuming she’s super into Pokemon, I’ve seen her do Jigglypuff, Pikachu, Bulbasaur. I’m assuming she is and I’ve only met her one time, and she’s really awesome. I just don’t know what I’d do that would make sense because you have to go mainstream Pokemon. You can’t just be like, ‘I have Seviper in my back pocket.’ ‘What the hell is that?’ You can’t do that. It has to be something super mainstream. I would come out as Snorlax, but I might get the wrong type of comments. It’s just finding the right one that everyone knows because I feel it would have to be part of the OG crew,”
Athena on A Wild Podcast Has Appeared
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