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| Current title |
Divine Observer of Olympus |
| Previous title |
Princess Hestia of the House of Kronos |
| Domain | Goddess of the Hearth, Goddess of the Household Fire |
| Also known as | The Firstborn of Kronos |
| Status | Alive |
| Condition | Goddess (Class-3) |
| Occupation | Adventurer, ambassador of mortals to Olympus |
| Previous occupation | Barista (formerly), Ruler of the Hestia sector (formerly) |
| Affiliation | Vanguard, Olympian Gods |
| First appearance | BTI 003 |
| Character Information | |
| Age | Over 1 million years |
| Species | Olympian |
| Gender | Female |
| Orientation | Unknown, possibly asexual |
| Ancestors |
Gaea (grandmother), Uranus (grandfather, deceased), |
| Parents |
Kronos (father, deceased?), Rhea (mother) |
| Siblings |
Demeter, Hera (sisters), Zeus, Hades, Poseidon (brothers) |
| Sons/daughters |
none |
| Nephews/nieces |
Aphrodite, Artemis, Athena, Enyo, Persephone, Eris, Hebe, Ilithyia (nieces), Apollo, Ares, Dionysus, Hephaestus, Hermes (nephews) |
| Cousins |
Hekate, Selene |
| Other relatives |
Themis (aunt), Phobos, Deimos, Eros (grand-nephews), Adrestia, Harmonia, Rhodos, Tyche (grand-nieces) |
| Hair color | Red |
| Eye color | Green |
| Height | 6’5″ (195.5 cm) |
| Weight | 150 lbs (68 kg) |
Vesta (/ˈwɛsta/ IPA , Vεστα in Modern Olympian) is the Greek Goddess of the Hearth and the only divine member of the Vanguard. A warm and demure goddess despite her immense power, she acts both as the mother figure for the entire team and its muscle. She used her real name Hestia for almost a million years before being exiled to Earth.
Biography
Born for the second time a million years ago, after being devoured by her father Kronos, Hestia became the Goddess of the Hearth and the kindest of the gods of Olympus.
After being marginalized by her family for hundreds of thousands of years because of weakness and her sterility, Hestia found herself exiled from the rest of the Galaxy.
Taking the name Vesta, she was stuck on Earth for more than 2,700 years. After being found by Noriko Null, she joined force with the Vanguard to protect her new home from her own family.
Powers
As a true goddess, Vesta has immense mind-over-matter powers. They manifest in different ways, but they are all directly linked to her faith in herself.
Immortality: Vesta does not age; she has kept her current apparent age for the last million years. Even in case of extreme injury, she is able to put herself together in top physical shape much faster than a mortal.
Flight: Vesta can lift her own body telekinetically. She regularly travels dozens of times faster than the speed of sound on Earth and in space she can accelerate to a quarter of the speed of light with ease. She has demonstrated to be able to reach the speed of light for short periods of time.
Invulnerability: By placing a mental lock on her molecular structure, Vesta can prevent her body from being harmed. The lock is unconscious and constantly active, but its strength is related to the effort Vesta makes to be invulnerable. At the peak of her power, she has shown to be able to stand on the surface of a neutron star and to survive for long perionds of time on a white dwarf star.
Immunity to heat: As the goddess of fire, Vesta is completely invulnerable to heat damage. Even the heat of a supernova will not harm her.
Godlike strength: Vesta is as strong as she thinks she is. The only limitation on what she can lift depends on the integrity of the object she’s trying to move; with help to keep it from breaking apart, she has lifted the entire island of Manhattan and hundreds of millions of tons of rock beneath it. She can punch hard enough to shatter a stadium-sized mountain with a single punch.
Godlike stamina: Vesta doesn’t need to eat, drink or sleep, though she keeps a human sleeping and eating schedule when she can. She can exert physical strain for several days without rest, though extreme displays of powers will exhaust her much more quickly.
Fire creation and control: Vesta can generate fire at will. She has precise control over shape, position, light and temperature of the fire. The top temperature she is able to reach is unknown, but she has been able to generate heat in the range of millions of degrees.
Minor shapeshifting: Vesta can change at will the color of her eyes, hair, nails and skin. She can also change at will the shape and length of her hair and nails.
Universal translator: Vesta can understand any language instantly (with Demonic and Grey Speech as an exception). People around her will have the same ability, but it will fade over time without prolonged contact.
Mind over matter: While Vesta lacks the matter manipulation powers shown by most other gods, she has shown the ability to protect others from harm or to stabilize their medical condition by simply touching them. She has little control or understanding of these abilities.
Hellfire Inferno: By far Vesta’s most devastating ability, by tapping into the Blood she’s able to vastly improve her power and reach her full potential. In this state Vesta is able to transform her whole body into fire, making her immune to physical damage; her speed increases exponentially, and her power output was able to match Apollo throwing several hypernovas at her. It is possible that in this state Vesta is able to ascend to a Class-2 goddess.
The downside of this power-up is a loss of self-control, as Vesta is just as likely to burn her allies.
Weaknesses
Vulnerability to mind attacks: Like all gods, Vesta is vulnerable to attacks targeted on her mind.
Mental blocks: Vesta is as powerful as she thinks she is; unfortunately a million years of bullying from her family has filled her mind with doubts about herself, causing her to access only a fraction of her own power.
Limited control on high-end powers: While theoretically capable of telekinesis, teleportation, faster-than-light travel, matter transformation, shapeshifting and other feats, unlike her relatives Vesta has only rudimentary experience and control over much of the more esoteric uses of divine powers.
Equipment
Her typical attire consists in an orange tube top and orange pants. She doesn’t wear shoes.
Her standard equiment as a member of the Vanguard includes:
Soul Relay
Neural Transmitter (formerly)
Notes
- While regularly referred as “the firstborn of Kronos”, she is both the oldest and the youngest of her siblings: she was the first to be born and devoured by Kronos, and the last one to be born the second time after Zeus killed her father
- In the series she takes the name Vesta from a human girl in ancient Rome. In reality, Vesta was the name with which she was worshipped in Rome
- While she’s largely shown to be asexual, she’s not literally a virgin like in mythology as she has confirmed to have had sex in the past. Her being called “the virgin goddess” comes from her family mocking her for being sterile and having far less sex drive than her siblings
Trivia
- The surname “Dicrono” she used before being discovered by Noriko is Italian for “of Kronos”
Gallery
Art by KodamaCreative
