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Hey guys. Did you check out the swank new buttons in my gallery? I knooooow.
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Anyway, FINALLY a Greek personification that isn't Athens or Sparta. Ionia isn't a city state exactly, more like a region made up of city states. Still, for my purposes the region > city states.

Ionia is like Athens' little sister or adoptive daughter, hahaha. XD; Athens was sort of her 'mother city', not because he was like "Oh hey let's colonize this area and you send me tribute," more like "Ack people where to put them hey go over there!"
Her Ionic columns symbolize the relationship between the two sort of. XD;

Let's make this her profile for now since I want to talk about her. XD

I DO NOT CLAIM TO BE AN EXPERT OTL I'VE JUST BEEN RECENTLY RENEWING MY CHILDHOOD INTEREST IN THE ANCIENT WORLD. And making stupid comics for my Classics 110 class.

Appearance

Hair: Brown. Curly. Wears in a messy chignon style.
Eyes: Brown and round
Face: Very round and youthful
Nose: Round, like Athens'
Height: One of the shortest of the characters.
Clothing: An Ionic chiton of course! (That's the kind with the sleeves sewn together like that. Herodotus may have persuaded Athens to forbid the Doric chiton and make all women wear Ionic chitons, since Doric chitons had pins that could be used to stab someone to death. XD) It has lots of pleats and folds and is usually brightly coloured. She also is fond of patterns with stars on them.
Other: Ionia's appearance doesn't change much over time.

Personality

Ionia is the western-most edge of Asia Minor (What is now modern day Turkey. Ionia is probably part of the reason why Greece and Turkey hate each other so much, but don't quote me on that. XD) that was settled by Greeks around or after the Mycenaean age; when Athens was still a wee young'un. XD; Because she was isolated from mainland Greece, she retained a lot of Mycenaea's old art style.
She is very artistic with a keen attention to detail.

Ionia lives with a lot of famous philosophers, so even though she's sort of old-fashioned in her isolation she's very fond of revolutionary ideas. The problem is so many different ideas arise she has trouble picking the correct ones. XD;
She is very interested in the elements, especially air and water.

Since she is much closer to Persia than Greece, she often plays the damsel in distress that Athens needs to come rescue. XD;

Relationships

Athens: "Thanks for looking out for me!"

Sparta: "If only he would move faster..."

Persia: "EEP! I'd rather have ANYONE else as a neighbour."

Mama Greece: "So far away..."

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Ionia today is part of modern day Turkey.

Others in this Series
Athens
Sparta

-Ionia-
Thebes
Corinth
Argos
Persia
Mama Greece
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NekoHimeMurasakiXD's avatar
Wooowww you really impress me^^ You are the first person who actually pays attention at the appearence of a Greek character.Most of the artists out there can't even imagine of the differences between a Doric and an Ionic chiton.They just draw their oc in a random chiton (which is usually the first ancient greek looking clothing that they saw on google.) and then they see other people's ocs for ancient Greece and they're all like:
"noooo U copied mah awesum greek oc u thief!!!!1111" just because everybody uses the same clothes again and again=3=However,some others just use their imagination and they end up creating completely inaccurate and weird clothings just because they were too lazy to do research and they were based too much on stereotypes. (sorry for the wall of text X__X))