Fanon:Chrysanthema Pellaia Kinnamomona

Chrysanthema Pellaia Kinnamomona, born March 2, 2001, is Kallistrata's newest resident disciple and hence lives with the core members at the main house at the main Naos-Strapedon. Chrysanthema is a prodigy of sorts, having already made a potion as a kid, something not even Demetrios or Eunike has done. Chrysanthema has mastered Logic and Martial Arts, having in addition to that 9 points in Cooking, 8 points in Sculpting, 7 points in Invention, 4 points in Athletic Skill, and 2 points in Writing, as well as 6 points in handiness and Painting, and 2 point in Nectar Making.

As shown, Chrysanthema specializes in Martial Arts and Cooking, unlike Esomena choosing a purely mechanical route and Pyrrha going towards the techincal Arts for a career in Forensics.

Chrysanthema is of blood type O.

Discipleship
Seeing the success with the recovery of Stratonike and Lysistrata back into the order, Kallistrata saw a need to further the religion's cause, and wanted another disciple after having trained the Mathetai, and more recently, the current Initiate members. However, the household was already rather crowded with 7 fully operational main members of the religion, and despite their numerous travels in time, no kid was to be found, only some money, lower quality fire fruits, and some books. Fed up, Kallistrata chose the simple path of adopting a child, and the child was wearing what seemed to be school uniforms when first adopted. Kallistrata marked the child, and the child developed pink hair as well as the Ambitious trait, perhaps indicating that Kallistrata chose Chrysanthema as the successor.

And with adoption Kallistrata immediately subjected Chrysanthema to training, and thanks to Kallistrata's veterancy at teaching, Chrysanthema learned fast, and Kallistrata lamented the lack of the option of teaching other useful skills, such as Handiness and Martial Arts due to Chrysanthema's quick learning, rather reminiscent (although much slower compared) to Thornton Wolff. Not long after Chrysanthema's adoption, the family, along with most of the faithful, moved to the new region of Hekatonschoinos, where Chrysanthema would be trained to carry out her duty as an disciple of Alexandros, including vilifying romance, promoting academic pursuits, and foremost to be the forefront of the intellectual movement. While in Hekatonschoinos, Kallisto largely took over Chrysanthema's tutoring, and Chrysanthema became fast, close friends with both Kallisto and Kallistrata, and loved to play balls despite her ineptitude in the field. Kallisto also found a use for Chrysanthema: Unicorns react positively to Good sims, and Kallisto wanted Chrysanthema to spearhead the capture of a Unicorn for study and advancement of the religious influence.

Chrysanthema however had her own agenda, and despite her affiliation with the Church, Chrysanthema had no intention of staying in the Church for the sake of the Church, and was anxious to get to a position of power, which would have to wait until she graduated. And as such, Chrysanthema took the task of skill development very seriously, as Chrysanthema took the time to read the codex and to learn about the operational methods of the Church: she wanted to be a part of the decision-making class as soon as she would be able to, and more so build her own power base independent of the Church. Kallistrata was well aware of Chrysanthema's ambitious nature, and as such, Kallistrata not only wanted Chrysanthema on a tight leash, but more so to direct Chrysanthema's thirst for power to benefit the Church, and as such, Kallistrata gave directives to Chrysanthema to learn speechcraft: Kallistrata's course of action was to send Chrysanthema to Appaloosa Plains, and since Chrysanthema's main motivation was power, Kallistrata's expectation was that Chrysanthema build a power base that would directly conflict with that of Antigone's heretic grouping.

However, the Swanson girls helped neutralize Antigone, and Chrysanthema was projected to establish a power base nominally subject to the Church authorities. Kallisto and Kallistrata well knew this and in fact, wished that to happen: even if Chrysanthema will not submit to Church authority or take part in it as a core member, Kallisto and Kallistrata was still more than able to manipulate Chrysanthema's ambitious nature to their advantage.

Trivia

 * There is no recorded usage of the name Chrysanthema, although there are similar names, such as Chrysothemis. Chrysanthema is a fictional combination of the word Chrysos and Anthos, which is also the etymology for the flower Chrysanthemum of the Asteraceae family. To sum it up, the name does not exist in history. However, Chrysanthea may be more fitting, since the plural form of ἄνθος is ἄνθεᾰ.