Athene is a Krea 2 character LoRA for one fictional adult woman. The trigger is athnblk. She is the next character I trained and decided to put up, on the same terms as the others. I have run plenty of experiments with other models before this, and most of them stayed on the bench or need an overhaul until I can publish them. Your constructive feedback is very welcome. I would rather hear what breaks than guess at it.
The aim was a woman as beautiful as a Nubian goddess. Tall, deep warm chocolate skin, a face that holds light, and a body that stays slender without going soft. That look was the point of the training, not a side effect of the samples.
She is 22. Clearly an adult. Defined high cheekbones, almond-shaped dark brown eyes, and a broad smile with straight white teeth when you ask for it. The signature hair is a high curly ponytail of voluminous tight dark curls, held with a small gold clip. The signature jewelry is a pair of large, thin gold hoop earrings. Tall and slender, narrow waist, narrow hips, long legs, small firm high-set breasts that do not sag. No tattoos unless you add one for that frame.
She was designed for as much flexibility as I could keep, even with those signatures in the set. Clothes, crop, place, and light are yours. Fashion, plain photographs, night scenes, and odd setups all take the same token. Leave the identity essay out at normal weight. The LoRA already carries the face, the skin, the ponytail, and the hoops.
Drop the weight to about 0.5 to 0.6 and the signatures loosen. At that range you can put almost any hairstyle on her, and almost any jewelry or accessory, and the face still reads as Athene. Name the new hair and the new earrings in the prompt. If you leave them unnamed, the ponytail and the hoops will try to come back.
She also combines cleanly with a wide range of styles and techniques. SFW work, painterly and stylized passes, and explicit scenes, including hardcore, all use the same file and the same trigger. Art-style LoRAs and NSFW LoRAs have both behaved in my tests. Alone, she sits best around 0.85 to 1.0. Drop the weight if the face goes waxy or the ponytail swallows the frame. Go above 1 only when another LoRA is loud enough to wash her out. A strong style or concept LoRA can eat the cheekbones and the skin if Athene stays at 1.0 beside it. In that case raise her, and cut the competing style words out of the prompt so the weights do the arguing.
Other character LoRAs work the same way, with one extra rule. Lower each character. Two faces at full weight will smear. I have had clean pairs with each character around 0.5 to 0.7, sometimes lower if one LoRA is loud. Do not expect either face to stay perfect at 1.0 beside another trigger. Give her something in the scene to look at, unless you specifically want the lens.
A working start:
athnblk, photograph, black silk column dress, large thin gold hoop earrings, high curly ponytail with a small gold clip, three-quarter, looking at the city lights past the glass, one warm key from frame-left
A Few Sample Prompts
Evening glass
athnblk, photograph, black silk column dress, large thin gold hoop earrings, high curly ponytail held with a small gold clip, three-quarter, standing at a dark window, looking at the city lights past the glass, one warm key from frame-left, soft falloff across the cheek, a single gold clip catching the spill
Wet street
athnblk, photograph, camel wool coat over a black knit, collar open, large thin gold hoop earrings, high curly ponytail with a small gold clip, full figure head to feet, both feet in frame, viewer at navel height, 4 meters back, 85mm lens, straight-on frontal eye-level view, 0 degree tilt, horizontal axis, no overhead angle, wet night street, looking at the green walk signal across the road, one cool streetlamp key from frame-right, a paper cup under her heel
Looser weight, other hair
At about 0.55. Name the hair and the jewelry, or the signatures return.
athnblk, photograph, short cropped natural hair, no gold clip, small pearl studs instead of hoops, ivory linen shirt, sleeves rolled once, seated at a cafe table, looking down at a closed book, one soft daylight key from frame-left
Studio nude, same token
athnblk, photograph, nude, smooth skin, large thin gold hoop earrings, high curly ponytail with a small gold clip, three-quarter, seated on a low wood bench, looking at her own hand on her knee, one soft north-window key from frame-left, falloff into a pale plain ground