Artemis Mikaelson

Artemis Marie Diana Antonia Petrova De Novo Delacourt Mikaelson is a main character in Legacies, she was a former majorly recurring character in The Originals before being promoted to a main character in the fifth season. She was a major recurring character in season eight of The Vampire Diaries. Artemis is the tribrid daughter of Niklaus Mikaelson and Ana Pierce. She is the granddaughter of Ansel, Esther Mikaelson, Issac and Evelina De Novo Delacourt, as well as the step-granddaughter of Mikael. She is also the niece of Freya, Finn, Elijah, Kol, Rebekah, and Henrik Mikaelson, and the grand-niece of Dahlia. She is the younger twin sister to Apollo, older sister to Nemesis, maternal younger sister to Ella and Daniela, the paternal younger sister to Hope, and adoptive younger sister to Lily, Marcel, Rosie, Nora, Mary Louise, Layla, and Davina.
As a result of her unique heritage, she is the world's fifth werewolf-witch-vampire hybrid. She inherited her vampire, werewolf, and witch gene from both of her parents. Through her mother's Labonair lineage, Artemis is werewolf royalty.
Artemis was sent away to be raised by Rebekah, Catherine, and Rosie in order to protect her from her father's enemies: the Guerrera Wolves, Esther, and Dahlia. Her death was faked to protect her. However, Esther had found Rebekah, Catherine, and Rosie whilst they were with the children at the park, this is signified by the presence of starlings. At the end of the third season, she is living with Ana on the road. By the fourth season, she lives with Ana and the Mikaelson Family at the Abattoir.
After having the Hollow's spirit separated into five members of her family, she, Ana, and her siblings leave for Mystic Falls. She becomes a student at the boarding school and as time goes by, she becomes determined to see her father again, despite the consequences that could ensue. 
Artemis is a member of the Mikaelson Family, Labonair Family, Petrova Family, Vidov Family, De Novo Delacourt Family, and an unnamed family of werewolves. She is by birthright a member of the Crescent Wolf Pack, North East Atlantic Pack, and Sacred Flame Coven as well as an unnamed witch family, and one of four children fathered by the Original Hybrid.
==Physical Appearance==
Physically, Artemis is a very beautiful and attractive young woman with round hazel eyes. Her hair goes to the middle of her back and has natural curly hair like her mother. Rosie described her as beautiful. As a Labonair, she has the Crescent birthmark on her right shoulder, just like her mother, siblings, nieces, and nephews, and distant relatives, Eve, Lana, and the Hollow.
She favored a brown smoky eye with thick winged eyeliner, and her choice in lipstick was a darker, sultry pink appearance. Artemis, having much curlier hair, seemed to have a much greater volume. She is seen wearing the Mikaelson, Petrova, and Labonair crest.
In her wolf form, Artemis possesses black fur and has the typical glowing yellow eyes that comes with Lycanthropy. In her vampire form, Artemis maintains her golden yellow eyes but gains black veins that cascade from her lower eyelids to just above her cheekbones.
==Personality==
Even when she was a baby, Artemis was a fighter. She is also very intelligent as she was able to use her magic at a very young age. Artemis seems to be a kind and gentle young girl, with a sweet and innocent persona. She is also rather lonely, never having any other kids her own age to play with other than her siblings, nieces, and nephews.
As a teenager, Artemis is shown to be very stubborn, brave, and has a attitude. She was willing to put herself through extreme pain and possible death in order to get her mother back.
Both Klaus and Rosie describe Artemis as being smart, possibly too smart for her own good, like her father. It has shown that Artemis has gained some of her father's traits of doing whatever to protecting family. She is always offering to help to save those they care about and considers family, including Marcel.
However, once Artemis, Apollo, and Hope magically absorbs the Hollow’s soul, it nearly drives them insane because they constantly start to hear whispers of voices in their head. The only way they can end the madness going on inside their head is by committing acts of violence.
Instead of taking their anger and frustrations out on innocents, they take it out on those they deem not innocent (provided with their father's assistance). However, their desire to quell the voices by using violence and magic causes them to kill someone who is innocent, although they intended not to.
Artemis struggles to forge meaningful connections with other people and make friends with the other students at the Salvatore School, not only because she's already endured a lifetime of grief and heartbreak. To her peers, she seems closed off.
Due to her often disastrous past, she has resigned herself to isolation, considering it the path that will provide the least heartbreak in her life. She sees loneliness as less of a burden to bear than her formative experiences of loving so deeply and losing so terribly. However, she has begun to open up more to people other than family. She is slowly becoming more optimistic that she will be happy.
==Powers and Abilities ==
As a hybrid of three supernatural species a witch, a werewolf, and a vampire; the full extent and limits of Artemis' powers are currently unknown.
Artemis, her mother, her siblings, nieces, and nephews are Nature's loophole that could be used against Malivore. Due to this, they can remember those that she previously knew and have been consumed by Malivore as well as heal others with her blood that have been shot with weaponized Malivore bullets.
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Artemis is a witch-hybrid, having inherited her witch gene from her father, the son of Esther Mikaelson and her mother, Ana Pierce. According to Dahlia, as a firstborn of their bloodline, Artemis has inherited great, but devastating power. Dahlia also notes that Artemis' magic will be tainted by Klaus' and Ana's vampire blood as well as the aggressive wolf temperament. Despite this, Genevieve states that Artemis' magic is strong enough to fuel the French Quarter Coven's ancestral power for generations, while one of the Hollow's acolytes reiterates this sentiment when he states that Artemis and her siblings might be the greatest witch the world may ever know.
As a baby, Artemis demonstrated heightened awareness of the impending explosion at her family's house and she used her magic to temporarily turn off Camille's car (as they were on their way there) to protect herself and Camille. She then used it again to turn the car back on.
After five years of being hidden from the world with her siblings, Artemis has been able to heal insect wings with no formal training, with her bracelet removed. She's also had a connection to the Hollow, drawing her sigil, the Ouroboros, though whether that was an inherent connection or the link that was used in an attempt to sacrifice her, remains to be known. Her connection to New Orleans soil, despite not being a Harvest girl or apparent knowledge of the Ancestors, allowed her to communicate with them, where as non-witches could not. It is worthy to note that Artemis has detected these events while still wearing her bracelet that blocks her power.
While other children were unconscious as a result of being tied to a spell that was draining their energy, Artemis was able to retain her consciousness like her siblings until her magic sealing bracelet was removed by Klaus. Artemis managed to counter the boundary spell cast by her aunt Freya on Marcel. She and her siblings would later use their telekinesis to break the salt circle that bound the spirit of Davina to the mortal plane, sending her back to the Ancestral Plane, and returned their father back to his body.
Seven years later, Artemis has improved control over her magic as a teenager; however, such control is lost during bursts of anger. She has also shown skill in creating her own spells with her siblings, such that she and her siblings created a spell combined with a cloaking spell that they performed on Ana, as she and her siblings were the one to kidnap her and lure Klaus back to New Orleans. She and her siblings claimed that it was the "perfect" cloaking spell and that it would keep them safe; despite this claim, they were kidnapped again.
While she, Apollo, Hope, and Nemesis were the Hollow's vessels, containing both spirit and Dark Magic, there magic was amplified by that of the Hollow, as she whispered to them in her attempt to corrupt them. During this time, their telekinesis and pain infliction seemed to be amplified as purging their pain, by using their magic, seemed to be the only course of treatment.
Two years later, now with the Hollow expelled from her body, her magic seems to have become more stabilized and in her own control. However, she and Hope continues to use Dark Magic. She and Hope performed a Death Spell that wounded Dragon, that caused her to revert back into to her human form.
Unlike every witch that transitioned into a vampire, Artemis did not lose her ability to practice magic since she was a siphoner and a naturally born tribrid. She was, however, unable to access her magic or siphon when she was in transition which left her vulnerable. After feeding, she regained access to her magic, in addition to her vampire and werewolf natures.
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Artemis is also part werewolf, having inherited the werewolf gene from both of her parents. Prior to triggering her curse, she displayed some increased agility and grace, above that of a normal human. Since she has triggered her werewolf gene, she has gained all of the powers of lycanthropy. With Artemis' first transformation with her siblings looming, Caroline questions that Crescent wolves could control their transformations. In response, Klaus states that the first transformation is a rite of passage and cannot be controlled. This implicates that her werewolf nature as an Evolved Werewolf with the ability of Transformation Control.
Currently, whether it's the former or latter which grants her transformation control, or additional abilities as an evolved werewolf, remains unknown. Klaus explains that during werewolf transformations, the pain will make one want to delay the shift because that is all they believe they can handle. However, should one let the pain in, then it cannot break oneself. Following Klaus' instruction, Artemis has accepted the pain during her transformation, thus it allows her to fully transform within a few minutes instead of a few hours. Despite that the werewolf curse was originally casted upon Native American witches, preventing them and their descendants from using magic, Artemis' lycanthropy does not negate her ability to practice magic; further reasoning about this has not been elaborated upon.
Upon completing her transition into a fully activated tribrid Artemis gained the ability to transform from human to wolf form within seconds while magically maintaining her clothing. Her transition also included an energy wave that rippled over her body as she transitioned from one form to another, a trait that is not present in other werewolf transformations.
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Before becoming an activated tribrid, Artemis possessed a few vampiric traits, specifically her blood. Her blood was able to help heal her mother while in the womb as well as she's able to heal herself, such as when she sliced open her hand and stabbed her foot with a trash picker. Her blood can be used to sire new vampires and hybrids, the latter being an ability possessed by the Original Hybrid, her father and the Original Tribrid, her mother as well as to heal vampires from a werewolf bite.
After completing her transition, Artemis was still able to practice magic, as she created a sword out of her blood. Her true form did not alter much, as she maintained her golden eyes. Artemis now is truly immortal and can only be killed by a red oak stake from the Red Oak Tree. Artemis showed great proficiency in utilising her vampire powers. At the Carnival of Vampires, Artemis showed her ability to compel fellow vampires. Previously, this has only been possible by an Original vampire.
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== Weaknesses==
According to Dahlia, firstborns of her family's bloodline inherit great power; however, it is unstable and will damage and, ultimately, kill the witch if they are not taught to contain it. Furthermore, as a possessor of the werewolf gene, Artemis will experience bouts of severe aggression. As one of the hybrid of all three supernatural species, the full extent and limits of Artemis' weaknesses are currently unknown.
Emmett claimed that Marcel's advanced werewolf venom can take down a hybrid, an Original, and even Hope Mikaelson, her siblings, nieces, and nephews. However, he gave no evidence as to why it would or could be lethal to them; nor has this been proven to be true.
Similar to that of her biological family, Artemis can be daggered and temporarily desiccated by the white oak ash daggers. However, she cannot be daggered for long without resurrecting due to her tribrid nature. This is a feat that even the original vampires were unable to do, as someone else had to remove the dagger for them.
== Name ==
* Artemis is a gender-neutral name of Greek origin that means "twin of Apollo" and "butcher." In Greek mythology, Artemis was the name of the Greek goddess of the moon, hunting, and chastity. As one of the twelve Olympians, she's one of the most important figures in the Greek pantheon.
* Marie means Star of the sea; Wished-for child; Rebellious; Drop of the sea.
* Diana means “divine.” Diana was a Roman goddess of many arenas, including hunting, forests, the moon, and fertility. The name is related to the Latin words for “sky” and “daylight." The Roman goddess was known for her beauty.
* Antonia is a feminine given name and a surname. It is of Roman origin, used as the name of women of the Antonius family. Its meaning is "priceless", "praiseworthy" and "beautiful".
* Petrov/Petroff (masculine) or Petrova (feminine) is one of the most common surnames in both Russia and Bulgaria. The surname is derived from the first name Pyotr (Пётр, Russian) or Petar (Петър, Bulgarian), both equivalent to the English name Peter. Petrov means "son of Peter" in Russian and Bulgarian.
* De Novo is a Latin expression used in English to mean 'from the beginning', 'anew'
* Delacourt De la Cour is a French-language surname, meaning "of the court".
* Mikaelson is of Scandinavian origin and means "Son of Mikael".
** If Artemis was to truly follow Norse traditions, her surname should technically be Niklaussdotter (daughter of Niklaus) as oppose to Mikaelson (son of Mikael).
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