Artemis Crock

* Tigress
* Artemis Crock

### Relatives

Lawrence Crock (father)Paula Crock (mother)Jade Nguyen (sister)Lian Harper (niece)

### Affiliation

Team ArrowTeen Titans

Young Justice

League of Shadows (Formerly)

## Biography: (Written By Overwatch)

### Artemis Crock: 1990 - 2007

Artemis grew up with her two parents, Lawrence and Paula. She also had her older sister Jade as her mother and father had worked within the League of Shadows while Paula had attempted to have Jade and Artemis escape this life while Jade had remained with her father while Paula had continued to steal for various targets that the League required.

Shortly after this Paula had become crippled during a heist gone wrong due to this Artemis would start to rely on stealing and breaking and entering in order to provide for her due to this she was arrested multiple times over the following six years. Shortly after this Ra's had sent Malcolm Merlyn to retrieve Jade in order to train her within the month Malcolm in hand to hand combat, fire arms stealth and sword combat.

Within the following months Malcolm had continued to train Artemis along with a bow and arrow showing enough skill to Malcolm often visited Artemis as during the following months Ra's had gone through with the undertaking of Star City shortly after this Merlyn viewed Artemis as an worthy apprentice with Artemis having accompanied him on a few missions and would study him.

Within the following weeks due to this she had monitored Star City during the attack while seeing a few agents going after innocents while Artemis had called them off and seeing that this isn't what she had imagined before confronting Malcolm while being deemed a traitor while Oliver and Roy delivered the last blow and seeing potential in Artemis he took her in. Shortly after this Oliver had approached Paula into letting Artemis stay with him while she was placed in a Wayne funded loft.

Shortly after moving into Star City Artemis had lived a some what normal life as Oliver already had Roy and his sister, Thea Queen by his side and without need of another partner Artemis continued to live with Oliver however due to Oliver and Roy having gone through a rough spot and was often arguing this led to Roy having spent a majority of his time at the Tower shortly after this and in need and a partner Oliver had brought in the fold as the second speedy.

### Speedy: 2007 - 2011

After some added training from Oliver with Artemis and Oliver having an steady and positive partnership form the start this would led to Roy Harper having returned to Star City within the following year of 2006 where he had found out that Oliver had taken Artemis as the second Speedy.

While Roy was upset towards this he had some decency to point out that Artemis had respected to change the colors from red and yellow to green and black shortly after this the Justice League had approved the reformation of the Titans along with Roy having chose to go by the name Arsenal and having been a first generation member he and Artemis spent most of their summers there.

There she had meet the various members on in particular was Wally West there the two had began to bicker quite often even to the point where Artemis had spent her breaks from school however that changed as during a mission, with the two believing to be dead Wally had confessed his feelings to her to which she felt the same and after a kiss the two have been hot and heavy ever since.

Along with this Cyborg had called in some favors with the Titans having been disbanded the program had formed Young Justice. While Artemis had stayed in bliss however shortly after Artemis had found Jade in her dorm room with a baby Lian in her hands.

### Tigress: 2011 - Present Day

After telling Artemis her plan to head to Star City with Lian, awaiting Roy's return but also needed her to find her old flame and dropping a third bomb shell on how they were half sisters along with attempting him from rescuing him from HIVE's clutches, along with also learning of their child and held both father and son captavie. While HIVE wasn't aware of Jade's fathers name but knew he had various contacts to aid the League. Deciding to don her mothers old codename as Tigress, Artemis aided her sister in her search targeting various League of Shadows safehouses.

Eventually their search led them to finding Ra's Al Ghul himself instead, in order for both sides to get what they wanted Ra's would give Jade her fathers real name for his release while Jade felt this to be a bluff Artemis talked her down from killing Ra's to which he would give the sisters the location of Blake and their son at an HIVE base, including Jade and open invite for Jade to rejoin the Shadows. Before Artemis could say anything Jade shot her with a tranq dart knocking her out, by the time Artemis woke up she found both Jade and Ra's gone but never a liar Ra's left the coordinates to launch the rescue attempt. After having Wally called in the Titans to aid her rescue the hostages.

After telling Jade that her son was safe and that was he was staying with a friend in Central City, who would treat him as her own, gladly thanking Artemis, nowadays Artemis has chose to stick with the Tigress Ops Moniker along with her and Wally getting hitched and moving into Key Stone, and lastly joining back up with The Team.

## Strengths

* **Assassin Training:** Artemis was raised as an assassin by both her mother and father, making her an impressive archer and combatant even before she was privately mentored by Merlyn.
* **Fitness:** Artemis' physicality and training gives her above-average human conditioning. Having undergone an evidently vigorous and intensive training regimen, Artemis has demonstrated impressive physical feats for a human of her age and size although she is not quite as resilient as Conner, agile as Emiko, or strong as Roy, she can hold her own and has a certain stubbornness and internal drive that often sees her past the point of exertion.
	+ ***Speed:*** Artemis is shown to be able to run at above-average speed for someone her age in combat situations. One of Oliver's fastest proteges on foot and with a bow, Artemis may have never matched Roy Harper's uncanny arrows per minute speed but she definitely earned her title of 'Speedy' by beating Roy, Thea, and Oliver's timed three-mile run.
	+ ***Endurance:*** Artemis appears able to maintain her stamina during long combative situations.
	+ ***Agility:*** Artemis has proven to be at a high level of human agility, able to move, dodge and react to dangers with impressive agility.
	+ ***Strength:*** Artemis's physical strength is above most young women her age, as she is able to strike out full grown adults with a single blow and hold up people who are considerably heavier than her. She is capable of pressing her entire body weight. She can also do front flips holding all her weight on one arm. She has the strength of someone who engages in intensive exercise.
	+ ***Ambidexterity:*** Artemis is known to be ambidextrous, as she draws her bow with her left and right hand.
* **Marksmanship:** Artemis is an impressive marksman, able to hit assorted targets with assorted projectiles with ease and accuracy. She prefers using archery based weapons such as a compound bow or a crossbow. She has mastered the longbow, the shortbow, the crossbow, and a myriad of trick arrows. She can also shoot 3 arrows at a time and have them all hit their mark simultaneously. Her skills are such that she is able to hit targets inches in size from dozens of yards away.
* **Tracking:** Artemis is capable of hunting down opponents who attempt to evade capture.
* **Acrobatics:** Artemis is proficient in acrobatics.
* **Martial Artist:** Artemis is a skilled martial artist. She is able to take out multiple attackers with relative ease. Her favored style is a blend of Thai style kickboxing, Krav Maga, and Capoeira. She prefers to fight with her legs in close quarters so she can maintain her grip on her bow and/or arrows.
* **Intellect:** Her intelligence is above average. She was granted a full Wayne Foundation Scholarship to the acclaimed Papp Academy in Star City where she graduated with honors. She is now a student at Midwestern University where she is studying Journalism.
* **Multilingualism:** Artemis can speak fluently in English, Vietnamese, French, and Spanish. She also speaks conversational level Atlantean and Martian. She is also pretty good at deciphering Wally's "quick-speech" when he gets rattled.
* **First Aid:** Artemis has demonstrated some skills in emergency medicine.
* **Bow:** Like her mentor, Green Arrow, Artemis uses a bow and arrows in combat. Her bow is a customized compound bow fashioned by Green Arrow himself. When she is not using it, Artemis has been shown to be able to fold her bow inwards, and quickly snap it back into place when she needs it. She has occasionally used her bow to strike her opponents if she did not have time to shoot an arrow.
* **Trick Arrows:** Artemis has a various trick arrows that she can use. She tends to usually stock her quiver with exploding arrows, knock-out gas arrows, grappling hook arrows, bola arrows, adhesive arrows, impact arrows, cluster bomb arrows, foam snare arrows, smoke screen arrows, fire arrows, net arrows, sedative arrows, and tracker arrows. Most of these also come in bolt form which she will use when armed with a crossbow.
* **Crossbow:** Artemis also uses a collapsible crossbow. She keeps the crossbow in the pouch on her leg while in uniform. It is pre-loaded with bolts.
* **Handheld Telescope:** She uses it to scout long distances, and to make-out details.
* **Rebreather:** She uses it to breathe underwater, after nearly drowning two missions in a row.
* **Armored Costume:** Made of armored weave and Kevlar sheeting, Artemis' uniform is also designed to incorporate Stealth-Tech.

## Trivia

* When Artemis first joined "Young Justice" she was shunned by the rest of the members as her parentage was not a secret.
* Artemis has a pen name she uses to write editorials to Central City's Picture News. This name is Linda Park, apparently derived from the name of the actress starring in her favorite action movie of all time and her favorite place to go when she needs to clear her head.
* Artemis is prone to clicking her tongue when worried.
* As apart of second generation of Titans, Artemis much like Helena was known to curse out reporters and paparazzi alike.
* Artemis' favorite movie is Terminator II: Judgment Day.
* Artemis absolutely despises professional sports and major sporting events.
* Artemis enjoys city parks and spends much of her free time at the one down the street from her apartment. Whether she is jogging, feeding the ducks, or just watching the children on the playground enjoy their childhood in a way she never did.
* Helena Bertinelli claims to have had a hand in helping Artemis design her Speedy suit when Artemis stayed in Gotham with Helena for about a week while Oliver Queen made arrangements to move Artemis to Star City. Helena claims to have refined and carried over some of these ideas into her Huntress suit.
* Even though a professed atheist, Artemis has a profound respect for religions and spirituality as a whole. She once made an inappropriate joke while the Team were questioning a monk whose monastery had been burglarized and when the monk called her out on her lack of reverence, Artemis actually seemed ashamed and even weirder than that, she actually... apologized. The rest of the Team were stunned into silent reverence themselves for several seconds.