Artemis Crock

**Artemis Crock** is a young heroine from Dimension Earth-16. Who during a mission got sucked into a vortex generator alongside her teammate Superboy. Which would lead to her falling into the clutches of Van Kleiss on Earth of Dimension GF-007, among others from other dimensions who abducted by Van Kleiss.

## Appearance

Artemis is a half-Caucasian and half-Vietnamese, teenage girl of average height. She has olive-toned skin with long thick blonde hair and dark gray eyes. Artemis is slender in stature, yet has an athletic build. At the age of fifteen, Artemis has hair down to her waist, which she often keeps tied back in a ponytail, both in uniform and civilian garb.

Artemis's uniform is a midriff-baring costume that highlighted her build. It's colored in various shades of green and consist's of a mask extending from the hairline to the cheekbones, a sleeveless top with a stylized arrow tip on the front, fingerless gloves, pants with black knee pads, and black combat boots. She had a black utility belt and pouch strapped on her left leg that were likely filled with assorted tools. Artemis carried a quiver along her back with a bow and a multitude of multi-purpose arrows. Her costume was apparently less than six months old as of September 4. Sometime between October 1 and October 10, the costume was outfitted with stealth-tech
 that could be activated by pressing the arrow symbol on her top, which turned the various shades of green in her uniform into darker shades of gray.

During her adolescent years, Artemis's personality was a product of her unusual upbringing. In the kill-or-be-killed culture in which her parents raised her, Artemis had to constantly fight for her life, resulting in her considerably aggressive nature and willingness to solve problems with force. She was also protective of her secrets, and constantly lied to her friends out of fear of being discovered as the child of villains.
For the most part, Artemis is a very passionate and opinionated girl. Always ready with a witty and biting remark, she is intent on proving herself to anyone who questions her. Artemis conceals her defensive nature with an aggressive attitude, exhibiting a wild temperament that is apparent when people argue or belittle her. She readily involves herself in confrontations with little to no hesitance.

## Personality

During her adolescent years, Artemis's personality was a product of her unusual upbringing. In the kill-or-be-killed culture in which her parents raised her, Artemis had to constantly fight for her life, resulting in her considerably aggressive nature and willingness to solve problems with force. She was also protective of her secrets, and constantly lied to her friends out of fear of being discovered as the child of villains.
For the most part, Artemis is a very passionate and opinionated girl. Always ready with a witty and biting remark, she is intent on proving herself to anyone who questions her. Artemis conceals her defensive nature with an aggressive attitude, exhibiting a wild temperament that is apparent when people argue or belittle her. She readily involves herself in confrontations with little to no hesitance.

## Biography

### In Earth 16

#### Early Life

Artemis Crock was born and raised in Gotham City. Her parents were assassins. During one of their crimes, her mother, Paula was crippled, and as a result took the fall for her husband. Paula spent the next six years in prison, during which Artemis was raised alone by her father, as her older sister ran away the same year due to their father's emotional and verbal abuse.

Artemis's father trained her to use a bow as her primary weapon, and frequently subjected her to apparently criminal tests. The nature of most of these tests have not been specified, although while robbed of her memory Artemis suggested one such test could involve being forced to
 kill someone, in this case, Kid Flash. Her sister Cheshire has also stated that their father regular

#### July 2010

When her mother Paula was released from prison, she returned home and spoke in private with Artemis's father. She stated that she had gone straight and that she wanted Artemis to do the same, and she wanted him to leave. Unbeknownst to both of them, their conversation was overheard by Artemis who then escaped into Gotham clad in her green costume to fight crime.

#### August 2010

During one of her nightly patrols, Artemis stumbled upon a fight between Amazo and Superboy, Robin and Kid Flash in the halls of Gotham Academy. She was inspired by them, and wanted in. Without revealing herself, she also helped them; she fought off scores of MONQIs and saved Kid Flash from being crushed.

Batman and Green Arrow visited her and recruited her for the Team. Green Arrow devised a cover story for her, that she was his niece and new sidekick. Her first meeting with the rest of the Team was rocky, as Red Arrow was also present and did not like his place being taken. Her first mission with the Team was overall a success, though Kid Flash blamed her for every little thing that went wrong.

Artemis practiced with Green Arrow and the Team, and attended classes by Black Canary and Captain Atom. Her first missions involved a trip to the Tower of Fate, an investigation into the court-martial of Nathaniel Adams and an undercover operation in the Star City jail.

#### September 2010

The month started with a mission in Bialya, where the Team lost access to the last six months of their memory. Artemis had no memory of becoming a hero, and had to trust people whom she did not know, or only knew as enemies of her father.

She continued her patrols with Green Arrow in Star City, and started classes at Gotham Academy. She was still uncomfortable adjusting to the new environment.

On the same day as her first school day, the Cave was attacked by Red Inferno and Red Torpedo. Together with Robin, she had to stop them. Because the two robots had managed to overpower their superpowered teammates, Artemis heavily doubted her ability to defeat them. Encouraging words from Robin did not help much, but when he too was captured and all pressure was on her, she pulled through. However, Red Tornado returned and seemingly betrayed them.

For the rest of the month, Batman assigned them two related missions, involving Brain's Kobra-Venom operations in India and Bwunda.

#### October 2010

The Team was sent on a dangerous mission against the Injustice League. They succeeded, with help from the Justice League. Not long after, Zatara decided it was time to introduce his daughter Zatanna to the Team. She and Artemis got along well. Though her father forbade her to join, she snuck out with them to track down Red Tornado.

What was meant to be a simple telepathic training exercise went horribly wrong after Miss Martian's emotions took over after Artemis "died". Artemis slipped into a coma, from which she did not awake until after Miss Martian was "killed" as well. For the next week, she, like other members of the Team, was still in shock about their experiences.

On Halloween, Artemis discovered that Superboy and Miss Martian were a couple. She was upset about it, and Zatanna offered her a distraction: crime fighting in New York City. They stopped several small crimes until they encountered Harm, whom they defeated with Secret's help.

#### November 2010

Early on in the month, Artemis continued to pressure Zatanna into joining, and she eventually got her wish, though not in the way she wanted. In a battle with Klarion, Zatara gave up his body to Nabu, and Zatanna moved into the Cave.

At week later, the Team threw Wally a surprise party in the Cave. Witnessing Wally's attempts to get a kiss from M'gann, Artemis decided
to tell him she was taken. Artemis took some delight in seeing him disappointed.

The party was cut short by a series of ice fortresses attacking the continental United States. Artemis helped destroy one alongside her
mentor, Green Arrow.

#### December 2010

The more and more Artemis worked with the Team and Green Arrow, her confidence grew. But when she learned her place on the Team was because her mother had begged Batman and Green Arrow to help her—and not, as she thought, because she saved Kid Flash—she began to question her position.

Red Arrow returned on the Team and had a mission involving Sportsmaster, and Artemis volunteered. The rest thought she was just eager to show herself off against Red Arrow, but at least part of it was to assure herself she earned a place. Unfortunately, Cheshire and Sportsmaster threatened to expose her secrets, and she botched the mission. This did not sit well with her teammates, especially Red Arrow, and to a lesser extent Kid Flash. It took another mission together to regain the trust of Red Arrow.

Meanwhile, the Light had hoped to blackmail her by exposing her secrets. After Superboy confessed his connection to Lex Luthor, Artemis decided to tell her friends about her own family. They took it well; Robin
 already knew, something that shocked her and Kid Flash finally realized why she failed the earlier mission. With renewed resolve, the Team took
 out an ambush by the Light, and later the mind-controlled Justice League aboard the Watchtower. When the Light was beaten back, Kid Flash and Artemis decided to show their true feelings for each other and kissed.

#### January 2011

At the stroke of New Year, Wally picked up Artemis and they kissed. Both agreed they should have done it sooner.

## Powers and Abilities

She has been trained by her father, making her an impressive archer and combatant, although she is not quite as polished or as physically strong as Red Arrow.

* **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.
	+ **Speed:** Artemis is shown to be able to run at above-average speed for someone her age in combat situations.
	+ **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.

* **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 2-3 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 meters away.

* **Ambidexterity:** Artemis is shown to be ambidextrous, as she draws her bow with her left and right hand.
* **Tracking:** Artemis is capable of hunting down opponents who attempt to evade capture.
* **Acrobatics:** Artemis is proficient in basic acrobatics.
* **Martial Artist:** Artemis is a skilled martial artist. She is able to take out multiple attackers with relative ease.
* **Above average intellect:** Her intelligence is above average. She and Kid Flash both understand complex scientific terms. She was granted a full Wayne Foundation Scholarship to Gotham Academy.
* **Multilingualism:** Artemis can speak fluently in English, Vietnamese, and French, and excels in Spanish at school.
* **First aid:** Artemis has demonstrated some skills in emergency medicine when she tended to the dehydrated Aqualad, and provided a sling for Kid Flash's broken arm.

## Weapons and Equipment

* **Bow and Arrow:** Like her mentor, Green Arrow, Artemis uses a bow and arrows in combat. Her bow is a compound bow (unlike Green Arrow, who uses a recurve bow). 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. Her arrowheads are also differently shaped to those of Green Arrow—Artemis's are smoother and have no barbs, while Green Arrow's are
more jagged and have two.

* **Trick arrows:** Like Green Arrow and Red Arrow, she has various trick arrows that she can use. So far she has been shown using: exploding arrow, knock-out gas arrow, grappling hook arrow, bola arrow, adhesive arrow, impact arrow, lasso arrow, explosive arrow that splits into three once shot, foam arrow that can release a high-density polyurethane foam to engulf and incapacitate its targets, smoke screen arrow, fire arrow, net arrow, and tracker arrow.
* **Crossbow:** She also uses a collapsible crossbow, as seen when she was dressed in civilian clothes. 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.
* **Stealth-tech**

## Relationships

### Allies

Superboy **-** Superboy is Artemis friend and teammate who she can always trust to have her back.

**Dani Phantom -** While Artemis only knew Dani for a short time after their escape from Van Kliess lab, Artemis still came to care for the younger girl and considers her a friend. She was happy to learn of Dani's status with the Sanban family from Phil Ken Sebben despite the loss of her memories.

**Tam Sung -** The Grandmaster of Jade Academy who saved Artemis from the Fallen Moloch and managed to bring her to Jade Academy in the process. It's been implied that Artemis is not only grateful to him but also respects him.

**Master Monk Guan -** Guan is a trusted ally and friend Artemis and Superboy at Jade Academy, who felt regret/shame feeling like he failed the two after the attempt to use the portal was sabotaged by Scaramouche.

**Living Bullet -** A member of the Justice Friends who provided their mode of transportation from Jade Academy to across the world to the city of GrimmFall, who is currently sticking with and helping Artemis and Superboy in their goal to find a way home. Her first impression of Bullet was that he was faster than her friend Wally and as fast as the Flash. She noted the difference in power between his and the other speedsters she has known and trusted him when he provided her and Superboy protection from traveling with him.

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### Enemies

**Klarion the Witch Boy -** A enemy Artemis and her team back on Earth-16 faced several times, and is most certainly on Artemis hate list. Though Artemis is currently unaware of Klarion's interest and investment in Dimension GF-007.

**Sammael -** Artemis has only faced the ancient Fallen during the escape from Van Kleiss lab. But that short clash showed Artemis that he was dangerous, what she learned later on from other only confirmed it.

**Van Kleiss -** Van Kleiss is the one to blame for Artemis and Superboy current stranded on Earth, this combined with him trying to use her and others he abducted as guinea pigs makes Artemis look forward to the chance to pay him back.

**Moloch -** Moloch attempted to capture Artemis along with other escapees from Van Kleiss lab, though in his anger nearly killed them, it was only Tam Sungs intervention that saved Artemis and others.

**Scaramouche -** Scaramouche attacked Artemis and Superboy during their attempt to use a portal to return to their original dimension, and destroyed said portal as well ruining their chance.

**Jetstorm -** Artemis fought Jetstorm when the Racing Drones attacked the Hall of Heroes

**Thrust -** Artemis fought Thrust when the Racing Drones attacked the Hall of Heroes

**Tankor -** Artemis fought Tankor when the Racing Drones attacked the Hall of Heroes

**Pardus Varietates -** Artemis assisted White Panther in hunting down his old enemy after he broke free from prison. During this investigation and search she was shocked and disgusted at Pardus handiwork after seeing the aftermath of his murdering his former ally Ajax and the state of what was left of the body.

### Neutral

**Raven -** While Artemis didn't a chance to know Raven or even learn her name, because of her being put in a short coma after Sammael drained her of some of her powers. She was never the less relieved to learn that she was okay.

## Quotes

To Tankor: *"Uh…Tankor roll over and play dead?"*

## Background Information

Artemis is a main character and heroine from the animated series Young Justice