Artemis Crock

Tigress

Artemis Crock

### Education

Bachelors Degree in Investigate Journalism and Comparitive Literature (Stanford University)

## Biography

### Early Life

Artemis was born on January 25th, 1992. She spent the first part of her life living in ‘Eth Alth’eban, as both of her parents were members of the League of Assassins. However, at a young age, her mother was injured in a battle with Green Arrow, leading the family to relocate to Star City, so that her father, the assassin Sportsmaster, could keep an eye on the emerald archer.

In her young life, Artemis faced abuse at the hands of her father, and severe negligence from her injured mother and angsty sister. Her older sister, Jade, was indoctrinated into the League of Assassins at a young age - and they split on the family. When her mother was offered an FBI deal, she gave up their location, placing Arty and Paula into witness protection under the identities of Joan and Tabitha Sanders.

They moved to Gotham City, where the program paid for her to attend Brentwood Academy, where she became fascinated with athletics, especially boxing, archery, and fencing. So much so that her gym coach began paying for private lessons for her at the Wildcat Gym.

One day, Artemis came home from school to find her father standing in the dark with a gun to her mother’s head. By force, he drug the family back to Star City, where the relationship grew more strained and abusive. Jade was now never-present, leaving Artemis to fend for herself.

Artemis began striking out on the streets at night, and ended up completely deserting home and running off. She traveled around Star City and even went back to Gotham, where she apparently hustled with the Red Hood Gang for a bit as a way to make ends meet. She was eventually found by her father who dragged her back to Star City and gave her a beating so bad she broke one of her arms.

When her arm fully healed, Arty decided she wasn’t going to take her father’s abuse any longer, and decided to seek out help. Clad with her own bow and quiver, and a homemade super-suit, she found Green Arrow and demanded he take her on as an apprentice.

After hearing her sob story, he agreed to train her to fight back, and began speaking with his support staff about finding a way to get her and Paula out of the abusive home. While Oliver and Dinah began training the girl, Roy began convincing her to get her mom to speak to the police, but Arty was resistant.

After a few weeks spent living with the Queens, she returned home to get some things she left behind, when she found that her mother had been left overturned in her wheelchair and was nearly starved to death. After saving her life, Arty talked Paula into going to the authorities. With a little help from Green Arrow - they put “Crusher” behind bars.

### Sharpshoot

Ollie felt as if her training was complete, allowing her to go into the field under the identity of Sharpshoot. He also had her join the latest class of the Titans, in a class nicknamed “Young Justice”. Artemis began to find a true connection with them. With her inside intel of the League of Assassins, she helped the team uncover the criminal operation known as the Light.

Of course, this proved to further complicate her life - as her sister had become a full member of the Black Glove under the codename of Cheshire, which often put the two into conflict - further complicated by Roy Harper’s relationship with the assassin, which put a lot of distance between her and Speedy.

On the Titans, Arty met the love of her life in the form of Wally West, the first Kid Flash. While at first, their relationship was purely professional, it grew to be more. Wally stepped down from being Kid Flash in 2012. While celebrating the inauguration of new members, the two shared a kiss atop Titans’ Tower, and officially began dating.

Despite the urgings of her mother, Artemis ignored pursuing a higher education - until the Titans were forced into shutdown in 2014. Artemis decided it was time to find a life outside of heroics, swearing off being a superhero forever. She moved in with Wally, who was living in Palo Alto, pursuing a degree at Stanford University. Artemis decided to join him, and began studying investigative journalism and comparative literature.

After noticing her natural talent for investigation, Vic Sage encouraged her to write an expose column. She took up the alias of Linda Park and began writing columns discussing the activities of the Light. While living in Palo Alto, she and Wally decided it was finally time to tie the knot and ended up having two kids - Jai and Irey.

### Tigress

Her swearing off of superheroes wouldn’t last long when Dick Grayson and Kaldur’ahm approached Wally and Arty with a plan to fake Artemis’ death and send both her and Kaldur into deep cover to rip the Light apart. And so, the plan was set. However, it was further complicated when they discovered that the Roy Harper they’d been living with was a clone, and set out on a mission to find the real Roy Harper, eventually finding him frozen in a Cadmus Facility.

Artemis faked her murder at the hands of Kaldur’ahm while protecting a Ferris Air rocket that the Light was sabotaging. And so, Artemis went undercover in the League of Assassins, taking up her mother’s codename of Tigress, where she was recruited into Kaldur’s special Onslaught force.

While undercover, she discovered that the Light was making a big power play on Independence Day. So, she helped orchestrate a takedown of the Light. While they were unable to stop the Independence Day OMAC attacks, they were able to successfully cripple the Light at a summit the following night.

Artemis returned to life somewhat of a pariah. Many of the Titans and much of the League resented her at first for faking her death. So, she decided it was time to retire once more, having done her service.

She and Wally moved to Keystone City, where she began working as a journalist at the Galaxy Broadcasting Network, with the ulterior motive of keeping an eye on G Gordon Godfrey - a suspected affiliate of the Light. In Keystone, she and Wally raised their little family very happily.

But, after the Reach attempted an invasion of Earth, Barry Allen was killed. Wally was forced to take up the mantle of the Flash in his absence, prompting them to move to Central City. Now, Artemis has decided to use the Tigress mantle as a force for good, becoming a trainer at the Young Justice Academy. She was also recruited to Grace Choi’s newest Outsiders team.