Appearance

Artemis stands at an unimpressive 5'5, but her small stature is made up for by a rather chiseled physique. She's muscular, with a body built for speed. Thanks to her training in Teräs Käsi, she remains physically fit. She has pale red hair, darker skin, and agate-red eyes. Artemis wears a tight fitting tank-top, with belts and supports around them. Lastly, she wears fingerless weight lifting gloves on her hands to help prevent strain, with some added padding to keep from hurting her knuckles. Around her arms are two Beskar bracers, with the same holding true around her lower legs. However in this case, these bracers are hidden from view by her boots. She has a black choker around her neck, a parting gift from her mother. Artemis has scars all over her body, but most notably one over her eye- that covers her eyelid. This was the result of a desperate Jedi attacking her with a thrown metal panel- cutting her as if it was a blade. Additively, Artemis' left hand has been sliced in a way that removed half of her palm, and her ring, pinky, and middle fingers from an altercation with a Sith. These are replaced with cybernetic prosthetics to complete her hand.

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Personality

Artemis is a passive girl who does not hide her general apathy to life, tending to hold a disinterested attitude towards everything. Having a rather negative view towards authority and society in general, it's not a surprise she chose the life of a freelancer mercenary. She is critical of human flaws, sarcastic, and enjoys teasing others. She also easily becomes blasé and has a tendency to sound bored when attacking low-level targets. She can be spoiled and irritable, often losing patience whenever a tease, intentional or otherwise, is thrown her way.

Story

Artemis is the only granddaughter of Terra Penn, a Teräs Käsi master who hailed last from the Bakura star system. Growing up under her grandmother's tutelage, Artemis was quick to be put through her paces in Teräs Käsi and a brutal training regime. No time for friends or social activities, Artemis was a prisoner by all intents and purposes. Being trained to be nothing more than a war machine. A fate that Artemis detested above all else.

Eventually Artemis' training led her to growing stronger. Stronger than her aging grandmother. Every fight started becoming a fight for her own life, being beaten to near death in every training session, and expected to keep fighting. It was a miserable experience, littered with broken bones, and nights spent nursing bloodied injuries. This went on until Artemis managed to reach her twenties. During a sparring session, not even intentionally, Artemis killed her grandmother in combat, finally earning victory over her as a strike to her chest killed the old woman. Fearing for her life, Artemis stole her grandmother's starship and left, fleeing home. To survive, she did only what she knew how to: fight. Earning money through fight rings, and dirty deeds done dirt cheap, she managed to scrape by for the first two years without much issue.

Over the course of those two years, Artemis had to learn to close her emotions off, to block out what she had done- what all she had been through. She wove herself a lie- that she was abandoned by her family. Something that she said enough times, she even began to believe it herself. With her emotional baggage lost in the airport that was her mind, Artemis began working as a freelance mercenary for hire. Traveling without allegiance, she's done jobs for all sides of the galaxy, with little qualms about what or who she was fighting. She would then use the money to obtain gear and keep her ship upgraded.

During her travels, however, Artemis has had several encounters with Jedi and Sith alike- earning herself a very distinct scar across her eye- and half of her hand sliced off- replaced later with cybernetic prosthetics. She began to realize that while she can hold her own against a warrior with a Lightsaber, she would need something better. While researching on her own, she came across word of a material called Phrik: a material capable of shorting out a Lightsaber on contact, while remaining decently durable. Deciding this was her next goal, Artemis has focused most of her personal endeavors on chasing down any lead she finds to obtain enough Phrik to make four bracers and knuckle guards for her to easily punch a lightsaber.

Artemis practicing her stances

Approached by a representative for the Empire, Artemis was enlisted as a mercenary for aiding in the reclaimation of Zakuul. Not wanting to incur the wrath of the mighty Emperor, or any Sith he might employ, Artemis accepted whatever offer she was given, and quickly made her way to Zakuul to aid with the army's effort to take the planet. There she carved her own path through enemy forces. [Ongoing]

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