Post by apollo on Jul 22, 2010 16:34:06 GMT -5
ready to fight, a knife held close by your side
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HUNTRESS ARTEMIS
broken mirror, a million shades of light
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Name:: Artemis
Nickname:: Lady Artemis, Chaste Artemis, Diana, Pheobe, Huntress, Chaste Lady
Age:: Ageless
Gender:: Female
we can run to the end of the world
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Species:: Goddess of the hunt, wild animals, wilderness, childbirth, virginity and young girls.
Olympian Parent:: Zeus and Leto
Years at Camp:: She has no use for such mortal frivolities.
Claimed:: Zeus and Leto value her both as a daughter and a Goddess.
the songs of the season are her only crown
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Celebrity Claim: Danneel Harris/Bella Thorne
Looks::
In her most common human form, Artemis appears to be a young girl around the age of twelve. Her hair is sandy brown and reaches down to the middle of her back with bangs that cut straight across her forehead. She appears with chocolate brown eyes that are cold and calculating and wears silvery clothes.
In her Goddess form, Artemis is seen as tall and slim, her golden bow on her back. She has dark auburn hair that cascades over her shoulders in wavy locks. Her eyes are the same deep brown that appear in her human form. She wears white or silver clothing and keeps a knowing smirk on her face most of the time.
Personality::
Artemis is a Goddess, therefore, she is quite above all of the mortals in to world, and will remind you of it whenever she deems appropriate. (Which is rather often) She has a cold and distant attitude towards all except her fellow Immortals and her Huntresses. Men, especially feel this sort of wrath, as the Goddess deems them even lower than others. This is the result of a past heartache of the Goddess'.
When affronted with the dealings of love, Artemis shows a very flippant and unfaithful side of herself that covers up the anger she truly feels towards it. Having felt the sting of heartache once herself, she guards hers and her Huntresses' hearts closely.
Towards her twin brother, Apollo, Artemis regards him with cool agitation. She is his older sister, and finds him as older siblings often do: an anklebiter she'd rather not be seen with. On the inside, however, Artemis feels a lot of respect for her brother and loves him more than anything else. She would give anything for him.
Artemis' Huntresses see a very different side of their Lady than the rest of the world does. The Goddess is gentle with her attendants and treats them as though they were her daughters - which is very close to how she feels. She guides them to be the best archers they can be, and is only stern when is completely necessary.
Family::
Mother: Leto (Latona)
Father: Zeus
Siblings: Apollo, (Twin) Dionysus, Hermes, Ares, and Athena
History::
Goddess Artemis is the daughter of Zeus and Leto. After Zeus had laid with Leto, Hera (Zeus's wife) was green with envy and sent a snake after Leto to harass her and prevent her from finding a place to deliver the babies.
Leto frantically searched for a hiding place but no one would welcome her as all feared angering Hera. She finally found refuge in Ortygia , the island of her sister Asteria, where she gave birth to Artemis.
Immediately after her own birth, the newborn Goddess Artemis helped her mother through nine days of labor until her brother Apollo was delivered.
Artemis grew to become the virgin goddess of hunt, of wild animals, and of childbirth (due to her involvement in Apollo's birth). When she was three, Zeus asked Artemis what gifts when wanted. Among many others, she named: A bow and arrows, All the world's mountains (as her home and playground), Just one city (she wanted to live in the mountains) and Eternal virginity.
Zeus gladly gave her all she wanted and more. He ordered the Cyclopes to forge a golden bow and a full quiver of arrows for her. And he presented her with thirty cities and named her as the guardian of the world's roads and harbors.
Like most Olympians, goddess Artemis reacts strongly whenever she doesn't receive the honors due to her as a goddess. When King Oeneus of Calydon offended Artemis by forgetting to dedicate the first fruits of the harvest to her one season, she sent a monstrous boar to ravage and terrorize the kingdom. To eradicate the beast, Oeneus was forced to call on some of the greatest heroes to participate in the hunt.
Although Artemis has always been a steadfast virgin, her heart had once been pierced by one of Eros' cunning arrows. Great Orion, Hunter of Hunters caught the Goddess' eye when he was at the peak of his youth. Artemis found her love for him in Hunting, and he often joined her in her endless chase for animal pelts. Although her affections touched the great hunter's heart, the two never indulged in sexual relations. Apollo, Lord of the Silver Bow, however, feared for his sister's chastity, as Orion had taken Eos' not long ago.
Artemis' cunning twin waited until he saw Orion swimming far out in the sea one day. He then approached his sister and said, "I challenge that you cannot hit that bit of driftwood out there." Proud Artemis immediately took her bow and shot an arrow straight through Apollo's imposed target. To her dismay, however, the target was Orion's chest. The grieved Goddess set her almost-lover's body amongst the night sky in respect and sorrow. His form remains pierced through the chest to this day.
More recently, when the Titans attempted to bring the destruction of Western Civilization, Artemis was captured by Kronos her grandfather, and was forced to hold up the sky for a time in order for atlas to aid the titans. The Goddess succeeded in forcing Atlas back to his post after Percy Jackson took the sky on his own shoulders.
The Goddess fought fiercely on the side of the Gods in the war for dominance over Earth. She worked side-by-side with her twin Apollo to slow Typhon in his rampage. Later, the Goddess took on her half-sister, Thalia as the Captain of her Huntresses after losing Zoe Nightshade's life to Atlas.
Artemis recently had a tense run-in with the Fear God, Phobos, and witnessed his decision to destroy Camp Half-Blood.
broken sword and shield and tears that never fall
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Name/Nickname:: Mizame
Roleplaying Experience:: One year.
Sample RP::
The glow of the silver disk in the sky that was the moon glinted off of a golden bow. The skilled hands that held the bow and arrow in the notch let fly the shaft. With a whistling arc, the arrow sank into the intended target, which was a great white Polar Bear. Blood spurted form the animal's neck and it fell dead swiftly.
Coolly and briskly, a small form slunk across the frozen Antarctic plains and tended to the bear. Twelve more small figures followed in a "V" formation and stood guard as the shooter cut the animal's skin loose of its body.
Lady Artemis of the Golden bow stepped forth and removed the silver hood of her coat from her head. A blizzard of snowflakes coated her hair as she approached her archeress.
"Well done, Iphigenia." The Goddess said calmly as she surveyed her Huntresses' kill. It was flawless and concise, as a kill should be. She patted the young girl on the shoulder encouragingly. Iphigenia had come far in her shooting. her early skills with a bow were below abysmal, and her tracking was clumsy and erroneous, but Artemis had conditioned her into a fine addition to her squad.
Her attendant approached the goddess with a rather large cut of the prime meat from the bear. She knelt and placed the bloody slab in front of her.
"For you, my Lady." She said in a timid voice. Artemis nodded and flipped her now snow-laden hair over her shoulders. This had been a good hunt, And Iphigenia was showing substantial improvement. The last few millennium had been devoted to these girls; these loyal servants of their Lady. Training them, conditioning them, and giving them refuge from a Man's world. This was what her existence was all about, wasn't it?