suchadramaqueen16:

lighthousebeams:

suchadramaqueen16:

an-ime-goil:

suchadramaqueen16:

Your tags on this one though! I think about it all the time! Like I don’t/can’t imagine Artemis without scars. After all shed been through ya know?

Ugh, this. And actually, for the pic I just drew - I meant to put in scars, for accuracy and all that, but then was too lazy >.< I kinda wanna kick myself in the face for it though, because I wish more artists WOULD show how scarred they are - at least the non-meta ones.

I Think it’s fine for the pic you drew since its AU and everything, but I agree. I mean, these heroes are injured all the time, bruises and scars are a big part of the lifestyle and sometimes I think not showing them betrays the characters a bit

Pfffffff, Goil, your picture was lovely just the way it was. Although I do love to see Artemis with scars, I think that, in that picture, it might have been a distraction more than anything; the colors and the tone of the picture, along with the fact that (I think?) we were supposed to noticed their expressions more than anything—the way Dick was looking at Artemis, and the way Artemis was so into her work and the case that her face was twisting with just the thought that these idiots believed they could surpass her, ha!

The way you did that image was glorious, just as it is.

On the general side of things, though, I always picture Artemis crawling with scars, ‘cause like you said, Savvy, after all she’s been through, there’s bound to be some somewhere.

And I don’t think she’d be self-conscious about them until she started seeing people like Zatanna and Rocket and Babs and Black Canary, who all have clearer, unmarked skin; theirs isn’t perfect, because heroing isn’t exactly clean and safe, but nobody has the thick, puckered types of scars she does—a bullet wound in her shoulder; lash marks on her back; knife wounds on her arms and legs and abdomen; warped skin from a burn mark on her hip/thigh where she didn’t jump fast enough; scarred-to-hell knuckles from getting in fights, maybe one hiding in her hairline from when some psycho tried to cut her face, etc. etc. etc.

Sometimes I spend far too much time thinking on this, seriously. I just always wonder what she’s got under her clothes because her costume, despite the fact that it shows off her midriff, doesn’t allow for a lot of exposed skin; it covers her neck, her pants are long and dark, her boots cover what her pants don’t, and she’s got those gloves that cover her hands all the way up to near her elbow, among other things. Plus, with her history, there’s got to be some nasty ones hiding somewhere with some serious history behind them.

Admittedly, the scars I think of her having tend to change with my mood / the story I’m writing. I have a few that stay consistent, but otherwise I always seem to change her history, even just the tiniest bit, with every story that I write (in my head or otherwise). It’s nice to see a bunch of different scenarios that might or might not fit.

That’s how I felt about the pic!
And almost exactly how I feel about the scars! I definitely agree that she didn’t feel ridiculously self conscious until she saw BC and Zatanna and Rocket who , while they may have bumps and scratches, it’s no where bad as Artemis’s. i can see her thinking that she wouldnt have to hide them then realizing hers were much worse than anyone elses. i mean this girl was being trained by her dad at the age of 9 and we all know he wasn’t afraid to mark her up. Plus the missions he sent her on as well as the missions with the team and patrol etc Like I see her always wearing hoodies and long sleeves at school so no one calls the authorities. And I think Dick sees the excessiveness of her scars one day at the cave or school and even his eyes widen a little because of course he has his fair share of them but hers are deep and just make you wince looking at them. And maybe he starts watching her more and finally she asks him what the hell he’s looking at and he just says you and that would be when she realizes the scars weren’t something to hide, they were what made her stronger.

That was ramblyy idk

No worries about rambling–sometimes you guys are seriously going to have to tell me to shut it otherwise I’ll go on forever, haha.

YES! Like, she’s still not really ashamed or self-conscious about them–they’re who she is, how she got to be so skilled, they’re pieces of her and they tell a story. But the other girls’ skin isn’t so discolored or puckered or scarred and she still thought it was okay, it’s normal, she’s just been doing this stuff longer and she went above and beyond when she was working with her dad, trying to make him proud. She thought it was normal until she saw BC; she thought for sure she’d have some bigger / deeper / more ragged scarring, but it didn’t turn out like that at all. Add in the fact that the other girls / the guys on the Team / the mentors or the Leaguers would flinch and bitch and sympathize with their injuries, when Artemis was just like, “Knife wound to my thigh, and I ain’t even walkin’ with a limp, no need for medical, byeee~!” Or, “I can stitch this up myself, it’s okay." 

And good lord, I love that bit you wrote with Dick being shocked / horrified that she went through so much, and then it turns all fluffy and ugh. <3

That was a very nice image to have in my head, is all I’m saying.