can we have some arson/jaytemis headcannons please? 👉👈 (no pressure of course)
Lol, would love to! Okay, so I haven’t had a chance to really thoroughly sit down and dive deep into both their characters, but here’s what I do have so far:
Artemis and Jason are both very troubled individuals. VERY troubled. To the point that neither of them thought they’d ever find someone to love in a million years. When they first meet, they’re both impressed by one another on a technical level. They’re both skilled fighters and they spar well together. Naturally, Artemis is the better fighter overall (being taught ancient fighting styles from birth and having superpowers helps) but Jason held out longer than just about anyone else she’d ever fought.
Here’s a fun little titbit for you! In my version, Artemis has bonus superpowers because of some rewriting I did for the origins of the Amazons. Her blood comes (a few generations back) from Ares and Aphrodite. This results in her having a duel power. The Eyes of Fear and the Eyes of Love. By just looking at someone, she can either make them mortally terrified, or make them fall in love with her. Whichever is more beneficial to her in the moment. She typically never uses the Eyes of Love. But then, early on in their relationship, she’s trying to beat Jason in a fight and uses the Eyes of Fear on him. It doesn’t work. He’s seen true fear before and lived to tell the tale. This is nothing. So, instead, Artemis uses her second power to try and get an edge. This, too, doesn’t work, because, well… he already was kinda in love with her… So that’s cute.
ANYWAY—At first, the two of them are a bit standoffish. Like, “you don’t want to hear about my weepy backstory right?” “Right. And you wouldn’t want to hear mine either?” “Nope.” But naturally, over the course of them adventuring together as The Outlaws, their pasts are kinda pried out of them and they get to know one another better. They have a silent understanding of one another. They respect each other and what they’ve gone through.
Speaking of their adventures, once they learn how to work well together (which took a little while, since they’re both kinda hard-headed) they develop the unspoken promise that they will always have each other’s back when the chips are down, and once they cross that threshold, the 💕 feelings 💕 start rising to the surface.
Sure, both of them are objectively attractive, but what Jason really likes about Artemis is how calm he feels whenever he’s around her. She’s far more mature than the average woman his age, if a bit intense, and she knows how to handle herself in a fight and take care of herself. He doesn’t have to worry about her getting hurt or letting his guard down around her, because he knows she’s got his back. For those little moments when they’re alone, he feels… peace. Like he doesn’t have to have walls up all the time. Like he can breathe. And like he can smile. She doesn’t even need to do anything, him just sitting next to her is enough.
For Artemis, deep relationships are hard. She’s had very few, and lost too many of them. Connecting with people—let alone people her own age—feels impossible anymore. So she puts up walls and gives in to the idea of being a loner all her life, but she’d be lying if she said she didn’t want deep meaningful relationships. When she meets Jason, she expects him to be just another person who floats in and out of her life, but as she gets to know him, through their adventuring, sparing, and their witty back and forth banter, she begins to feel for the first time in a long time that he just might understand her, in some ways. He doesn’t pity her or weep over her like some do, and he doesn’t get all awkward and nervous like some she’s met before. He just… gets it. That’s rare, in her experience. She doesn’t want to lose him—like, really bad—but she can’t tell him that. He probably doesn’t feel the same, and he’ll probably just wind up going his own way eventually, so there’s no point in getting attached… but she gets attached anyway (and so does Jason).
You know that scene from Avatar the last Airbender where Toph punches Zuko and is like, “that’s how I show affection,” ? That’s their relationship around others/in public. Hitting, shoving, laughing at one another’s stupidity, teasing, etc. They both try to play it off like they’re just good friends. But when they’re alone…
It’s like a feeling neither of them can describe. Something so foreign, and yet so exciting and wonderful… it almost doesn’t seem real. It certainly isn’t something they’d ever share with anyone else; that would spoil the magic of it. It’s like this precious secret, just between them. The way they make each other feel… the peace, the joy, the calm… it’s something they know they’re never gonna find with anyone else.
Now, committing to something like marriage is not exactly the first place their minds go, because they still have lingering ✨ issues ✨ and that nagging fear of losing someone is still hovering at the backs of their minds, so that sort of thing won’t happen for a while…
…but when it does, it happens so fast, you blink and you miss it. Jason just shows up to the Manor one day and is like, “Oh, yeah, by the way, Artemis and I eloped. Bye.” Cue Bruce spit take.
Again, that won’t happen for a long while, but it’s gonna happen. Eventually. Heheheh.
