Opal Koboi
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Opal Koboi is a pixie from the Artemis Fowl series. She first appears as a villain of Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident, and later appears again in Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception.
Opal Koboi is a certified genius, with an IQ measuring over 300. She was the owner of Koboi Labs, the company which made most of LEPrecon's equipment. However, she had specifically designed everything so that she could remotely sabotage them. With the help of General Scalene of the B'wa Kell goblin triad, an underground goblin gang, and Briar Cudgeon, disgruntled former Lower Elements Police officer who had been promoted to acting commander during the first book, then swiftly demoted to lieutenant after the subsequent events, Koboi hatched a plan to overthrow Haven City, and later, the world. Due to the combined efforts of Artemis Fowl and Holly Short, Koboi's plan was foiled, which resulted in her slipping into a coma.
Later, in Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception, it is learned that Koboi did not go into a true coma but rather induced a coma-like state of meditation known as the cleansing coma taught to her by Gola Schweem. Furthermore, Koboi had designed a contingency plan in the event of her defeat, in which funds were diverted to ensure she would be sent to the correct mental hospital, where she had planted agents Mervall and Descant Brill, also pixies. She had also created a clone of herself. Conveniently, fairy cloning technology had progressed to the point where clones had only enough mental power to maintain life support (thus appearing merely a comatose version of the original). The clone was produced to take Opal's place and allow her to escape completely undetected.
Prior to her capture and comatose state, Opal Koboi was already a megalomaniac with a personality disorder. However, her personality greatly changed after she was rescued by the Brill brothers. She became paranoid, prone to sudden fits of anger which she would take out on the Brill brothers. This later caused her to even create a set of rules her pixie enforcers had to follow, including the rule that no one could look at her directly, because she believed it was bad for her skin. It becomes clear that she is growing insane as eventually she believes she can telepathically read minds and that she is so beautiful, she deserves her own currency. She also has an obsession with chocolate truffles, which ironically contributes to her downfall when Artemis goads her into opening her booty box, where he has planted two charges intended for use in her plan.
Once she had been rescued from the Doctor J. Argon clinic, she put in motion her plan to both exact revenge on her enemies - Artemis Fowl II, Domovoi Butler, LEPrecon officer Holly Short, LEPrecon commander Julius Root, and the centaur Foaly - and destroy the fairy population of Haven City. She had decided to do this by having cosmetic surgery done on her to give her the appearance and pituitary gland of a human, so she could masquerade as the daughter of Sicilian scientist Giovanni Zito, naming herself Belinda Zito. Once she had accomplished this she could lend her aid to Zito's underground probe, which would then dig through to the center of the Earth, and, in the process, destroy Haven's defences, and much of the city. The result of this would be that Haven's broadcasts would be completely exposed to the sensors in the probe, leading humans to discover the fairy population.
However, her revenge plans failed. They included the use of explosives and bio-bombs, and were originally intended to either frame or kill Holly Short, Commander Root, and kill Artemis Fowl, Butler, and Foaly (the only one who had ever bested Koboi). Instead, only Root was killed, and although Holly was successfully framed for his murder, she escaped to rescue Artemis Fowl. Butler also survived, and because too many had lived, Koboi was forced to use her other plan (a "troll nasty" one involving the Eleven Wonders exhibit in Haven) which was originally intended for Foaly, on Holly and Artemis.
Holly and Artemis later escaped, joining up with Butler and the kleptomaniac dwarf Mulch Diggums, and together the four foiled Koboi's plans and not only prevented the destruction of Haven City, but also exposed Koboi, who was previously still believed to be in a coma. Koboi escaped to the surface, but due to her 'humanizing' of herself with the pituitary gland, she had lost most of her fairy magic, and convinced an Italian woman who had been near her landing site that she was her daughter. Unfortunately for her, this used up the very last of her magic. The woman then forced Opal to do work on her farm, costing Opal her much needed strength.
At the end of Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception, Koboi is believed to safely be in a LEP prison.
