Butler (Artemis Fowl)
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| Artemis Fowl character | |
|---|---|
| Domovoi Butler | |
| Gender | Male |
| Hair colour | Shaved; grey as of Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code |
| Species | Human |
| First appearance | Artemis Fowl |
Butler, is a fictional character in the Artemis Fowl series of books by Eoin Colfer.
In the Artemis Fowl series, the Butlers had been serving the Fowls for centuries. At the age of ten, young Butler children would be sent to a facility in a guarded/private place to get bodyguard training from a woman referred to as Madame Ko. Their training would include: a customized blend of martial arts, marksmanship, first aid, information technology and Cordon Bleu cooking. At the end of their training, if there wasn't a Fowl to guard, they would work as bodyguards for other prominent families, generally in Monaco or Saudi Arabia.
Butler becomes the bodyguard and something of a close friend to Artemis Fowl II. He stands almost seven feet tall, was born on August 14, and has "muscles like a Michelangelo statue". He is of Eurasian heritage.
Butler is Artemis' bodyguard; both highly trained and loyal, he has become a sort of a father/older brother figure to Artemis. Butler has been nearly killed twice, once in the first book being mauled in a battle with a troll (interestingly Butler is the only human known to ever take on a matured troll in hand-to-hand combat and survive) and again in the beginning of the third book (Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code) by a bullet meant to kill Artemis. In this book, as he is about to die, Butler reveals his first name to be "Domovoi". Both times he is revived by elf captain Holly Short's magic. However, the second healing required some of his own life force in addition to Captain Short's magic, and he awoke a few days later about fifteen years older. He became slightly too old for bodyguard business, and due to Kevlar tissue that became woven into his chest during his healing, he could no longer breathe as easily as he used to, but he is able to withstand small caliber bullets. Also because of the healing, though he had aged, he would still live for quite a long time. At the end of the third book, he is given cosmetic surgery and dwarf fat implants to mask his aging before his memory is wiped by the fairies/LEP. He still remains Artemis' bodyguard and also a figure of wisdom and support.
He revealed his first name to Artemis when he was about to die, revealing to the young genius two things: his friend had been named for a Slavic guardian spirit, and that the academy Butler had trained at (Madam Ko's bodyguard academy) instructed their students never to reveal their first names to their charge ever - and, since Artemis knew his friend would never break this rule unless it no longer mattered - that he was saying good-bye. His name is used by Artemis to secretly prepare Butler himself to regain his memory of the fairies after his and Artemis's minds are wiped, as Butler needed concrete evidence from someone he trusted completely (Artemis,) to effect total recall, although prior to recall, both of them were beginning to experience surfacing of residual memories.
Little is known about Butler's family, besides his younger sister Juliet. It is revealed in Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident that Butler's uncle (the Major) was Artemis' father's bodyguard, and that of the two people in the world better trained in martial arts than himself, Butler was related to one of them. The other lives on an island in the South China Sea and spent his time meditating and beating up palm trees.
| Eoin Colfer’s Artemis Fowl | |
|---|---|
| Books: | Main Series: Artemis Fowl | The Arctic Incident | The Eternity Code | The Opal Deception | The Lost Colony | Book 6 (title unknown) Related Books: The Seventh Dwarf | The Artemis Fowl Files |
| Film: | Artemis Fowl |
| Characters | |
| Characters: | Artemis Fowl | Butler | Juliet Butler | Foaly | Holly Short | Julius Root | Mulch Diggums | Minerva Paradizo | N°1 | Arno Blunt | Billy Kong | Briar Cudgeon | The Brill Brothers | Doodah Day | Jon Spiro | Leon Abbot | Opal Koboi | Scalene | Angeline Fowl | Ark Sool | Artemis Fowl, Sr. | Caballine | Chix Verbil | Grub Kelp | Jerbal Argon | Qwan | Qweffor | Trouble Kelp | Vinyáya |
| Groups | |
| Organisations: | Lower Elements Police | LEPrecon | LEPretrieval | LEPtraffic | Section Eight | Fission Chips | B'wa Kell | Phonetix | Russian Mafiya |
| Types of Fairies: | Elves | Dwarves | Trolls | Goblins | Centaurs | Sprites | Pixies | Demons | Warlocks |
| Locations: | Fowl Manor | Police Plaza | Haven | Tara | Fowl Star | Spiro Needle | Hybras |
