Artemis Fowl II

From Artemis Fowl

Artemis Fowl character
Artemis Fowl
Gender	Male
Hair colour	Raven black
Eye colour	One blue, one hazel (As of The Lost Colony)
Species	Human
Family	Angeline Fowl (mother), Artemis Fowl I (father), Myles Fowl (brother), Beckett Fowl (brother), Hugo de Folé (ancestor)
Aliases	F. Roy Dean Schlippe, Stefan Bakshir, Emmesey Squire, Dr. C. Niall DeMencha, Sir E. Brum, Malachy Pasteur and Violet Tsirblou.
Age	17-18 (legally) 14-15 (physically)
First appearance	Artemis Fowl

This is about the character. For other uses, see Artemis Fowl (disambiguation).

Artemis Fowl is a brilliant boy genius who is both adversary and ally of the fairy civilization. He has Irish ancestors, dark hair, blue eyes, very pale skin, a nearly dysfunctional family with a history of crime, a loyal manservant and bodyguard called Butler, millions of dollars at his disposal, and one of the highest IQ levels in the world.

Contents 1 Personality 2 Character History 3 Physical Appearance 4 Artemis Fowl 5 The Arctic Incident 6 The Eternity Code 7 The Opal Deception 8 The Lost Colony 9 The Time Paradox 10 Personal Development 11 Quotes 11.1 Artemis Fowl 11.2 The Arctic Incident 11.3 The Eternity Code 11.4 The Opal Deception 11.5 The Lost Colony 11.6 The Time Paradox

[edit] Personality

Artemis has the "highest tested IQ in Europe". In the beginning of the series, he regards everyone as his inferiors. Even his school counselor could see that. He is ambidextrous, but his left hand has slightly more precision and is a bit more steady. In the beginning of the series, he seems to possess a cold, ruthless, almost psychopathic nature. However, throughout the series, influences from his family and the fairies have shown a more compassionate side of himself. During The Time Paradox, during his procession to the past with Holly Short, he seems to have begun showing signs of puberty, and seems slightly more aware of his female counterpart. Also during The Time Paradox, Artemis mentions how antagonistic he was at a younger age, and how sadistic he was toward certain others, one namely being Dr. Kronski.

Despite his vast intellect, Artemis is somewhat lacking in social skills, implying that he may suffer from Asperger's Syndrome. Though he states in the first book that the only medical problem he has is a slight dust mite allergy, he has been known to edit out that which he does not like, namely, a gasp of fear, when exiting a train in The Arctic Incident, He is something of an expert in psychology and sociology however and works hard to improve his social skills. His apparent charisma also aids him somewhat in his interactions with significant others.

[edit] Character History

The Fowl Family is an Irish criminal family empire which date back at least to the Norman Conquest, which has amassed a stupendous fortune through both legitimate and illegitimate excursions. These fortunes have been placed in danger in recent times by Artemis' father, Artemis Fowl I, who invested a huge chunk of the Fowl fortune in founding new shipping lanes to the country of Russia, following the breakdown of communism there. The Russian Mafia did not like that a westerner was playing in their market. The result of that, was a stolen smart bomb exploding the Fowl Star. Artemis Fowl I was injured and held hostage following a sweep for any survivors..

Artemis, who was ten at the time his father disappeared, decides to regain the Fowl fortune. Following leads on the Internet, Fowl discovers the existence of an underground world of fairies, and at age twelve, attempts to, and succeeds at stealing their gold.

He also uses many pseudonyms and aliases to hide his identity; most reflect his intellectual level. They include "F. Roy Dean Schlippe" (Freudian slip), "Stefan Bakshir" (Russian child chess prodigy as well as character from The Supernaturalist), "Emmesey Squire" (E = mc2), "Dr. C. Niall DeMencha" (senile dementia), "Sir E. Brum" (cerebrum), Malachy Pasteur, and "Violet Tsirblou" (Violets are blue).

The latter two are mentioned in the sixth book of the series, The Time Paradox. Violet Tsirblou was the pseudonym he first mentioned having used as an author to write romance novels at age ten. Malachy Pasteur was a false identity he used to join the Extinctionists' Database.

[edit] Physical Appearance

Artemis is said to be abnormally pale, even unto the likes to be compared to a vampire on several occasions. He is very slender, with dark black hair. In the Graphic Novel, it shows that Artemis has a prominent widow's peak, (although it is unknown if the character appearances of the graphic novel are considered canon as they differ from the original descriptions in the books). He used to have deep-blue eyes, but, thanks to traveling through Limbo, he and Holly Short each have one blue eye and one hazel eye. Though in the Artemis Fowl Graphic Novel, when Artemis is said to have two blue eyes, they both appear to be dark brown. Since the disappearance of his father at age ten, he has preferred tailored Armani apparel to normal teenager clothes.

[edit] Artemis Fowl

In this book, Artemis discovers The People, an ancient fairy civilization dating back to the dawn of time. He obtains a copy of the Book, the fairy equivalent of the Bible, by bribing and blackmailing a drunken sprite. He then translates the Gnommish text into Ancient Egyptian, and then into English. This way, he has a guide to exploit a whole new species to attain his ultimate goal: fairy gold. As part of his plan, he abducts Captain Holly Short from the LEPrecon (a division of the Lower Elements Police), and holds her for ransom. He does this with the help of his faithful manservant Butler. By the strength of his mind and his manservant, he ends up with half a ton of gold, a cured mother, and an unprecedented knowledge about the People: knowledge he is sure to exploit in the future.

[edit] The Arctic Incident

Having been sent to boarding school, Artemis is bored and undergoing psychiatric treatment for nothing in particular. He leaves when Butler tells him that the Mafia has sent a video demanding ransom for Artemis's father. On their way to rescue him, Artemis is stopped by Captain Holly Short, who (along with Foaly, Julius Root, and the rest of the LEP) suspects him of smuggling human batteries. Artemis is proved innocent, and says he will help the Fairies capture the real culprit--if, of course, they will help him rescue his father. On the way, the person responsible, Opal Koboi, makes her move. She captures and renders Foaly helpless, unleashes the goblins against the city, shuts down all LEP weaponry, and ambushes Holly, Artemis, Butler, and Root. Artemis and his (soon to be) friends abandon his father pro tempore and save Haven City. They then return to the Artic to get Artemis's father rescued. Artemis uses the controversial tactic of faking shooting his own father and lures the Mafia away from the body so that the fairies can rescue him.

In the epilogue, Artemis is back at school in the counselor's office. The counselor asks if Artemis has finally found someone worthy of his respect, and he says yes, presumably meaning Holly Short, though maybe including Julius Root.

[edit] The Eternity Code

Soon after his father is cured at the end of The Arctic Incident, Artemis Fowl II knows that his time of freedom is nearly at an end. His last venture, or so he tells himself, is to show Jon Spiro the C Cube, a minicomputer created from LEP technology stolen during the first siege. Artemis offers to keep the Cube off the market for one year in exchange for 1 ton of gold, but Spiro instead steals it. Butler is fatally wounded by Spiro's bodyguard after Spiro leaves, but Artemis freezes him, at the Ice Age Cryogenics Institute, until the Fairies can come help him. The two groups put together an operation to sneak into Spiro's tower and steal the C Cube. The plan succeeds, but Spiro has secretly planned this and catches Artemis as he takes the Cube. Switching to Plan B, Artemis lures Spiro to come to Phonetix, Spiro's major rival, and there escapes with the Cube and defeats Spiro. Afterwards, Artemis uses the C Cube to free Mulch Diggums and transfer Spiro's fortune to the Fowl account. Before everything can be wrapped up, however, the fairies insist on mind-wiping Artemis and his associates. Artemis has planned for this, however, and instructs Mulch to remind him when the time is right, secretly giving Mulch a copy of records disguised as a gold coin. Before the mind wipe, Holly mesmerises Artemis and asks him if he left anything to trigger a total memory recall. Artemis avoids telling her about the disk disguised as a gold coin with mirrored contact lenses. He tells the fairies about an e-mail sent to himself, internet storage space, and a time capsule in the garden.

He wakes up the next morning to find the contacts in his eyes and vows revenge on the person who is "spying on him."

[edit] The Opal Deception

In Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception, where Artemis has to regain his lost memories after the events in the third book because of the return of an old rival, Opal Koboi. Opal plans to kill all of those who had been against her in the past, starting with Julius Root, Holly Short, Foaly and Artemis, while still remaining undetected by tricking the public into belief of her continued coma.

After tricking Holly and killing Commander Root, Opal Koboi proceeds in attempting to kill Artemis and Butler. Only Butler's high-tech gear, soldier intuition, a matress, and a three story fall save them. Holly rescues Artemis and takes him to the Temple Bar area in Ireland. Opal follows them there, and captures them, after stunning Artemis who was giving her a lecture on her psycotic frame of mind.

Holly and Artemis are transported in Opal Koboi's stealth shuttle to the Eleven Wonders of the World Exhibit, an old fairy theme park depicting scale models of human architectiual wonders. The park is now overun by Trolls resorting to cannibalism to survive. After a short chase, Holly and Artemis are trapped on the roof of the Temple of Artemis. Artemis had brief flashes of memories of the Artic.

After being rescued by Butler and Mulch's natural talents, they proceeded to stop Opal in bringing the fairies and humans together. They trick her into opening a secret "booty box", a smuggling compartment with technological advancements, with shaped charges in it on her stealth shuttle. Opal was going to use the charges to cause a probe encased in ten million pounds of molten iron to destroy Haven City.

The book ends with Holly quiting the LEP and starting Short and Diggums: Private Investigators, a PI firm, with Mulch.

[edit] The Lost Colony

In Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony, Artemis and Butler go to Spain to find a new type of Fairy called the Demon. Artemis is going through puberty and is finding himself looking at a Minerva Paradizo when a Demon appears. Artemis grabs onto the demon and takes a quick trip back through time. Butler is able to pull him back and he found out that two fingers, index and middle, were switched. Later, He went to an opera, assuming the next demon would appear there. There, he then sees Minerva again and figured that she too is trying to catch a demon. Artemis then watches as she pulls off a perfect plan and captures a demon. He then catches her attention and Artemis, who took Lip Reading Classes, sees her say Artemis Fowl.

Artemis gets Holly to get on a train with the girl and spy on her. When Minerva got home she tried to talk to the Demon. She had an assistant, Billy Kong, and he tried to get N°1 to talk Taiwanese. The man gets mad and keeps yelling at N°1. Since N°1 was a warlock he yelled in perfect Taiwanese I don't speak Taiwanese, you son of a three-legged dog! N°1 gets surprised and starts listing words that he liked. Holly then snuck in and stole N°1 while Artemis distracted Minerva Paradizo.

[edit] The Time Paradox

The sixth book in the Artemis Fowl series begins with Artemis, eighteen (fifteen physically) years old due to his travel in the time stream, trying to "tackle some restaurant terms" with his two younger brothers, Beckett and Myles. It mentions briefly that his parents were in their room with a doctor, due to his mother having a slight flu. He discovers that things turn out to be much more dangerous than they seemed. His mother had somehow been given a fairy disease, cured only by a now extinct animal (silky safaka lemur), thanks to a heartless deal Artemis made at age ten. Artemis, along with Holly Short take another trip into the time stream to try to over throw Artemis, age ten, recover the lemur and save his mother. As they go back to the present, they realize that something is amiss and find out that behind all of the anxiety and drama was another genius plotting it all, Opal Koboi. Many an "extinct" animal rampages ensue, causing some cancellations of spas for the unlucky Extinctionists.

[edit] Personal Development

The series watches Artemis develop from a calculating criminal to a young man with acknowledged, though controlled, emotions. The mind-wipe at the end of the third book reverses this process, but Artemis regains his emotions as he regains memories. Also, during the fifth book, Artemis begins to enter puberty and gets a crush on his female adversary. Artemis also gains limited fairy magic at the end of the fifth book, which may change him further.

During the sixth book, Artemis loses possession of his magic powers in the beginning. During the first few pages, we learn that the only form of excersice he has taken up had been horse back riding, due to the fact that the horse did most of the work. Later, during an attempt to rescue the silky sifaka lemur, he takes note of his lack of fitness and promises himself to get more in shape. At the end of the book, Holly takes note of how selfless he's been, and Artemis slowly comes to realize how much he's changed since his father's disappearance a few year ago.

[edit] Quotes

[edit] Artemis Fowl

[edit] The Arctic Incident

[edit] The Eternity Code

[edit] The Opal Deception

[edit] The Lost Colony

[edit] The Time Paradox