|Artemis Fowl II|
Age: [Book One] 12, [Book Two] 13, [Book Three] 13. Six months after Book Three, he'll be 14.
Heritage: Undeniably Irish.
Appearance: A pale youth with raven-black hair and dark blue eyes. He's usually wearing either his St. Bartleby's uniform or an Armani suit, according to Eoin Colfer.
Personality: He is overly mature, as he is a child prodigy. He appears cold, distant, and lonely to other teenagers and prefers to stay within himself. In Book One he is a complete brat, in Book Two he warms up a little, and in Book Three he is nice.
Hobbies: Inventing completely futuristic and ingenious things. It figures.
|Family Ties|
Artemis, in the first book, appears to love his mother, but at the end there is a note saying that he bargained with Holly Short to heal his mother not because of compassion, but because officials were beginning to look into his case. The note is written by Professor J. Argon, and one does wonder if that is true, or if it is merely from the Professor's point of view. Artemis does, however, appear to love his father and goes to great lengths to rescue him during the second book. He is very aware of his mother's feelings during the dangerous rescue attempt: "Artemis couldn't watch Holly's rescue attempt. Had he done the right thing? What if the hydrosion shell had penetrated? How could he ever face his mother again?" When his father is recovered alive, he cries for an entire minute before regaining himself. However, when his father is finally awoken, months later in a Helsinki hospital, Artemis is horrified to find that his father has given up criminal enterprises in favor of the Fowls becoming a closer family. Is it the family values part that he cannot believe, or is it merely that his father is giving up crime? "I looked at my parents, how happy they were together. A family? Was it possible that the Fowls could be a normal family?" In the same book (three), Artemis mentally objects to Spiro's calling him "Arty", because that was his father's pet name for him. My conclusion is that Artemis Fowl II does love and care for his family, however at a very subconscious level. He believes that a crime lord such as himself should not bother with such trivial things as love, but he does acknowledge that he loves his family.
|In a friendly way|
Sad but true: Artemis Fowl II has no friends of his own age. Certainly he acknowledges Juliet and Domovoi Butler as part of his family – "A large part of Artemis wanted to drape his arms across the bodyguard's frame and cry for him as he would a brother"- but as Juliet is nineteen and Domovoi is now about fifty, that rather rules out the "Artemis's age" category. Angeline and Artemis Senior sent him to St. Bartleby's for hope that he would start to socialize with the other boys there; however, in Books Two and Three, that didn't show much sign of happening.
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