|The Butlers|

|In the beginning…|

  "The Butlers had been serving the Fowls for centuries. It had always been that way. Indeed, there were several eminent linguists of the opinions that this was how the common noun had originated. The first record of this unusual arrangement was when Virgil Butler had been contracted as servant, bodyguard, and cook to Lord Hugo de Folé for one of the first great Norman crusades."

|Are they born with the natural ability to body-slam people?|

  "At the age of ten, Butler children were sent to a private training center in Israel, where they were taught the specialized skills necessary to guard the latest in the Fowl line. These skills included Cordon Bleu cooking, marksmanship, a customized blend of martial arts, emergency medicine, and information technology. If, at the end of their training, there was not a Fowl to guard, then the Butlers were eagerly snapped up as bodyguards for various royal personages, generally in Monaco or Saudi Arabia."

  As for consistency on the subject of Butler training… well, in Book Three, Colfer notes that both Juliet and Domovoi attended Madam Ko's Personal Protection Academy… "Traditionally all Butler males enrolled in Madam Ko's Personal Protection Academy on their tenth birthday," but also adds later in that paragraph that the location of the camp did not usually remain the same. "The camp was never located in the same country for more than five years. Butler had done his training in Switzerland and Israel, but his younger sister received her instruction in the Utsukushigahara Highlands in Japan."

|Juliet and Domovoi|

  Domovoi appears as a six-foot-plus giant with a shaved head and black designer suit. It seems that his employer wishes for him to remain as discreet as possible. He is usually calm… unless Artemis or Juliet is in danger. As Juliet reflects in Book Three: "Juliet generally had the stifle a yawn when Madam Ko started on the kung fu wisdom stuff. Butler, on the other hand, had eaten it up. He was forever finding his quiet place and inhabiting it. In fact, he only came out of his quiet place to pulverize whoever was threatening Artemis at the time."

  Meanwhile, Juliet is a happy teenager. She had an odd obsession with wrestling, but looks, as she is described in Book Three, like "a little pop princess clone." Blonde hair, blue eyes, glitter makeup, the works. Other than that, not much is said about how the siblings look besides page 167 in Book Three: "The family resemblance was clear, the same narrow nose and full lips. The same eyes, jumping in their sockets like roulette balls in the wheel. Watching, always watching."

  The only thing that you don't know is who their parents are. Butler was 27 when Juliet was born, and it seemed as though he served as a father figure for her. Could it be possible that their parents are dead? The only relations of theirs that are mentioned, besides Virgil Butler, was their uncle, who died in the crash of the Fowl Star.