Thank-you very much to Holly Marie Fowl for the review, Sheva Das for the review and promise of ideas but particularly thanks to Gold is power and Liris for the new questions. Everyone else? Review and I will mention you!!

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What was your first word?

Artemis:- I can not be entirely certain as even a brain as great as my own cannot remember that far back. My parents tell me my first word was "Aurum". Butler however disagrees privately. He believes it was the abbreviation "Prof" for Professor after a particular toy I owned. I will let you decide who you think is closest to me and more likely to have heard my first attempt at speech.

Butler:- First word? Hmm... I think my parents told me it was "Blue". Probably because we had a dog called Blue whilst I was growing up, rather than because of my Dad's diamond tattoo he was always showing us and telling us we would have one when we grew up.

Foaly:- I do believe it was "hat". I have had life long affinity with tinfoil hats. Don't laugh. I know it should have been something like "molecular structure" but they were my second and third ones!! (Probably...)

Holly:- Ha ha!! Easy!! My dad was doing an incredibly important speech on the evolution of the LEP and how he was going to change the sexism the people in charge had encouraged by not allowing female recon officers into the force. Anyway he was saying "... the view on female officers is simply unacceptable" but when he got to "simply" I shouted out from my mum's knee on the front row "PANTS!!" really loudly!! Anyway, everyone laughed and actually started listening to what Dad was saying instead of just smiling and nodding politely. Maybe that's why I got onto the force.(Because everyone started listening, not because I shouted pants!!)

Juliet:- Hmm... tricky. No wait a sec!! I wish it had been the name of a wrestler but I think it was the name of a Teletubby . "La La" I think. Artemis would tell me that it isn't a real word but oh well, it's a name and they count in Scrabble. Don't they? Maybe not. Ha ha, I think I won at Scrabble the other day with a word you're not allowed...

Mulch:- I was going to say it was probably D'A... an expletive. But more likely it was "Mud" or something else dwarf related.

What was your first injury?

Artemis:- I don't often get injured thanks to Butler but I can remember vaguely one incident. I was shutting down my laptop and closed the lid on my fingertips. It was actually quite painful, for those of you who are sceptical, please, be my guest and try it for yourself.

Butler:- Now that is a difficult question. I have more scar tissue than unblemished skin that's for sure!! I must have needed over a hundred stitches during my childhood and I certainly managed to bruise, cut and break nearly every part of my body. I also got myself bitten in various places and hit by a campervan going at twenty-five mph. (It was a non-poisonous snake, a pig and a hamster that bit me, not the campervan, just to avoid confusion). But sorry, no, I don't think I can remember my first injury.

Foaly:- I was running to the front of a crowd to see the latest advancement in wing design. I tripped on a stone, grazed my knees and chipped a hoof... and everyone laughed at me. I don't know which hurt more, my knees or my feelings...sniff...

Holly:- I do remember my Mum healing a graze on my elbow and telling me not to cry. I told her I wasn't crying and tried to heal it myself.

Juliet:- It might not have been my first injury, but I have a memory of my Mum going mad at my brothers and hitting them all with a broom because I had been bounced off a trampoline into a hedge and ended up with a lump the size of a egg on my head and concussion. Happy days!!

Mulch:- I swallowed a diamond once when I was a beginner digger. My Gran had to try the Heimlich Manoeuvre then squeeze one of my toes. The same thing happened in the pipe into Koboi Labs. Except dear little Arty had to do the squeezing ha ha ha...

Did you have a favourite toy as a child?

Artemis:- Yes, the toy professor I mentioned before. I was rather attached to it as a young toddler. Of course, it was just a phase that every child has. Part of the development you understand.

Butler:- I had a toy animal called Duffer as a kid. No one actually knows what it is. It's some sort of was fluffy going bald creature with four legs and a tail. My Mum still has all of our old toys. I hope.

Foaly:- Ah. My very first atom converter. I carried that around for years...

Holly:- I carried around and still do carry around my Grandfather's Recon Acorns. As for toys, I liked toy shuttles the best. Although I don't think I particularly had a favourite.

Juliet:- Oh yes!! I remember!! Awww!! I had a sort of blanket with a teddies head at one corner. I called it my Snooky. Aww... I hope Mum still has my Snooky. I think she does have. Mum's are like that aren't they!!

Mulch:- I had a pet rock called Elvis. My Mum kept him... it... after I left home. Of course I didn't need it once I was out of nappies. Well, maybe a bit longer than that but...

Were you a cryer as a toddler?

Artemis:- No. Crying is a waste of time and effort, a fact which I personally learned very early on. So the answer to your question is no. I was not a... ahem... "cryer" as you so inarticulately put it.

Butler:- Oh come on!! Damn. Now I sound like my sister. But honestly. You've asked me some stupid questions but seriously? OK. I'll answer you simply: Butler's don't cry. Well not often, or particularly ever.

Foaly:- Ahem... not a "cryer" exactly. However my emotional side did take a while to catch up with my intelligence. It's an occupational hazard when you are a genius. I'm betting Artemis had the same problem, even if he won't admit it.

Holly:- I don't like to think I was. I suppose like any little girl I could turn the tears on but I didn't like doing it often. See the question about injuries.

Juliet:- No. If I ever cried my family was, and still are, always there to make me smile again, or burst out into hysterical laughter actually!! One time I started crying because someone broke my toy car. I remember Butler swinging me round his head and me kicking my legs and smashing a window... whoops.

Mulch:- Everyone cries when there a little kid, don't they? Well, I used to cry to get out of something. Usually because something had gone missing. How dare they assume it was me? Well, no one can blame a sweet little crying kid can they? Well, actually, sometimes they still did.

Who was/is your hero?

Artemis:- I don't look up to many people although as I have said before I do think that Einstein and Archimedes were admirable scientists as their theories were usually correct.

Butler:- You are now expecting me to say someone who is supposedly "tough" but most muscle men nowadays are just puffed up on steroids. Truthfully, I only look up to Madame Ko because she is the only one better than me at what I do best. Don't think I'm going mad, but I also think highly of my Mum for her cooking and my Dad for putting up with us when we were young and not giving up on us. I also look to Juliet whenever I'm fed up. She's always positive no matter what and I admire that. Don't tell her the last bit though, she think I'm going soft. I don't really have one hero though, just a few people I respect.

Foaly:- I have no hero's as such. There is no one in history that is better than me at inventing. Competition spurs me on though. Although to be honest there is much of that since Opal has gone... well just gone really.

Holly:- It is probably too sad to say my Mum (although she is)or my Dad (even though he is too)or even Julius. The person who spurred me on to do what I do is probably actually Vinyaya. She forged the way for females in the LEP and encouraged me to become the first female Recon officer.

Juliet:- I could name some female wrestlers for you but as a kid I always looked up to my brothers, being the youngest. I especially wanted to be like the Butler you guys know because he is the best even if he's not the oldest. Madame Ko certainly proves that girls can be just as good as boys but seriously, my hero is probably Dom because he never gives up and has way more perseverance than I ever will. But don't tell him, OK? He'll think I'm soft.

Mulch:- Me? Have a hero? Not really. 'Cept I suppose some famous human burglars should get some credit doing what they did without any secret talents. But to be honest, no. Most of the Mud men's burglars were fairies. Some of them me...

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Well? Sorry I was a while updating!! More ideas are very welcome :D