Thanks once again to Gold is power for the brill questions (I had fun asking the guys) and also ta very much 2 Liris for the equally brill Q's!! Thanks also to Persephone Spring for the pointing out of a few bloops!!It means you really read this stuff rather than just skim over it!! :D OK, on with the long awaited answers... well not too long awaited I hope but let's just get on with it!!
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What do you think you will be up to in a decades time?
Artemis:- I envisage that I shall complete my education. Possibly get several degrees and then perhaps become an inventor or scientists. I hope to play upon my strengths, mainly my intelligence, and join Mister Zito in his effort to save the world by reducing pollution and the likes. Obviously I shall be implausibly more successful. I do strongly endeavour to still be in close contact with The People. Foaly's expertise could come in useful and of course where would we all be without our good friends Holly and Mulch.
Butler:- Hopefully not dead. To be honest I've sort of given up on retiring because every time I try to, some sort of emergency-save-the-world-in-a-ridiculous-amount-of-time issue comes up so I suppose I'll still be here at Fowl Manor making sure the twins don't burn the place down and following Artemis on his business trips (he is bound to have even more of them once he's an adult). Hopefully legal ones, or at least more legal than illegal.
Foaly:- A decade? Not that far away I suppose. I better still have my job here at Section 8!! In the long term, my plans for the future would involve settling down properly with Callabine and perhaps starting a family if she feels the same.
Holly:-Hmm... ten years... I guess I'll still be doing the same old same old. Work, eat, sleep. I hope to still have all of the friends I have at the moment, even... perhaps especially, the mud friends I have.
Juliet:- I'll be practically old then!! No offense to anyone over 30!! Well, OK, I might be a really famous wrestler by then!! Or I suppose I could be the twin's maid/bodyguard...
Mulch:- Well now I'm going on the straight and narrow I won't be in some sort of jail. Ideally I shall be rich and famous. Or at the very least rich. I doubt that's going to happen though somehow.
What is your favourite/best childhood memory?
Artemis:- Hmmm. A difficult question I must admit. I would have to go with a memory I have of receiving my first ever laptop at the age of three. It began my attraction with internet surfing, which indeed led to my interest in, and meeting with The People.
Butler:- Ah. This one I have answered before. Teaching Juliet to do spinning kicks in her sandbox. But my second would probably be Madame Ko telling me I had passed my Blue Diamond Final Assessment although that was my 18th birthday, so probably not classed as childhood anymore.
Foaly:- My first day at school. Well actually my first Science lesson. I shamed the teacher with my extensive knowledge of the Earth's structure!!
Holly:- My first visit to the surface for my first Ritual has got to be way up there with my best memories. My parents took me to Tara to get my acorn. The atmosphere was amazing, but there wasn't any acorns left so we found another more secret tree and I buried my first acorn in the middle of an Irish field. I will never forget the first time I felt those little blue sparks rushing up my arm.
Juliet:- I always look back fondly at the days my brothers used to play with me and teach me martial arts, even though I must have been a right pain in the bum at times.
Mulch:- I do have some good memories of being a kid. My favourite would be my first successful robbery. It's bad but hey, you asked for the truth.
Your worst (childhood memory)?
Artemis:- Thinking I had lost my Father for good. That would be the worst I have ever felt in my life emotionally.
Butler:- I hate reliving the time our dog, Blue, got hit by a car. I still blame myself even though he did survive, I left the gate open and he followed me down the street. Can we move on now please?
Foaly:- As I mentioned in the most embarrassing moment question. I once ahem... came runner up in a science competition for a magazine. Can we skip to the next question now?
Holly:- Oh no please. You'll start me off... OK. I'm ready. Deaths are my worst memories. That better be a good enough answer for you
Juliet:- Our dog got hit by a car and it was all my fault. I opened the gate and then left it open when I ran after Butler. He was going to get milk from the corner shop and I was following him to get sweets. Blue followed us across the road but stopped to sniff something. Butler says it was his fault but it was mine. Still, Blue survived.
Mulch:- I hate the memory of my first conviction. Not the guilt, that's never been a problem really. More the fact that I felt invincible before that and then... well then Julius never really let me out of his sight... or his cell block!!
Your earliest?
Artemis:- I do have a very old memory. Not too surprisingly it is of Butler rather than my parents. It is of him in the kitchen, I came up behind him and tug on his trousers. However I have no idea how or why this is significant or of my age. I suggest I must have been at least two years of age to be able to walk unaided.
Butler:- I do remember building a snowman one winter outside a wooden hut in the mountains. We went dog-sledding and got snowed in for a few weeks. However it used to be a tradition in our family to stay the winter in our mountain home so I have no idea which year this particular memory is from.
Foaly:- Scarily, it is of my Gran trying to teach me to line dance. I was very young and have never had much co-ordination. Needless to say, I fell over, a lot.
Holly:- Hmm. Sitting on my Grandpa's knee and him showing me his First Golden Recon Acorns and telling me I would make a great Recon Officer if they allowed little girls on the force.
Juliet:-Watching TV on the sofa and my brother coming in with a slice of toast and dropping it butter and jam side down on the carpet. Mum went mad because he was going to pick it up and eat it until the dog jumped up and nicked it out of his hand!!
Mulch:- Erm... I remember digging out and spit lining my very first cave when I was hiding from my brother who was threatening to beat me up for erm... misplacing some of his stuff.
What do you think of the Fowls? All five of them.
Artemis:- Obviously, my views are going to be slightly biased. My view on my parents is simple enough. I respect them entirely. My Mother? I feel more protective over, whilst my Father I am proud of his decision to "go legal", I respect more. My brothers? Well, it has been... interesting, to adapt to living with younger siblings after so long as an only child.
Butler:- As the Fowl's bodyguard, my view is one of respect for the family. In my rare private moments I still respect Mr and Mrs Fowl, but perhaps more for their family spirit than as my superiors. The Twins? Well. The young masters can be quite a handful at times but they are quite amusing with their antics. I think they may grow up with Artemis's brains too. Talking of Artemis. I think of him much more as a friend than an employer now.
Foaly:- Hmm. I only really know Artemis Junior personally. My opinion on him? I suppose I slightly respects him, after all he is the only one who understands me when I start "talking science" as Holly calls it.
Holly:- I knew you were going to ask me about this!! The others? I don't really know them well enough. But Artemis? Well, I think he can be a bit of a twit with anything that doesn't involve quantum physics for all his brains he can be clumsy with emotions. He is however loyal to his friends, though perhaps this has rubbed off on him from Butler. Still, he is a lot more likable than he used to be. Can I leave it at that now please?
Juliet:- I used to think they were boring and stuffy. I sort of blamed for our Uncle's death to start with. Nowadays? The twins are a laugh, but hard work sometimes!! The older Fowls? Mr and Mrs Fowl are mostly just the people I work for. I do think they are loving parents though. Artemis? Well. He's a lot nicer than he used to be, that's for sure!!
Mulch:- I've answered this one before. I think we could be great partners in crime... of course if me and Arty weren't going on the straight and narrow...
Who was your first crush?
Artemis:- Do you delight in asking embarrassing probing questions on my personal life? If by "crush" you mean attraction towards another human, I would say my first "crush" would be Minerva, as she almost matches me in IQ. Obviously, these categories of emotions caused by hormones and are simply a distraction to be controlled.
Butler:- As a bodyguard I do not allow myself to have many emotions. Although I suppose like any teenage boy I had a few crushes in my life before graduating. Not that I am going to go into details with you lot.
Foaly:- Is it too sad to say Callabine? Well, there isn't many centaurs in Haven!!
Holly:- I did have an embarrassing crush on the lead singer of the" X-max Elves" when I was a young elf. Please don't tell Mulch, he will never let it go... ever.
Juliet:- The pizza boy. I spent a fortune on pizza's I hardly ever managed to finish just to see him turn up on his cool moped. Butler nearly killed me. Well... semi-murdered me anyway!!
Mulch:- I have never really had many emotional ties. Except with gold and other treasure. Yes my only love is precious items I think.
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So there's another batch of answers for you. I will do more if you give me some questions!! :D