Butler Family | |
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Artemis Fowl character | |
Created by | Eoin Colfer |
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Species | Human |
Children | Domovoi and Juliet Butler |
Relatives | the Major |
Juliet Butler | |
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Artemis Fowl character | |
First appearance | Artemis Fowl |
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Species | Human |
Gender | Female |
The Butler family is a family of martial arts masters in the fictional series Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer. There are only four characters who are mentioned: Domovoi Butler ("Butler") and his younger sister Juliet, who are major characters, and Butler's uncle, known only as "the Major", and Virgil Butler.
It is revealed in the first book that the Butler family has been serving the Fowl family as bodyguards for centuries. The first ever pairing was of Virgil Butler as a servant, bodyguard, and cook to Lord Hugo de Fóle for one of the first Norman Crusades. It may actually be the origin of the term butler.
It is mentioned that a pairing of a Butler and a Fowl lasted for life. It is not known what happens if the Butler dies in the middle of his service, except that his/her family receives a "six-figure settlement plus a monthly pension". The job is described as demanding and lonely, but with high rewards. A Butler never reveals his or her first name to their employer in order to avoid personal attachment; this is demonstrated in Book 3, when the only time (Domovoi) Butler reveals his first name to Artemis Fowl II is when he was about to die. But Butler gets revived later in the story due to the use of Holly Short's magic.
The children of the Butler family underwent training starting at the age of ten. The training took place in various private training centers, (such as one in Japan), known as Madame Ko's Bodyguard Academy, where they were taught Cordon Bleu cooking, marksmanship, a blend of different martial arts, emergency medicine, and Information technology. If there was no Fowl to guard at the end of training, he/she was quickly taken as bodyguards for "various royal personages, generally in Monaco or Saudi Arabia".