#opal koboi

[catboycannibal]

Did I just realize there's a whole fan fic where Artemis goes to Hogwarts? Yes. Did I ever finish it? No.

#anyway ill be making at least on more post about this #artemis fowl #artemis fowl ii #holly short #domovoi butler #opal koboi #hogwarts au

[artemisfowlcodex]

Opal: I am Artemis Fowl's worst enemy! Juliet: What, a wealth tax?

#Artemis Fowl #Incorrect quotes #Opal Koboi #Juliet Butler #Source: What If

[anna-undaunted]

Rereading book 4 ✨

#my art #art #fanart #procreate #artemis fowl books #artemis fowl #holly short #opal koboi

[genderlesssnake]

I’m on vacation but that will not stop me from drawing, have some fairies

#Wanted to do some lineups #I’ll be doing the rest of the species later #Except gnomes #Fuck gnomes #I must draw Alexmis first though #They are calling my name and I have an idea list #Artemis fowl #holly short #opal koboi #lazuli heitz #Also I’m never drawing chix again #His green skin makes me wanna die

[grimewart]

opal koboi are u using the mesmer or did u just smoke up

#opal koboi #artemis fowl #grimew art

[checkoutmybookshelf]

From Criminial Mastermind to Fairy Tale Hero: The End of Artemis Fowl

Here we are, everyone: The final Artemis Fowl book. It has been a journey revisiting the first series I was old enough to follow and fandom, and it's wild to me that we're finally at the end. Especially since I picked up the first Artemis Fowl book in late elementary school (I'm genuinely not sure when though, because the first book came out in April of 2001, when I was in fifth grade and it's very possible I didn't pick the book up until sixth grade, which would have put me at 11, same age as Artemis in that first book) and the final book came out in 2012, when I was in my junior year of undergrad. So at that point, Artemis, Holly, and Butler had been part of my life for a long time. And now here we are, to say goodbye to them again after this leisurely re-listen/read. Let's talk Artemis Fowl: The Last Guardian.

Artemis grew and changed so much across eight books, which makes sense because holy cow do kids change a LOT between 11 and 15. We get so busy living life in those years that we don't really think about how much we truly learn and grown between prepubescence and full-on teenagerhood, but that is a time of massive change, and I think that more than anything else really justifies how Artemis goes from a chillingly vampiric child to a teenager with enough compassion and empathy to understand that sometimes the right choice is a heroic self-sacrifice for the people that your people (both humans and the people, in this case) love. Artemis also did a really interesting version of that thing so many teenagers do where they hit a point where they can't just phone in their abilities anymore and have to actually put effort in, but for Artemis it was emotional rather than intelligence. And yet even when making said heroic sacrifice, we have the absolutely beautiful callback to the end of book one, where Artemis drugs his mother, Butler, and Juliet to keep them from being harmed by the bio-bomb. To stop Holly from preventing him from stopping Opal, Artemis sedates her. The more things change, the more they stay the same...

Except where best villain ever Opal Koboi is concerned. By this book, Opal is so disconnected from reality that she is willing to risk literally going nuclear to escape captivity, and then just...casually sparks off the apocalypse because if there is one thing our girl wants, it's to be Empress of the World, and if that means using spirit zombies and an ancient fairy doomsday device, then I guess it's a good thing she's already versed in black magic. Or something. Opal is fully and completely off the rails at this point, and if you catch yourself referring to yourself as "Mommy" in reference to the spirits of several scores of ancient elven berserkers who would--barring a geas--murder you for it, you might want to stop and take a long, hard look at your life choices. And maybe don't forget that you've cloned yourself, because that's the kind of little detail that can completely ruin your chances of being Empress of the World.

Holly quite possibly deserves every medal that exists for managing to drag Artemis's extremely out-of-shape butt through increasingly dangerous and high-stakes missions while navigating fairy politics and *checks notes* breaking up with her commanding officer after a disastrous date where they both got kicked out of a crunchball match. (And once again...HOW DARE Colfer leave this in exposition and not show us this amazing disaster of a date!?!?) Holly has also just been through the emotional wringer with Artemis and every time he decided to double-cross or lie by omission to bring off a plan and every time he does something infuriatingly human that drives up her blood pressure and yet makes the mission succeed. And then she has to sit there and watch him die to save humans and fairies. Seriously, the fact that Holly Short is a functional being rather than a hot mess is nothing short of a miracle.

And then we come to Butler. Long-suffering, super fucking over it, broken-hearted Domovoi Butler. Artemis got DAMN lucky that the whole "put my spirit in a clone of me" plan panned out, because if it hadn't, Holly was entirely correct: Butler would never have recovered. Butler and Opal might be my two favorite characters in the entire series at this point. That's not where I started--for a very long time, Holly was my favorite character, and Commander Root still gets an honorable mention--but as a grown-ass adult (I'm not doing that math for you, if you want to know that I'm old, you do the math), I cannot escape how dedicated, competent, kind, and just AWESOME Butler is. I feel like the vibe here is very similar to the thing that happens when you watch Sound of Music as a kid and either Maria or one of the kids is your favorite character, but when you come back to it as an adult, Captain Von Trapp is EVERYTHING (RIP Christopher Plummer, we loved you). Butler has a similar vibe but in a different genre.

So, I was an adult and had enough experience of watching fandoms to see the mixed reactions to this book being released. People were sad the series was ending, people were disappointed because the series had seemingly drifted, and people loved it. My reaction was pretty mixed, because I had a lot going on, I knew there were good things here but I was also kind of missing the heisty, criminal mastermind vibes, but also OPAL KOBOI. So I was pretty unsure how to feel about this book when it came out, and then I didn't reread it for literal years because I went to grad school.

Returning to this book now, I have suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuch respect for how Colfer tied up the series and how he pulled off a new Irish mythological cycle, but updated for the twenty-first century. I have enough life on me to appreciate the changes Artemis goes through, and enough literature degrees to have a new and deeply fulfilling perspective on the series structure. Last Guardian is not my favorite book of the series--it's not even in the top three--but I think that what it does is genuinely impressive and I love how you can finish this book and go instantly back into the OG Artemis Fowl. The story does not, strictly speaking, have to end. And that is a vibe I can 100% get behind.

I deeply love the Artemis Fowl books, and I cannot recommend the series enough. They have so many strengths, are incredibly well-written, and they live rent-free in my head even now as an adult.

#artemis fowl #eoin colfer #artemis fowl the last guardian #artemis fowl and the last guardian #domovoi butler #holly short #opal koboi #children's literature #children's books #books and reading #books & libraries #books and novels #books #book recommendations #middle grade sci fi #middle grade books #middle grade fantasy #middle grade fiction

[valhelos]

Opal

#my art #af #artemis fowl #fowldom #opal koboi #it's our favourite megalomaniac pixie everyone

[seabeescribbles]

Here's my art that Pisces_Pixie on Ao3 made a fanfic based on for the concept of Artemis getting permanently scarred by the troll in the first book, and having to live with his face disfigured for the rest of them. I'm not tagging this as gore because it's art of a scar, people can just have those. Also that would be super ironic

Not sure whether my version of Artemis would still die in the last book. There are a few changes that I would make if I was writing the story, but Pisces did a fantastic job with their preferred version of events

#artemis fowl #artemis fowl ii #artemis fowl fanart #artemis fowl spoilers #artemis fowl the last guardian spoilers #holly short #minerva paradizo #opal koboi

[irunaki]

DAY 3 OF FOWLFEST: AU

CHILD AU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YAYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (a lot of doodles!!)

they're my bbys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#artemis fowl #fowldom #art #holly short #artemis fowl fanart #fanart #foaly artemis fowl #butler #n1 artemis fowl #opal koboi #juliet butler #fowlfest2023 #trouble kelp #minerva paradizo

[anastaciusarklov]

Some more things I found that remind me of Artemis Fowl characters.

Artemis

Opal

#artemis fowl #fowldom #artemis fowl ii #fowlfest2022 #opal koboi

[agent-toast]

i drew my own version of artemis and holly for the cover of the opal deception :D

first image is the original cover, not drawn by me

second image is my drawing

third image is original+mine (the original was edited to remove artemis and holly)

i loved how epic artemis and holly look in the original cover and wanted to draw my own take on it! my version of holly looks a little wonky but oh well

not sure if the lighting of the original cover affected holly's skin tone, but i coloured her darker in my version just to make it a little more accurate :)

also the main colour is purple in my version, so holly's hair and suit isn't the right colour to fit in with the palette better

#artemis fowl #artemis fowl ii #fowldom #holly short #opal koboi #opal deception #artemis fowl fanart #holly short fanart

[scasmmm]

summarising artemis fowl characters again bc it was so fun to do lmao

butler: everyones babysitter

opal: ruthless criminal mastermind, only one known method to defeat her. steal her chocolates.

orion: wHeRe Is My fAiR lAdY

No.1: walking talking thesaurus. may occasionally say cappucino in life or death situations

#artemis fowl #opal koboi #domovoi butler #orion #no.1

[shortace]

Opal Koboi is supposed to be a genius, but she's no judge of character. Mervall and Descant Brill are "two of her most trusted personnel".

#rofl #artemis fowl #opal koboi

[anna-undaunted]

Three of those things are scientific facts!

#well not technically a pixie bc of that damn pituitary gland #my art #art #artemis fowl books #artemis fowl #opal koboi #eoin colfer #artemis fowl fanart

[ven-ugh]

crossover bettween Gravity Falls and Artemis Fowl hehehehehh

(arty and bill would be besties fr)

Finally finished it🧎‍♀️🧎‍♀️

It’s almost utterly another world so not all of them are exact characters from the original show

1. Artemis (as Dipper) 18 yo

— Artemis Fowl Senior is alive and never got kidnapped by Russians but>>

— parents sent him to Gravity Falls to Butler (their ex bodyguard so he could protect Artemis) because they started getting threats from Russian mafia

2. Juliet (as Mabel) 20 yo

— she is Artemis’s actual bodyguard but due to her character they are more like siblings

— obviously she’s going with Artemis because she also knows Gravity Falls very well since she often visited her brother there

3. Butler (as uncle Stan) 33 yo

— owns the Mystery Shack exept he doesn’t create any exhibits himself, they all are real

— actually retired due to their agreement with Artemis’s parents that they would probably need a place to hide someday so he went to his childhood hometown and also succeeded in business

4. Holly (as mix of Wendy and Soos) 82 yo

— is actually an elf hiding her ears and working on Butler

— lives w Julius as her dad

— you could see her run away into the forest each night to visit her friends

5. Foaly (the one and only) 245 yo

— one of the friends she’s visiting

— Foaly probably just created a safe place for himself in the forest and lives there

— Holly is bringing him food and drinks from time to time

6. Julius (as Manly Dan ak Wendy’s father) 537 yo

— works in police

— when someone asks him about why he and his daughter are so different he just stares menacingly (tho in documents Holly is listed as his adopted daughter)

— also sometimes visit Foaly but they always end up in a fight

7. Mulch (as Old Man McGucket but not crazy) 566 yo

— he’s still a criminal dwarf

— he has to spend a lot of stolen money on sunscreen even tho he usually wals around in the night

8. Minerva (as Pacifica Northwest) 16 yo

— she’s done with her controlling father and is in her rebellious era

— she wears strange combinations of accessories clothes and makeup to make her father mad and because she likes them, so who are we to judge she just wants some freedom

9. Opal (as Gideon) 250 yo (and ik she doesn’t look menacing at all)

— she did an operation on her ears and is always trying to expose Holly’s and Julius’s elfness so people would kill them or at least put them in jail and she would be praised as their hero

— she always loses and can’t do anything with them

#artemis fowl #juliet butler #domovoi butler #holly short #foaly #julius root #mulch diggums #minerva paradizo #opal koboi

[dykemcqueen]

opal koboi ! this is actually a redraw from a decade ago. imo shes a biggg big fashionista and she intentionally shops designers that are not cruelty-free lol

#artemis fowl #opal koboi #my art #artemis fowl fanart