Holly Short
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| Artemis Fowl character | |
|---|---|
| Holly Short | |
| Gender | Female |
| Hair colour | Auburn |
| Eye colour | Hazel |
| Species | Elf |
| First appearance | Artemis Fowl |
Holly Short is a fictional character, a LEPrecon officer in the Artemis Fowl children's book series.
Holly Short is an elf with an auburn crewcut and hazel eyes, a chatty mouth, and the pointy ears and chestnut-coloured skin typical of her species. She is exactly one centimeter shorter than the average fairy height of one meter (three feet in US editions), and has a gymnast-like stance. She also has a good sense of humor that accompanies her cockiness. She is around eighty years old - reasonably young by fairy standards. Not much is known about Holly's family, except that she lost her father at a young age (for a fairy - she was around sixty years old at the time), and that she is the great-granddaughter of Cupid.
Her hobbies are reading, playing crunch ball, and, like most fairies, flying.
She was abducted by the twelve-year-old criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl II in the first book of the series when he uncovered evidence of the existence of fairies. She was the first female in Recon, and under the command of Commander Julius Root, who became like a father to her. She is a great shuttle pilot, a quick thinker, and a true policewoman. After Root was killed in an explosion set up by Opal Koboi she was suspected of the ex-Commander's murder and was almost held under custody until Wing Commander Vinyaya, who usually defends Holly, and Foaly convince the council that she was, in fact, innocent. Holly resigned when she found Ark Sool was appointed the new Commander, and she and Mulch Diggums set up a private investigation agency with Artemis as a consultant for the agency, until Holly was recruited into Section 8, the fairy equivalent of MI5 or other secret organization by Wing Commander Vinyaya. Foaly joined the organization too, and takes great delight in an almost unlimited budget, which he uses to equip Holly with every device and piece of equipment he can think of.
Her best friends are: Foaly, Major Trouble Kelp and Commander Julius Root, until his death. She also became friends with Artemis after many adventures, and currently maintains secret communication with him. Her unusual relationship with Artemis, with the slow evolution of their relationship from antagonists, to allies, to companions, and then eventually to close friends, is one of the main focus points of the series. She is one of the few people he respects, as he states at the end of The Arctic Incident, and although she enjoys baiting him, she has constantly gone above and beyond the call of duty to help him. Their multiple mutual life-and-body-saving incidents has helped create a bond between them not unlike that between two soldiers from the same squad. At the end of the fifth book, thanks to inconsistencies of dimension and time travel, Holly and Artemis find they have exchanged eyes, each has one hazel and one blue eye.
Holly is described as pretty in two different ways: pointy, and like a black widow (with coffee-brown skin). In the second book Chix Verbil, a sprite who thinks he is "God's gift to the ladies", tries to impress Holly with his suave attitude and flying skills, but she ends up saving his life, and his precious wings, after he is shot by a goblin in a B'wa Kell flyby. Artemis himself has stated that once puberty hits, he expects he will see her in a different light from "friend", but when she gives him a kiss on the cheek in The Lost Colony, the book in which puberty hits him, he seems to have minimal reaction and reassures her that he has his puberty "under control". Many of Holly's co-officers admired her even though she was a "rebel officer", and many of them were sorry to see her resign (especially Foaly), but they knew she would be happier free; Commander Sool would have monitored her too carefully.
In the fifth book, The Lost Colony, Holly is shown in the first chapter as one of the fully-fledged partners in the PI agency she and Mulch Diggums founded. However, later on, she gets recruited into Section Eight, something that's quite similar to the LEP. Commander Vinyaya and Foaly are both in Section Eight, too. It is as a Section Eight Captain that Holly helps Artemis and friends in helping to rescue No1. At the end of the Lost Colony Holly temporarily died from being stabbed by the demon leader, Abott. But she is soon revived by Artemis shooting Abbot at a specific time he was counting down to, which, due to the unique time dimension they were in, stopped Abott from killing her in the first place.
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| Eoin Colfer’s Artemis Fowl | |
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| Books: | Main Series: Artemis Fowl | The Arctic Incident | The Eternity Code | The Opal Deception | The Lost Colony | Book 6 (title unknown) Related Books: The Seventh Dwarf | The Artemis Fowl Files |
| Film: | Artemis Fowl |
| Characters | |
| Characters: | Artemis Fowl | Butler | Juliet Butler | Foaly | Holly Short | Julius Root | Mulch Diggums | Minerva Paradizo | N°1 | Arno Blunt | Billy Kong | Briar Cudgeon | The Brill Brothers | Doodah Day | Jon Spiro | Leon Abbot | Opal Koboi | Scalene | Angeline Fowl | Ark Sool | Artemis Fowl, Sr. | Caballine | Chix Verbil | Grub Kelp | Jerbal Argon | Qwan | Qweffor | Trouble Kelp | Vinyáya |
| Groups | |
| Organisations: | Lower Elements Police | LEPrecon | LEPretrieval | LEPtraffic | Section Eight | Fission Chips | B'wa Kell | Phonetix | Russian Mafiya |
| Types of Fairies: | Elves | Dwarves | Trolls | Goblins | Centaurs | Sprites | Pixies | Demons | Warlocks |
| Locations: | Fowl Manor | Police Plaza | Haven | Tara | Fowl Star | Spiro Needle | Hybras |
