List of Artemis Fowl Characters - K - Grub Kelp

Grub Kelp is a LEP corporal and the younger brother of Trouble Kelp. Seemingly terrified of almost everything and very sensitive to insult, Grub mentions in Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception that he would like nothing better than to have a desk job for the rest of his life. In Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code, it is revealed that he regularly lodges complaints about petty issues, such as the hangnail he gets from using Plexiglass vacuum cuffs on four goblins during his patrol with Holly Short.

Notorious for wanting his mother, Grub often threatens to tell his 'Mommy' about the menial aspects of his brother that bother him. He claims to have single-handedly defeated Butler, the most dangerous human known to the fairies. The events of the first book, Artemis Fowl prove this war story false; Butler actually lets him go unharmed, as a fisherman would a minnow, with a message to the fairies trying to infiltrate Fowl Manor.