Floote

#REDIRECT Algernon Floote, Formerly
Algernon Floote serves alternately as personal secretary, butler, and personal valet for the Tarabotti family in the Parasol Protectorate Series. He is human.
Floote plays a much larger part in Blameless than in the two previous books, and again in Timeless, where his motivations are revealed.
==Appearance==
"A nondescript man with a nondescript face,"Timeless, chapter 13 Floote appears to be an older gentleman (around seventy years in age) with weather-beaten skin and deep wrinkles around his nose, mouth, and the corners of his eyes. He is always wearing the neat and tidy uniform of a butler. He is tall in stature, with straight posture and severely greying hair. In the manga, he wears glasses. His face is usually impassive as he does not show emotion much.
Biffy described his voice as "deep and authoritative."
==Personality==
Floote is quiet; having been described by Alexia as a man of few words. He can also be rather surprising at times, such as when he was found not only to be concealing guns, but had proficiency in using them while defending Alexia in Blameless.
He shows undying loyalty to the late Alessandro Tarabotti, keeping information about him secret from even his own daughter. Floote also seems to have a wealth of knowledge about both supernaturals and preternaturals, as well as the weapons used to combat them. 
He has an uncanny habit of interpreting future needs and wants and seeing to them before they are requested of him.
==History==
Proir to the death of Alessandro Tarabotti, Floote served as his valet. Following Alessandro's death, he became the butler of the Loontwill residence so as to stay close to Alexia, Alessandro's daughter. After Alexia's marrige to Lord Maccon, Floote moved into the Woolsey manor and acted as Alexia's personal secretary. When the Maccon's new residence was built beside Lord Akeldama's own home, he spent time there as well. 
In Timeless, it is revealed that Alessandro charged Floote with protecting the secret of the God-Breaker Plague, a mission Floote is willing to kill for. He murders the Kingair Beta, Dubh, who discovers the plague's secret. It also becomes clear that a group in Egypt protecting the epicenter of the plague that attacks Alexia and Lord Maccon is working under Floote's orders. Floote disappears before Alexia can confront him about these matters. 
Floote (or, most likely Floote, although never stated outright) also appears briefly in the Finishing School series in the final book, Manners & Mutiny. He serves as butler at a dinner party at Lord Akeldama's house when an engorged mechanical explodes. He appears, by the end of the book, to have struck a deal in conjunction with the Dewan's Clandestine Information Act. The terms are unclear, but it is implied that Floote's former employer, Alessandro Tarabotti, had patent control over the manufacture of mechanicals. The deal released the patents to the government (who presumably destroyed the technology) in exchange for the protection of Alexia Tarabotti, then a toddler. Sophronia's first job as an intelligencer for the Dewan is protecting that toddler.  
== In the books ==
== Quotes ==
* "Alexia had always thought Floote's loyalty was absolute. Floote had stayed with her pregnant mother when Alessandro abandoned them. He changed her nappies when she was a babe. He had left the Loontwill household to attend Alexia after her marriage to a werewolf. Now, she thought for the first time, perhaps it was his loyalty to her dead father that was unshakable and she was merely a proxy player." (Timeless, Chapter Six)
* "Floote was the perfect servant, always there when needed, always knowing what was desired, sometimes before the sensation registered in his employers." (Timeless, Chapter Thirteen)
==Trivia==
*Floote speaks fluent Arabic.
*He assured Alexia that Alessandro had been cremated when they discovered preternatural remains in the Templar monastery. 
*He favors one shot, derringer-styled handguns, and uses sundowner bullets. His two pistols have ivory handles. 
== References ==
Category:Characters
Category:Parasol Protectorate characters
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