Abbot Giotto

right|300pxAbbot Giotto is a male shrew and abbot in Invasion of Bugs.
==Biography==
He first appears catching Kav Furrel staring at Martin's sword, wondering why moles have never had gotten the champion title, though Giotto jokes he will be (and turned out right later). In the evening he hosted a feast until Wuya the Toxic arrived. Giotto agreed to letting her in only after she offered to come alone, and after some talk, she stuns all by revealing herself a centipede-warlord out to slay Redwall's champion as well as conquer it, scaring Giotto. 
The next day, he received word that the guosim was decimated by Wuya, and as Giotto's cousin Raoul was the log-a-log, he was particularly alarmed and followed Volkner Streamdog to assist. Thankfully, Raoul was still alive (though beaten up), but the guosim had been reduced to less than a dozen. Not long after, Wuya begins undermining Redwall. Giotto permits Kav's father Foremole Jala Furrel into digging and intercepting the tunnel, and in the end the vermin were foiled. 
He isn't seen again until the next day, where Parus the Manipulator delivers plans she took from Wuya, and the shrew was in a meeting with Volkner and Scarlette Broadstripe, but it was interrupted when Parus comes fleeing from Myotis, who was swearing that the former killed her parents. When Parus lost her bag of loot, Giotto found his candlestick in it, revealing Parus as a con-artist, though she escapes. After that, Darovit appears to be missing, and a search turned up nothing as Giotto tried to keep some order. In the evening, he Scarlette Volkner and Raoul were discussing on whether or not they should send scouts to Moledeep to see if Wuya resides in it, and after Scarlette proposes doing it at night, Giotto found the perfect candidates: Bairdon Bardwing the friar owl and Myotis, the latter having thought about carrying out an assassination. They did indeed prove Moledeep was Wuya's base, and Myotis did get to do her assassination (on the wrong target).
The next day, he was seen greeting Darovit, who returns alive and well, and prays he no longer has anything against Kav, but wasn't exactly right. Near dawn the next day, Darovit actually lets in Wuya and her horde, and Giotto was among those captured, and was horrified to hear Darovit betrayed them. Luckily Darovit makes amends and frees them all, and Wuya was slain by Kav. Afterward, Giotto decided to banish Darovit for a year as punishment, until Kav claimed he only betrayed out of jealousy towards him, and for everyone neglecting the vole, which made the shrew feel bad and relent to shorting the banishment to two seasons, but it wouldn't matter as Darovit doesn't intend to come back at all. It can be assumed he continued to reign as abbot since.
He was still an abbot several seasons later. He was first seen directing Alzbeta Grang and Vakama Foeseeker in putting down a tablecloth, then welcoming Volkner. He joined in Kav's warrior anniversary party himself, but they didn't expect a travelling circus to join in, but Giotto saw no reason not to allow them to. Unknown to him or anyone in Redwall, this was Parus, who then knocks out everyone with sleep powder and abducts Kav's daughter Freja Furrel, Alzbeta's brother Ganner Grang, and Zonder Banksnout. He was the fifth to wake up in the aftermath, and thanked Spinus for explaining what happened after the bird relayed what he saw. After a search for the children, Telma Furrel and Vakama Foeseeker, turned up only the adults as dead bodies, Giotto held a meeting with Volkner, Alzbeta, Myotis, Kav, Erinaceus Quill and Nomi, and like everyone else was shocked to find out Parus the Manipulator returned alive. When Giotto questioned Parus' reason for adducting the three children, everyone found it it similar to Slagar the Cruel's reasons on Mattimeo and his friends, and he ended the meeting. The next morning, he saw off the five heroes to hunt down Parus, though he chastises Brother Esuom for bringing up General Ironbeak striking Redwall in Matthias' absence, and and while the mouse admits he should've kept his mouth shut, he'll end up being right that another vermin will take advantage of Kav's absence. Later, Koor and Volkner claims that another vermin horde was indeed near Redwall, but it was just a primitive tribe, and if things couldn't get worse, Scarlette claims the dibbuns Zootoca, Gjord and Algot Muskar are missing. After searching the abbey turned up nothing, they concluded the dibbuns had gone after Kav and his crew, and while Giotto wanted to go after them, the Brownrat tribe was in the way. Luckily, Koor, Volkner, Bairdon and the guosim manage to scare the tribe off without so much as a beatdown. The next day, he helps his cousin set up a camp.
He wasn't seen again until the end, where Kav and co return with Parus' abductees, plus more.
==Appearance==
Like all abbots and abbesses he wore a brown-habit.
==Gallery==
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