Cupid Fact File No. 643 — The Drove of the Demesmaekerite-Dyed Discordias

Cupid Fact File #643 — The Drove of the Demesmaekerite-Dyed Discordias is a prose story, written by Aristide Twain. A Cupid Fact File, it features the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids (including Discovery-664, the Scarlet Wings and their leader Amity-964, and Amadeo-378) and, in their debuts, the titular Drove of the Demesmaekerite-Dyed Discordias, including D123-Blackheart and their creator Eris. The goddess Eris is herself mentioned, as is the Drove of the Database-Compiling Dromedaries.
==Description==
In a Fact File, the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids looks back on its first encounter with their shadowy counterparts from a parallel dimension, the hate-spreading Drove of the Demesmaekerite-Dyed Discordias — beginning with the curious disappearance of Discovery-664.
===References===
* The Discordia Homeland, being an inverse counterpart to the Cupid Homeworld, is “a strange dimension consisting entirely of volcanoes constantly belching out clouds of smoke”, with the clouds of smoke being what the Discordias live on, much as the Cupids do on the clouds of their blue-sky-filled Homeworld.
* Smog Ships, used by the Discordias, resemble Fog Ships except for having “black, toxic smoke” as their outer coating instead of Celestial Foam.
* The hate-spreading Discordias' counterparts to Love Potion-coated Cupid Arrows are golden Apples of Discord, which “are thrown at their targets and explode like bombs, dousing them in hate and strife”.
===Continuity===
* Amadeo-378 was first mentioned in Cupid Fact File No. 177 — The Green Gorillas (2019) and Amity-964 in Cupid Fact File No. 184 — The Mob of the Maroon Magpie (2019).
* The Discordias would reappear in a greater role in later stories, including Darius and the Discordias (2020).
* Amity-964 uses a Two-Way Communicator, a device previously introduced in Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery (2019).
==Behind the scenes==
This short story was released in 2019 on the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids website.
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