Bibliophile-962

Recorder Cupid **Bibliophile-962** was a Clockwork Cherub, a member of the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids. As the Prefect of the Department of Documentation, he was an archivist who often worked at the Cupid Homeworld's Archives.

## Biography

In 2019, Bibliophile and the rest of the Department of Documentation took a trip to the Interdimensional Tavern on their lunch break. There, they met the Time Traveller from the 97th Cosmos as well as a cockatoo inventor from the Prime Earth. They also made some observations which led to Bibliophile writing up a Cupid Fact File on the Tavern around a week later. Having forgotten a book at the tavern, Bibliophile wrote Frederick to notify him that he would be sending someone to pick it up, and left instructions for someone to do so in the Fact File he was writing. (PROSE: *The Interdimensional Tavern*)

   Later, much to his displeasure, it fell to Bibliophile to file information about thousands of new universes uncovered all at once by Marksmanship-522 following Marksmanship's involvement in the Cross-Dimensional Grand Prix between Lilathia and Brutus. (PROSE: *Marksmanship-522 and the Multi-Dimensional Race*)

On April 19th, 2019, Bibliophile was one of the Cupids fruitlessly interviewed by the Blue Feather as possible suspects in the affair of the theft of a mailbag from the Cupid Post Office, simply because they had been glimpsed somewhere in the broad vicinity of the Post Office on that day. (PROSE: *Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery*)

At some point following April 29th, Bibliophile-962 began writing up a Cupid Fact File on the recently-discovered Faction of the Fooling Fish. However, he was interrupted when the Fooling Fish themselves, having returned to the Cupid Homeworld via a Rift, used a brainwashing device on him to make him believe that it was April Fools' Day and get him to play pranks across the Cupid Homeworld. This was eventually undone. (PROSE: *The Faction of the Fooling Fish*)

When he was abducted by the Drove of the Database-Compiling Dromedaries, Pessimist-242 mentioned Bibliophile and the Department of Documentation to Darius, also recalling how Bibliophile “[couldn't] afford anything” for his Department and “[kept] ‘borrowing”’ things from [him] – without asking, [he] might add”. (PROSE: *Pessimist and the Dromedaries*)

On the day of the faceless magician incident, the Parliament had been engaged for nine days in a protracted debate about whose responsibility it was to replace the ink in the typewriter of Stenographer-123 (who typed down the Parliamentary and disciplinary logs) when it ran out, the main contenders being the Department of Discipline and the Department of Documentation, with Bibliophile-962 vigorously arguing against the position that it was his Department's responsibility and refusing to let the matter lie. Just as it was about to descend into sheer fisticuffs (with Bibliophile throwing a book at Philatel-426), the argument finally ended when the destruction of the typewriter in question by the magic rabbits rendered it moot. (PROSE: *Magic Trick*)

On Halloween 2019, Bibliophile was standing close to the platform where Frankenstein-818 tried to activate his Spirit Realm Gateway. When it failed to work, Bibliophile suggested that it may need to “be struck by lightning or something”, but this proved unworkable. He continued observing the failed repairing process with bemused interest, expressing a later-vindicated skepticism in Frankenstein's approach of wrenching a bunch of parts out of the machinery altogether. Nevertheless he didn't mock Frankenstein or call him mad, being further bemused when Frankenstein implied otherwise in his vainglorious victory speech at having briefly made the Gateway work again — right before it collapsed in on itself and opened a dimensional rift. (PROSE: *The Ghosts and the Machine*)

Starting slightly before the romanticisation of Lord Thymon, Bibliophile compiled the Book of Evil. Some time after Mandragora's Great Experiment and the spirit invasion, he an Technophile-963 worked together on digitising a series of excerpts from the Book, and discovered a mysterious threatening message taking the form of an additional page Bibliophile had no memory of writing. Bibliophile decided to keep it in, as it added some more “evil flavour” to the Book and should be kept an eye on besides. (PROSE: *The Book of Evil*) A mention of Bibliophile's concerned report about this was printed in Issue #1056 of *The Cupid Courier*. (PROSE: *The Cupid Parliament Destroyed?*)

In December 2019, he organised a Christmas party in the Department of Documentation's break room, enlisting Larrikin-1029's help to run food errands while he collected some decorations from Celebration-665. He was pleasantly surprised to return to the break room only to find that Larrikin had succeeded in his task with no obvious chaos or mischief, and had even correctly placed the Christmas pudding in the snap-dragon bowl (not realising that Larrikin had not known this to be the custom, and actually dropped the pudding in the bowl at the last minute by mistake). He then reminded Larrikin to go right back to the Department of Baked Goods' building to also collect a cranberry pie. (PROSE: *Larrikin and the Christmas Pudding*)

Bibliophile, Marksmanship-522 and Tracker-764 were among the few Cupids trapped *outside* of the Cupid Homeworld during the height of the Rifts Crisis. Travelling together with the Hound, they eventually found the home base of the Consistency Imperium, who had been unintentionally accelerating the spread of the Rifts due to the deceitful advice of the alchemist Mandragora-257, and were subsequently returned to the Homeworld by the Faction of the Fooling Fish aboard their tachyonic sailing ship. (PROSE: *Rifts Crisis Officially Over!*)

In December 2020, Bibliophile was at the Cupid Archives typing up a file on Jenny Everywhere and Pythagoras-858's adventures at the Grand Multiverse Hotel when he received the visit of Jenny, Juliet-178 and Arganthone-056, who were looking for information on Madame Tarsa. He helped them get past the Mechanical Sphinx and search the Archives; although they didn't find anything directly useful, they stumbled upon a document dating back to the Rifts Crisis which inspired Bibliophile to suggest a trip to Subcinctus to see if Vertolin had retained any of the Consistency Imperium's archives. (PROSE: *The Time of the Toymaker*)

In 2021, as the rate of the Triangular Society's trouble-making continued rising, he decreed that Incident Reports concerning their mischief should be filed in a separate area of the Archives from all other Reports, in order to avoid drowning out other topics. (PROSE: *The Case Against Conspiracy*)

## External links

* **Character profile on the official *Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids* website**