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Detraxxi

The **Detraxxi** were one of the species of cyborgs who competed for the right to be declared Supreme Cyborg by Cybele in 2021. Century Smith and Briar ended up fighting them “in the skies of Tetrayon-Twelve”, for which reason they were unable to make it to the Christmas party organised in the Cupid Homeworld by CS-NA. (PROSE: *The Winter Quests*)

## Behind the scenes

The Detraxxi are a recurring element of *The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids*. *The Fall of the Consistency Palatium* revealed that they were an evolved future form of the Gang of the Green Gorilla, and had been directly aided in their cybernetic transformation by Cybele.
Department of Stage Magic

In the aftermath of the Rabbit Invasion of the Cupid Homeworld; an argument erupted over whether the Cupid Intelligence Institute's Department of Haberdashery should be held responsible fo the Hat, with Colonel-028 accusing them and Lord Thymon standing up for them. Sensing that they might just as easily come under suspicion, the **Department of Stage Magic** “quietly snuck off to Florida”. (PROSE: *The Cupid Parliament Destroyed?*)
De-Memorizer

The **De-Memorizer** was a ray in the possession of the anthropomorphic rabbits of one universe. Possibly built by the Master, it was, at any rate, used *on* him by the rabbits after his army of Drag-Racing Monkeys was defeated; he was made to forget who he was and what he had done, as well as his scientific knowledge, though basic knowledge such as language were left. (COMIC: *Jenny Everywhere vs. the Drag-Racing Monkeys*)
Demon Realm

On Halloween 2019, a “few hours” after the end of the crisis caused by his malfunctioning Spirit Realm Gateway, the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids' resident Mad Scientist Frankenstein-818 unveiled his newest invention, a gateway to the **Demon Realm**, which reaped “rather mixed reactions from the Cupids”. (PROSE: *The Ghosts and the Machine*)

## Behind the scenes

The Demon Realm was used as the name of the main fantasy universe of *The Owl House*, a fantasy animated series which debuted on January 10th, 2020, around two months *after* the release of PROSE: *The Ghosts and the Machine* (October 31st, 2019) — although the name was first used in the series in its sixth episode, *Hooty's Moving Hassle*, which aired on February 21st. Although press release as early as February 2018 *had* referred to the show's setting as “the Demon Realm”, by Lupan Evezan's own account, the name-drop was a coincidence.

In hindsight, however, and despite the reference to a copyrighted concept in so many words (unusual in *The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids*), it is likely that the Demon Realm referenced in the story should be understood as retroactively being the same dimension documented in *The Owl House*. The Prime Universe of the *Cupids* series is well-established to be synonymous with the Disney comics universe — which was shown to have multiversal interactions with the *Owl House* Demon Realm on several occasions, more or less indirectly, such as in the YouTube short *Scratch Haunts*, where a singular character, the ghost Scratch, visited Duckburg, Amphibia (from the eponymous series) and the Demon Realm in quick succession. This makes it likely that a “Demon Realm” mentioned by the Cupids, who ultimately originated in the Prime Universe, would be this one.

If taken seriously, this notion would add a layer of dramatic irony to the Cupids' lack of interest in the gateway, as much of the plot of *The Owl House* would go on to feature characters vying for access to a very limited number of portals between the Demon Realm and other worlds including human protagonist Luz's native Earth.
Department of Transportation

The **Department of Transportation and Ship-Building**, (PROSE: *The Cupid Suggestion Box*) or simply **Department of Transportation**, (PROSE: *The Case Against Conspiracy*, etc.) was the department of the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids which handled the assignment of Fog Ships. (PROSE: *The Case Against Conspiracy*)

After his Fog Ship was destroyed on a mission to the Prime Universe only for him to return aboard Lilathia's pan-dimensional speedster, Marksmanship-522 gave the speedster to the Department of Transportation. (PROSE: *Marksmanship-522 and the Multi-Dimensional Race*)

The creation of Pessimist's Fog Ship, the first and only sentient Fog Ship, was a collaborative project between the Department of Transportation and the Department of Technological Advancement. (PROSE: *Pessimist and the Dromedaries*)

After being brought back from the Interdimensional Black Market by Tracker-764, ship-building robot CS-NA (PROSE: *Misadventures in the Interdimensional Black Market*) started working for the Department of Transportation and Ship-Building. (PROSE: *The Cupid Suggestion Box*)

The Department of Problem-Solving had been meaning to report a problem with a spring that helped to secure the hatch of their Fog Ship to the Department of Transportation, but hadn't gotten around to it yet by the time of Mandragora's Great Experiment, with disastrous results. (PROSE: *The Resurrection of the Wellsians*)
Department of Impossible Things

The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids' Cupid Intelligence Institute had a **Department of Impossible Things**. It had two Prefects, Untenable-921 and Barbershop-679 — a situation which, fittingly enough, was not supposed to be possible.

In 2019, the task of taking care of Lord Thymon, who had been attacking Cupid Fog Ships in the Void, was briefly assigned to the Department of Impossible Things. However, in defeat, they forwarded the assignment to the Department of Problem-Solving, who ultimately succeeded. (PROSE: *Lord Thymon and the Department of Problem-Solving*)

Later the same year, Untenable was present for the ninth day of the Cupid Parliament's debate about Stenographer-123's typewriter, on the day of the faceless magician incident. He was once again trying to foist the assignment onto Pythagoras-858's Department of Problem-Solving. When the argument started to devolve into a fistfight, he began “throwing punches” at Pythe, and was about to throw Technophile-963 out a window when, the fight was broken up by the onslaught of magic rabbits. Subsequently, Barbeshop led the rest of the Department into being among the first to leave the Homeworld. (PROSE: *Magic Trick*
Cuppa Cha Cha Cha

The ***Cuppa Cha Cha Cha*** was an indie coffee shop in Right-On By The Sea.

Jenny Everywhere, Clea, Lex and Bradley were frequent patrons, enjoying the high-quality and ethically-sourced coffee as well as the atmosphere; they were friends with Lois, a woman who served the drinks (although it's unclear whether the business was hers), and Lex even had a crush on her, albeit unrequited.

When Apollo Coffee threatened to buy out their location and drive them out of business, Jenny and her friends travelled to the corporation's London headquarters and frightened executive Jez Cock into relenting, although they had to fight past his army of Faceless Cyborg Ninjas to do so. (COMIC: *Damn Fine Hostile Takeover*)
Cloud solidifier

In one universe, a **cloud solidifier** was one of the many eccentric inventions Neptunian Orbital University student Laura Drake had placed on her holonet portfolio despite finding them somewhat embarrassing. Jenny Everywhere later convinced her to see the value in her gizmos. (PROSE: *Extradimensional Experiments*)
Cody's Wild West Show

In one universe, a Jenny Everywhere was part of **Cody's Wild West Show**, alongside Annie Oakley and Frank Butler. (PROSE: *Fragment: Lunchtime in the Old West*)

## Behind the scenes

In our world William "Buffalo Bill" Cody ran a show as described in the story - although there's no record of Jenny Everywhere performing in ours.
Delta 22-6

**Delta 22-6** was a friendly Robot Sphere and a companion to one incarnation of Jenny Everywhere, who also travelled in the company of a Michael Wherever, Richard, ShatterScreen and Silence. Delta 22-6 was a spherical robot, about 3 feet in diameter, covered in small blinking lights and with no clearly-defined “face”. Delta originated in a future where civilisation ceased using stairs.

Their group, while using an empty warehouse as a base of operations, was forcibly teleported to the testing complex where they had to compete with the team of the Jenny who travelled with Odious. Some way into the trials, however, the older team managed to convince the band shirt Jenny's team that they meant them no harm, and got them to instead sit with them and discuss which would concede to the other for the portal. (GAME: *The Jenny Everywhere Roleplaying Game*)
Dave DoNot

**Dave DoNot** was a human who lived with Donna Jones in New York City in one universe.

## Description

### Physical appearance

Dave DoNot had brown hair. He wore a red T-shirt featuring a white symbol, along with dark blue trousers. (COMIC: *St. Patty's at Battery Park*)

## Biography

Dave DoNot lived with Donna Jones in New York City.

One day, he noticed Donna atop the Empire State Building, having climbed up in a coffee-induced trance. After she snapped out of it, she asked for help, to which he complied. (COMIC: *St. Patty's at Battery Park*)

## Behind the scenes

Dave DoNot is one of the main characters in *People Are Crazy!*.

### Notes & References

1. ↑ First appearance in directly Jenny-related media; actual debut was in 2019's *The Guys*.
Department of Discipline

## The Department of Discipline

The **Department of Discipline** was the department of the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids which handled affairs of discipline internal to the Crew. Its Prefect was Penalty-534.

## Nature

It was headed by Judicator-337, (PROSE: *The Case Against Conspiracy*) and mostly made up of Discipline Cupids younger than Mark IIs. (PROSE: *The Labors of Juliet*)

After she broke the Department of Quasireligious Obsequiousness's taboo on creating new Clockwork Cherubs in spectacular fashion, accidentally leading to the creation of over one thousand duplicates of herself, the Department of Discipline temporarily exiled Juliet from the Homeworld, giving her a large quota of life-forms to romanticise by herself before her Fog Ship would let her return home. (PROSE: *The Labors of Juliet*)

Taskmaster-523 threatened Larrikin-1029 and Pessimist-242 with reporting them to the Department of Discipline if they refused to go on a mission together as they had been told to do. Later, Larrikin reflected that the Cupid Parliament would likely send him and Pessimist to the Department of Discipline if they allowed Madame Tarsa to learn how to create Clockwork Cherubs. (PROSE: *The Toymaker's Labyrinth*)

After witnessing the latest of his improbable, accusatory conspiracy theories, the Copper-Colored Council of Elders discussed reporting Conspiracy-1263 to the Department of Discipline. (PROSE: *The Cupid Suggestion Box*)

After returning from his assignment to Oz without his Fog Ship, Bow or Arrows, Acquaintanceship-982 was reprimanded by Penalty-534, who immediately sent him on another, punitive assignment to Wonderland. (PROSE: *The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids in Oz*)

On the day of the faceless magician incident, the Cupid Parliament had been engaged for nine days in a protracted debate about whose responsibility it was to replace the ink in Stenographer-123's typewriter when it ran out. Bibliophile-962 argued that it was up to the Department of Discipline given that Stenographer typed up the logs of the Department of Discipline's hearings, to the outrage of Penalty-534, who threatened to assign Bibliophile to punitive romanticisation mission of “a thousand souls somewhere”. Just as it was about to descend into sheer fisticuffs, the argument finally ended when the destruction of the typewriter itself by the magic rabbits rendered it moot. (PROSE: *Magic Trick*)
Department of Cinematography Main Theater

The **Department of Cinematography Main Theater** was the main cinema in the Cupid Homeworld, located on the Mainland Cloud.

*The Cupid Courier* #1034 included an advertismenet for a new Department of Cinematography film, *Green Gorilla Follies!*, starring Barnstormer-1009 and Enactor-769, which was to be screened at the Department of Cinematography Main Theater. (PROSE: *Conspiracy-1263 Publicly Accuses the Gang of the Green Gorillas*)

## Behind the scenes

A “Cupid Theatre” was later featured in *Plagiarism of the SavageMen*. However, it screened the works of the Department of Entertainment instead of the Department of Cinematography, making it unclear at best whether the two should be understood as one and the same building.
Dealy Plaza

The **Dealy Plaza** was the location of the John F. Kennedy assassination in at least some realities. In one, Jenny stopped the assassination before it ever took place using her multiversal foreknowledge. (PROSE: *Fragment: Guinevere and Mordred*)

## Behind the scenes

In the real world, the location's name is spelled “Dealey Plaza”, with an E.
Clockwork Sun

The instructions the Creator left to the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids on how to operate the **Clockwork Sun** and the Clockwork Moon were “exceedingly unclear” and the latter was soon misplaced altogether, meaning the Cupid Homeworld wound up without a real day-night cycle, contrary to her original plans. The Department of Celestial Bodies, initially tasked with operating them, had “been looking for the Moon for thirty-two years” by 2022. (PROSE: *Family Business*)
Crown of the Vampire King

In one universe, the **Crown of the Vampire King** was a dangerous mystical artefact acquired by Jenny (PROSE: *Cleaning Day*) after she defeated the Vampire King himself. (PROSE: *Camera Shy*) When she and Kim went through their closet to sort its contents, they found it again, and decided to repackage it more safely. (PROSE: *Cleaning Day*)
D'Ismay Mansion

**D'Ismay Mansion** was the “most haunted house” in one universe. This was, unbeknownst to most, because it was the residence of Strach, the Abstract of Terror, himself.

Every year, Strach held an exclusive Halloween party at D'Ismay Mansion, inviting many ghosts, spirits and other supernatural personages, up to and including the likes of Beelzebub. The gathering was closed to living mortals, especially if they weren't wearing a costume. However, Jenny Everywhere once invited herself to one of these parties so that she could deliver a message to Strach on behalf of his cousin Lit. (COMIC: *Jenny Everywhere in the House of Terror*)
Department of Cinematography

The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids had a **Department of Cinematography**, who created films for other Cupids' viewing.

They were active in 2019, and screened “a new picture they'd made” — predictably enough, a romance. Getting to see it when it premiered even though she had work assigned that day was the motive for Juliet-178 to create the first of what would become a huge number of duplicates of herself. (PROSE: *The Labors of Juliet*) Later, after these Sisters of Juliet were banished from the Cupid Homeworld, (PROSE: *Of Romeos and Juliets*) Juliet later tried to argue the Copper-Colored Council of Elders into reversing this decision on the occasion of the Department releasing another, new film. (PROSE: *The Cupid Suggestion Box*) *The Cupid Courier* #1034 included an advertismenet for a new DoC film, *Green Gorilla Follies!*, starring Barnstormer-1009 and Enactor-769, which was to be screened at the Department of Cinematography Main Theater on the Mainland Cloud. (PROSE: *Conspiracy-1263 Publicly Accuses the Gang of the Green Gorillas*)

Around Halloween 2019, Méliès-125, Prefect of the Department, was trying to shoot a horror film for the internal consumption of the Crew, *The Cupid Who Hated Love*. He initially wanted Pessimist-242 for the title role, and, after Pessimist declined, attempted “to make do with a puppet made to *look* like Pessimist (rather poorly, in the eyes of the visually-inclined). Méliès had insisted that this only added to the horror; the other actors were thus forced to tolerate its presence”. (PROSE: *The Ghosts and the Machine*)
Dai Jones

In Reality Z-25 31-H, **Dai Jones** was the son of Katherine Evans, the husband of Ruth Jones and the father of Katherine “Kate Five” Jones and her twin sister Kimberly. Both Jones parents were fairly cold and distant, though by no means abusive or uncaring, leaving Kate and Kim with an unfulfilling childhood during which they mostly relied on each other for emotional support. (PROSE: *Kate Five Extended Bio*) Kimberley felt that their parents favoured Kate, notably driving her to sports practice and the like while leaving her to struggle on her own with her science projects. (COMIC: *Kate Five vs Symbiote - Chapter 4*)
Department of Forensics

The **Department of Forensics** was a department of the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids' Cupid Intelligence Institute.

After the destruction of the Cupid Parliament, they examined the smoking ruins of the Cupid Parliament building and concurred with the Department of Conflagrations that the explosion seemed to be a deliberate attack, and not an accident. (PROSE: *The Cupid Parliament Destroyed?*)
Cupid Logic Commission

The **Cupid Logic Commission** of the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids was called in to determine the best course of action when the Cupids were torn between abetting the Mob of the Maroon Magpie (since it seemed to be the main source of joy in their lives, what they most loved doing) and stopping their thievery (since it was no doubt a cause of unhappiness to the victim). The Commission came down on the Magpies' side, arguing that stealing seemed to be their *only* goal in life, and thus much more essential to their happiness. (PROSE: *The Mob of the Maroon Magpie*)
Department of Departments

The **Department of Departments** was one of the Departments of the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids's Intelligence Institute. (PROSE: *The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids*)

Prior to his exile to Dimension 1579, Romeo-1020 was a clerk at the Department of Departments. (PROSE: *Of Romeos and Juliets*)
Department of Chemistry

The **Department of Chemistry** was one of the Departments of the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids's Intelligence Institute.

#257 was once the Prefect of the Department of Chemistry, but he was transferred in disgrace to the Department of Alchemy after he lost the formula for the Love Potion, . (PROSE: *The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids*)
Department of Meteorology

The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids' Cupid Intelligence Institute had a **Department of Meteorology**. Instead of reporting or studying the weather, its purpose was actually to create it, as the Cupid Homeworld normally had none. On Halloween 2019, they “whipped up” seasonally-appropriate dark rainclouds and “frightening” wind. Frankenstein-818 later stated, at a time when one would have been handy, that he would have had to submit a request in advance for the Department of Meteorology to “authorise” a lightning strike. (PROSE: *The Ghosts and the Machine*)
Combat Psyker

In Reality Z-25 31-H, a **Combat Psyker** was an individual with psychic powers who used them aggressively in combat. One was employed in the capture of Takako Yoshida and went mad from what she saw in Taki's mind, subsequently going rogue and becoming the supervillainess Sin.Drella. (PROSE: *Battle Angel Yoshida Bio*)
Criterion

**Criterion** was a “retro-type” superhero from Universe Gemini, who lived in the same city as Zed Hudson.

An old-school hero who may have been older than he looked, he wore tights and a cape, in primary colours, and boggled at the idea of younger heroes like Zed Hudson who adventured in plain clothes. Zed, in turn, thought his outfit was ridiculous. However, they still had an amicable relationship, greeting each other when their flight-paths crossed. (COMIC: *Zed Vs. Perspective*)

Later, Zed invited Criterion alongside several friends of his to a meeting at a café so that he could introduce a new friend, the alien girl Neila, to them. (COMIC: *Zed Vs. The Introductions*)

At the end of that meeting, Criterion was seen in the background, taking flight from the park and saying his goodbyes to the others. (COMIC: *Zed Vs. Hard Feelings*)

On another occasion, Zed Hudson stumbled across Criterion patrolling the area of the city known as "the Village", where the stalwart hero, using his enhanced vision powers to scout for danger, got the shock of his life upon witnessing some of the more sexually liberated denizens going about their nightly activities. (COMIC: *Zed Vs. Eyes Wide Open*)
Cupid (Why Doth Love Sting So?)

## Unnamed Cupid

**A Cupid**, of a much more recent Clockwork Cherub type than Colonel-028's Mark I, once served as the Colonel's audience as he spun tall tales about the Crew's early exploits. Admiring the older Cupid and seemingly buying his stories hook line and sinker, the young Cupid went on to ask the Colonel why the Crew used arrows, traditionally offensive weapons, instead of something more directly illustrative of the peace-loving ethos the Crew claimed to embrace. The Cupid was dumbfounded when Colonel-028 replied with an absurdist pun: that this ensured the love the Cupids dispensed would not be *pointless*. (COMIC: *Why Doth Love Sting So?*)
Cro-Man

**Cro-Man** was a beastly modern-day “caveman” from Reality Z-25 31-H and a member of the Protectors, one of the most prestigious superhero teams of that universe's Earth.

The Protectors arrived late to the battle against the Cosmic Solution and, hubristically refusing to listen to the advice of the Odds who had gotten there before them, they attacked the robot at full power, not realising that it simply absorbed the energy from the impacts and used it to grow in size and power itself. When the saw it growing to giant size in response, the rigid-minded team leader XYZ-2000 suggested that they do the opposite of their earlier tactic — namely, “stand around doing nothing”. The Solution proceeded to reduce the entire team to piles of ashes before the eyes of the Odds. In the end, the robot left of its own accord after being ordered to do so by another agent of the Cosmic Order. (COMIC: *Journey Out Of Misery*)

What appeared to be a reborn Cro-Man returned as part of the New Protectors when they inexplicably emerged. (COMIC: *Epilogue to Destruction*)
Department of Celestial Bodies

Early on in its history, the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids had a **Department of Celestial Bodies**, which would have been tasked with making sure the Cupid Homeworld had a Sun and Moon and, accordingly, a proper day-night cycle.

However, its members “all found better things to do” and the Department disbanded, leaving the Homeworld bathed in perpetual daylight with no discernible source. (PROSE: *Magic Trick*) In actuality, the Department of Celestial Bodies had failed to operate the Clockwork Moon and Clockwork Sun left for them by the Creator due to the lack of clarity of the provided instructions; indeed, they eventually failed so badly that they *misplaced* the Moon altogether, and they had been looking for it for thirty-two years by June 2022. (PROSE: *Family Business*)
Deorum apparatus unde venerunt

During their 2019 quest for the Frost King's treasure in Manik, the Retconning Crocodiles, upon wondering how to get through the ice door, bemoaned their lack of a plot coupon or of “the ***deorum apparatus unde venerunt***”. (PROSE: *The Frost King's Treasure*)

## Behind the scenes

A *deus ex machina* is a common name for a plot device where an unexpected force appears out of nowhere to extract characters from a seemingly hopeless situation; being based on the Greco-Roman theatrical trope of this being achieved via a literal god who appears on-stage through a machinery-based special effect, the expression literally means “the God [appearing] from the machine”. The spurious Latin coinage of a “*deorum apparatus unde venerunt*” translates as “a device from which Gods come”, thus riffing on a literal reading of “*deus ex machina*”: the suggestion is that it is a literal machine through which the Crocodiles could have summoned a god to help them.
Detonator-626

**Detonator-626** was a Clockwork Cherub of the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids and a member of its Department of Construction, evidently tasked with blowing stuff up as needed. In late 2019, he took part in the demolition and remodeling of a warehouse in which Marksmanship-522 had hitherto been attempting to surreptitiously take a nap. When he overheard Marksmanship saying “Blast! Now where'll I sleep?”, he misunderstood it as an order to detonate his load of explosives at once, and Foreman-964 had to rush to try and stop him from doing so, as it was too early. (PROSE: *Peace and Quiet*)
Denis Borrel

When Jenny Over-There organised a Pride party at Professor Helvetius's Convenient Pride Decorations Shop, she “had the good sense” to ban Doctor Omega from attending. However, his assistants **Denis Borrel** and Fred did show up at the party, and Omega himself was seen peeking in through one of the windows. (PROSE: *A Series of Queer Events*)
Cupid-006

**Cupid-006**, or simply **#006**, was the sixth-ever mainline, Mark I Clockwork Cherub created by the Creator of the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids. As such, he was a member of the Copper-Colored Council of Elders.

On Halloween 2019, he was transported to the Interdimensional Tavern with the rest of the Crew when his senior the Cupid Prime used the Emergency Transport Button. However, when the Tavern staff asked for clarifications, he loudly denied that abandoning the Homeworld permanently was at all within the realm of thinkable options going forward. (PROSE: *Magic Trick*)
Department of Motivational Speaking

The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids' Cupid Intelligence Institute had a **Department of Motivational Speaking**, of which Optimist-411 (PROSE: *New Warehouse To Be Constructed In The Homeworld*) was the Prefect. (PROSE: *Magic Trick*) As reported in *The Cupid Courier*, Lord Thymon once gave a seminar at the Department's headquarters, though, much to Optimist's mild worry, its title was *How to Earn a Steady Living by Crushing Universes Beneath Your Proverbial Feet and Casting their Residents Into the Void of Swirling Oblivion*. (PROSE: *New Warehouse To Be Constructed In The Homeworld*)
Commissioner (Fear in the Jungle)

## The Commissioner

In one universe, Kaza, “the Congo King”, was friends with the British **Commissioner**, who sometimes summoned him to get his help with an unfolding crisis.

On one occasion, he summoned Kaza to warn him that Matilda Marshall was coming to the jungle with the intent to aggressively court Kaza. Due to Matilda's friends in high places, the Commissioner had been instructed by his superiors to do everything to facilitate this scheme, and any negative results would reflect badly on his own career.

The Commissioner initially advised Kaza to simply hide away until Matilda lost interest, which would minimise damage to the Commissioner's reputation without any embarrassment to Kaza, but this fell through due to Kaza coming too late to meet the Commissioner, such that he was there *when* Matilda arrived. Wanting to help his friend out, Kaza agreed to go on an elephant-ride with Matilda, during which events worked out such that he was able to shake her off by convincing her that he was not as strong and courageous as he appeared. (COMIC: *Fear in the Jungle*)

## Behind the scenes

The original version of this Commissioner appeared in a 1949, now-public-domain comic story featuring Jo-Jo the Congo King, *The Dauntless Dowager*, as Tom *Payne*. The story was reprinted in 1954 in *Fantastic Fears* #8 as *Fear in the Jungle*, with the names of Tom Payne and Jo-Jo changed to Tom Rubio and Kaza respectively (whereas Matilda Marshall and Dorothy Gray's names remained unchanged).

The character of Kaza was later resurrected as the protagonist of the webcomic *Kaza's Mate, Gwenna*, where he was given a different mustachioed commissioner as a supporting character, Commissioner Smedley Hopkirk.
Coach Haggard

**Coach Haggard** was a physical education teacher at Professor Awesome's junior high school. At one point he caught two boys making out in the locker room and was so discomforted by this that he pestered Professor Awesome into creating a Heteronormalizer for him. (PROSE: *Professional Ethics*)

## Behind the scenes

The character is named for Haggard's Law, an informal observation that "The louder and more frequent one's objections to homosexuality are, the more likely one is to be a homosexual." The observation in turn is named after Ted Haggard, an American evangelical pastor who was verbose on the subject of homosexuality for a while.
Department of Linguistics

The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids' Cupid Intelligence Institute had a **Department of Linguistics**. They analysed and translated Szaclowk. (PROSE: *The Szaclowk & the Halfworld*) After Mandragora's Great Experiment, Dactylopius-177 joined the Department, in interesting enough circumstances to warrant an Incident Report, numbered C277B and entitled simply “*Dactylopius-177 and the Department of Linguistics*”. (PROSE: *Plagiarism of the SavageMen*)
Cousin It

In some realities, **Cousin It** was a member of the highly spooky Addams Family.

## Description

### Physical appearance

It appeared as a diminutive figure covered on long hair, wearing sunglasses and a bowler hat. (COMIC: *Real Estate-Related Pun*)

## Biography

A version of the Addams Family existed in the home universe of the Lich Emperor Junter and his Vampire assistant Ibdis. When the hapless pair found themselves in need of a new apartment, Ibdis visited the Addams Mansion and were greeted by Morticia, Thing and Cousin It. Thing jumped at Ibdis and startled him, and they were ultimately unable to come to an arrangement. (COMIC: *Real Estate-Related Pun*)

## Behind the scenes

Cousin It is a recurring (copyrighted) character in *The Addams Family*, a series which has gone through many official adaptions and continuities. In many media, its name is spelled as “Itt”, with two Ts, but in the 1990s Barry Sonnenfeld movies, “It” as used instead. *Real Estate-Related Pun* included clues that its iteration of the Family was most closely based on those movies, including Morticia Addams being drawn to resemble actress Anjelica Huston's portrayal in those movies, suggesting the “It” spelling is appropriate. The movies' It was portrayed by John Franklin.

## External links

* ***Cousin Itt* on the *Addams Family Wiki***
Cthonian

**Cthonians** were among the legendary or “fictional” creatures kept in the Zoo of the Strange and Wonderful House. An old, experienced zookeeper once told a young recruit that one of the pieces of knowledge from works of fiction which she'd find came in handy as a zookeeper in this particular Zoo was “where to tickle a Cthonian”. (PROSE: *Our Strange and Wonderful House*: *The Zoo*)

## Behind the scenes

This appears to be a misspelling of *Chthonians*, huge, burrowing eldritch worms from the Lovecraftian Mythos.
Department of Construction's headquarters

The **Department of Construction's headquarters** were the headquarters of the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids' Department of Construction, as headed by Foreman-964.

On Halloween 2019, when he was briefly turned into an effective ghost due to being stuck in the Spirit Realm, Foreman's rival Philatel-426 “haunted” the headquarters and tore up all the warehouse blueprints he could find. Philatel, also trapped in the Spirit Realm, had had the same idea and haunted Philatel's Cupid Post Office, the mail up blueprints. (PROSE: *The Ghosts and the Machine*)
Cupid (Crocodile Time)

## Unnamed Cupid

A **Cupid**, i.e. a Clockwork Cherub of the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids, encountered a Retconning Crocodile who'd come to the Cupid Homeworld to show off a new creation of the Crocodiles: the Upstream Staff, a temporal manipulation device which would make its wielder's time-stream run backwards relative to their environment — though in discrete chunks, corresponding to turns in a conversation, rather than moment by moment. The Crocodile and Cupid both got quite angry quite quickly due — to talking at literal cross purposes, because the Crocodile had inadvertently activated the Staff. (COMIC: *Crocodile Time*)
Destruction of the Cupid Parliament

## The Destruction of the Cupid Parliament

The **Destruction of the Cupid Parliament** was the terrorist act which saw Conquest-932 destroying the headquarters of the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids' Parliament as part of his masterplan for the Triangular Society.

## History

Around a month after he convened the first meeting of the Triangular Society, during which he had voiced his intention to move against the Cupid Parliament, (COMIC: *A Slight Misunderstanding*) Conquest-932, dressed in his black, hooded robes as Grandmaster of the Society, went himself to the Cupid Parliament building with a large charge of dynamite and a detonator. As he prepared to activate the detonator, he was accosted by a Mark I Cupid who worked at the Parliament. Instead of trying to stop him, the Cupid decided to help, and ended up activating the detonator himself with evident glee. (COMIC: *Professional Endorsement*)
Cupid Suggestion Box

At some point prior to Pessimist-242 and Larrikin-1029's adventure in the Workshop of Madame Tarsa, (PROSE: *The Cupid Suggestion Box*) the Copper-Colored Council of Elders put up the **Cupid Suggestion Box** in the Cupid Homeworld. A small stack of blank cards was left next to it, with members of the Crew being incited to pick them up and write short suggestions that could then be discussed in Parliament.

Among other things, (PROSE: *The Cupid Suggestion Box*) Pessimist's Fog Ship put in a request with the Parliament for them to officially grant vacation time to the increasing number of non-Clockwork Cherub members of the Crew, such as the sentient Fog Ship itself. (PROSE: *The Toymaker's Labyrinth*, *The Cupid Suggestion Box*) When reviewing the suggestions, the Council agreed to put it to a vote in the Parliament.

They also got a threatening note from a nonexistent Cupid who signed Wicked-6666, as well as a number of highly frivolous requests, with Foreman-964's insistence on sending them messages asking them to take his side in his feud with Philatel-426 ultimately causing them to put guards around the Suggestion Box to prevent him or the equally spamming-prone Acquaintanceship-982 from accessing it. On what would ultimately become the Suggestion Box's last day in operation, Larrikin-1029 also accidentally broke one of the windows of the Cupid Parliament building, leaving an apologetic note in the Suggestion Box. After a few more inane suggestions, the Elders agreed to stop operating the Suggestion Box altogether. (PROSE: *The Cupid Suggestion Box*)
Crowley

**Crowley**, officially **Anthony J. Crowley** but rarely answering to that full name, was a demon who lived on Earth and was the official nemesis, as well as actual best friend, of his angelic counterpart, Aziraphale.

## Biography

### Shapeshifting

In one universe, he had the typical relationship with Aziraphale. As a demon, he was capable of shape-shifting, something he often used to play mild pranks, but he rarely engaged in anything truly evil. Aziraphale briefly considered whether the living, breathing Sherlock Holmes who once appeared in his bookshop was Crowley playing a prank, but soon realised otherwise (PROSE: *You've Been To Eden, I Perceive*)

### In Jenny Cornelius's world

In one universe, a certain demon dressed in all black and Jenny Cornelius were acquainted with each other through their mutual friend, though they both found the other’s presence awkward. He once tipped her off about a demonic incursion which was not the work of his people, having failed to reach the bookseller about it and reasoning that Jenny might be interested in getting involved on the grounds that “you're a busybody”. Doing so possibly saved the Earth, for which reason he was keen to keep his involvement confidential. (PROSE: *Birds and Snakes*)

## Behind the scenes

   Crowley is one of the major figures of the *Good Omens* novel and adaptations, with which *You've Been To Eden, I Perceive* was an unofficial crossover — although the continuity in which it takes place is not quite the setting of any of the official versions of the story, mixing and matching details from the book and the TV miniseries. The character was portrayed by Peter Serafinowicz in the 2014 radio drama adaption, and David Tennant in the 2019 live-action series.

## External links

* ***Anthony Crowley* on *L-Space*, the *Discworld* & Terry Pratchett Wiki**
Cranchester

In one universe, **Cranchester** was a football team who had a rivalry with Levendale United. On the eve of one game against **Cranchester**, the local Jenny's father predicted that United would win three-nil, while Jenny herself was less certain as Cranchester had recently gotten back a player called Jefferson. (PROSE: *The Genesis of Jenny Everywhere*)
Consistency Imperium

## The Consistency Imperium

Jenny Everywhere tells Pythagoras-858 about the Imperium. (COMIC: Jenny Everywhere Meets The Crew Of The Copper-Colored Cupids)

## Group Information

### Type

Empire
Cult

### Goals

Save the Multiverse
Destroy paradoxes and inconsistencies

### Bases

The Consistency Palatium, unnamed universe

### Leaders

The Imperial Imperator
Vertolin

## Behind the Scenes

### First seen in

COMIC: *Jenny Everywhere Meets The Crew Of The Copper-Colored Cupids*

### Also seen in

PROSE: *Rifts Crisis Officially Over!*
PROSE: *The Time of the Toymaker* (mentioned)

### Copyright

Lupan Evezan
& Aristide Twain

The **Consistency Imperium** was a dimensionally-active organisation, who travelled by means of tachyonic sailing ships (PROSE: *Rifts Crisis Officially Over!*) as well as smaller, boxy-looking Void Ships. (PROSE: *The Time of the Toymaker*)

A self-aggrandising, bloodthirsty individual calling himself the Imperial Imperator was one of their leaders, (COMIC: *Jenny Everywhere Meets The Crew Of The Copper-Colored Cupids*, PROSE: *Rifts Crisis Officially Over!*) although the more benevolent Vertolin officially outranked him, and did his best to rein in the Imperator's worst impulses. (PROSE: *The Time of the Toymaker*)

Jenny Everywhere suspected was at least partially responsible for the Rifts Crisis which was threatening to collapse the entire multiverse. (COMIC: *Jenny Everywhere Meets The Crew Of The Copper-Colored Cupids*)

They were in actuality being manipulated into unintentionally worsening the Rifts by the true villain, Mandragora-257. After the plan was uncovered by a group of Clockwork Cherubs including Bibliophile-962, Marksmanship-522, Tracker-764 and Pythagoras-858 (plus the Hound), Mandragora's Machine backfired and destroyed the Imperium's base. The Imperial Imperator escaped to wreak new havoc, although this was for all intents and purposes the end of the wider organisation. (PROSE: *Rifts Crisis Officially Over!*)

With the Consistency Palatium in ruins, Vertolin and other repentant survivors of the Imperium tried to atone for their mistakes by building a new city, New Subcinctus, from the ashes of the Palatium, to serve as a refuge for all those who'd lost their homes in the Ritfs Crisis. (PROSE: *The Time of the Toymaker*)
Cyclock

In at least one universe, the **Cyclocks** were beings “hand-crafted by the Guardians of Time themselves” to “watch over the timelines of many universes”. Tetra-None Hepta-Oct was a Cyclock. (PROSE: *Good Crieff - The Tribulations of the Scottish Division*)

## Behind the scenes

The design of Tetra-None Hepta-Oct was created in Spring 2013 as part of the “Fanpro” project, a Tumblr compilation of unnamed character designs that were all released as open-source. Receiving the designation #0000 (hence “Tetra-None”), the otherwise-uncontextualised one-eyed design was the subject of plentiful fan art. The Fanpro fandom principally referred to the character as “Zero”. Their gender was unclear depending on headcanons and interpretations.

On November 4th, 2014, Brandon Longstreth reposted the artwork on his DeviantArt page under the title “0000 Cyclocks” and created additional open-source characterisation for the character, which went on to inspire the character's depiction in *Jenny Over-There: The Nine-Two-Five Universe*, with the caveat that Callum Phillpott reverted their take on Tetra-None to a “she” whereas Longstreth's blurb used “they”. This included the introduction of the Cyclocks themselves.

## External links

* ***Cyclocks* on the Public Domain Super-Heroes Wiki**
* ***0000-Cyclocks* on DeviantArt**
Cloud Cuckoo Land

In one universe, Charlotte Mitchell, bullying a young Jenny about her aviator goggles, once asked her if she wanted to explore “Australia, America or **Cloud Cuckoo Land**”. (PROSE: *The Genesis of Jenny Everywhere*)

## Behind the scenes

In Aristophanes's *The Birds*, *Nephelokokkygia*, often translated as Cloud Cuckoo Land, is a city-state built in the sky by all the birds of the Earth at the suggestion of the main character. Philosopher Schopenhauer popularised a figurative use of the term as a stock way of referring to a hollow, whimsical phantasmagoria — as opposed to the real, material world or imagined systems that accurately model it.
Crocodile Time (comic story)

## *Crocodile Time*

First page of the story.

***Crocodile Time*** was a four-panel *The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids* comic written and drawn by Aristide Twain.

## Contents

### Plot

A Retconning Crocodile visits the Cupid Homeworld and attempts to show off a temporal manipulation device to a Cupid. Unfortunately, because the device's function is to make the Crocodile's time-stream run the other way around, they talk quite literally at cross purposes, both becoming extremely frustrated in opposite directions.

### Worldbuilding

#### Universes

* The comic takes place in the Cupid Homeworld.

## Behind the scenes

### Read online

The story is available on the official *Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids* wordpress site. It is also uploaded here with permission.
Deck the Halls

Traditional Christmas carols known to the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids by 2019, presumably from the Prime Universe, included *Hark! The Herald Angels Sing* as well as *God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen*, *O Come All Ye Faithful*, ***Deck the Halls***, and *We Wish You a Merry Christmas*. (PROSE: *The Copper-Colored Cupids go Caroling*)
Cube Universe

Upon observing that a sentient cube of jelly working as a waiter at Hilbert's had trouble grasping the concept of chairs, Wendy VII speculated that this was because it hailed from a “**Cube Universe**” where everyone was a cube and, consequently, chairs had never needed to be invented. (PROSE: *The Grand Multiverse Hotel*)
Department of Chronology

The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids' Cupid Intelligence Institute had a **Department of Chronology**. Its members, the Chronologists, mostly kept to themselves in their Continuity Tower. (PROSE: *Lord Thymon and the Department of Problem-Solving*) Their business was “sorting out timeline errors in the various universes the Cupids watched over”, and did not extend to the Homeworld itself, hence its somewhat fluid relationship to time. (PROSE: *Magic Trick*) This meant that the Cupids were unable to verify the Collective of the Retconning Crocodiles' claim of coming from a future where they were allied with the Cupid“until the Department of Chronology manage[d] to straighten out the Homeworld’s timestream enough to permit [the Cupids] to travel up and down [their] own History”. (PROSE: *The Book of Evil*)

In 2019, they loaned some clocks to the Department of Problem-Solving, which were used in the Problem-Solvers' summoning and binding of Lord Thymon. (PROSE: *Lord Thymon and the Department of Problem-Solving*)
Cupid (The Copper-Colored Cowboy)

## Unnamed Cupid

**One member** of the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids wore a golden cowboy hat and was a very skilled marksman with his bow and arrows.

He once travelled to a “Wild West” setting in one universe and challenged Chompin' Charlie to a gunfight. Although thinking him to merely be an eccentric human wearing golden armour, Charlie was somewhat impressed by the stranger's gutsiness, and offered him a chance to back out in exchange for some cash, but the Cupid declined. Charlie was baffled when the Cupid managed to hit and block his bullet with an arrow, and even moreso when he realised that his bullet had somehow been imbued with a peaceful, loving personality. (PROSE: *The Copper-Colored Cowboy*)
Deimos

At least in one universe, **Deimos** was one of the two moons of Mars, alongside Phobos. Its name allegedly meant “Fear”. (COMIC: *On Earth*)

## Behind the scenes

In the real world, the moon Deimos was named after the Greek deity of the same name. His name is more commonly translated as “Dread” or “Horror”, whereas it is Phobos whose name is usually translated as “Fear” (rather than “Flight” as mistakenly claimed by *On Earth*).
Crieff

In the 925th Universe, **Crieff**, a small market town in Scotland about 60 kilometers from Edinburgh, was chosen as home to the Scottish Division of the Multidimensional Finders Service. They used, as their headquarters, a non-euclidean building which had been constructed in the 1970s by the unscrupulous wizard Artemas H. Whipple as a private magic school where he trained young mages as weapons against the Yellow King. (PROSE: *Good Crieff - The Tribulations of the Scottish Division*)
Convenient Chirping Crickets

The **Convenient Chirping Crickets** were a creation of Madame Tarsa, which she intended to sell at the Interdimensional Black Market alongside “Tarsa’s Terrifically-Well-Timed Tumbleweed” as part of a “special holiday package” around Christmas 2020. The Crickets' function was presumably to chirp at dramatically-appropriate times to emphasise the emptiness of a location. (PROSE: *The Time of the Toymaker*)
Aladdin

**Aladdin** was famous for having found a lamp containing a djinn.

In one universe, after his magic adventure got him together with the Princess Jasmine, he freed the genie, who was none other than a version of Jenny Everywhere. Jenny, who had begun to develop crushes on Aladdin and Jasmine both, and wanted to keep hanging out with them as friends in any case, suggested that they come along on the travels throughout the Multiverse that she would now resume. (PROSE: *Shippy Shifter Snippets*)
Collection of the Camouflaged Chameleons

The **Collection of the Camouflaged Chameleons** was one of the Strangely-Colored Secret Societies of the Prime Universe.

Their members were genetically-engineered, sentient chameleons with power of speech, the ability to perfectly blend in with their environments, and the power of perfectly mimicking any voice they'd heard before. One Camouflaged Chameleon was among the inmates at the Drove of the Database-Compiling Dromedaries's Research Laboratory 6 in the Prime Universe, and played a vital part in the mass escape orchestrated by Pessimist-242. (PROSE: *Pessimist and the Dromedaries*)
Department of Mathematics

The **Department of Mathematics** was one of the Departments of the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids's Intelligence Institute.

After Juliet-178 created the Sisters of Juliet and the Sisters asked to each go on a date with Juliet's prior boyfriend Romeo-1020, the Department “ran the numbers and discovered that, if one considered each date as lasting three hours on average, Romeo needed about 6 months to date all of them, just once each, without any intervals in between”. (PROSE: *Of Romeos and Juliets*)
Dematerialisation Engine

A hands-free **Dematerialisation Engine** was a small black device, consisting of little more than a dematerialisation circuit and interface, which could be keyed directly into a mechanical being's systems, allowing them to dimension-travel at will, similar to a shifter. The devices were developed by Doctor Sigma of the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids for CS-NA, but Juliet-178 also filched a prototype. However, she used it only once, to get herself, Pythagoras-858 and Tero Trollgarsson from the Forest to the Interdimensional Tavern, as she found that using it gave her “a splitting headache”. (PROSE: *The Winter Quests*)