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| title1= The Copper-Colored Council of Elders
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| aka= The Cupid Council of Elders<br>The Cupid Council<br>The Copper-Colored Council of the Elders<br>The Council of Elders<br>The Copper-Colored Council
| origin= [[Cupid Homeworld]]
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| type= Council
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| bases= [[Cupid Parliament building]]
| leaders= [[Cupid Prime|The Cupid Prime]]
| members= [[Cupid Prime]]<br>[[Cupid-002]]<br>[[Cupid-004]]<br>[[Cupid-006]]
| first_seen_in= [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Cupid Suggestion Box (short story)|The Cupid Suggestion Box]]''
| also_seen_in= [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids (short story)|The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids]]''<br>[[PROSE]]: ''[[The Resurrection of the Wellsians (short story)|The Resurrection of the Wellsians]]''<br>[[PROSE]]: ''[[Magic Trick (novel)|Magic Trick]]''<br>[[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ghosts and the Machine (short story)|The Ghosts and the Machine]]''<br>[[PROSE]]: ''[[The Cupid Parliament Destroyed? (short story)|The Cupid Parliament Destroyed?]]''<br>[[PROSE]]: ''[[The Copper-Colored Cupids go Caroling (short story)|The Copper-Colored Cupids go Caroling]]''<br>[[PROSE]]: ''[[A Copper-Colored Christmas Carol (short story)|A Copper-Colored Christmas Carol]]''<br><small>(mentioned)</small>
| copyright= [[Lupan Evezan]]<br>& [[Aristide Twain]]
}}The '''Copper-Colored Council of Elders''', also known as the '''Copper-Colored Council of the Elders''', ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ghosts and the Machine (short story)|The Ghosts and the Machine]]'') the '''Council of Elders''', ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Cupid Parliament Destroyed? (short story)|The Cupid Parliament Destroyed?]]'') the '''Copper-Colored Council''', ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Copper-Colored Cupids go Caroling (short story)|The Copper-Colored Cupids go Caroling]]'') the '''Cupid Council of Elders''', the '''Cupid Council''', or simply '''the Council''', ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Copper-Colored Christmas Carol (short story)|A Copper-Colored Christmas Carol]]'') was a council which formed part of the leadership of the [[Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids]]. It was made up of the ten oldest [[Mark I]] [[Clockwork Cherub]]s, including the [[Cupid Prime]] himself and [[Cupid-002]]. 

== Nature ==
Together, the Council oversaw the activities of the [[Cupid Parliament]]s, notably collecting suggestions to be put to vote. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids (short story)|The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids]]'', ''[[The Cupid Suggestion Box (short story)|The Cupid Suggestion Box]]'')

== History ==
After [[Mailbag-431]] died, a document certifying him as deceased was signed by “the Council”, among other Homeworld authorities. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Copper-Colored Christmas Carol (short story)|A Copper-Colored Christmas Carol]]'')

[[File:Cupid Suggestion Box.png|thumb|left|275px|The ill-fated Suggestion Box. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Cupid Suggestion Box (short story)|The 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 (short story)|The Cupid Suggestion Box]]'') the Copper-Colored Council of Elders put up a [[Cupid Suggestion Box]]. A small stack of blank cards was left next to it, with members of the [[Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids|Crew]] being incited to pick them up and write short suggestions that could then be discussed in [[Cupid Parliament|Parliament]].

Among other things, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Cupid Suggestion Box (short story)|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 (short story)|The Toymaker's Labyrinth]]'', ''[[The Cupid Suggestion Box (short story)|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]] (which they uneasily wrote off as a prank), 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 after [[Cupid-002]] put it in as the final Suggestion. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Cupid Suggestion Box (short story)|The Cupid Suggestion Box]]'')

After the Homeworld's [[Psychic Receptor]]s picked up a mysterious call for help from the [[Morningstar 1]] base, the matter was debated at length in Parliament until the Council decided to do what they usually did, namely throw the [[Department of Problem-Solving]] at the problem. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Resurrection of the Wellsians (short story)|The Resurrection of the Wellsians]]'')

On the day of the [[faceless magician (Magic Trick)|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]]. Just as it was about to descend into sheer fisticuffs despite the Elders' frantic pounding on tables, the argument finally ended when the destruction of the typewriter in question by the [[The Hat|magic rabbits]] rendered it moot, with [[Cupid-004|#004]] being the first one to notice the mysterious intruders. For the first time ever, one of [[Acquaintanceship-982]]'s suggestions was listened to as his motion that they all run for it was officially sustained by #004. Soon enough, the Cupids found that the entire Homeworld was overrun with the creatures, and, out of ideas, they headed to the [[Euclidean Plane]], where the Council of Elders petitioned the [[Geometron Pentagon]] for asylum. Three days later, after solving the issue, the [[Department of Problem-Solving]] called everyone back to the Homeworld using a [[Psychic Broadcasting Cone]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Magic Trick (novel)|Magic Trick]]'')

On [[Halloween]] 2019, when he was barred from preventing [[Frankenstein-818]] by dangerously altering the [[Spirit Realm Gateway]], a dejected [[Technophile-963]] “grudgingly trudged away to warn someone from the Copper-Colored Council of the Elders that they might have a bit of a situation on their hands very soon”. Indeed, minutes later, the Gateway collapsed into a [[dimensional rift]] which forced the [[Cupid Prime]] to use the [[Emergency Transport Button]] to transport all the Cupids to the safety of the [[Interdimensional Tavern]], although [[Cupid-006|Cupid #006]], of the Council, was indignant at the merest suggestion of abandoning the Homeworld permanently. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ghosts and the Machine (short story)|The Ghosts and the Machine]]'')

After the [[destruction of the Cupid Parliament]] by [[Conquest-932]], the [[Council of Elders]] decided to commission [[Foreman-964]]'s [[Department of Construction]] to build a new [[Cupid Parliament building]], pleading with him that it not be a warehouse (something about which Foreman made no promises). ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Cupid Parliament Destroyed? (short story)|The Cupid Parliament Destroyed?]]'')

When [[Lord Nachtos]] attacked the Homeworld during the course of Christmas 2019, “one of the Copper-Colored Council” began to order an emergency evacuation, but this proved unnecessary when [[Celebration-665]] talked the demon into singing some Christmas carols with him instead of destroying the world. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Copper-Colored Cupids go Caroling (short story)|The Copper-Colored Cupids go Caroling]]'')

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