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'''Cupid Arrows''' were the otherwise-harmless arrows used by the members of the [[Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids]] to “romanticise” their targets using a magical “[[Love Potion]]” that filled them with a sense of universal platonic love. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Green Gorillas (short story)|The Green Gorillas]]'', ''[[The Winter Quests (novel)|The Winter Quests]]'')

They originally created the Arrows themselves using wood bought in bulk, at a heavy discount, from a [[Prime Universe|Prime]] [[Earth]] lumber mill whose owners had been romanticised for the purpose. Eventually, after the [[Mélange of the Mauve Muskrat]] briefly bought the factory and rocketed up the prices (causing the [[Great Arrow Crisis]]), the Cupids ended up taking direct ownership of the lumber mill themselves. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Mélange of the Mauve Muskrat (short story)|The Mélange of the Mauve Muskrat]]'')

By 1994, the Crew kept a supply of Arrows in their “emergency supply warehouse” on the [[Prime Universe|Prime]] [[Earth]], with a number being stolen by the [[Mob of the Maroon Magpie]] until the Cupids, in defeat, abandoned the emergency supply warehouse and moved its contents to another location unknown to the Magpies. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Mob of the Maroon Magpie (short story)|The Mob of the Maroon Magpie]]'')

Cupid Arrows didn't work on [[Drove of the Demesmaekerite-Dyed Discordias|Demesmaekerite-Dyed Discordias]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Drove of the Demesmaekerite-Dyed Discordias (short story)|The Drove of the Demesmaekerite-Dyed Discordias]]'')

When [[Larrikin-1029]] tried to romanticise [[Madame Tarsa]] during the Cupids' first direct encounter with her, she plucked the Arrow out of the air and analysed it, allowing her to begin developing an ersatz [[Love Potion]]. However, Larrikin, [[Pessimist-242]] and [[Pessimist's Fog Ship]] subsequently destroyed her research before  she could complete her first batch. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Toymaker's Labyrinth (short story)|The Toymaker's Labyrinth]]'')

The [[Acquaintanceship-982's Arrows|arrows]] brought by [[Acquaintanceship-982]] on his trip to [[Universe (The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids in Oz)|one universe]]'s version of the [[Land of Oz]] ended up gaining sentient life thanks to the [[Powder of Life]], alongside [[Acquaintanceship-982's Bow|his bow]] and [[Acquaintanceship-982's Fog Ship|his Fog Ship]], all of whom took [[Ozma]]'s offer to take up permanent residence in the [[Emerald Palace]]. As soon as it came to life, one of the Arrows displayed a reclusive and irritable personality, becoming known as [[the Disagreeable Arrow]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids in Oz (short story)|The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids in Oz]]'')

The hand on the single “clock” in [[Philatel-426's house]] (which just alternated between the work-time and sleep-time periods designated by the [[Department of Sleep]]) was styled to resemble a Cupid Arrow. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Copper-Colored Christmas Carol (short story)|A Copper-Colored Christmas Carol]]'')

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