The Green Gorillas (short story)

The Green Gorillas
Contents
Villain(s)	Gang of the Green Gorilla
Featuring	Technician-042 Amadeo-378 Amour-159
Setting	Vanityville, Prime Universe, 1986
Technical Specs
Series	The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids
Crew
Writer(s)	Lupan Evezan
Background
Dates	March 22nd, 2019
Original link	[1]
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Cupid Fact File #177: The Green Gorillas was a Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids short story written and illustrated by Aristide Twain.

Contents

Subjects

The uploading of the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids' Files, as handled by Technician-042, goes on. Fact File #177 gives an overview of the Crew's first meeting with the Gang of the Green Gorilla on the Prime Earth.

Worldbuilding

Universes

• The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids meet the Gang of the Green Gorilla on the Prime Earth in 1978 “Prime Earth Time”.

Other

• A Mind Probe was used by the Cupid Intelligence Institute to try and determine why the batch of abductees believed gorillas to be green.
• In 1986, the C.I.I. observed Christmas celebrations through the Celestial Telescopes and dispatched a team of Cupids to the Vanityville Supermarket in the hope that the locals, already being in a cheerful Christmas mood, would be more easily romanticised. This led to the Skirmish at the Vanityville Supermarket when they clashed with Green Gorillas who had taken it over.
• It is rumoured that Commander Amadeo-378's “quick wits” came from “a quirk of the foundries that had made the soul of his processing unit a five-point diamond, instead of the standard-cut rose quartz”.
• The brainwashing techniques used by the Gang of the Green Gorilla and the Cupids' Cupid Arrow-based romanticisation process are incompatible: people already affected by the former are immune to the latter, and although the reverse is not strictly true, the Gang's scientists were able to find ways to reverse Cupid conditioning.
• The Fact File notes that following the Skirmish, the Cupids have “fended off the Green Gorillas’ advance from the depths of the Amazonian jungle to the very North Pole”.
• Amour-159 is a Collector Cupid for the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids' Tax Department.

Behind the scenes

Read online

The story can be read on the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids website.