Marksmanship-522

Marksmanship-522
Character Information
Species	Clockwork Cherub
Gender	Male
Residence	The Cupid Homeworld
Occupation	Scarlet Wings perative
Behind the Scenes
First seen in	PROSE: Marksmanship-522 and the Multi-Dimensional Race
Also seen in	PROSE: Rifts Crisis Officially Over!
Copyright	Lupan Evezan (concept) Aristide Twain (design)
Index	See list

Marksmanship-522 was a Clockwork Cherub, a Senior Agent of the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids' elite taskforce the Scarlet Wings.

Description

Personality

Marksmanship was known for relative candour, as evidenced by his straightforward choice of a name. (PROSE: Marksmanship-522 and the Multi-Dimensional Race)

Powers & abilities

Marksmanship was considered one of the best bowmen in the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids. (PROSE: Marksmanship-522 and the Multi-Dimensional Race)

Biography

Early adventures

Marksmanship-522 participated in a number of noteworthy Cupid endeavours. He notably “led the team that romanticised the Zyargaff Beast in Dimension 42µ” and fired the first shot in the Second Great Spaghetti War. (PROSE: Marksmanship-522 and the Multi-Dimensional Race)

Involvement in the Cross-Dimensional Grand Prix

On one occasion, Marksmanship was sent to an alien planet in the Prime Universe to romanticise a mere two people, Lilathia and Brutus. When he first arrived, he was surprised he had been assigned to something this easy and low-key. However, it soon became clear that the two were the last remaining warriors of two feuding species. He first visited the house of Lilathia, who took him to be an assassin sent by Brutus, capturing him in a burlap sack.

Even after Marksmanship managed to clear up the confusion, his troubles were far from over, as Lilathia and Brutus, overjoyed at finally having a neutral party to fill the position, forced him to act as referee for a Cross-Dimensional Grand Prix that would allow them to finally determine a victor to their conflict. To prevent him from chickening out, Lilathia crashed her Void Ship into Marksmanship's Fog Ship. He was then made to ride along on Lilathia's ship throughout the faster-than-light, interdimensional race.

When the two ships completed their run and returned to Lilathia and Brutus's home planet, Marksmanship was barely coherent, completely dazed by the trying experience of high-speed interdimensional flight. He confessed that he had been unable to determine whether either ship had got back before the other, and declared the Prix a tie. To his surprise, Lilathia and Brutus were pleased by this development, as, they explained, they wouldn't have known what to do with themselves if they'd had to stop feuding. Content that they were “happy” doing something they “loved” doing, Marksmanship returned to the Cupid Homeworld with no further attempts to romanticise the pair, aboard Lilathia's speedster, which she gifted to him as reparation for destroying his Fog Ship. Once he arrived back in the Homeworld, Marksmanship gave the speedster to the Department of Transportation and typed up a report which he handed in to the Department of Completed Assignments, containing an exhaustive list of all the new universes he'd briefly passed through on the Grand Prix. (PROSE: Marksmanship-522 and the Multi-Dimensional Race)

During the Rifts Crisis

He, Bibliophile-962 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.

After they were returned to the Homeworld by the Faction of the Fooling Fish aboard their tachyonic sailing ship, Marksmanship recommended Tracker for a position in the Scarlet Wings. Interviewed for comment by The Cupid Courier, he stated: “I feel that Tracker is just the person we need with us if we’re going to be tracking down rifts and getting rid of them. His unique approach to dangerous situations (and his famous resolve to never give up any task) makes him particularly well-suited to this sort of thing. Besides, there’s no Cupid I’d rather have by my side in a tricky spot”. (PROSE: Rifts Crisis Officially Over!)

External links

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