Philatel-426

Philatel-426
Character Information
Species	Clockwork Cherub
Gender	Male
Residence	The Cupid Homeworld
Occupation	Postmaster
Behind the Scenes
First seen in	PROSE: The Society of the Rhyming Dove
Also seen in	PROSE: Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery PROSE: Rifts Crisis Officially Over! PROSE: The Time of the Toymaker PROSE: The Case Against Conspiracy (mentioned)
Copyright	Lupan Evezan
Index	See category

Philatel-426 was a Clockwork Cherub and member of the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids, being its postmaster. (PROSE: Multiversal Mischief)

Description

Personality

Philatel disliked romanticising missions, preferring to stay in the Cupid Homeworld. (PROSE: Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery) Rosen-035 thought of Philatel as “steadfast”. (PROSE: Multiversal Mischief) Philatel did however think of his Department of Postal Services as the most important organisation in the Cupid Homeworld, as he proudly announced to Jenny Everywhere (PROSE: The Time of the Toymaker) He collected stamps, and was willing to great lengths to protect his collection. However, even then, he did not dare to interfere with the mail, viewing its protection as his sacred duty. (PROSE: Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery)

Biography

In 1986, Philatel was already in charge of the Department of Postal Services. It was him who received the rhyming letters sent by the Society of the Rhyming Dove to the Crew. (PROSE: The Society of the Rhyming Dove)

In April of 2019, Philatel caught wind of a plan by the Department of Construction to raze the West Wing of the Post Office (where he'd been keeping his stamp collection) to make way for a warehouse. When a mailbag containing the Department of Architecture's blueprints for the new warehouse passed through his hands, he stole it and hid it in his office, hoping to halt the work. To evade suspicion, he put the Blue Feather on the case of looking for the missing mailbag, assuming that they would be too incompetent to trace it back to him. However, Acquaintanceship-982 did manage to figure it out eventually. Larrikin-1029 ambushed Philatel in his office and captured him in a burlap sack, allowing the Blue Feather members to get a confession from him. Instead of them handing him over to the Department of Discipline, he made a deal with them, allowing them to use the West Wing as a HQ from now on to replace their ratty old one, with them convincing the Department of Construction to demolish the former Blue Feather HQ in question instead of the West Wing. (PROSE: Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery)

Philatel once lived through his “very own Christmas carol”, meeting the Ghost of Christmas Past, Ghost of Christmas Present and Ghost of Christmas Future. (PROSE: The Case Against Conspiracy)

Philatel was one of the Cupids who submitted a question to The Cupid Courier's educational Q&A about the Rifts with Doctor Sigma. However, Philatel, head of the Department of Postal Services, just used the opportunity to complain about his rival, Foreman-964 of the Department of Construction, sarcastically asking if the noise created by a construction site could qualify as the kind of “major disturbances in the fabric of reality” which could sometimes trigger Rifts. (PROSE: Rifts Crisis Officially Over!)

He briefly met Jenny Everywhere during Jenny's first visit to the Homeworld. (PROSE: The Time of the Toymaker)

External links

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