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|members= [[Juliet-178]]<br>[[Carter-1277]]<br>[[Edwin-750]]<br>[[Valerius-1497]] | |members= [[Juliet-178]]<br>[[Carter-1277]]<br>[[Edwin-750]]<br>[[Valerius-1497]] | ||
|first_seen_in= [[PROSE]]: ''[[Lord Thymon and the Department of Problem-Solving (short story)|Lord Thymon and the Department of Problem-Solving]]'' | |first_seen_in= [[PROSE]]: ''[[Lord Thymon and the Department of Problem-Solving (short story)|Lord Thymon and the Department of Problem-Solving]]'' | ||
|also_seen_in= [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Labors of Juliet (short story)|The Labors of Juliet]]''<br>[[PROSE]]: ''[[The Winter Quests (novel)|The Winter Quests]]'' | |also_seen_in= [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Labors of Juliet (short story)|The Labors of Juliet]]''<br>[[PROSE]]: ''[[Of Romeos and Juliets (short story)|Of Romeos and Juliets]]''<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[PROSE]]: ''[[The Winter Quests (novel)|The Winter Quests]]'' | ||
|copyright= [[Paul Hoppe]] | |copyright= [[Paul Hoppe]] | ||
}}The '''Department of Problem-Solving''' was a department of the [[Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids]]' [[Cupid Intelligence Institute]]. Headed by [[Prefect]] [[Pythagoras-858]], it was tasked with finding practical solutions to problems of various sorts which other Departments of the Crew faced. | }}The '''Department of Problem-Solving''' was a department of the [[Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids]]' [[Cupid Intelligence Institute]]. Headed by [[Prefect]] [[Pythagoras-858]], it was tasked with finding practical solutions to problems of various sorts which other Departments of the Crew faced. | ||
Revision as of 13:23, 15 July 2022
The Department of Problem-Solving was a department of the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids' Cupid Intelligence Institute. Headed by Prefect Pythagoras-858, it was tasked with finding practical solutions to problems of various sorts which other Departments of the Crew faced.
History
Origins
The Department of Problem-Solving was founded around two decades prior to the Lord Thymon affair. Pythagoras-858 was awarded headship of the newly-formed department after a particular demonstration of common sense, where he had advocated the use of forbidium manacles on targets resistant to romanticisation. (PROSE: Lord Thymon and the Department of Problem-Solving)
At some point, the Supreme Quaestor awarded them the use of five laboratories, of which the biggest was Lab 5. (PROSE: Lord Thymon and the Department of Problem-Solving)
The Lord Thymon affair
In 2019, the Department of Impossible Things shuffled off the assignment of dealing with Lord Thymon to the Department of Problem-Solving. Pythagoras-858 left his Problem-Solvers — including Valerius-1497, Juliet-178, Carter-1277 and Edwin-750 — to develop solutions. When Pythe returned to Lab 5, the Problem-Solvers, following an idea developed by Valerius had filled it with clocks, with the intent to summon Thymon, only for him to be frozen due to the short supply of time energy that would result.
Deeming the idea mad enough to have some chances of working on a conceptual entity like Thymon, Pythe allowed them to go forwards, threatening to detonate a Reality Bomb to lure Thymon to the Cupid Homeworld. After he was indeed summoned, Juliet ended up taking it upon herself to simply hit him with a Cupid Arrow, romanticising him and solving the issue decisively. (PROSE: Lord Thymon and the Department of Problem-Solving)
Some time later, however, Juliet tried to wriggle out of a day's work at the Department of Problem-Solving. Her convoluted scheme to get out from under her responsibilities ended up crating over 1500 duplicates of herself, who then spread out across the Multiverse to collectively carry out the punitive assignment given to Juliet by the Department of Discipline. (PROSE: The Labors of Juliet)
Later developments
The whole Department of Problem-Solving reminisced about some of their past cases together at the Christmas party organised in 2021 in the Cupid Homeworld by CS-NA. (PROSE: The Winter Quests)
