Mandragora-257

Mandragora-257
Character Information
Species	Clockwork Cherub (originally)
Gender	Male
Residence	The Cupid Homeworld (originally) Morningstar 1 Consistency Palatium
Occupation	Alchemist Imperial Advisor
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Copyright	Aristide Twain
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Mandragora-257 was a body-hopping, villainous alchemist with multiversal capabilities.

Description

Physical appearance

Mandragora-257's various bodies were marked out by his eerie, golden eyes. Beyond this shared traits, both of his known bodies displayed a lightly-colored, scraggly beard and dressed in overwhelmingly purplish-to-burgundy colours. At least one of his human forms had an unhealthy, sickly skin tone and a frozen, disconcerting, toothy grin. (COMIC: Jenny Everywhere Meets The Crew Of The Copper-Colored Cupids)

Biography

Early life

#257 was originally the Prefect of the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids' Department of Chemistry. He was disgraced after losing the Creator's original formula for the Cupid Love Potion, leading to his transfer to the Department of Alchemy. (PROSE: The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids)

At Morningstar 1

Mandragora showing Governor-105 his first vial of Pure Elixir. (COMIC: All That Sparkles Is Not Concrete)

Eventually, he was exiled to Morningstar 1, the Cupids' lonely base on Venus in the 97th Cosmos. There, he completed the alchemical “great work”, creating the Pure Elixir which could allow him to turn any metal into gold. However, as a Governor-105 soon pointed out, this was of limited use to a Clockwork Cherub, particularly one stationed on a barren planet. A very dismayed Mandragora found the wherewithal to suggest that they use the “unlimited gold” as building material for some new walls. (COMIC: All That Sparkles Is Not Concrete)

As a criminal

He became a criminal and cheated death, hopping from one body to another, as he was chased through the Multiverse by another member of his kind, Pythagoras-858. (COMIC: Jenny Everywhere Meets The Crew Of The Copper-Colored Cupids) According to Pythagoras, he “got killed, (…) and then reembodied himself several times over, (…) although never properly.” (PROSE: The Grand Multiverse Hotel)

When Pythagoras met Jenny Everywhere, he briefly wondered if she might be a new incarnation of Mandragora, but relented when she showed him that her eyes did not have the characteristic golden glow shared by all of Mandragora's sleeves. (COMIC: Jenny Everywhere Meets The Crew Of The Copper-Colored Cupids) One of the not-quite-human visitors to the Interdimensional Hotel whom Wendy Severn noticed as she got out of the shuttle which had taken her to Hilbert's did, on the other hand, have “eerie, glowing yellow eyes”, although she did not pay him any mind at the time. (PROSE: The Grand Multiverse Hotel)

It was ultimately discovered that Mandragora, in a new body, had been acting as the advisor of the Consistency Imperium, deceiving them to get them to unwittingly accelerate the spread of the Rifts threatening the fabric of reality, being central to the Rifts Crisis. He had built a "Machine" meant to spark the ultimate detonation of all realities, in some insane effort to ascend to godhood. However, his plan was uncovered in the nick of time, and the backfiring of his scheme was believed to have brought about his final death. (PROSE: Rifts Crisis Officially Over!) Shortly before this, Sebastian Steer, an unrelated Dark Lord, had attempted and failed to highjack Mandragora's scheme for his own ends. (PROSE: The Time of the Toymaker)

External links

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