Larrikin-1029
Larrikin-1029 was a Clockwork Cherub and member of the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids. As well as a Blue Feather operative, (PROSE: Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery) he was secretly a member of the Triangular Society. (PROSE: The Case Against Conspiracy)
Description
Personality
Acquaintanceship spoke in a kind of old-timey-gangster accent and had a boyish, but somewhat dangerous, fascination for violent or dangerous things. (PROSE: Rifts Crisis Officially Over!) He was prone to jumping to conclusions, particularly if this gave him an excuse to engage in behaviour he considered fun. (PROSE: Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery)
Powers & abilities
Larrikin seemed to be the most physically-capable of the Blue Feather, displaying great skill at sneaking up on people and capturing them in burlap sacks (of which he always carried one on his person). He also knew how to pick locks. (PROSE: Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery) He crashed his personal Fog Ship every time he had to use it, although knowing Larrikin, this may have been on purpose rather than reflecting an actual lack of skill. (PROSE: The Mad Cupid of the Euclidean Plane)
Biography
The Blue Feather were originally housed in a derelict warehouse located on the opposite side of the Mainland Cloud. They weren't given missions of any importance, and indeed, it could be months in-between the missions they did get, disappointing as they were. For example, they once went months without any assignments at all after “the Great Grape Jelly Stain Catastrophe”, their grandiloquent name for the occasion upon which Marmalade-624 spilled grape jelly on his tablecloth and hired the Blue Feather to wash it off. (PROSE: Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery)
On April 29th, 2019, (PROSE: The Faction of the Fooling Fish) they were hired by Philatel-426 for an unusually significant operation: locating a bag of mail that had gone missing from the Cupid Post Office. They unsuccessfully interviewed a number of “suspects” — otherwise known as people who happened to be glimpsed at some level of proximity to the Post Office on the day of the crime — with Larrikin notably helping the others break into Marksmanship-522's house to jump him and interrogate him.
At the last minute, however, Acquaintanceship-982 realised the truth and actually solved the mystery: Philatel had himself stolen the mailbag, which contained blueprints meant to be transmitted from the Department of Architecture to the Department of Construction so that the latter could begin work on a new giant warehouse. The construction would have involved the destruction of the Post Office's west wing, which was officially vacant, but which Philatel secretly used to store his stamp collection. To obtain hard evidence of this, Larrikin made his way into Philatel's office and lay in wait, hanging upside down from the ceiling light, until Philatel passed by and he quite literally jumped on him, trapping him in a burlap sack. Philatel admitted to the theft and the Cupids found the missing mailabg, which he'd disguised as a cushion. Rather than turn him in to the Department of Discipline, the Blue Feather blackmailed him into letting them use the selfsame west wing as a new HQ, while convincing the Department of Construction to build their new warehouse on their old site instead.
Just as they were getting settled in, Colonel-028 rushed into their new office with a new mystery to investigate: the theft of a pie from his windowsill. (PROSE: Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery) Having badgered badgered the Cupid Parliament into authorising an official investigation, he set the Blue Feather on the task. Following a trail of pie-crumbs, the Blue Feather found a Rift leading to the Faction of the Fooling Fish's headquarters in the Prime Universe, where they briefly confronted the Faction for the first time. After fleeing back through the Rift, they got the Department of Rifts to close it. After the Rifts reopened and had to be closed a second time after a second Fooling Fish incursion, the Blue Feather were assigned to guarding the location of the Rift, in case it opened again. (PROSE: The Faction of the Fooling Fish)
Some time later, Acquaintanceship excitedly gathered the Blue Feather to tell them about their new mission (locating Investigation-464's misplaced coat). When the Cupid claiming to be Pessimist expressed enthusiasm at the prospect, Acquaintanceship finally realised that it was not Pessimist-242 but a cheap duplicate, and that the real article had gone missing — much to the weariness of Dandy, who had noticed much earlier but failed to convince the others of this fact. With the help of Pessimist's Fog Ship, they realised that he had been taken prisoner by the Drove of the Database-Compiling Dromedaries on the Prime Earth. The Ship took them there, with Larrikin egging it on to go as fast as it could. Although the Ship briefly disappeared and stranded them in the Prime Universe, having been commandeered by Dromedary Head Assistant Researcher Darius, it returned almost immediately, having taken care of Darius with the help of Lord Thymon. The Blue Feather returned to the Homeworld and set forth in search of the missing coat. (PROSE: Pessimist and the Dromedaries)
Dandy and Larrikin were guarding the Rift, and rather bored at the lack of activity, when it briefly open again — allowing through not the prank-loving Fish, but a benign old man who was trying to find his way back to his home universe. The two Cupids were surprised to hear that he'd recently met Tracker-764, a legendary Cupid who hadn't been seen in the Homeworld in years. They agreed to help him, only too happy to have a good excuse to leave their post, and the three departed aboard Pessimist's Fog Ship, intent on taking the old man to the Prime Universe and a selection of Prime-adjacent ones to attempt to narrow down his world of origin. (PROSE: The Mad Cupid of the Euclidean Plane)
Larrikin was one of the Cupids who submitted a question to The Cupid Courier's educational Q&A about the Rifts with Doctor Sigma. However, like most questions in the Q&A, his question was nonsensical; he asked if it would be possible to keep Rifts in jars that Larrikin could then throw at people who annoyed him. (PROSE: Rifts Crisis Officially Over!)
In 2021, the week before April the 1st, he somehow threw “an actual mail-throwing party” inside Philatel-426's Post Office. This set a new high bar for the title of most chaotic behaviour in the Post Office, at least in Philatel's opinion. (PROSE: Multiversal Mischief)
Around Christmas 2021, Conspiracy-1263 found a stolen Fog Ship outside his door. Though he came to believe the Ship was sentient and had come to him of its own accord, the Cupid authorities later came to the conclusion that Larrikin must have been the one to steal it. (PROSE: The Case Against Conspiracy) Larrikin greatly enjoyed playing in the pile of snow brought to the Homeworld by the Faction of the Fooling Fish during the actual Christmas party. (PROSE: The Winter Quests)
