Lord Thymon
Lord Thymon was originally the Embodiment of Time in the Void Between Worlds.
Description
Physical appearance
Lord Thymon's most striking characteristic was his single, great eye, “gleaming like a cold star from a sunken socket that was more of an abyss into eternity”. The rest of his body was made up of blue tentacles, giving him the air of a floating jellyfish. He also had a single visible organ, a pulsing, purple heart. His voice was like “a thousand shrieking bells”.
However, Thymon was also prone to wearing silly hats, somewhat lessening the scariness of his appearance. He was already wearing a tall hat similar to a band leader when he was first summoned to the Cupid Homeworld. (PROSE: Lord Thymon and the Department of Problem-Solving)
Personality
Lord Thymon was originally an imperious and irritable guardian of the Void. He considered intrusions into it offensive to his person, and also looked unkindly on Reality Bombs. (PROSE: Lord Thymon and the Department of Problem-Solving)
After he was romanticised, however, a mellowed Lord Thymon displayed a surprisingly benign personality compared to his status and appearance, although he was, by the same token, naively oblivious to the way his appearance and abilities impacted those around him. He collected hats, and wore one on his head at all times. He was inexplicably fond of Thymon Plushies, small stuffed replicas of him created by Madame Tarsa. (PROSE: The Time of the Toymaker)
Powers & abilities
Lord Thymon had the ability to detect alterations to the fabric of the Multiverse, being born of the Void itself. He could travel between realities at will, and had the ability to breathe fire. On one occasion, he disintegrated a Reality Bomb by turning it into a shower of confetti which, on closer examination, each resembled a clock face. However, Thymon's powers were dependent on time energy of some sort existing around him, and he was powerless in situations where time had been frozen by forces other than himself. (PROSE: Lord Thymon and the Department of Problem-Solving)
Thymon once displayed the ability to project images of things he had seen on flat surfaces, with his eye acting as a projector. On the same occasion, he also claimed that he could have “shown [the Blue Feather] exactly what evil lies in the hearts of Cupids”, though the Blue Feather operatives left rather than witness what this would have entailed. (PROSE: Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery)
Thymon had the ability to banish beings into the Void by muttering an eldritch chant, causing his eye to glow. (PROSE: Pessimist and the Dromedaries)
Biography
Origins
Thymon was the brother of Lady Spatium, the Embodiment of Space, and Squire Psykha, the Embodiment of Thought. (PROSE: The Grand Multiverse Hotel) He claimed to have had a mother, who called him “Thymey”. (PROSE: Lord Thymon and the Department of Problem-Solving)
During his impromptu lecture on the nature of the Multiverse, Doctor Sigma regretted not finding the time to mention Thymon. (COMIC: The Beginner's Guide to Multiversal Theory)
Summoned to the Cupid Homeworld
The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids learned of Thymon's existence because he started breathing fire at Cupids traversing the Void, due to objecting to their constant back-and-forth dimension-hopping. The Cupids decided to try and do something to subdue or destroy the entity; when the Department of Impossible Things did not feel up to the task, it was transferred to Pythagoras-858's Department of Problem-Solving. After pondering the problem for some time, they lured Thymon to Lab 5 by threatening to detonate a Reality Bomb. They had previously filled the room with clocks, creating a temporal leeching effect that starved Thymon of time energy, binding him in place. Thymon attempted to intimidate the Cupids despite being on the metpahorical back foot, but Juliet-178, with remarkable audacity, shot a Cupid Arrow at his heart, successfully romanticising him and making him undyingly loyal to the Crew. (PROSE: Lord Thymon and the Department of Problem-Solving) The matter was one of the last news from the Cupid Homeworld to reach Morningstar 1 before communications broke down entirely; Mandragora-257 took an interest in Pythe as a “fellow occultist”, later commending him for his working “helping to bind the demon Thymon”. (PROSE: The Resurrection of the Wellsians)
Joining the Department of Postal Services
Although they had initially planned to send the pacified Thymon back to the Void, (PROSE: Lord Thymon and the Department of Problem-Solving) his newfound love for the Cupids was so great that he deserted his responsibilities and moved to the Cupid Homeworld permanently. (PROSE: The Grand Multiverse Hotel) The Cupids put him to work at the Cupid Post Office. Although this initially bemused him, (COMIC: Whatever Happened to Lord Thymon?) he greatly improved the Post Office's efficiency, (PROSE: Marksmanship-522 and the Multi-Dimensional Race) and settled gracefully into his new job at the Department of Postal Services, using his many tentacles to become a more efficient “assistant mail-sorter” than any Clockwork Cherub could hope to be. (PROSE: The Grand Multiverse Hotel)
On April 29th, 2019, Thymon was still a new addition to the Cupid Homeworld, and largely mistrusted. The Blue Feather interviewed him when investigating the theft of a mailbag, finding him in the delivery wing, where he was picking up bags of mail. After convincing them that he was innocent, chiding them for accusing him simply because he was a demon, Thymon informed them that he had seen Marksmanship-522 at the Post Office earlier the same day. He did not yet know Marksmanship's name at the time, instead showing them an image of the Cupid he'd seen which the Blue Feather recognised as Marksmanship. Although Marksmanship was not the culprit either, the testimony they gathered from him after tracking him down did help them in ultimately cracking the mystery. (PROSE: Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery)
Later developments
While still acclimating to his new life in the Cupid Homeworld, Thymon gave a free seminar at the Department of Motivational Speaking, entitled How to Earn a Steady Living by Crushing Universes Beneath Your Proverbial Feet and Casting their Residents Into the Void of Swirling Oblivion. The event was announced in advanced in Issue 1020 of The Cupid Courier. (PROSE: New Warehouse To Be Constructed In The Homeworld)
Thymon had just finished sorting all the mail currently in his care in neat piles and creates, bringing him great satisfaction, when Pessimist's Fog Ship, which had been commandeered by Head Assistant Researcher Darius of the Drove of the Database-Compiling Dromedaries, crashed into the room. As he bounded out of the Ship, Darius knocked over all of Thymon's neatly-arranged piles and creates. Much as the sentient Fog Ship had anticipated when picking this particular location to land, an irate Thymon used his powers to banish Darius out of the Cupid Homeworld and into the Void. (PROSE: Pessimist and the Dromedaries)
At some later point, Pessimist's Fog Ship got his assent, as well as CS-NA's, to make a request to the Copper-Colored Council of Elders via the Cupid Suggestion Box on behalf of “all” the non-Cupid members of the Crew, asking for them to get every other week off work. The Elders agreed to put it to vote before the Parliament, given the low-stakes nature of the request. Thymon himself also placed his own suggestion in the Suggestion Box, proposing to invite some friends of his, fellow eldritch abominations, to the Homeworld. The request was vigorously denied. Also around the same time, Conspiracy-1263 acquired a belief that the entire idea of the Multiverse as a hoax, which entailed the idea that Thymon was really an animatronic fake created to sell the story; he wrote about this in yet another note left in the Suggestion Box around that time. (PROSE: The Cupid Suggestion Box)
“Several months” later, when Cupids Pessimist-242 and Larrikin-1029 met Madame Tarsa and ruined her plans to market Toy Cupids, Larrikin attempted to make up for the bad turn they'd dealt her by suggesting a different new product: plush effigies of Thymon. Pessimist was characteristically pessimistic about the line's chances of being a commercial success, (PROSE: The Toymaker's Labyrinth) but they turned out to be a hit, with an unknown party within the Cupid Homeworld somehow ordering large numbers of them and getting them conveyed to the Homeworld without the Department of Postal Services' involvement. The mystery got an article in Issue 1034 of The Cupid Courier, where Philatel-426 speculated that Thymon himself was the one purchasing and summoning them. Thymon, however, could not be reached for comment by the Cupid journalists, as he was working on his own stamp collection, and there was an alternative theory, with Dandy-432 speculating that Larrikin was the one ordering them to ensure that his suggestion became a success, having made it a point of pride. Larrikin could not be reached for comment either because he ran from the journalists when they approached him, refusing to “confess” to anything.
Elsewhere in the same issue of the Courier, Thymon was quoted approving of the recent Cupid Parliament ruling that non-Cupid inhabitants of the Homeworld would start officially getting monthly days off, stating that he would be able to use them to visit his sister Lady Spatium, whom he had been unable to contact since coming to live in the Homeworld because the Department of Postal Services did not handle deliveries beyond the Homeworld. (PROSE: Conspiracy-1263 Publicly Accuses the Gang of the Green Gorillas)
Thymon was diligently working in the Cupid Post Office when the magic rabbits summoned by the Hat started to make themselves known. Given his standards of reference for cuteness and normality, he found the creatures utterly ghastly and ran out of the building in terror. Subsequently, he used his powers to hold off the tidal wave of rabbits long enough for the Department of Problem-Solving and himself to take refuge in a warehouse. They stayed there for three days as the Cupids tried to think of a solution, with Thymon himself keeping himself entertained by playing with a Thymon Plushy. Eventually, the Cupids summoned Aphrodite (who did not care for Thymon, thinking of him as the sort of entity whom Zeus would have cast into Tartarus in the old days, but did not voice this discomfort explicitly or otherwise pick a fight). After Aphrodite foolishly opened the doors, causing a wave of rabbits to pour in, Thymon used his powers to reverse time by a few seconds to undo this foolish act. Now realising the gravity of the situation, Aphrodite was able to use her powers to make the rabbits and the Hat vanish. (PROSE: Magic Trick)
When Lord Thymon fell asleep somewhere and dreamt, he tended to wake up to smoking ruins overrun with terrors plucked frm his subconscious as he slumbered, which was inconvenient. He once stayed at the Interdimensional Hotel and noted that he could sleep there with no harmful effects on his surroundings. (PROSE: Rifts Crisis Officially Over!)
Meeting Jenny Everywhere
At some point prior to December 2020, Lord Thymon had accumulated so many of Madame Tarsa's Thymon Plushies in one of his magical closets that the Cupid Parliament had to declare a state of emergency after someone foolhardily opened said closet, causing a tidal wave of plushies to spill out. Nevertheless, Thymon hoped to receive some more Thymon Plushies for Christmas, as he had a project of using each one as a support for one of the many, many hats in his collection, allegedly to ensure that the hats would not be lonely even when he wasn't wearing them. He was telling Philatel-426 about this when Jenny Everywhere walked into the Post Office with Juliet-178 and Arganthone-056, not wanting to miss her chance to personally meet one of the Embodiments as long as she was in the Homeworld (where Juliet and Arganthone had brought her to look for information on Tarsa in the Cupid Archives). The two spoke briefly and seemed to get along. (PROSE: The Time of the Toymaker) Subsequently, Jenny and Thymon began texting regularly. (COMIC: A Shift in Relationships)
April 1st, 2021
Back in the Homeworld, Thymon was asked by Rosen-035 on April the 1st, 2021 to send some letters out into the Multiverse as quickly as possible. Seeing how concerned Rosen was, Thymon used some of his supernatural abilities to teleport them instantly to their destinations, something he only did rarely (despite how easily it came to him) so as not to make the mail-carrier Cupids redundant. The letters were warnings about the Faction of the Fooling Fish. (PROSE: Multiversal Mischief)
December 2021
At the Christmas party organised in December 2021 in the Cupid Homeworld by CS-NA, Thymon met Jenny Everywhere for the second time, with Jenny giving him a present. The two got into a conversation about the theoretical ins and outs of shifting which Thymon found very interesting. (PROSE: The Winter Quests)
Romance with Jenny
Eventually, Thymon's long-distance friendship with Jenny Everywhere blossomed into an unexpected romance. One day, Jenny materialised in the Cupid Homeworld, surprising Pythagoras-858, and revealed to him that she was here to meet with Thymon. (COMIC: A Shift in Relationships)
Behind the scenes
Origins
Lord Thymon is one of the main protagonists of the The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids series, which has had many crossovers with elements of the Jenny Everywhere ‘mythos’.
