Arganthone-056

Arganthone-056
Character Information
Species	Clockwork Cherub
Gender	Non-Binary (they/them)
Residence	The Cupid Homeworld
Behind the Scenes
First seen in	PROSE: The Time of the Toymaker (mentioned)
Copyright	Aristide Twain

Arganthone-056 was a Mark 1 Clockwork Cherub, one of the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids's expert fighters. They joined in Juliet-178 in December 2020 on a dimension-spanning quest to rescue Madame Tarsa, during which they also encountered Jenny Everywhere.

Description

Physical appearance

As a Clockwork Cherub, Arganthone was winged, humanoid robot with a round, sketchy face and short. Their copper-plated skin was a brilliant golden. They were a green laurel wreath on their head and were somewhat taller than Pythagoras-858 and Juliet-178. Their was a glowing blue ‘core’ in the middle of their chest. (PROSE: The Time of the Toymaker)

Personality

Arganthone was loyal and bold, but not as recklessly adventurous as Juliet-178. (PROSE: The Time of the Toymaker)

Biography

The Christmas crisis

After Pythagoras-858 found Madame Tarsa magically frozen in her Worshop in December 2020, he dispatched Juliet-178 and Arganthone-056 to the Workshop while he went off in the Multiverse to try and find the culprit(s). They were soon attacked by some of Tarsa's sentient marionettes, who believed them to be responsible, but Arganthone quickly defeated them, tying them up in their own strings. After they determined that Tarsa's sentient marionettes didn't know anything of value, Juliet got the idea to try and match the unnatural ice with unnatural heat, and dragged Arganthone to New Wellsia to try and get a Wellsian Heat Ray.

The two were shot down, and as they retreated it back to their Fog Ship, it was damaged by the Wellsians' artillery. Tumbling across the dimensions, it crashed in 1895 London in the Prime Universe. Luckily, this was witnessed by Jenny Everywhere, who joined the two Cupids, using her shifting abilities to take them back to the Workshop where she thought Tarsa might have left some kind of failsage to reanimate her in an emergency. There, Arganthone tried to interrogate the Mechanical Fortune Teller to little effect before following Juliet and Jenny into Madame Tarsa's Toybox. There, they found their way to Wild West Town, where the Frog Mayor advised the three visitors to look for the “oldest toy in the Toybox”, who resided in the Christmas Toyland area of the magical toybox. (PROSE: The Time of the Toymaker)

Behind the scenes

Origins

Arganthone-056 is a recurring character in the The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids series who predated The Time of the Toymaker, although it was their first turn as a major supporting character in a long-form story.