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Madame Tarsa, also known as the Toymaker, was a powerful, immortal interdimensional toymaker. She resided in a pocket dimension of her own. Tarsa was once married to one incarnation of Jenny Everywhere.
Description
Physical appearances
Madame Tarsa appeared as a woman with pink skin and short, curly, purple hair. She usually wore a kind of jester's outfit, with a red, green and orange jester's hat and a colourful outfit akin to a toy soldier's. She could change her size at wil, but her default one in her Workshop was gigantic compared to the default human size Pythagoras-858 was used to. (PROSE: The Time of the Toymaker)
Personality
Madame Tarsa was a very active individual, usually seen “milling about in an endless whirlwind of magic, colours, and shapeshifting”. (PROSE: The Time of the Toymaker)
Powers and abilities
Tarsa was a creative and skillful toymaker. Most of her creations, though inventive works of craftsmanship in their own right, were also enchanted to one extent or another, with many even being sentient; she possessed the Power of Creation. She was also capable of shape- and size-shifting, and of teleporting at will across dimensions using her magical cane. (PROSE: The Time of the Toymaker)
Biography
Creating the Toybox
One of the first living toys Tarsa created was a teddy bear who later took on the name Millicent, and whom she treated as a daughter. After building a magical Toybox to house her increasing number of living toy creations, Tarsa positioned Millicent there, giving her a number of books containing some of her secrets, so that she could help lead the Toybox's denizens in an emergency. (PROSE: The Time of the Toymaker)
Marriage to Jenny
“Millions of years” before her encounters with the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids, Tarsa was married to an incarnation of Jenny Everywhere. It was a very happy union, and only came to an end with the death of this particular incarnation of Jenny; although Tarsa remained friends with all other incarnations of Jenny she met, the spark of the couple had been lost, with Tarsa considering that her wife had died, all the same, even if others carried her memories. (PROSE: The Time of the Toymaker)
Early contacts with the Cupids
The Clockwork Cherubs first learned of Madame Tarsa's existence by accident when Pessimist's Fog Ship transported Pessimist-242 and Larrikin-1029 to a random dimension which turned out to be the Workshop of Madame Tarsa. After various adventures, the two ended up participating in a sword-fight against Tarsa. (PROSE: The Time of the Toymaker) By the time of the end of the Rifts Crisis, the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids were familiar with Tarsa, but they were ambivalent towards her because she kept sending them Lord Thymon plushies. However, she proved instrumental to putting an end to the Rifts Crisis. (PROSE: Rifts Crisis Officially Over!)
Frozen
After Pythagoras-858 placed an order with Tarsa on behalf of the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids for enough Christmas presents to satisfy the whole Cupid Homeworld, he travelled to her Workshop only to discover her frozen in place inside a huge cube of ice. It eventually transpired that she had been magically frozen by Sebastian Steer in order for him to steal the puppet clown she was working on, hoping to study it and learn her techniques. Juliet-178, Arganthone-056 and Jenny Everywhere travelled the Multiverse looking for a way to bring Tarsa back to life, eventually finding the toy mallet she'd hidden for the purpose inside the Star Atop the Tree in the Christmas Toyland of her Toybox. After they succeeded in freeing Tarsa, she was confronted with the Clown, whose animation Steer had clumsily completed; he wished to treat her as his mother, not just his creator, and she accepted him as such, with him helping her catch up on the time lost while she was frozen when it came to fulfilling the many orders of toys she'd received for Christmas. (PROSE: The Time of the Toymaker)
Behind the scenes
Notes & references
- ↑ First appearance in directly Jenny-related media; actual debut was in 2019's The Toymaker's Labyrinth.