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}}'''Pythagoras-858''' was a robotic detective whom [[Jenny Everywhere#Adventures with the Cupid|Jenny Everywhere]] teamed up with to solve the [[Rifts]] crisis. He was a member of an organization called the [[Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids]] and was a traveller through the [[multiverse]] in his own right, by means of his [[Fog Ship]]. He was the [[Prefect]] of the same [[Cupid Intelligence Institute|C.I.I.]] Department to which his best friend, [[Juliet-178]], belonged. | }}'''Pythagoras-858''' was a robotic detective whom [[Jenny Everywhere#Adventures with the Cupid|Jenny Everywhere]] teamed up with to solve the [[Rifts]] crisis. He was a member of an organization called the [[Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids]] and was a traveller through the [[multiverse]] in his own right, by means of his [[Fog Ship]]. He was the [[Prefect]] of the same [[Cupid Intelligence Institute|C.I.I.]] Department to which his best friend, [[Juliet-178]], belonged. | ||
==Description== | ==Description== | ||
===Physical appearance=== | === Physical appearance === | ||
As a Clockwork Cherub, Pythagoras was a small golden, winged, humanoid robot with a round, sketchy face and short, wiry hair. He usually wore a beige trench-coat and a brown hat with a green ribbon, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Jenny Everywhere Meets The Crew Of The Copper-Colored Cupids (comic story)|Jenny Everywhere Meets The Crew Of The Copper-Colored Cupids]]'') once described as a “ worn, brownish, formless hat that might have been a 1930s fedora, a few environmental disasters ago”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Winter Quests (novel)|The Winter Quests]]'') | As a Clockwork Cherub, Pythagoras was a small golden, winged, humanoid robot with a round, sketchy face and short, wiry hair. He usually wore a beige trench-coat and a brown hat with a green ribbon, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Jenny Everywhere Meets The Crew Of The Copper-Colored Cupids (comic story)|Jenny Everywhere Meets The Crew Of The Copper-Colored Cupids]]'') once described as a “ worn, brownish, formless hat that might have been a 1930s fedora, a few environmental disasters ago”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Winter Quests (novel)|The Winter Quests]]'') | ||
===Personality=== | |||
=== Personality === | |||
Pythagoras-858 was a highly driven individual, always remaining focused on whatever his current mission was, to the exclusion of his own interest. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Jenny Everywhere Meets The Crew Of The Copper-Colored Cupids (comic story)|Jenny Everywhere Meets The Crew Of The Copper-Colored Cupids]]'') He once claimed that “everything he did” was always “pragmatic”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Grand Multiverse Hotel (short story)|The Grand Multiverse Hotel]]'') He could be brusque, or even downright unpleasant, to people he suspected of deceit, though he was kind and respectful to those he trusted. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Jenny Everywhere Meets The Crew Of The Copper-Colored Cupids (comic story)|Jenny Everywhere Meets The Crew Of The Copper-Colored Cupids]]'') | Pythagoras-858 was a highly driven individual, always remaining focused on whatever his current mission was, to the exclusion of his own interest. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Jenny Everywhere Meets The Crew Of The Copper-Colored Cupids (comic story)|Jenny Everywhere Meets The Crew Of The Copper-Colored Cupids]]'') He once claimed that “everything he did” was always “pragmatic”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Grand Multiverse Hotel (short story)|The Grand Multiverse Hotel]]'') He could be brusque, or even downright unpleasant, to people he suspected of deceit, though he was kind and respectful to those he trusted. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Jenny Everywhere Meets The Crew Of The Copper-Colored Cupids (comic story)|Jenny Everywhere Meets The Crew Of The Copper-Colored Cupids]]'') | ||
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He was bad at charades. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Winter Quests (novel)|The Winter Quests]]'') | He was bad at charades. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Winter Quests (novel)|The Winter Quests]]'') | ||
=== Powers & abilities === | |||
Like the other members of the [[Department of Problem-Solving]], Pythe had modified his [[live crystal]] so as to resonate in the presence of the other Problem-Solvers', allowing them to sense one another's presence at all times. | |||
Pythe cultivated particular skill at naturalistic body language, beyond what came naturally to [[Clockwork Cherub]], including sighs and literally “warm” handshakes (having found “how to reroute his central heating system into his right palm” for the purpose). | |||
==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
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Pythe claimed to have been instrumental to the Crew's binding of the [[Embodiment|Embodiment of Time]], [[Lord Thymon]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Grand Multiverse Hotel (short story)|The Grand Multiverse Hotel]]'') At some point, Pythe met and befriended the [[Prime Universe]]'s [[Sherlock Holmes#In the Prime Universe|Sherlock Holmes]] at a point in the detective's life when he was already retired. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time of the Toymaker (novel)|The Time of the Toymaker]]'') | Pythe claimed to have been instrumental to the Crew's binding of the [[Embodiment|Embodiment of Time]], [[Lord Thymon]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Grand Multiverse Hotel (short story)|The Grand Multiverse Hotel]]'') At some point, Pythe met and befriended the [[Prime Universe]]'s [[Sherlock Holmes#In the Prime Universe|Sherlock Holmes]] at a point in the detective's life when he was already retired. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time of the Toymaker (novel)|The Time of the Toymaker]]'') | ||
“Two decades” prior to the 2019 meeting between Pythagoras and [[Lord Thymon]], Pythe presented the [[Cupid Parliament]] with a pair of [[forbidium]] manacles with “the masterful insight that in desperate cases, when no love potion would avail, handcuffs such as these still had a pretty good shot at getting two people together and keeping them that way”. The common sense thereby exhibited drove the Parliament to make Pythe the [[Prefect]] of a newly-formed [[Department of Problem-Solving]]. The Department would go on to become the Crew's secret weapon, oftentimes being the ones to solve various issues that should have been the purview of other Departments of the [[Cupid Intelligence Institute]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lord Thymon and the Department of Problem-Solving (short story)|Lord Thymon and the Department of Problem-Solving]]'') | |||
===The Lord Thymon affair=== | |||
[[File:Pythagoras-858 in Lord Thymon and the Department of Problem-Solving.png|thumb|left|Pythe sits in his office, pondering how to deal with [[Lord Thymon]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lord Thymon and the Department of Problem-Solving (short story)|Lord Thymon and the Department of Problem-Solvig]]'')]]In 2019, the [[Department of Impossible Things]] shuffled off the assignment of dealing with [[Lord Thymon]] to the [[Department of Problem-Solving]]. Pythe left his Problem-Solvers — including [[Carter-1277]], [[Edwin-750]], [[Juliet-178]] and [[Valerius-1497]] — to develop solutions. When he returned to [[Lab 5]], they had filled it with clocks, with the intent to summon Thymon, only for him to be frozen due to the short supply of time energy that would result. Deeming the idea mad enough to have some chances of working on a conceptual entity like Thymon, Pythe allowed them to go forwards, threatening to detonate a [[Reality Bomb]] to lure Thymon to the [[Cupid Homeworld]]. After he was indeed summoned, Juliet ended up taking it upon herself to simply hit him with a [[Cupid Arrow]], [[Love Potion|romanticising]] him. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lord Thymon and the Department of Problem-Solving (short story)|Lord Thymon and the Department of Problem-Solvig]]'') | |||
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===Meeting Jenny Everywhere=== | ===Meeting Jenny Everywhere=== | ||
[[File: Pythagoras-858.png|thumb| | [[File: Pythagoras-858.png|thumb|right|Pythagoras as he was when he met [[Jenny Everywhere#Adventures with the Cupids|Jenny]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Jenny Everywhere Meets The Crew Of The Copper-Colored Cupids (comic story)|Jenny Everywhere Meets The Crew Of The Copper-Colored Cupids]]'')]]Some time into his quest to find and defeat Mandragora, Pythagoras became cut off from the [[Cupid Homeworld]] due to the [[Rift]]s. However, as he had “been told” that there was not much someone like him could do about the crisis, he simply continued to seek Mandragora. While he was flying his [[Fog Ship]] through the [[Void]], a [[Jenny Everywhere#Adventures with the Cupids|version of Jenny Everywhere]] who had been looking for a way to stop the Rifts [[shifting|shifted]] into the back seat of his Ship. In the ensuing confusion, they crash-landed the Ship on [[Universe (Jenny Everywhere Meets The Crew Of The Copper-Colored Cupids)|a desert planet]] and talked things out. While initially mistrustful of Jenny, Pythe as convinced of her good intentions; after she shared what she knew about the Rifts, he decided to investigate the location of the hideout of the [[Consistency Imperium]], and let her come along in his Ship — being that she had lost faith in her abilities as a Shifter so long as the crisis continued. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Jenny Everywhere Meets The Crew Of The Copper-Colored Cupids (comic story)|Jenny Everywhere Meets The Crew Of The Copper-Colored Cupids]]'') | ||
===Travels with Jenny=== | ===Travels with Jenny=== | ||
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On April Fools' Day 2021, Pythe was called by [[Jenny Everywhere#Adventures with the Cupids|Jenny Everywhere]] after she'd encountered a member of the [[Faction of the Fooling Fish]] who'd been posing as her. Pythe flew his [[Fog Ship]] to the Fish's [[tachyonic sailing ship]] and talked the Fish's hired bodyguard, [[Lainya Vantrik]], into letting him see the Faction's higher-ups. They greeted him jovially as an old friend, and he was able to make them apologise for having gone overboard with some of their pranks this year in their rush to make the most of their newly-acquired interdimensional capabilities. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Multiversal Mischief (short story)|Multiversal Mischief]]'') | On April Fools' Day 2021, Pythe was called by [[Jenny Everywhere#Adventures with the Cupids|Jenny Everywhere]] after she'd encountered a member of the [[Faction of the Fooling Fish]] who'd been posing as her. Pythe flew his [[Fog Ship]] to the Fish's [[tachyonic sailing ship]] and talked the Fish's hired bodyguard, [[Lainya Vantrik]], into letting him see the Faction's higher-ups. They greeted him jovially as an old friend, and he was able to make them apologise for having gone overboard with some of their pranks this year in their rush to make the most of their newly-acquired interdimensional capabilities. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Multiversal Mischief (short story)|Multiversal Mischief]]'') | ||
=== December 2021 quest === | |||
[[File:Pythagoras-858 in The Winter Quests.png|thumb|Pythagoras in the [[World Below]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Winter Quests (novel)|The Winter Quests]]'')]]In December 2021, the [[Supreme Quaestor]] called Pythe to his office in the [[C.I.I. Headquarters]] to inform him that he was to meet the goddess [[Sigyn]] in [[Finland]] in the [[Prime Universe]] to discuss her granting ownership of something she was auctioning off (the venom of the [[Wyrm of Loki]]) to the [[Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids|Crew]] rather than one of its enemies. Pythe, anticipating that Sigyn might set the onto a mythical quest to prove their worth, took [[Juliet-178]] with him, although he refused, at first, to fully explain the nature of the assignment. After traipsing through the snowy woods for some time, they found a [[Rune Stone]], which Pythe figured out how to use to summon the goddess. She set them the task of slaying “a certain [[Wyrm]]” in the [[World Below]] before disappearing in a flash of light. | [[File:Pythagoras-858 in The Winter Quests.png|thumb|left|Pythagoras in the [[World Below]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Winter Quests (novel)|The Winter Quests]]'')]]In December 2021, the [[Supreme Quaestor]] called Pythe to his office in the [[C.I.I. Headquarters]] to inform him that he was to meet the goddess [[Sigyn]] in [[Finland]] in the [[Prime Universe]] to discuss her granting ownership of something she was auctioning off (the venom of the [[Wyrm of Loki]]) to the [[Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids|Crew]] rather than one of its enemies. Pythe, anticipating that Sigyn might set the onto a mythical quest to prove their worth, took [[Juliet-178]] with him, although he refused, at first, to fully explain the nature of the assignment. After traipsing through the snowy woods for some time, they found a [[Rune Stone]], which Pythe figured out how to use to summon the goddess. She set them the task of slaying “a certain [[Wyrm]]” in the [[World Below]] before disappearing in a flash of light. | ||
To find their way to the rest of the Quest, they elected to lose themselves further until they found themselves in [[the Forest]]. There, they found a small waterfall, and figured out that there must be a cavern hidden behind it. There was, but, much to their dismay, it was not the entrance to the World Below; it was actually the burrow of a carnivorous [[Scandinavian Troll]], [[Tero Trollgarsson]]. Panicking, Juliet activated her stolen [[Dematerialisation Engine]], transporting herself and Pythe to the [[Interdimensional Tavern]] — but also the Troll himself. There, Juliet greeted [[Tpxszum]] as an old friend, before the three of them were invited to have a drink by an old man whom Juliet quickly recognised as [[Odin#In the Prime Universe|Odin]]. Though Juliet briefly seemed to have offended Odin, he clarified that he was in jest, before speaking a [[prophecy]] to them and advising them to keep the Troll with them throughout the rest of the adventure. He then departed, leaving them at the Tavern. | To find their way to the rest of the Quest, they elected to lose themselves further until they found themselves in [[the Forest]]. There, they found a small waterfall, and figured out that there must be a cavern hidden behind it. There was, but, much to their dismay, it was not the entrance to the World Below; it was actually the burrow of a carnivorous [[Scandinavian Troll]], [[Tero Trollgarsson]]. Panicking, Juliet activated her stolen [[Dematerialisation Engine]], transporting herself and Pythe to the [[Interdimensional Tavern]] — but also the Troll himself. There, Juliet greeted [[Tpxszum]] as an old friend, before the three of them were invited to have a drink by an old man whom Juliet quickly recognised as [[Odin#In the Prime Universe|Odin]]. Though Juliet briefly seemed to have offended Odin, he clarified that he was in jest, before speaking a [[prophecy]] to them and advising them to keep the Troll with them throughout the rest of the adventure. He then departed, leaving them at the Tavern. | ||