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 === 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 sack]]s (of which he always carried one on his person). He also knew how to pick locks. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery (short story)|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 (short story)|The Mad Cupid of the Euclidean Plane]]'')
+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 sack]]s (of which he always carried one on his person). He also knew how to pick locks, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery (short story)|Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery]]'') and claimed to be a “chess connoisseur”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Toymaker's Labyrinth (short story)|The Toymaker's Labyrinth]]'')
+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 (short story)|The Mad Cupid of the Euclidean Plane]]'')
 == Biography ==
+=== Early shenanigans ===
+At some point, Larrikin attempted to modify himself to replace his arms with “large mechanical claws”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Toymaker's Labyrinth (short story)|The Toymaker's Labyrinth]]'')
+=== Early Blue Feather missions ===
 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 (short story)|Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery]]'')
 On April 29th, 2019, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Faction of the Fooling Fish (short story)|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.
-[[File:Larrikin-1029 in Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery.png|thumb|left|200px|Larrikin holding up a [[burlap sack]] containing [[Philatel-426]].  ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery (short story)|Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery]]'')]]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.
+[[File:Larrikin-1029 in Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery.png|thumb|left|200px|Larrikin holding up a [[burlap sack]] containing [[Philatel-426]].  ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery (short story)|Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery]]'')]]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. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery (short story)|Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery]]'')
-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 (short story)|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 (short story)|The Faction of the Fooling Fish]]'')
+=== Guarding the Rift ===
+Just as they were getting settled in after the missing mail affair, [[Colonel-028]] rushed into the [[Blue Feather]]'s new office with a new mystery to investigate: the theft of a pie from his windowsill. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery (short story)|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 (short story)|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 [[Pseudo-Pessimist|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 Universe|Prime]] [[Earth]]. The Ship took them there, with Larrikin egging it on to go [[Mega-speed drive|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 (short story)|Pessimist and the Dromedaries]]'')
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 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 (The Mad Cupid of the Euclidean Plane)|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 (short story)|The Mad Cupid of the Euclidean Plane]]'')
+=== In the Toymaker's Labyrinth ===
+Larrikin was once assigned a mission to [[Dimension 8696-2537]] with [[Pessimist-242]] as his partner. Both Cupids found this unacceptable, especially as Larrikin had tried to prank Pessimist just a week earlier by putting a tack on his chair, but they didn't manage to sway [[Taskmaster-523]] and departed in [[Pessimist's Fog Ship]] for the mission. Irritated by the two Cupids' bickering, however, the Fog Ship didn't take them to Dimension 8696-2537 but to random coordinates which turned out to be those of the gigantic [[Workshop of Madame Tarsa]].
+Climbing onto Tarsa's work-table, they were confronted with [[Madame Tarsa|the Toymaker herself]]. Fascinated with the Cupids' looks and technology, she decided to try and create a [[The Toy Cupid|Toy Cupid]] complete with [[Love Potion]] based on samples from the [[Cupid Arrow]] Larrikin had tried loosing at her. When Larrikin tried to stop her and ended up damaging the marionette, an irate Tarsa dropped both Cupids, and their Fog Ship (which she shrank down to size and stripped of its [[dimensional warp drive]]), into [[the Toymaker's Labyrinth|the Labyrinth]] inside her magic toybox.
+After wandering its corridors for some time, the two ended up in [[Wild West Town]], where they were briefly mistaken for new members of the [[Plush Posse]]. Even after the misunderstanding was resolved, the [[Frog Mayor]] was initially reluctant to let them leave, affecting not to know about worlds beyond the Wild West-themed room, but he changed his tune after realising how annoying the combination of Larrikin and Pessimist could be to have around. Informed by the [[Mechanical Fortune Teller]] of the two Cupids' surprising progress, Tarsa sent the [[Clay Thing]] to stop them, but it was destroyed by the Fog Ship. They then reached the [[Doom Room]], where Larrikin defeated the giant chess pieces and Pessimist reluctantly foiled the [[Mechanical Skeleton]].
+Tarsa entered the Toybox herself and goaded them into a swordfight, making herself the third and final trial of the Doom Room. After the Fog Ship helped the Cupids hold her off and reach the exit, Larrikin destroyed Tarsa's notes and prototypes on Clockwork Cherubs and the Love Potion. Admitting defeat, Tarsa allowed the two to return to the [[Cupid Homeworld]], restoring the Fog Ship to its full size and giving back the dimensional warp drive. Feeling bad about ruining her business idea, Larrikin suggested an alternative one: [[Thymon Plushy|Thymon Plushies]]. On the way back, Pessimist informed Larrikin of his skepticism at the idea that such a product could ever be successful. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Toymaker's Labyrinth (short story)|The Toymaker's Labyrinth]]'')
+=== After the Rifts Crisis ===
 Larrikin was one of the Cupids who submitted a question to ''[[The Cupid Courier]]''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> educational Q&A about the [[Rift]]s 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! (short story)|Rifts Crisis Officially Over!]]'')