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|aka= Tarsa<br>The Toymaker<br>The Interdimensional Toymaker | |aka= Tarsa<br>The Toymaker<br>The Interdimensional Toymaker<br>The Magnificent Madame Tarsa | ||
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|index= '''''[[:Category:Featuring Madame Tarsa|See category]]''''' | |index= '''''[[:Category:Featuring Madame Tarsa|See category]]''''' | ||
}}'''Madame Tarsa''', also known as '''the Toymaker''', '''the Interdimensional Toymaker''', or simply '''Tarsa''', was a powerful, immortal interdimensional toymaker. She resided in a [[Workshop of Madame Tarsa|pocket dimension]] of her own. Tarsa was once married to [[Jenny Everywhere#Tarsa's wife|one incarnation]] of [[Jenny Everywhere]]. | }}'''Madame Tarsa''', also known as '''the Toymaker''', '''the Interdimensional Toymaker''', '''the Magnificent Madame Tarsa''', or simply '''Tarsa''', was a powerful, immortal interdimensional toymaker. She resided in a [[Workshop of Madame Tarsa|pocket dimension]] of her own. Tarsa was once married to [[Jenny Everywhere#Tarsa's wife|one incarnation]] of [[Jenny Everywhere]]. | ||
== Description == | == Description == | ||
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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]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time of the Toymaker (novel)|The Time of the Toymaker]]'') | 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]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time of the Toymaker (novel)|The Time of the Toymaker]]'') | ||
She was also capable of shape- and size-shifting, and of teleporting at will across dimensions ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time of the Toymaker (novel)|The Time of the Toymaker]]'', ''[[The Toymaker's Labyrinth (short story)|The Toymaker's Labyrinth]]'') using [[Madame Tarsa's cane|her magical cane]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time of the Toymaker (novel)|The Time of the Toymaker]]'') She could even create duplicates of herself, all animated by the same consciousness, to multitask better. She could be wounded, but was capable of regenerating maimed body parts within a few minutes. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Toymaker's Labyrinth (short story)|The Toymaker's Labyrinth]]'') | She was also capable of shape- and size-shifting, and of teleporting at will across dimensions ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time of the Toymaker (novel)|The Time of the Toymaker]]'', ''[[The Toymaker's Labyrinth (short story)|The Toymaker's Labyrinth]]'') using [[Madame Tarsa's cane|her magical cane]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time of the Toymaker (novel)|The Time of the Toymaker]]'') She could even create duplicates of herself, all animated by the same consciousness, to multitask better. She could be wounded, but was capable of regenerating maimed body parts within a few minutes. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Toymaker's Labyrinth (short story)|The Toymaker's Labyrinth]]'') When a [[ghost]] tried to [[Possession|possess]] her, it simply dissolved upon making contact with her skin. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ghosts and the Machine (short story)|The Ghosts and the Machine]]'') | ||
== Biography == | == Biography == | ||
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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. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Conspiracy-1263 Publicly Accuses the Gang of the Green Gorillas (short story)|Conspiracy-1263 Publicly Accuses the Gang of the Green Gorillas]]'') | 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. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Conspiracy-1263 Publicly Accuses the Gang of the Green Gorillas (short story)|Conspiracy-1263 Publicly Accuses the Gang of the Green Gorillas]]'') | ||
=== Further interactions with the Cupids === | |||
On [[Halloween]] 2019, Tarsa was working late on one of her projects, a wooden pumpkin which wouldn't spoil, and could reset itself at will after being carved, so that it could be reused the year after, when [[the Great Ghost's legion]] arrived in her [[Workshop of Madame Tarsa]] aboard a stolen [[Fog Ship]]. She tossed them into [[Madame Tarsa's Toybox|her Toybox]], only for them to bust out having possessed all her marionettes. They escaped to the [[Prime Universe]], but Tarsa followed them, intent on getting them back. At their chosen headquarters, an abandoned theatre, she found a detachment of [[Copper-Colored Cupid]]s who helped foil the spirits' plan to summon more of themselves using the [[Reverse Spirit Realm Gateway]] they'd forced [[Frankenstein-818]] to build while Tarsa, after transforming the embodied ghosts into various harmless objects using her experimental [[Conjuring Gloves for the Magically Inept]], challenged the Great Ghost (in the body of the [[Queen of the Black Market]]) to a swordfight. | |||
In the end, after being banished back to the [[Spirit Realm]] by the [[One-Way Forced Spirit Realm Gateway]], the spirits tried to return through the Reverse Gateway, only for a setting Frankenstein had programmed in subconsciously to turn them all into clockwork toy versions of ghosts. Tarsa greedily scooped them up, intent on adding a few improvements to them and then using her as the year's line of Halloween products in place of the wooden pumpkin which she didn't think she'd finish in time after this diversion. She also used an experimental top hat and wand she was developing alongside her Conjuring Gloves to separate the Queen from the Great Ghost, sending the latter to parts unknown. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ghosts and the Machine (short story)|The Ghosts and the Machine]]'') | |||
=== After the Rifts Crisis === | === After the Rifts Crisis === | ||