Foreman-964
Foreman-964 was a Clockwork Cherub and member of the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids, and the chief Head Construction Cupid of its Department of Construction.
Description
Personality
Foreman-964 was abrasive and antisocial. His only passion was in building ever larger and more numerous warehouses, which he considered an end unto itself, quite heedless of the use or lack thereof that the rest of the Crew may have for the finished products. Despite his eagerness to build as much as possible, as quickly as possible, he was committed to doing things “by the book”, refusing to let his team work without blueprints from the Department of Architecture in hand. (PROSE: Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery)
Powers & abilities
Having had his pain receptors removed, Foreman was incapable of feeling pain, which he considered an asset to work quick and well in construction. (PROSE: Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery)
Biography
By April 29th, 2019, Foreman had long been one of the Head Construction Cupids of the Department of Construction. His morning started on the wrong foot when he sprained his wrist falling down the stairs while yelling at a Mark XVII to get off his property. Heading to work, he found that, much to his frustration, work on a new warehouse that was to be the largest one yet was delayed by the blueprints failing to arrive. As was later uncovered, they'd been fraudulently intercepted by Philatel-426 of the Department of Postal Services, who'd caught wind of the fact that Foreman intended to raze the West Wing of the Post Office to make room for the new warehouse.
Foreman contacted Philatel, who told them that he'd put the Blue Feather in charge of investigating where the “missing mailbag” had gone. Foreman immediately had the case transferred to the more efficient Scarlet Wings taskforce, and contacted Blue Feather leader Acquaintanceship-982 using his two-way communicator to tell him he was off the case. Almost immediately afterwards, however, Acquaintanceship figured out the truth. Instead of telling Foreman or the Department of Discipline, however, Acquaintanceship elected to blackmail Philatel into letting the Blue Feather transfer their HQ to the West Wing. In exchange, they presented the Department of Construction with the site of their old HQ, which they found even more suitable for the warehouse project. (PROSE: Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery)
The headline feature of Issue 1020 of The Cupid Courier concerned yet another warehouse that was to be built by the Department, which was projected to include “32 rooms, each the size of a sizable warehouse themselves”. Asked by the Courier to comment, Foreman was also told that Philatel-426 had registered his opposition to the project, still being of the opinion that the Department of Construction were building far too many warehouses. Taking his leave of Journalist-649, Foreman was subsequently seen chasing a frightened Philatel into the distance. (PROSE: New Warehouse To Be Constructed In The Homeworld)
When the Copper-Colored Council of Elders put together a Cupid Suggestion Box, Foreman instantly took the chance to put in a request asking that they authorise farther and more radical construction of warehouses, as he considered the three-or-four-a-week rate to which his Department was currently to “limited” to be insufficient. The Council ignored his request and, indeed, instead granted Philatel's request that Foreman be barred from skulking around the Cupid Post Office, whose West Wing he still hoped to raze, unless it was to pick up his personal mail. Outraged, Foreman put several two notes into the Suggestion Box until the Council decided to ban him from using it, placing some guards to make sure he didn't. Somehow getting past them, he later managed to send one last message, which was the final straw in getting the Council of Elders to withdraw the Suggestion Box altogether. (PROSE: The Cupid Suggestion Box)
Issue #1034 of The Cupid Courier included a classified ad for a recruitment drive for the Department of Construction, authored by Foreman. It specified “No stamp collectors allowed” in retaliation for Philatel's own classified ad in the same issue, which promised shipping discounts to Cupids who donated stamps to Philatel's collection, specifying that the offer did not apply to Foreman. (PROSE: Conspiracy-1263 Publicly Accuses the Gang of the Green Gorillas)
Foreman was one of the Cupids who submitted a question to the Courier's 1236th issue's educational Q&A about the Rifts with Doctor Sigma. However, like most Cupids in the Q&A, he simply used the opportunity to rave about his own personal hang-ups, in this case his ongoing rivalry with Philatel-426; it seemed that, by this point, Foreman was once more coveting the spot of the Cupid Post Office to build a new warehouse. (PROSE: Rifts Crisis Officially Over!) Foreman had a daily habit of rushing into the Post Office, causing as much disarray as possible, nominally to make an official complaint about something-or-other. (PROSE: Multiversal Mischief)
