Copper-Colored Council of Elders
The Copper-Colored Council of Elders, also known as the Copper-Colored Council of the Elders, (PROSE: The Ghosts and the Machine) the Cupid Council of Elders or simply the Cupid Council, was a council which formed part of the leadership of the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids. It was made up of the ten oldest Mark I Clockwork Cherubs, including the Cupid Prime himself and Cupid-002.
Nature
Together, the Council oversaw the activities of the Cupid Parliaments, notably collecting suggestions to be put to vote. (PROSE: The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids, The Cupid Suggestion Box)
History
At some point prior to Pessimist-242 and Larrikin-1029's adventure in the Workshop of Madame Tarsa, (PROSE: The Cupid Suggestion Box) the Copper-Colored Council of Elders put up a Cupid Suggestion Box. A small stack of blank cards was left next to it, with members of the Crew being incited to pick them up and write short suggestions that could then be discussed in Parliament.
Among other things, (PROSE: The Cupid Suggestion Box) Pessimist's Fog Ship put in a request with the Parliament for them to officially grant vacation time to the increasing number of non-Clockwork Cherub members of the Crew, such as the sentient Fog Ship itself. (PROSE: The Toymaker's Labyrinth, The Cupid Suggestion Box) When reviewing the suggestions, the Council agreed to put it to a vote in the Parliament.
They also got a threatening note from a nonexistent Cupid who signed Wicked-6666 (which they uneasily wrote off as a prank), as well as a number of highly frivolous requests, with Foreman-964's insistence on sending them messages asking them to take his side in his feud with Philatel-426 ultimately causing them to put guards around the Suggestion Box to prevent him or the equally spamming-prone Acquaintanceship-982 from accessing it. On what would ultimately become the Suggestion Box's last day in operation, Larrikin-1029 also accidentally broke one of the windows of the Cupid Parliament building, leaving an apologetic note in the Suggestion Box. After a few more inane suggestions, the Elders agreed to stop operating the Suggestion Box altogether after Cupid-002 put it in as the final Suggestion. (PROSE: The Cupid Suggestion Box)
After the Homeworld's Psychic Receptors picked up a mysterious call for help from the Morningstar 1 base, the matter was debated at length in Parliament until the Council decided to do what they usually did, namely throw the Department of Problem-Solving at the problem. (PROSE: The Resurrection of the Wellsians)
On the day of the faceless magician incident, the Parliament had been engaged for nine days in a protracted debate about whose responsibility it was to replace the ink in the typewriter of Stenographer-123. Just as it was about to descend into sheer fisticuffs despite the Elders' frantic pounding on tables, the argument finally ended when the destruction of the typewriter in question by the magic rabbits rendered it moot, with #004 being the first one to notice the mysterious intruders. For the first time ever, one of Acquaintanceship-982's suggestions was listened to as his motion that they all run for it was officially sustained by #004. Soon enough, the Cupids found that the entire Homeworld was overrun with the creatures, and, out of ideas, they headed to the Euclidean Plane, where the Council of Elders petitioned the Geometron Pentagon for asylum. Three days later, after solving the issue, the Department of Problem-Solving called everyone back to the Homeworld using a Psychic Broadcasting Cone. (PROSE: Magic Trick)
On Halloween 2019, when he was barred from preventing Frankenstein-818 by dangerously altering the Spirit Realm Gateway, a dejected Technophile-963 “grudgingly trudged away to warn someone from the Copper-Colored Council of the Elders that they might have a bit of a situation on their hands very soon”. Indeed, minutes later, the Gateway collapsed into a dimensional rift which forced the Cupid Prime to use the Emergency Transport Button to transport all the Cupids to the safety of the Interdimensional Tavern, although Cupid #006, of the Council, was indignant at the merest suggestion of abandoning the Homeworld permanently. (PROSE: The Ghosts and the Machine)
