Mandragora-257
Mandragora-257 was a body-hopping, villainous alchemist with multiversal capabilities.
Description
Physical appearance
Mandragora-257's various bodies were marked out by his eerie, golden eyes. Beyond this shared traits, both of his known bodies displayed a lightly-colored, scraggly beard and dressed in overwhelmingly purplish-to-burgundy colours. At least one of his human form had an unhealthy, sickly skin tone and a frozen, disconcerting, toothy grin. (COMIC: Jenny Everywhere Meets The Crew Of The Copper-Colored Cupids)
Biography
Originally an android belonging to the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids, he became a criminal and cheated death, hopping from one body to another, as he was chased through the Multiverse by another member of his kind, Pythagoras-858. (COMIC: Jenny Everywhere Meets The Crew Of The Copper-Colored Cupids) According to Pythagoras, he “got killed, (…) and then reembodied himself several times over, (…) although never properly.” (PROSE: The Grand Multiverse Hotel)
When Pythagoras met Jenny Everywhere, he briefly wondered if she might be a new incarnation of Mandragora, but relented when she showed him that her eyes did not have the characteristic golden glow shared by all of Mandragora's sleeves. (COMIC: Jenny Everywhere Meets The Crew Of The Copper-Colored Cupids) One of the not-quite-human visitors to the Interdimensional Hotel whom Wendy Severn noticed as she got out of the shuttle which had taken her to Hilbert's did, on the other hand, have “eerie, glowing yellow eyes”, although she did not pay him any mind at the time. (PROSE: The Grand Multiverse Hotel)
It was ultimately discovered that Mandragora, in a new body, had been acting as the advisor of the Consistency Imperium, deceiving them to get them to unwittingly accelerate the spread of the Rifts threatening the fabric of reality, being central to the Rifts Crisis. He had built a "Machine" meant to spark the ultimate detonation of all realities, in some insane effort to ascend to godhood. However, his plan was uncovered in the nick of time, and the backfiring of his scheme was believed to have brought about his final death. (PROSE: Rifts Crisis Officially Over!) Shortly before this, Sebastian Steer, an unrelated Dark Lord, had attempted and failed to highjack Mandragora's scheme for his own ends. (PROSE: The Time of the Toymaker)
Behind the scenes
Origins
Mandragora-257 is one of the major recurring antagonists of the The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids series, of which Jenny Everywhere Meets The Crew Of The Copper-Colored Cupids was an installment as well as being a Jenny Everywhere story. His prior history with Pythagoras-858 was detailed in preexisting prose stories, The Resurrection of the Wellsians and The Dark Cabaret.
Notes & References
- ↑ First appearance in directly Jenny-related media; actual debut was in 2019's The Resurrection of the Wellsians.
