Paintbrush-122
Paintbrush-122 was a Mark II Clockwork Cherub of the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids.
He was among the Cupids assigned to Morningstar 1. Governor-105 employed his talents as an artist to get him to paint endless portraits of the Governor in glorious, warmongering circumstances. Paintbrush was in the middle of painting yet another such portrait when the Department of Problem-Solving visited the Governor's throne room for the second and final time. To the Problem-Solvers' shock, after dismissing Paintbrush, the Governor took one disdainful glance at the painting and, deeming it unsatisfactory, destroyed it without a second thought.
After Governor was killed and the base was destroyed, the guards and rebels forgot their differences and worked together on unlocking the three Fog Ships in the base to get back to the Cupid Homeworld. (PROSE: The Resurrection of the Wellsians) There, with the Department of Art having been in seclusion for decades, he was reassigned to the Department of Entertainment and asked to work on The Rainbow Adventures, providing designs and leading an animation team based on a story outline by Sketchbook-430 featuring the evil robots known as the SavageMen.
Due to a miscommunication within the Department, however, while Paintbrush's team developed their own rendition of this episode as The Death? Planned It!, Sketchbook's own team obliviously developed the concept themselves and completed their own version as The Moonbeams.The mistake was noticed before release, and a line was hastily dubbed into The Moonbeams about the Rainbow Kids having encountered the antagonists, the SavageMen, before.
When the two episodes premiered back-to-back at the Cupid Theatre, however, Sketchbook and Paintbrush were considerably more startled and dismayed to realise that their respective designs for the SavageMen were almost identical despite their lack of communication, above and beyond what the script specified. After breaking out into a fistfight, they were brought before Judicator-337 by Larrikin-1029 (who had caught them in a burlap sack), but no real clarity ensued as to who if anyone had ripped of whom; instead, a Rift opened in Judicator's office and allowed a group of visiting real-world SavageMen through.
The SavageMen asserted that they were the only rightful owners of their own copyright, and insisted on being credited as such in all subsequent episodes of The Rainbow Adventures featuring their fictionalised counterparts. Fearing that they could similarly encounter any new monsters they “created”, both Paintbrush and Sketchbook declared that they'd give up monster-design altogether from now on, and devote themselves to still lives of potted petunias. (PROSE: Plagiarism of the SavageMen)
