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|first_seen_in= [[PROSE]]: ''[[Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery (short story)|Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery]]'' | |first_seen_in= [[PROSE]]: ''[[Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery (short story)|Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery]]'' | ||
|also_seen_in= [[PROSE]]: ''[[Rifts Crisis Officially Over! (short story)|Rifts Crisis Officially Over!]]'' | |also_seen_in= [[PROSE]]: ''[[Pessimist and the Dromedaries (short story)|Pessimist and the Dromedaries]]''<br>[[PROSE]]: ''[[Rifts Crisis Officially Over! (short story)|Rifts Crisis Officially Over!]]'' | ||
|copyright= [[Lupan Evezan]]<br><small>(concept)</small><br>[[Aristide Twain]]<br><small>(design)</small> | |copyright= [[Lupan Evezan]]<br><small>(concept)</small><br>[[Aristide Twain]]<br><small>(design)</small> | ||
|index= '''''[[:Category:Featuring Pessimist-242|See category]]''''' | |index= '''''[[:Category:Featuring Pessimist-242|See category]]''''' | ||
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=== Personality === | === Personality === | ||
Pessimist was uniformly pessimistic and brooding, not seeming to have positive emotions about anything. Some at the [[Department of Cupid Anatomy]] went so far as to suggest that he had a [[negatronic brain]] instead of a [[positronic brain|positronic]] one. He was prone to making acerbic comments about whatever was going on around him. Despite his lack of personal motivation, he did generally go along with what the rest of the [[Blue Feather]] were up to, albeit while dragging his feet. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery (short story)|Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery]]'') | Pessimist was uniformly pessimistic and brooding, not seeming to have positive emotions about anything. Some at the [[Department of Cupid Anatomy]] went so far as to suggest that he had a [[negatronic brain]] instead of a [[positronic brain|positronic]] one. He was prone to making acerbic comments about whatever was going on around him. Despite his lack of personal motivation, he did generally go along with what the rest of the [[Blue Feather]] were up to, albeit while dragging his feet. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery (short story)|Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery]]'') | ||
=== Powers & abilities === | |||
Pessimist claimed to have “a [[positronic brain]] the side of the [[Cupid Homeworld|Homeworld]]”. | |||
Like other Cupids, he had the ability to interface with and take control of any technology from the [[Prime Earth]] dating back to before the 1960s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Pessimist and the Dromedaries (short story)|Pessimist and the Dromedaries]]'') | |||
== Biography == | == Biography == | ||
=== The Whetstone Park epiphany === | |||
Although a member of the [[Blue Feather]], Pessimist also sometimes got assigned on solo romanticisation missions. His assigned [[Pessimist's Fog Ship|Fog Ship]] was the sole result of an ultimately-scrapped project to create artificially-intelligent ships. It had a tendency to misbehave its pilot and wander off on its own errands at inconvenient times, which led the Cupid authorities to assign it to Pessimist because they reasoned that any Cupid given this Ship would complain, but this made no difference for Pessimist insofar as he would complain anyway. One day, by chance, Pessimist was assigned to romanticise people in a [[Prime Universe]] public square called [[Whetstone Park]], and got unprecedented good numbers. This was, unbeknownst to Cupid authorities, simply because Whetstone Park was decorated with many copper statues, meaning Pessimist, who stood perfectly still when not loosing arrows, could effectively camouflage himself with no active effort. Because of his “inexplicable” success, Pessimist kept being sent back to this specific location whenever he had to go on a romanticisation mission. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Pessimist and the Dromedaries (short story)|Pessimist and the Dromedaries]]'') | |||
=== Early Blue Feather missions === | |||
The Blue Feather were originally housed in a derelict warehouse located on the opposite side of the [[Mainland Cloud]], where Acquaintanceship had to use an upside-down crate as a desk. They weren't given missions of any importance, and indeed, it could be months in-between the missions they did get, disappointing as they were. For example, they once went months without any assignments at all after “the Great Grape Jelly Stain Catastrophe”, their grandiloquent name for the occasion upon which [[Marmalade-624]] spilled grape jelly on his tablecloth and hired the Blue Feather to wash it off. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery (short story)|Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery]]'') | The Blue Feather were originally housed in a derelict warehouse located on the opposite side of the [[Mainland Cloud]], where Acquaintanceship had to use an upside-down crate as a desk. They weren't given missions of any importance, and indeed, it could be months in-between the missions they did get, disappointing as they were. For example, they once went months without any assignments at all after “the Great Grape Jelly Stain Catastrophe”, their grandiloquent name for the occasion upon which [[Marmalade-624]] spilled grape jelly on his tablecloth and hired the Blue Feather to wash it off. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery (short story)|Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery]]'') | ||
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Just as they were getting settled in, [[Colonel-028]] rushed into their new office with a new mystery to investigate: the theft of a pie from his windowsill. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery (short story)|Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery]]'') Having badgered badgered the [[Cupid Parliament]] into authorising an official investigation, he set the Blue Feather on the task. Following a trail of pie-crumbs, the Blue Feather found a [[Rift]] leading to the [[Faction of the Fooling Fish]]'s headquarters in the [[Prime Universe]], where they briefly confronted the Faction for the first time. After fleeing back through the Rift, they got the [[Department of Rifts]] to close it. After the Rifts reopened and had to be closed a second time after a second Fooling Fish incursion, the Blue Feather were assigned to guarding the location of the Rift, in case it opened again. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Faction of the Fooling Fish (short story)|The Faction of the Fooling Fish]]'') | Just as they were getting settled in, [[Colonel-028]] rushed into their new office with a new mystery to investigate: the theft of a pie from his windowsill. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery (short story)|Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery]]'') Having badgered badgered the [[Cupid Parliament]] into authorising an official investigation, he set the Blue Feather on the task. Following a trail of pie-crumbs, the Blue Feather found a [[Rift]] leading to the [[Faction of the Fooling Fish]]'s headquarters in the [[Prime Universe]], where they briefly confronted the Faction for the first time. After fleeing back through the Rift, they got the [[Department of Rifts]] to close it. After the Rifts reopened and had to be closed a second time after a second Fooling Fish incursion, the Blue Feather were assigned to guarding the location of the Rift, in case it opened again. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Faction of the Fooling Fish (short story)|The Faction of the Fooling Fish]]'') | ||
=== Kidnapped by the Dromedaries === | |||
[[File:Pessimist-242 and Green Gorilla in Pessimist and the Dromedaries.png|thumb|left|Pessimist and a [[Green Gorilla (Pessimist and the Dromedaries)|Green Gorilla]] in [[Research Laboratory 6]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Pessimist and the Dromedaries (short story)|Pessimist and the Dromedaries]]'')]]On a romanticisation mission to Whetstone Park, Pessimist was kidnapped by [[Lila]] in a [[burlap sack]] on behalf of the [[Drove of the Database-Compiling Dromedaries]], a [[Strangely-Colored Secret Society]] who devoted themselves to compiling information about other Societies. Brought back to [[Research Laboratory 6]], a listless Pessimist was subjected to many questions and scans from ambitious [[Head Assistant Researcher]] [[Darius]]. When he realised that Pessimist's absence would be noticed, Darius had a captive [[Clockmaking Capybara (Pessimist and the Dromedaries)|Clockmaking Capybara]] create a cheap duplicate of Pessimist, known thereafter as the [[Pseudo-Pessimist]], and sent it back to the [[Cupid Homeworld]]. | |||
Meanwhile, the captive Pessimist was nagged by the [[Green Gorilla (Pessimist and the Dromedaries)|Green Gorilla]] in the cell next to his into orchestrating a mass escape of all the Secret Society mutants in Research Laboratory 6. Primarily, this involved using his ability, as a robotic [[Clockwork Cherub]], to easily hack the electric locks of the cell doors. However, after he freed all the prisoners, they turned to him once again to figure out how to get past the guards and Darius once they climb up from the “dungeon” to the ground floor of the building. At his direction, they lured the guards down, overwhelmed them with diverse, coordinated attacks based on each mutated animal's abilities, and trapped them, one by one, in some of the now-empty cells. | |||
They then used the [[Camouflaged Chameleon (Pessimist and the Dromedaries)|Camouflaged Chameleon]]'s ability to mimic voices to summon Darius himself to Research Laboratory 6. The animals ambushed Darius and held him in place while Pessimist used his last [[Cupid Arrow]] on him, romanticising him. Just as the escapees were about to make it out of the building, the [[Blue Feather]] arrived to rescue Pessimist, having recognised Pseudo-Pessimist as an impostor and been brought to his true location by his Fog Ship, whose positronic brain was linked with Pessimist's. Pessimist refused to give them the satisfaction of instantly jumping into the Ship, and, as a result, briefly pretended not to hear them. Darius took this opportunity to steal the Ship, but he had not counted on it having a mind of its own; when he asked to be taken to the Cupid Homeworld, the Ship dropped him in the lap of [[Lord Thymon]], who banished him into [[the Void|the Void Between Worlds]] while the Ship returned to pick up Pessimist and the Blue Feather. The team, perennially joined by “Pseudo-Pessimist”, then set forth in search of [[Investigation-464]]'s favourite coat, which the Cupid had misplaced. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Pessimist and the Dromedaries (short story)|Pessimist and the Dromedaries]]'') | |||
Pessimist was also the owner of a “dodgy” television set on which other members of the [[Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids]] sometimes watched episodes of ''[[The Rainbow Adventures]]''. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Rifts Crisis Officially Over! (short story)|Rifts Crisis Officially Over!]]'') | Pessimist was also the owner of a “dodgy” television set on which other members of the [[Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids]] sometimes watched episodes of ''[[The Rainbow Adventures]]''. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Rifts Crisis Officially Over! (short story)|Rifts Crisis Officially Over!]]'') | ||
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[[Category:Members of the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids]] | [[Category:Members of the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids]] | ||
[[Category:Members of the Blue Feather]] | [[Category:Members of the Blue Feather]] | ||
[[Category:Dimensional Travellers]] | |||
