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=== Personality === | === Personality === | ||
Madame Tarsa was a very active individual, usually seen “milling about in an endless whirlwind of magic, colours, and shapeshifting”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time of the Toymaker (novel)|The Time of the Toymaker]]'') | Madame Tarsa was a very active individual, usually seen “milling about in an endless whirlwind of magic, colours, and shapeshifting”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time of the Toymaker (novel)|The Time of the Toymaker]]'') She loved games, and, though she ruthlessly played to win, was a graceful loser if her opponents managed to get the better of her. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Toymaker's Labyrinth (short story)|The Toymaker's Labyrinth]]'') | ||
=== Powers and abilities === | === Powers and abilities === | ||
Tarsa was a creative and skillful toymaker. Most of her creations, though inventive works of craftsmanship in their own right, were also enchanted to one extent or another, with many even being sentient; she possessed the [[Power of Creation]]. She was also capable of shape- and size-shifting, and of teleporting at will across dimensions using [[Madame Tarsa's cane|her magical cane]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time of the Toymaker (novel)|The Time of the Toymaker]]'') | Tarsa was a creative and skillful toymaker. Most of her creations, though inventive works of craftsmanship in their own right, were also enchanted to one extent or another, with many even being sentient; she possessed the [[Power of Creation]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time of the Toymaker (novel)|The Time of the Toymaker]]'') | ||
She was also capable of shape- and size-shifting, and of teleporting at will across dimensions ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time of the Toymaker (novel)|The Time of the Toymaker]]'', ''[[The Toymaker's Labyrinth (short story)|The Toymaker's Labyrinth]]'') using [[Madame Tarsa's cane|her magical cane]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time of the Toymaker (novel)|The Time of the Toymaker]]'') She could even create duplicates of herself, all animated by the same consciousness, to multitask better. She could be wounded, but was capable of regenerating maimed body parts within a few minutes. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Toymaker's Labyrinth (short story)|The Toymaker's Labyrinth]]'') | |||
== Biography == | == Biography == | ||
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Madame Tarsa owned a stall on the [[Interdimensional Black Market]], [[Madame Tarsa's Marvelous Dolls and Automatons]]. Because Tarsa herself was too busy, it was instead manned entirely by her creations, including a [[Marionette (Misadventures in the Interdimensional Black Market)|marionette wearing a jester's outfit]] who acted as the vendor and a [[mechanical pig]] who collected the money from the sales. [[Darius]] and [[Tracker-764]] encountered this stall when they visited the Black Market on their way to the [[Cupid Homeworld]], with Darius reluctantly buying a [[ventriloquist's dummy (Misadventures in the Interdimensional Black Market)|cursed ventriloquist's dummy]] with the capacity to steal people's voices from them, which was then traded to the [[ship-parts seller (Misadventures in the Interdimensional Black Market)|ship-parts seller]] for [[CS-NA]] and a [[210K Twin-Carbonoid Dualtech Engine|new engine]] for [[Tracker-764's Void Ship]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Misadventures in the Interdimensional Black Market (short story)|Misadventures in the Interdimensional Black Market]]'') | Madame Tarsa owned a stall on the [[Interdimensional Black Market]], [[Madame Tarsa's Marvelous Dolls and Automatons]]. Because Tarsa herself was too busy, it was instead manned entirely by her creations, including a [[Marionette (Misadventures in the Interdimensional Black Market)|marionette wearing a jester's outfit]] who acted as the vendor and a [[mechanical pig]] who collected the money from the sales. [[Darius]] and [[Tracker-764]] encountered this stall when they visited the Black Market on their way to the [[Cupid Homeworld]], with Darius reluctantly buying a [[ventriloquist's dummy (Misadventures in the Interdimensional Black Market)|cursed ventriloquist's dummy]] with the capacity to steal people's voices from them, which was then traded to the [[ship-parts seller (Misadventures in the Interdimensional Black Market)|ship-parts seller]] for [[CS-NA]] and a [[210K Twin-Carbonoid Dualtech Engine|new engine]] for [[Tracker-764's Void Ship]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Misadventures in the Interdimensional Black Market (short story)|Misadventures in the Interdimensional Black Market]]'') | ||
The [[Clockwork Cherub]]s first encountered Madame Tarsa in earnest by accident when [[Pessimist's Fog Ship]] transported [[Pessimist-242]] and [[Larrikin-1029]] to a random dimension which turned out to be the [[Workshop of Madame Tarsa]]. After | [[File:Madame Tarsa in her Labyrinth.png|thumb|left|300px|Tarsa in her Labyrinth. ]]The [[Clockwork Cherub]]s first encountered Madame Tarsa in earnest by accident when [[Pessimist's Fog Ship]] transported [[Pessimist-242]] and [[Larrikin-1029]] to a random dimension which turned out to be the [[Workshop of Madame Tarsa]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Toymaker's Labyrinth (short story)|The Toymaker's Labyrinth]]'') They climbed onto her work-table where they first exchanged a few words with the [[Marionette (The Toymaker's Labyrinth)|marionette]] Tarsa was working on before Tarsa herself made her presence known. Shrinking down to scale, she tried to analyse the Cupids, fascinated with their mechanisms and intent on creating a line of [[The Toy Cupid|Toy Cupids]]. Larrikin tried to fight back, damaging the marionette in the process and driving an irate Tarsa to toss the Cupids, as well as the Fog Ship, which she stripped of its [[dimensional warp drive]] and shrunk even further, into [[Madame Tarsa's Toybox|her Toybox]]. She then set about creating a prototype Toy Cupid and distilling [[Love Potion]]. | ||
After a while, she switched on the [[Mechanical Fortune Teller]] and called on its abilities to check on the Cupids' progress. She was displeased to hear that they had made it out of [[Wild West Town]] and sent the [[Clay Thing]], one of her more dangerous creations, to fight them. They defeated it with the Fog Ship's help, much to Tarsa's dismay, and finally made their way to the [[Doom Room]], the final hall before the official exit of the labyrinth within the Toybox. After they defeated the giant chess pieces and the [[Mechanical Skeleton]], Tarsa decided to make herself the third and final trial, challenging the Cupids and Fog Ship to a swordfight. The Fog Ship managed to shoot out one of her eyes, however, and the trio made their escape through the exit in the time it took for Tarsa to regrow her eye and catch up to them. There, they destroyed her research on duplicating Cupid technology. Accepting her defeat, Tarsa restored the Fog Ship and sent them on their way. Before leaving, Larrikin suggested that she create [[Thymon Plushy|plushies]] based on [[Lord Thymon]] as a replacement for the Cupid-based toy line. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Toymaker's Labyrinth (short story)|The Toymaker's Labyrinth]]'') | |||
=== After the Rifts Crisis === | === After the Rifts Crisis === | ||
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=== Frozen === | === Frozen === | ||
[[File:Time_of_the_Toymaker.png|thumb| | [[File:Time_of_the_Toymaker.png|thumb|right|Madame Tarsa is frozen inside a magical cube of ice. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time of the Toymaker (novel)|The Time of the Toymaker]]'')]]After [[Pythagoras-858]] placed an order with Tarsa on behalf of the [[Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids]] for enough Christmas presents to satisfy the whole [[Cupid Homeworld]], he travelled to [[Workshop of Madame Tarsa|her Workshop]] only to discover her frozen in place inside a huge cube of ice. It eventually transpired that she had been magically frozen by [[Sebastian Steer]] in order for him to steal the [[The Clown Emperor|puppet clown]] she was working on, hoping to study it and learn her techniques. [[Juliet-178]], [[Arganthone-056]] and [[Jenny Everywhere#Adventures with the Cupids|Jenny Everywhere]] travelled the [[Multiverse]] looking for a way to bring Tarsa back to life, eventually finding the toy mallet she'd hidden for the purpose inside the [[Star Atop the Tree]] in the [[Christmas Toyland]] of her [[Madame Tarsa's Toybox|Toybox]]. After they succeeded in freeing Tarsa, she was confronted with the Clown, whose animation Steer had clumsily completed; he wished to treat her as his mother, not just his creator, and she accepted him as such, with him helping her catch up on the time lost while she was frozen when it came to fulfilling the many orders of toys she'd received for Christmas. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time of the Toymaker (novel)|The Time of the Toymaker]]'') | ||
=== A family Christmas === | === A family Christmas === | ||
In December 2021, she was showing [[Joybuzzer]] the ropes of how to prepare [[Christmas]] orders when [[CS-NA]] teleported into the [[Workshop of Madame Tarsa|Workshop]], on his quest to learn more about Christmas. She allowed him to hang around as a silent observer. Shortly after, her and her son's work was once again interrupted, this time by [[the Frost King#Member of the Council|the Frost King]] (by then functionally family to them, with Joybuzzer referring to him as “Uncle Frost”). The King suggested that they go out and look for a Christmas tree as a family; though displeased by the King barging into the Workshop uninvited using his magic, she eventually gave in, and the three of them, plus CS-NA, transported themselves to [[Universe A (The Winter Quests)|another universe]] where they found a suitable tree. After chopping it down and preparing it for transport, the three got into a playful magic-aided snowball fight, which Tarsa and Joybuzzer won. They then returned to the Workshop to decorate the tree using ornaments crafted by Joybuzzer. These experiences taught CS-NA about the importance of family spirit to a successful Christmas party. He subsequently invited Tarsa and her family to the party he organised in the Homeworld, where, after handing out presents, the three snuck off to have a friendly sparring match with the [[Mechanical Sphinx]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Winter Quests (novel)|The Winter Quests]]'') | In December 2021, she was showing [[Joybuzzer]] the ropes of how to prepare [[Christmas]] orders when [[CS-NA]] teleported into the [[Workshop of Madame Tarsa|Workshop]], on his quest to learn more about Christmas. She allowed him to hang around as a silent observer. Shortly after, her and her son's work was once again interrupted, this time by [[the Frost King#Member of the Council|the Frost King]] (by then functionally family to them, with Joybuzzer referring to him as “Uncle Frost”). The King suggested that they go out and look for a Christmas tree as a family; though displeased by the King barging into the Workshop uninvited using his magic, she eventually gave in, and the three of them, plus CS-NA, transported themselves to [[Universe A (The Winter Quests)|another universe]] where they found a suitable tree. After chopping it down and preparing it for transport, the three got into a playful magic-aided snowball fight, which Tarsa and Joybuzzer won. They then returned to the Workshop to decorate the tree using ornaments crafted by Joybuzzer. These experiences taught CS-NA about the importance of family spirit to a successful Christmas party. He subsequently invited Tarsa and her family to the party he organised in the Homeworld, where, after handing out presents, the three snuck off to have a friendly sparring match with the [[Mechanical Sphinx]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Winter Quests (novel)|The Winter Quests]]'') | ||
== External links == | == External links == | ||
* '''[https://thecrewofthecoppercoloredcupids.wordpress.com/madame-tarsa/ Character profile on the official ''Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids'' website]''' | * '''[https://thecrewofthecoppercoloredcupids.wordpress.com/madame-tarsa/ Character profile on the official ''Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids'' website]''' | ||
[[Category:Individuals]] | [[Category:Individuals]] | ||
[[Category:Females]] | [[Category:Females]] | ||
