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== Description == | == Description == | ||
=== Personality === | === Personality === | ||
Marksmanship was known for relative candour, as evidenced by his straightforward choice of a name. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Marksmanship-522 and the Multi-Dimensional Race (short story)|Marksmanship-522 and the Multi-Dimensional Race]]'') He enjoyed his rest in-between stressful missions, and collected stamps to calm himself, a hobby he shared with [[Philatel-426]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery (short story)|Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery]]'') | Marksmanship was known for relative candour, as evidenced by his straightforward choice of a name. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Marksmanship-522 and the Multi-Dimensional Race (short story)|Marksmanship-522 and the Multi-Dimensional Race]]'') He was extremely efficient whenever he had a plan to work with, and competent at devising such plans himself, but tended to emotionally go to pieces if he was thrown into a chaotic situation without a workable plan, albeit only to pull through anyway. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Peace and Quiet (short story)|Peace and Quiet]]'') He enjoyed his rest in-between stressful missions, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery (short story)|Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery]]'', ''[[Peace and Quiet (short story)|Peace and Quiet]]'') being fond of lighting lavender-scented candles by his bed as he slept, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Peace and Quiet (short story)|Peace and Quiet]]'') and collected stamps to calm himself, a hobby he shared with [[Philatel-426]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery (short story)|Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery]]'') | ||
=== Powers & abilities === | === Powers & abilities === | ||
Marksmanship was considered one of the best bowmen in the [[Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Marksmanship-522 and the Multi-Dimensional Race (short story)|Marksmanship-522 and the Multi-Dimensional Race]]'') | Marksmanship was considered one of the best bowmen in the [[Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Marksmanship-522 and the Multi-Dimensional Race (short story)|Marksmanship-522 and the Multi-Dimensional Race]]'') He was also a talented strategist. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Peace and Quiet (short story)|Peace and Quiet]]'') | ||
== Biography == | == Biography == | ||
=== Early adventures === | === Early adventures === | ||
Marksmanship-522 participated in a number of noteworthy [[Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids|Cupid]] endeavours. He notably “led the team that romanticised the [[Zyargaff Beast]] in [[Dimension 42µ]]” and fired the first shot in the [[Second Great Spaghetti War]] | Marksmanship-522 participated in a number of noteworthy [[Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids|Cupid]] endeavours. He notably “led the team that romanticised the [[Zyargaff Beast]] in [[Dimension 42µ]]” and fired the first shot in the [[Second Great Spaghetti War]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Marksmanship-522 and the Multi-Dimensional Race (short story)|Marksmanship-522 and the Multi-Dimensional Race]]'') during which he “managed to sneak the entire royal family of the Zorkal Realm out of enemy territory disguised as a simple orange salesman and his pack of enormous oranges”. Other exploits of his, all of which involved careful planning ahead of time, included having “led the charge on the [[Fortress of Scallions]]” and “effortlessly beaten back the entire [[Rebellion of the Rogue Rhinoceroses]]”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Peace and Quiet (short story)|Peace and Quiet]]'') | ||
=== Involvement in the Cross-Dimensional Grand Prix === | === Involvement in the Cross-Dimensional Grand Prix === | ||
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As one of the senior operatives of the [[Scarlet Wings]], Marksmanship had the right to attend [[Cupid Parliament]] sections. He was present for the ninth day of debate about [[Stenographer-123]]'s typewriter, on the day of the [[faceless magician (Magic Trick)|faceless magician]] incident. When the argument started to devolve into a fistfight, he tried to wrestle [[Foreman-964]] off of [[Taskmaster-523]], but was unable to do much, although the fight was soon broken up by the onslaught of magic rabbits. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Magic Trick (novel)|Magic Trick]]'') | As one of the senior operatives of the [[Scarlet Wings]], Marksmanship had the right to attend [[Cupid Parliament]] sections. He was present for the ninth day of debate about [[Stenographer-123]]'s typewriter, on the day of the [[faceless magician (Magic Trick)|faceless magician]] incident. When the argument started to devolve into a fistfight, he tried to wrestle [[Foreman-964]] off of [[Taskmaster-523]], but was unable to do much, although the fight was soon broken up by the onslaught of magic rabbits. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Magic Trick (novel)|Magic Trick]]'') | ||
=== Foiling the Salamandyrs === | |||
Marksmanship was once assigned to romanticise a “mid-sized” [[Sea serpent (Peace and Quiet)|sea serpent]]. He planned to do so while the creature was asleep, descending alongside several other person-sized submarines, but the serpent woke up earlier than he had anticipated and began attacking one of the submarines, forcing Marksmanship to abandon his original plan and shoot an arrow at the serpent through a small crack on the hull of his own failing submarine. | |||
[[File:Marksmanship-522 in Peace and Quiet.png|thumb|left|Marksmanship-522 berates [[Foreman-964]] for disturbing his well-earned rest. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Peace and Quiet (short story)|Peace and Quiet]]'')]]Returning home exhausted but victorious, Marksmanship tried to get some rest, but was prevented from doing so by [[Larrikin-1029]]'s shenanigans, with the [[Mark XI]] being engaged in crashing [[Fog Ship]] after Fog Ship next to Marksmanship's house as he practiced his characteristically chaotic piloting skills. Having no more luck trying to sleep in an abandoned warehouse (which turned out to be scheduled for remodeling by [[Foreman-964]]'s [[Department of Construction]]) or in the [[Department of Postal Services' building]] (where [[Lord Thymon]] found him unmoving in a mailbag and thought he had stumbled onto a murder), he decided to try his luck outside the Homeworld altogether and took [[Marksmanship-522's second Fog Ship|his Fog Ship]] to the [[Interdimensional Tavern]]. | |||
There, he ran into [[Darius]], and, realising it wouldn't be safe to leave his Ship unattended, was about to leave again when he was abducted via [[tractor beam]] by the [[Order of the Automata's Void Ship]]. The [[Order of the Automata|Automata]] explained that their dimension of [[Automatia]] was once again under attack from their enemies the [[Salamandyr]]s, and that they believed Marksmanship was their fated saviour as the reincarnation of their legendary founder, [[the Ancient One]]. When he proved uncooperative, the [[Captain (Peace and Quiet)|Captain]] elected to have him trapped in a synthetic [[burlap sack]] and then teleported onto the [[Salamandyr Emperor's Void Ship]] whether he liked it or not. | |||
There, Marksmanship panicked at his lack of a plan and absurdly decided to revert to his original intentions, taking out his pillow and lavender-scented candle and preparing to have a nap right there and then. This proved fortunate, as the Salamandyrs turned out to have a genetic allergy to lavender, which caused them to turn into tiny, ordinary salamanders. As the Emperor's Ship teleported back to [[Salamandyria]], Marksmanship was ejected back down to the surface of Automatia and quickly threatened the rest of the [[Salamandyr War Fleet]] into fleeing too, running from Ship to Ship brandishing his candle. | |||
As the Automata hailed him as a hero, Marksmanship tried once again to convince them that he was not the Ancient One, and was finally proven right as the real Ancient One made his glorious return, apologising for his resurrection having been slightly behind schedule due to “traffic in [[the Underworld]] [being] terrible”. While the Ancient One caught up with the Automata, minor robot [[21-419]] was tasked with flying Marksmanship back to the Tavern, where he recovered his Fog Ship. Returning to the Homeworld, he found that Larrikin's din had abated, and he settled down in his own bed at last. He was startled by one of the shrunken Salamandyrs, who had stowed away in his Fog Ship seeking revenge, but easily chucked it out of the window, whereupon it fell on Foreman, scaring him rather badly due to his long-standing irrational fear of amphibians and causing him to take the rest of the day off, thus guaranteeing Marksmanship a full afternoon of peace and quiet. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Peace and Quiet (short story)|Peace and Quiet]]'') | |||
=== During the Rifts Crisis === | === During the Rifts Crisis === | ||
