198
edits
Madame Tarsa: Difference between revisions
From Jenny Everywhere Wiki
no edit summary
No edit summary Tag: visualeditor-wikitext |
No edit summary Tag: visualeditor-wikitext |
||
| Line 31: | Line 31: | ||
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]]'') | 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]]'') | 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]]'') She was unharmed by a [[Wellsian]] [[Heat Ray]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Frost King's Treasure (novel)|The Frost King's Treasure]]'') and when a [[ghost]] tried to [[Possession|possess]] her, it simply dissolved upon making contact with her skin. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ghosts and the Machine (short story)|The Ghosts and the Machine]]'') | ||
She once demonstrated the ability to create a dimensional portal with a wave of her hands, even without her cane, though she did not know where it led. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Frost King's Treasure (novel)|The Frost King's Treasure]]'') | |||
== Biography == | == Biography == | ||
| Line 56: | Line 58: | ||
In the end, after being banished back to the [[Spirit Realm]] by the [[One-Way Forced Spirit Realm Gateway]], the spirits tried to return through the Reverse Gateway, only for a setting Frankenstein had programmed in subconsciously to turn them all into clockwork toy versions of ghosts. Tarsa greedily scooped them up, intent on adding a few improvements to them and then using her as the year's line of Halloween products in place of the wooden pumpkin which she didn't think she'd finish in time after this diversion. She also used an experimental top hat and wand she was developing alongside her Conjuring Gloves to separate the Queen from the Great Ghost, sending the latter to parts unknown. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ghosts and the Machine (short story)|The Ghosts and the Machine]]'') | In the end, after being banished back to the [[Spirit Realm]] by the [[One-Way Forced Spirit Realm Gateway]], the spirits tried to return through the Reverse Gateway, only for a setting Frankenstein had programmed in subconsciously to turn them all into clockwork toy versions of ghosts. Tarsa greedily scooped them up, intent on adding a few improvements to them and then using her as the year's line of Halloween products in place of the wooden pumpkin which she didn't think she'd finish in time after this diversion. She also used an experimental top hat and wand she was developing alongside her Conjuring Gloves to separate the Queen from the Great Ghost, sending the latter to parts unknown. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ghosts and the Machine (short story)|The Ghosts and the Machine]]'') | ||
[[File:Madame Tarsa in The Frost King's Treasure.png|thumb|right|275px|Tarsa decides to participate in the quest for [[the Frost King (The Frost King's Realm)|the Frost King]]'s treasure. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Frost King's Treasure (novel)|The Frost King's Treasure]]'')]]In December 2019, Tarsa consulted her [[Mechanical Fortune Teller]], who informed her that she would soon receive an invitation to participate in a quest for [[the Frost King (The Frost King's Realm)|the Frost King]]'s treasure. Though the Fortune Teller was unable to tell her whether she'd succeed in her quest, she decided to go along with it, and teleported to the dimensional coordinates embedded in the invitation. Near the peak of the mountain, she met up with other treasure-seekers who'd received similar invitations, including [[Dandy-432]] and [[Pessimist-242]] of the [[Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids]] as well as a contingent of the [[Collective of the Retconning Crocodiles]]. The Wellsians took her by surprise and managed to take [[Madame Tarsa's cane|her cane]] from her, preventing her from teleporting, but she answered by materialising a sword in each of her hands, and a brawl soon ensued, during which Tarsa incurred and survived a blast from a [[Heat Ray]], but the Crocodiles' [[The Metafictional Macaw|Metafictional Macaw]] pecking her “several times”. | |||
Eventually, the bickering treasure-seekers all made their way to the basin at the top of the mountain, where they discovered that the invitations had been sent by [[Darius]], formerly of the [[Drove of the Database-Compiling Dromedaries]], who'd been stranded here with a pocket-sized dimensional transporter, and had decided to put it to use to lure everyone he had a grudge on to his location so that he could get his revenge on them. His quarrel with Tarsa was, of course, his encounter with her voice-stealing [[ventriloquist's dummy (Misadventures in the Interdimensional Black Market)|ventriloquist's dummy]] at the [[Interdimensional Black Market]]. However, in his unhinged state, Darius had not accounted for his foes' superior numbers and his lack of weaponry, being easily overpowered by the group. After they tied him up, Tarsa “conjued a dimensional portal with a wave of her hand” and tossed him through. The day had a happy ending, however, as Dandy coincidentally discovered that the Frost King's treasure really did exist. Pessimist, in a rare show of altruism, delivered a moving speech which convinced them to refrain from fighting again, and to simply share the massive treasure. Tarsa picked “a small figure of an unknown animal, which could move through complex internal mechanisms”, planning to recreate it and use it as a template for what would hopefully become “next year’s most popular toy across the Multiverse”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Frost King's Treasure (novel)|The Frost King's Treasure]]'') | |||
=== After the Rifts Crisis === | === After the Rifts Crisis === | ||
