The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids (video story)
The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids was an animated short released in February 2019 on YouTube, created by Aristide Twain, who also voiced the nameless Clockwork Cherub narrator. It served as the launch of the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids series, being presented as an in-universe infomercial by the Crew.
Contents
Plot
The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids film a commercial intended to explain their mode of operation, using Love Potion on two peculiar living shapes, Mr Rectangle and Ms Bubble, who were previously enemies, but due to the Potion's influence start hugging instead. When the Cupids attempt to get some sort of glowing testimonial out of the pair, however, they are unable to answer verbally, simply continuing to hug and coo. The Cupids filming the commercial angrily realise they overdosed the Potion, and hurriedly switch to the title card advertising the Crew's services openly.
Worldbuilding
- The fine print on the “title card” claims that “blasphemy before the Great Goddess Aphrodite” is against the Crew's “Terms of Service, Section A113-B”. It further notes that “prosecution may be undertaken with the Misuse Office in the Underworld” and that “the Crew cannot be held accountable for eternal damnation”.
Continuity
- The first post on the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids website, PROSE: Our Latest Success Story, was presented as a “bulletin” from the Crew about the successful romanticization of the two Geometrons.
- PROSE: The Euclidean Plane, the first published Cupid Fact File, greatly expanded on the nature of the world of shapes and its sentient inhabitants, revealing it to be called the Euclidean Plane and the living shapes Geometrons. Mr Rectangle was specifically a Tangular, and Ms Bubble a Spheroid.
- PROSE: Magic Trick would later reveal the two Geometron characters' names to have been Quadratus Rectangle and Diskie Bubble, respectively.
Behind the scenes
Watch online
This story was, and remains, posted on the ‘Goblin Studios’ YouTube channel.
- The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids
