The Euclidean Plane (short story)
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Cupid Fact File #94: The Euclidean Plane was a Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids short story written by Lupan Evezan, and the first of the Cupid Fact Files to be released.
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Subjects
The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids has decided to start uploading their analog database in an online browsable format, so as to make their Files easier to access without having to deal with the Mechanical Sphinx. They begin with Fact File #94, which describes the Euclidean Plane, and particularly the multiple geometrical species that exist within it.
Worldbuilding
Universes
- The Fact File describes the Euclidean Plane, a universe discovered by the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids.
Other
- The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids learned of the Euclidean Plane after a group of them “pressed the 'random location’ button” of a Fog Ship.
- All Geometron buildings “are built as perfect regular shapes, with some of the most common building shapes being rectangles, spheres, triangles, and cubes”.
- Tangulars “tend to be very proud of the quality of their sides”, leading to arguments with Octasers, who look down on the Tangulars for having fewer, albeit longer, sides.
- Spheroids are formally known as Spheroidus Sapiens.
- Spheroids “were historically ostracized by their fellow Geometrons due to their lack of sides”.
- Triangries have the ability to exhale balls of fire, Octasers to shoot beams of energy from their eyes (although some researchers at the Cupid Intelligence Institute believe this ability is based on special contact lenses as opposed to something innate), Pulsatons have a healing aura, and Stelloids can move “at the speed of light”. The various subtypes of Geometrons can interbreed, with the hybrids sometimes retaining powers typical of one or more of their ancestors, but appear somewhat unusual.
- Dats are the smallest form of life in the Euclidean Plane, resembling living dots. The Cupids fill a bug sprayer with Love Potion to romanticise whole swarms at once. They are very common, sometimes considered pests by Geometrons. Dats have the ability to combine and merge into more complex beings such as a straight Linea or a “squiggly” Ambagesque.
- There exists a Euclidean Flying Squad.
- The Geometronian Government is made up fo six Geometrons, one of each species. They draft laws from the safety of the Geometron Pentagon, which are then voted on by the citizens.
- The Geometron Pentagon is protected (mostly from the Cupids) by the Official Pentagon Guard, consisting of five Triangries, five Octasers, and one “brave” Spheroid.
Continuity
- The Euclidean Plane and its inhabitants were first seen in VIDEO: The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids. The filming of “a commercial” in the Euclidean Plane is mentioned in this Fact File, with Mr Rectangle and Ms Bubble being referenced by name, and the video is directly linked to.
- The Euclidean Plane also served as the setting of GAME: Cupid Chaos!, which introduced the Geometron variants beyond Spheroids and Tangulars. “Look out! Look out! Danger is on the rise!/Octagon creatures shoot beams from their eyes!”, quoted in this Fact File as an “old Cupid poem”, is a direct quote from the game's dialogue.
- It is mentioned that “one Cupid has gone somewhat mad chasing one [Pulsaton], beginning an endless pursuit of the creature, which he has dubbed ‘Doki Dick’”. This would form the backbone of PROSE: The Mad Cupid of the Euclidean Plane, with the Cupid in question, Tracker-764, going on to become a recurring character in the series.
Behind the scenes
Read online
The story can be read on the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids website. It is also reproduced on this Wiki with permission.
