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|image | |image = Auteur and the Homeworld.jpg | ||
|main character | |main character = [[Herodotus-724]] | ||
|enemy | |enemy = [[Auteur]] | ||
|setting | |setting = [[Cupid Homeworld]], [[2022]] | ||
|writer | |writer = Lupan Evezan | ||
|illustrator | |illustrator = [[Aristide Twain]] | ||
|editor | |editor = | ||
|anthology | |anthology = | ||
|release date | |release date = 17 December 2022 | ||
|publisher | |publisher = Goblin Studios | ||
|format | |format = Online short story | ||
|series | |series = ''[[The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids (series)|The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids]]'' crossover fiction | ||
|prev | |prev = Resurrection of the Author (short story) | ||
|next | |next = Previously On... The Multiverse (short story) | ||
}} | }} | ||
'''''Auteur and the Homeworld''''' was a [[2022 (releases)|2022]] online | '''''Auteur and the Homeworld''''' was a [[2022 (releases)|2022]] online poem, written by [[Lupan Evezan]] and illustrated by [[Aristide Twain]], featuring the use of the ''[[Faction Paradox (series)|Faction Paradox]]'' character [[Auteur]], commercially licensed from his creator [[Jayce Black]]. | ||
The | The poem was also an official [[crossover]] between the [[Doctor Who universe|''Doctor Who'' universe]] and the continuity of ''[[The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids (series)|The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids]]'', on whose official website it was released as part of the series' [[2022 Copper-Colored Cupids Calendar|2022 Advent Calendar]]. It was Auteur's third appearance in the series and served as a sequel to his first, Black's own {{cs|Auteur's Abecedarium (short story)}}. | ||
== Summary == | == Summary == | ||
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== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
For two | For two [[year]]s now, [[Auteur's Abecedarium]] has lain in the [[Cupid Archives]] unopened. Eventually, the dark [[whisper]]s emanating from it attract the attention of the [[Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids]]' head archivist, [[Herodotus-724]], who was never told about the book by [[Bibliophile-962]] and thus guilelessly opens it. As soon as he opens it and reads it aloud, [[Auteur]] himself is summoned to the Homeworld from the "[[Sanctum of the Heretic|crumbling little oxbow]]" in which he'd been imprisoned. | ||
After monologuing awhile about his circumstances, during which he is amused to note that he appears to be in a rhyming story for once, Auteur declares his intention to steal one of the Crew's [[Void Ship]]s to return to his home universe. He snaps his fingers and seems to have disappeared until Herodotus realises that the stranger has transferred himself into Herodotus's own [[shadow]]. Attacked by the [[Clockwork Sphinx]], he jumps into ''its'' shadow, and then, making his way out of of the archive building, into that of another, passing Cupid. | After monologuing awhile about his circumstances, during which he is amused to note that he appears to be in a [[rhyming]] [[story]] for once, Auteur declares his intention to steal one of the Crew's [[Void Ship]]s to return to his home universe. He snaps his fingers and seems to have disappeared until Herodotus realises that the stranger has transferred himself into Herodotus's own [[shadow]]. Attacked by the [[Clockwork Sphinx]], he jumps into ''its'' shadow, and then, making his way out of of the archive building, into that of another, passing Cupid. | ||
Hopping from shadow to shadow, he makes his way unseen; the only Cupid to notice their shadow having temporarily sprouted a [[skull]] is [[Larrikin-1029]], who is predictably enthused instead of alarmed. However, when Auteur drops by the post office in [[Philatel-426]]'s shadow, he is noticed by [[Lord]] [[Thymon]], who reaches out and grabs him out from the shadow-space. Thymon recognises him as one of the "[[Sun Builder|parasites]] who hail from [[Third Universe|Third]]" and claims to be something much greater than them, being an actual [[Embodiment]] of [[Time]], but Auteur dismisses Thymon as having lost his metaphysical power when he became a part of the Cupids' story, and now being nothing more than "[[comic relief]]". He knocks Thymon's hat off his head and takes advantage of the distraction to run out of the post office, headed for the hangar where the [[Fog Ship]]s are kept. | Hopping from shadow to shadow, he makes his way unseen; the only Cupid to notice their shadow having temporarily sprouted a [[skull]] is [[Larrikin-1029]], who is predictably enthused instead of alarmed. However, when Auteur drops by the [[Cupid Post Office|post office]] in [[Philatel-426]]'s shadow, he is noticed by [[Lord]] [[Thymon]], who reaches out and grabs him out from the shadow-space. Thymon recognises him as one of the "[[Sun Builder|parasites]] who hail from [[Third Universe|Third]]" and claims to be something much greater than them, being an actual [[Embodiment]] of [[Time]], but Auteur dismisses Thymon as having lost his metaphysical power when he became a part of the Cupids' story, and now being nothing more than "[[comic relief]]". He knocks Thymon's [[hat]] off his [[head]] and takes advantage of the distraction to run out of the post office, headed for [[Fog Ship Parking Garage|the hangar]] where the [[Fog Ship]]s are kept. | ||
Thymon sounds the alarm, but the Cupids' [[arrow]]s are useless against Auteur in his shadow-form, and [[Sigma-063]]'s efforts to lock the Fog Ship hangar from the inside are useless when Auteur jumps into Sigma's own shadow and unlocks one of the doors. Thinking quickly, Sigma runs to the building's maintenance rooms and switches on all the lights, making shadows vanish and forcing Auteur to adopt his normal three-dimensional shape again. He briefly tries summoning all the shadows from the Homeworld to overwhelm the lights, but is unsuccessful. | Thymon sounds the alarm, but the Cupids' [[arrow]]s are useless against Auteur in his shadow-form, and [[Sigma-063]]'s efforts to lock the Fog Ship hangar from the inside are useless when Auteur jumps into Sigma's own shadow and unlocks one of the doors. Thinking quickly, Sigma runs to the building's maintenance rooms and switches on all the lights, making shadows vanish and forcing Auteur to adopt his normal three-dimensional shape again. He briefly tries summoning all the shadows from the Homeworld to overwhelm the lights, but is unsuccessful. | ||
Instead, as his final throw of the dice, he writes a set of glyphs and interlocking circles which cause all the [[fiction]] contained in the Cupid Archives to come to life, inspired by Herodotus's earlier mistaken assumption that Auteur was a fictional character come to life from within the Abecedarium. As all the stories' essences are released from the book, pandemonium ensues, with the Cupids merging with an endless carnival of fictional characters. However, before Auteur can leave aboard the last unaltered Fog Ship, Herodotus realises that he can use Auteur's spell for his own ends by stamping the Abecedarium with his official "''REJECTED from collection''" stamp. As this, too, is realised in three dimensions, Auteur himself is expelled from the Cupid Homeworld to match, sent back to his oxbow. | Instead, as his final throw of the dice, he writes a set of glyphs and interlocking circles which cause all the [[fiction]] contained in the Cupid Archives to come to [[life]], inspired by Herodotus's earlier mistaken assumption that Auteur was a fictional character come to life from within the Abecedarium. As all the stories' essences are released from the book, pandemonium ensues, with the Cupids merging with an endless carnival of fictional characters. However, before Auteur can leave aboard [[Auteur's Fog Ship|the last unaltered Fog Ship]], Herodotus realises that he can use Auteur's spell for his own ends by stamping the Abecedarium with his official "''REJECTED from collection''" stamp. As this, too, is realised in three dimensions, Auteur himself is expelled from the Cupid Homeworld to match, sent back to his oxbow. | ||
As the Homeworld is restored to its normal self, Herodotus chains up the Abecedarium and locks it in a drawer, hopefully for good. [[Celebration-665]] invites everyone for cake. | As the Homeworld is restored to its normal self, Herodotus chains up the Abecedarium and locks it in a drawer, hopefully for good. [[Celebration-665]] invites everyone for cake. | ||
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* [[Bibliophile-962]] | * [[Bibliophile-962]] | ||
* [[Clockwork Sphinx]] | * [[Clockwork Sphinx]] | ||
* [[Cupid youth (Auteur and the Homeworld)|Cupid youth]] | |||
* [[Philatel-426]] | * [[Philatel-426]] | ||
* [[Thymon]] | * [[Thymon]] | ||
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* [[Pythagoras-858]]/[[King Arthur]] | * [[Pythagoras-858]]/[[King Arthur]] | ||
* [[Pessimist-242]] | * [[Pessimist-242]] | ||
* [[ | * [[Mr Toad]] | ||
* "[[Long John Silver|Long John Copper]]" | * "[[Long John Silver|Long John Copper]]" | ||
* [[Frankenstein-818]]/[[Dracula]] | * [[Frankenstein-818]]/[[Dracula]] | ||
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== Worldbuilding == | == Worldbuilding == | ||
* [[Auteur]] offers three French titles for [[Sun Builder|his people]]: "''Architectes''", "''les Horlogers''" and "''bijoutiers mystérieux''". He refers to their planet as [[the Morning Star]]. [[Thymon]], an actual embodiment of [[time]] itself, is dismissive of their claim of being "lords of time": "to [[Anchoring of the thread|enslave]] is not the same as to embody. (…) You built a dam upon your stream - I forged a sea entire." | * [[Auteur]] offers three French titles for [[Sun Builder|his people]]: "''Architectes''", "''les Horlogers''" and "''bijoutiers mystérieux''". He refers to their planet as [[the Morning Star]]. [[Thymon]], an actual embodiment of [[time]] itself, is dismissive of their claim of being "lords of time": "to [[Anchoring of the thread|enslave]] is not the same as to embody. (…) You built a dam upon your stream - I forged a sea entire." | ||
* Among the flurry of fiction come to life, the [[Clockwork Sphinx]] merges with the sphinx who menaced [[Thebes]], and [[Tracker-764]] briefly finds [[Aladdin]]'s [[Magic lamp|lamp]]. | * Among the flurry of fiction come to life, the [[Clockwork Sphinx]] merges with the sphinx who menaced [[Thebes]], and [[Tracker-764]] briefly finds [[Aladdin]]'s [[Magic lamp|lamp]]. The [[yellow brick road]] also finds a new home next to the [[Cupid Post Office|post office]]. | ||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
* The artificial [[sphinx]] guarding the [[Cupid Homeworld]] is usually referred to as the [ | * Despite being released on [[17 December (releases)|17 December]], ''Auteur and the Homeworld'' was the middle of three poems in ''Haunting Halloween Hymns – Part Two'', a sequel to Part One which had been published for [[Halloween]] on [[31 October (releases)|31 October]]. The in-universe reason for its December release, and the one-day digression from the [[2022 Copper-Colored Cupids Calendar|2022 Advent Calendar]]'s serialised story, is the activation of a Time Scrambler by the Faction of the Fooling Fish in Chapter 13 of ''How the Fish Stole Christmas''. | ||
* The artificial [[sphinx]] guarding the [[Cupid Homeworld]] is usually referred to as the [[je:Mechanical_Sphinx|Mechanical Sphinx]] in [[The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids (series)|the series itself]], but is named here as "the Clockwork Sphinx" on the one occasion it is referenced, presumably to better fit the metre. | |||
== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
* Two years ago, [[Auteur]] left [[Auteur's Abecedarium|a cursed book]] in the [[Cupid Homeworld]], but it was placed by [[Bibliophile-962]] in the [[Cupid Archives]] before anyone could read it. | * [[2020|Two years ago]], [[Auteur]] left [[Auteur's Abecedarium|a cursed book]] in the [[Cupid Homeworld]], but it was placed by [[Bibliophile-962]] in the [[Cupid Archives]] before anyone could read it. These events were seen in [[PROSE]]: {{cs|Auteur's Abecedarium (short story)}}. | ||
* Auteur is now trapped in [[Sanctum of the Heretic|an oxbow reality]]. | * Auteur is now trapped in [[Sanctum of the Heretic|an oxbow reality]] and makes reference to his encounter with the [[Retconning Crocodile|Crocodiles]], as depicted in [[PROSE]]: {{cs|Resurrection of the Author (short story)}}. | ||
* Auteur describes [[Thymon]] as a "jumped-up [[swimmer (species)|swimmer]]". | * [[Larrikin-1029]] is once again shown to be excited by [[skull]]s, as he had been in [[PROSE]]: {{cs|Auteur's Abecedarium (short story)}}. | ||
* This story is the first to use "[[the Morning Star]]" as a name for Auteur's [[homeworld]]. It would later be used in multiple stories in ''[[The Book of the Snowstorm (anthology)|The Book of the Snowstorm]]''. | |||
* Auteur describes [[Thymon]] as a "jumped-up [[swimmer (species)|swimmer]]". These [[transcendental being]]s who dwell in [[the Void]] were previously referenced in such stories as [[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Taking of Planet 5 (novel)}} and {{cs|Spinning Jenny (novel)}}. | |||
* [[Celebration-665]] invites everyone for [[cake]]s after the crisis is over, as he had done in [[PROSE]]: {{cs|Auteur's Abecedarium (short story)}}. | |||
=== Continuity to non-valid sources === | |||
* [[Thymon]] is described as "once [[Embodiment of Time]]" as he started living in the [[Cupid Homeworld]] in [[PROSE]]: {{cs|Lord Thymon and the Department of Problem-Solving (short story)}}. [[Auteur]] claims that Thymon's power was destroyed due to [[Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids|the Crew]]'s [[narrative]] absorbing his following this event. | |||
* Thymon is now "[[mail-sorter]] prime", having started his career at the [[Cupid Post Office]] in [[COMIC]]: {{cs|Whatever Happened to Lord Thymon? (comic story)}}. | |||
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Latest revision as of 17:49, 3 November 2024
Auteur and the Homeworld was a 2022 online poem, written by Lupan Evezan and illustrated by Aristide Twain, featuring the use of the Faction Paradox character Auteur, commercially licensed from his creator Jayce Black.
The poem was also an official crossover between the Doctor Who universe and the continuity of The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids, on whose official website it was released as part of the series' 2022 Advent Calendar. It was Auteur's third appearance in the series and served as a sequel to his first, Black's own Auteur's Abecedarium [+]Loading...["Auteur's Abecedarium (short story)"].
Summary[[edit] | [edit source]]
When the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids' archivist finds and opens Auteur's Abecedarium, the actual Auteur is summoned from the crumbling oxbow timeline he was trapped in to the Cupid Homeworld. Using his powers of shadow and metafiction, he wreaks havoc across the Homeworld while trying to make his way to the hangar were the Crew's Void Ships are kept and steal one to fly it back to the Third Universe. However, he is prevented at the last minute by Herodotus using his symbolic power as an archivist to stamp the Abecedarium as "rejected" from the collection, which breaks Auteur's foothold in the Homeworld and sends him back where he came from.
Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]
For two years now, Auteur's Abecedarium has lain in the Cupid Archives unopened. Eventually, the dark whispers emanating from it attract the attention of the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids' head archivist, Herodotus-724, who was never told about the book by Bibliophile-962 and thus guilelessly opens it. As soon as he opens it and reads it aloud, Auteur himself is summoned to the Homeworld from the "crumbling little oxbow" in which he'd been imprisoned.
After monologuing awhile about his circumstances, during which he is amused to note that he appears to be in a rhyming story for once, Auteur declares his intention to steal one of the Crew's Void Ships to return to his home universe. He snaps his fingers and seems to have disappeared until Herodotus realises that the stranger has transferred himself into Herodotus's own shadow. Attacked by the Clockwork Sphinx, he jumps into its shadow, and then, making his way out of of the archive building, into that of another, passing Cupid.
Hopping from shadow to shadow, he makes his way unseen; the only Cupid to notice their shadow having temporarily sprouted a skull is Larrikin-1029, who is predictably enthused instead of alarmed. However, when Auteur drops by the post office in Philatel-426's shadow, he is noticed by Lord Thymon, who reaches out and grabs him out from the shadow-space. Thymon recognises him as one of the "parasites who hail from Third" and claims to be something much greater than them, being an actual Embodiment of Time, but Auteur dismisses Thymon as having lost his metaphysical power when he became a part of the Cupids' story, and now being nothing more than "comic relief". He knocks Thymon's hat off his head and takes advantage of the distraction to run out of the post office, headed for the hangar where the Fog Ships are kept.
Thymon sounds the alarm, but the Cupids' arrows are useless against Auteur in his shadow-form, and Sigma-063's efforts to lock the Fog Ship hangar from the inside are useless when Auteur jumps into Sigma's own shadow and unlocks one of the doors. Thinking quickly, Sigma runs to the building's maintenance rooms and switches on all the lights, making shadows vanish and forcing Auteur to adopt his normal three-dimensional shape again. He briefly tries summoning all the shadows from the Homeworld to overwhelm the lights, but is unsuccessful.
Instead, as his final throw of the dice, he writes a set of glyphs and interlocking circles which cause all the fiction contained in the Cupid Archives to come to life, inspired by Herodotus's earlier mistaken assumption that Auteur was a fictional character come to life from within the Abecedarium. As all the stories' essences are released from the book, pandemonium ensues, with the Cupids merging with an endless carnival of fictional characters. However, before Auteur can leave aboard the last unaltered Fog Ship, Herodotus realises that he can use Auteur's spell for his own ends by stamping the Abecedarium with his official "REJECTED from collection" stamp. As this, too, is realised in three dimensions, Auteur himself is expelled from the Cupid Homeworld to match, sent back to his oxbow.
As the Homeworld is restored to its normal self, Herodotus chains up the Abecedarium and locks it in a drawer, hopefully for good. Celebration-665 invites everyone for cake.
Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Auteur
- Herodotus-724
- Bibliophile-962
- Clockwork Sphinx
- Cupid youth
- Philatel-426
- Thymon
- Sigma-063/Merlin
- Marksmanship-522/Paddington Bear
- Dandy-432/White Rabbit
- Juliet-178/Robin Hood/Little Red Riding Hood
- The Hound/Big Bad Wolf
- Foreman-964/The Nome King
- Colonel-028/Tik-Tok
- Pythagoras-858/King Arthur
- Pessimist-242
- Mr Toad
- "Long John Copper"
- Frankenstein-818/Dracula
- Tracker-764/Ahab
- Conspiracy-1263
- Celebration-665
Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Auteur offers three French titles for his people: "Architectes", "les Horlogers" and "bijoutiers mystérieux". He refers to their planet as the Morning Star. Thymon, an actual embodiment of time itself, is dismissive of their claim of being "lords of time": "to enslave is not the same as to embody. (…) You built a dam upon your stream - I forged a sea entire."
- Among the flurry of fiction come to life, the Clockwork Sphinx merges with the sphinx who menaced Thebes, and Tracker-764 briefly finds Aladdin's lamp. The yellow brick road also finds a new home next to the post office.
Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Despite being released on 17 December, Auteur and the Homeworld was the middle of three poems in Haunting Halloween Hymns – Part Two, a sequel to Part One which had been published for Halloween on 31 October. The in-universe reason for its December release, and the one-day digression from the 2022 Advent Calendar's serialised story, is the activation of a Time Scrambler by the Faction of the Fooling Fish in Chapter 13 of How the Fish Stole Christmas.
- The artificial sphinx guarding the Cupid Homeworld is usually referred to as the Mechanical Sphinx in the series itself, but is named here as "the Clockwork Sphinx" on the one occasion it is referenced, presumably to better fit the metre.
Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Two years ago, Auteur left a cursed book in the Cupid Homeworld, but it was placed by Bibliophile-962 in the Cupid Archives before anyone could read it. These events were seen in PROSE: Auteur's Abecedarium [+]Loading...["Auteur's Abecedarium (short story)"].
- Auteur is now trapped in an oxbow reality and makes reference to his encounter with the Crocodiles, as depicted in PROSE: Resurrection of the Author [+]Loading...["Resurrection of the Author (short story)"].
- Larrikin-1029 is once again shown to be excited by skulls, as he had been in PROSE: Auteur's Abecedarium [+]Loading...["Auteur's Abecedarium (short story)"].
- This story is the first to use "the Morning Star" as a name for Auteur's homeworld. It would later be used in multiple stories in The Book of the Snowstorm.
- Auteur describes Thymon as a "jumped-up swimmer". These transcendental beings who dwell in the Void were previously referenced in such stories as PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5 [+]Loading...["The Taking of Planet 5 (novel)"] and Spinning Jenny [+]Loading...["Spinning Jenny (novel)"].
- Celebration-665 invites everyone for cakes after the crisis is over, as he had done in PROSE: Auteur's Abecedarium [+]Loading...["Auteur's Abecedarium (short story)"].
Continuity to non-valid sources[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Thymon is described as "once Embodiment of Time" as he started living in the Cupid Homeworld in PROSE: Lord Thymon and the Department of Problem-Solving [+]Loading...["Lord Thymon and the Department of Problem-Solving (short story)"]. Auteur claims that Thymon's power was destroyed due to the Crew's narrative absorbing his following this event.
- Thymon is now "mail-sorter prime", having started his career at the Cupid Post Office in COMIC: Whatever Happened to Lord Thymon? [+]Loading...["Whatever Happened to Lord Thymon? (comic story)"].
