C.A. Cupid

C.A. Cupid is a character from the Monster High and Ever After High franchise.

Cupid is an unknown kind of creature. She was found on the doorsteps of the Cupid household as a baby and adopted by the family. To this day, she does not know her biological roots or the reasons she was left at the doorsteps, but her dedication to her role as messenger of love distracts her from those uncertainties. Being terrible with any kind of bow but handy with machines, Cupid ditched the arrows and set up a radio station to host her own love advice show. As of 2014, Cupid no longer is a student at Monster High but has enrolled at Ever After High.

In the AWA fics, Cupid is a student at the AWA Academy.

Appearance
C.A. Cupid has white skin (though pink in the specials) which fades to black the same way Spectra does to be transparent. She has short wavy pink hair, which is fashioned to make it look like she has a halo, and aqua blue eyes. She wears pink lipstick on the center of her lips to make her mouth appear heart-shaped. C.A. Cupid's wings are made to look like a rib cage with a visible spine disguised as a necklace. In the specials she has brown eyebrows but in the webisodes, dolls and artwork, they are pink.

In Ever After High, Cupid has blue eyes and curly, dusty pink hair with a straight fringe/bangs. She has dimples. Closely, the light reflection in her eyes are shaped like hearts.

Cupid wears a small hairband which is in the shape of a pink arrow. Like her aunt Artemis, Cupid carries her bow and arrow everywhere. Cupid wears a necklace from the back of her neck that is in the shape of a curved arrow. The tip of the arrow is a heart shape and the end the feathers, just like her hairband, however it is colored bronze. Cupid has small wings which she somehow cannot use, but they are ivory colored and they appear to have feathers, unlike her monster version. Cupid's bow and arrows are also bronze colored. Cupid has shoulder flaps on the sleeveless ends of her top. She has a large waterlily buckle that is also bronze on the right side of her skirt. A black rope assists the waterlily. Cupid's skirt contains cloud patterns on the top and arrows at the bottom.

Personality
C.A. follows in her adoptive father's footsteps as an arbiter of love and is specialized in the dealings of relationships, though primarily those of monsters with a focus on teenagers. She hosted a daily radio show from her station in the catacombs beneath Monster High, during which she took calls on relationship problems. This was her way of doing her job, since though she did (and still does) have her bow and arrows ready 24/7, she is a lousy shot.

When it comes to her attitude, C.A. Cupid is carefree and joyful as love should be, but also stern and professional as a relationship sometimes needs to survive. Sometimes even sassy in personality, Cupid is not one to let others step on her and her ambitions, despite her initial cheerful and cutie pie impression.

Cupid is a sensitive girl who loves the idea of true love. A true romantic, Cupid strives to help all the students find love, although she struggles with her own love life. Cupid is passionate in her actions and takes her role as a "love counselor" very seriously. She gives her advice on affairs of the heart on her MirrorCast show.

Abilities

 * Bow Proficiency: Though she is not the best when it comes to aim, being the "lousy-shot" she is, she still knows how to handle a bow and its secrets. Despite this, she'd rather work through the science of love in her radio booth and therefore keeps her bow locked away. The bow is currently destroyed.
 * Cupid can also be affected by the powers of her bow.
 * Powers of Love: In the "Ever After High" franchise it is revealed she can use powers related to love with her hands without necessarily accessing her magical bow. This is an ability assumed to carry on to her "Monster High" persona. This is first seen in the Ever After High webisode, Here Comes Cupid, where she literally has the ability to use a finger flick which illuminates a heart to make Hunter Huntsman notice Ashlynn Ella from his game, or maybe to make them both heart-struck and weary.
 * Individual Analysis: By activating a mode in her eyes, which consequently turns her sclera and irises into a bright pink light, she can analyses the powers of other love derived monsters, such as emotional vampires. It is however unknown how she got hold of this powers considering she wasn't born to a love related household, as far as she knows. One of the Ever After High Narrators revealed her to be a cherub. The power of her eyes was first and last seen in "Why Do Ghouls Fall in Love?".

Trivia

 * Cupid has Cupid's Bow lips which were popular in the 1920s.
 * Her catchphrase is "Love doesn't have to be scary."
 * Cupid misses the ghouls of Monster High at Ever After High, it's rumored they write and send video diaries to each other, but if this is true, it is currently unknown how it's done.
 * Her birthday is November 24, however, is not certain clear, because the only people who know the date was her biological parents, from whom she was separated when she was just a few-days-old baby. Most likely, November 24 is the date when she was found by her adopted father - Eros, so she treats this date as her birthday.
 * Like Raven Queen from Ever After High, she is a Sagittarius and born in November. Raven Queen is born on November 25, meaning C.A. Cupid is just one day older if they have the same teenage age or birth year. But this is unknown if they do, and according to C.A. Cupid's Monster High profile bio, she says her age is "As old as teenage love" which is not something specific or exact, while in the Shannon Hale books of the first book series, in the first book, her age is revealed to be 15; mainly because saying that is fifteen is old enough to go to her mother without her father (the Good King) and stand up to her wicked ways.
 * Also, assuming that Cupid's birthday is November 24, her star sign is Sagittarius, the archer, befitting since Cupid is the archer too, althrough not good.
 * Knowing that she was raised by Eros, who is the Greek god, the first language that she has learned, is most likely Greek. However, in both Monster High and Ever After High, she can speak fluent English. Most likely, she has learned English shortly before coming to Monster High.
 * In Monster High, she had a crossbow, while in Ever After High, she has a normal bow.
 * In one of Monster High webisodes - The Ghoulest Season, Cupid is seen to love spring, and even most likely it's her favorite of the seasons. She admitted that one of the reasons why this is her favorite season, is that she likes flowers, and also when one of her friends said that she dislike spring because of pollen allergy, Cupid said that without pollen there would be no flowers.
 * However, in one of Ever After High webisodes - Heart Struck, Cupid is seen to have an pollen allergy, and even not being able to breathe without an inhaler. Most likely, she has it only in fairy tale world.
 * C.A.'s exact and specific age is not known to this very day.
 * In the Ever After High books by Shannon Hale, she is only referred to as "Cupid" without the "C.A." as full name in the title of the name as full name (Not that that's her full full name, or full name full name, so to speak).
 * Her names were taken from two other mythological figures - Chariclo, who was a nymph from Magnesiathat fall in love in centaur - Chiron, while Arganthone, who was a huntress from Kios that fall in love in king of Thrace - Rhesus. Both was a close friends of Eros, so he probably named her after them.