Blessed by Clockwork

The Blessed by Clockwork, also known as the Countdown Gang, are a group of characters that compromise the main cast of Lächeln und Regenbogen, and are written to be relevant to the Paletteverse to play a major part of its lore. As their name implies, they have connection to the Patrons of Clockwork, and are partnered along with the Runic Scribes and the Numina of Colour in the stories.

Common details
The characters in this group all represent the numbers one to twenty-three, though there will be some additions, and have the number's digit and shapes in relation to the number part of their design. They have a bright palette consisting of two to three colours at most (the exception to this being Sal), and have their outfits have bright, saturated colours.

History (Development-wise)
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History (Lore-wise)
Like a majority of the groups within this universe, this one is surprisingly very young in terms of their formation.

The Patrons of Clockwork have since been watching the creation and the corruption of a new, yet slightly illegitimate generation of the Runic Scribes, being the Scribes of Modernization. While innocently the group is managed by Scribe P in her personal domain, it was all a ploy of the Tainted Influences to finally spread corruption on the Earth, and doing so by taking advantage of a young girl to do their bidding and pulling her home country by the strings. Because of their dying curse, the Patrons couldn't do much, and so with their time about to come, their last task as immortals was to assign randomly chosen individuals to go into the new Scribes' world and free them from corruption.

And thus this group will be dubbed the Blessed by Clockwork, mainly to emphasize on their connection to the Patrons. They would consist of young Votaries towards the Patrons and the power they bestowed onto them, and their main goal was to teach of what was logically right and wrong, and take the Patrons place as foreseers of the Earth and time itself.

What the Patrons didn't expect was that the choices for said Votaries weren't decided randomly, rather with coincidence. Janus, the Patron of Beginnings, and thus the first to bless the chosen Votary by fate, learned this the hard way, as the first chosen Votary to be symbolized by the number one, was his youngest child Ilene. It pained him because he started this family with his mortal wife Sunday as to finally rid himself of his immortal duties, but it inevitably passed on to his youngest.

The others blessing their Votaries weren't safe from this either, as Febronia went to bless the second only for her to realize she was an ancestor of his. As time went on with these coincidences, and with the chosen ones being so noticeably young and emotionally fragile, they don't know if fate was playing tricks on them, and if they would even succeed with this mission at all.

Decima found out she still had some power to bless some more people and send them to the Modernization Scribes' domain, and thus in secret, sent in an extra el to the domain just in case the lack in number of the already chosen blessed wasn't enough.

In their whereabouts, they're surprisingly welcomed by the rest of the Scribes in the domain they call the Rainbow Town, with the exception of Scribe P and R, and aims to take them down before they could do anything to "ruin their precious paradise."

First Dozen

 * Ilene Fürst (she/her) - Votary of Solitude, later changing her title to the Votary of Foresight. Representative of the number one, her main colour being red.
 * Dai Sullivan (he/him) - Votary of Friendship, representative of the number two, his main colours being magenta and amber.
 * Tria Terzi (she/her, they/them, it/its) - Votary of Order, representative of the number three, her main colour being yellow.
 * Perce Quattrochi (he/him) - Votary of Stability, representative of the number four, her main colour being teal.
 * Pam Quintana (she/her) - Votary of Leadership, representative of the number five, her main colour being indigo.
 * Ceri Leclair (she/her) - Votary of Harmony, representative of the number six, her main colour being lavender.
 * Sal Sherburn (he/him, pastelself) - Votary of Luck, representative of the number seven, his main colour being pink.
 * Wyn Ochoa (he/him, hy/hym, hollowself) - Votary of Volution, representative of the number eight, his main colour being fuchsia.
 * Nat Niles (hy/hym) - Votary of Resurrection, representative of the number nine, hys main colour being blue.
 * Daley Tennison (she/her) - Votary of Perfection, later changing her title to the Votary of Wholeness. Representative of the number ten, or dek in dozenal terms, her main colour being orange.
 * Ell Nye (they/them, he/him) - Votary of Teamwork, representative of the number eleven, or el in dozenal terms, their main colour being purple.
 * Dot Milburn (she/her, breadself) - Votary of Punctuation, representative of the number twelve, or do in dozenal terms, her main colours being cyan and beige.

Second Dozen...?

 * Trey Pender  (he/him) - representative of thirteen/do-one
 * Tel Fortune  (he/him) - representative of fourteen/do-two
 * Penny Triggs  (she/her, te/tem) - representative of fifteen/do-three
 * Lexi Leclair  (she/her, ae/aer, catself) - representative of sixteen/do-four
 * Emil Scriven  (he/him) - representative of seventeen/do-five
 * Ogden Reed  (he/him) - representative of eighteen/do-six
 * Emory Gray  (she/her, blankself) - representative of nineteen/do-seven
 * Dexter Twain  (he/him) - representative of twenty/do-eight
 * Tripp Lachance  (they/them) - representative of twenty-one/do-nine
 * Nolan Nye  (they/them, he/him) - representative of twenty-two/do-dek
 * Diantha Green  (she/her) - representative of twenty-three/do-el

Untimely Constants

 * Pi (they/them, it/its) - "Votary" of Irrationality, representative of the constant pi.
 * Tau (she/her) - "Votary" of Convolution, representative of the constant pi times two, also known as tau.
 * Iota (they/them) - "Votary" of Death, representative of the constant pi times three.
 * Meridian (she/her, they/them, cosmicself)
 * "Lemondrops" (he/him, sugarself)

Trivia

 * Dianthe's name was originally Florence, but was changed as to not be confused with Flo.
 * There were initially just going to be only nineteen of the Countdowns, but after the decision of having the Paletteverse counting in dozenal, more characters were since added.
 * Meridian was once named Cadex, as a reference to the De Vlieger Argam name for the number twenty-four, but has since been changed. Kayden of the Observers of Enumeration, the more legitimate representative of the number, has a similar sounding name to the term.
 * The first dozen's names were all derived from the first letter of the Welsh name of the number they each represent.
 * This is more notable in Dai (dau), Tria (tri), Perce (pedwar), Pam (pump), Ceri (chwech), Sal (saith), Wyn (wyth), Nat (naw), and Daley (deg).
 * The exceptions to these are obviously Ilene, Ell, and Dot. Ilene was supposed to be the fact the Welsh word for one, being 'un,' started with a short I sound, so Al named her after a name that started with the letter I. Ell and Dot's names were actually supposed to be based on the Greek numerals, specifically 'ένας' (enas, one) and 'δύο' (dyo, two).
 * While Ell and Dot's names were kept, theirs and Daley's had the meanings behind their names changed, rather to reflect "dek, el, do" instead.
 * This group and a lot of other groups in the Paletteverse are meant to reflect on the Spiritverse's rules, where there will be a major group of characters to their lore who all personify and/or represent different things; as the Paletteverse has concepts, the modes of persuasion, months, the Major Arcana, letters (additional sounds and diagraphs), numbers (and mathematical constants), colors, and the Eastern zodiac, and the Spiritverse having other concepts, elements, the Western zodiac, school subjects, planets, countries, social medias, and certain constructed languages.