Psyche

Major Story Arcs

The Books of Magic

Psyche and Cupid live modern lives, dressed in modern clothes. Cupid calls himself Q, “the Gangsta of Love,” and she is “Fly Girl.” They basically look and act like white people who adopt fake black “gangsta” fashion and speech.

Two teens in California, Oscar and Herschel, who also are gangsta-wanna-bees, meet up with Psyche and Cupid after getting dissed by Leah. The boys ask the gods to help them get revenge.

Cupid shows up at Leah‘s modeling agency and shoots Tim Hunter and Leah with chocolate love bullets. Tim uses his magic to wrap Cupid up in a gift box, and the other boys explain what is going on.

Tim and Leah laugh at the idea that the bullets would affect them. Leah, a succubus, knows something about attraction, and tells Cupid what true love is.

When they’re distracted, Psyche shows up and points a real shotgun at Leah’s head. Even Cupid is disappointed at Psyche’s turn to violence. When Tim tells her how dumb it is that they got their gangsta thing out of magazines, she smacks him. Tim then uses his magic to create a giant flock of butterflies. Surrounded by the animals she is traditionally associated with, she turns back to her natural form and apologizes.

Much later, Cupid and Psyche are on the run in the Okefanokee swamps. The Wild Hunt are after them. Cupid and Psyche seem to have reverted to their modern fashion, even if in slightly different ways, and Psyche pleads with the Hunt to let them go; she can get them into clubs or movies!

The Hunt shoots her to death with arrows. Cupid, sadly, describes all the things they were working on; he says she had all the best ideas, such as their porn videos or tattoos that say “mom.” He believed she was better able to adapt to the modern world than he was.

Cupid goes on to join the Hunt.