A History of Trickery
In the modern era when Ikaris brought his human friend Margo Damian to the Eternal’s city Olympia, Sprite scared her by creating a monster and received a public spanking by Ikaris. When most Eternals formed a Uni-Mind to address the Celestials’ threat, Sprite stayed behind to access Zuras’ computers. Uncovering a Deviant plot to bomb the Celestials, Sprite broke Zuras’ edict to contact the banished the Forgotten One. Creating a suit for the Forgotten One, Sprite sent him against the Deviant device, helping the Forgotten One earn the name Hero. When Zuras learned of Sprite’s behavior, he ordered Sprite and Hero tp be each other’s guardians.
After Zuras died, Sprite convinced Gilgamesh to join the Avengers. Free to continue his own plans, Sprite abducted a Greek shepherd, but was discovered by Ikaris before he could do anything else. Next he snuck into Eternal scientist Phastos’ laboratory and sent Olympia to the Negative Zone, claiming this an accident. After the Eternals returned Olympia to Earth, Sprite brought Gilgamesh to Paris, where Gilgamesh and Sprite, disguised as a flying Captain America, fought the sorcerer B’Gon.
Sprite also helped when Thena and Kro’s children were threatened, and was present when Ajak sacrificed his life. Suspecting Sersi had succumbed to mahd w’yry, he tried to warn her because the only “cure” was molecular dispersion and death; when she ignored him, he summoned Ikaris and Ajak’s brother Arex to help her, and when she rejected them too, Sprite encouraged her to officially make Dane Whitman, AKA Black Knight, her Gann Josin (betrothed), hoping Dane could help her. When her case worsened, Sprite demanded her life be spared. Ute the Watcher helped save her by sending her to another dimension.
Later, in a mistaken battle between Eternals and the Fantastic Four, Sprite battled Scott Lang, AKA Ant-Man, before the heroes ended a threat posed by the half-Deviant Maelstrom.
Sprite secretly revived Zuras and Ajak from the Eternals’ Reactivation Chamber and fooled them into believing a Uni-Mind was needed in San Francisco, then used their power and that of the Dreaming Celestial to rewrite reality and make all Eternals human. In his new form, Sprite became a child actor and musician named Colin, star of “It’s Just So Sprite” on the Tweenie Channel. Officially, he was a normal human legally divorced from his parents and was a celebrity Superhuman Registration Act supporter. When other Eternals’ suppressed memories began to surface, Sprite brought the partially awakened Makkari to the Dreaming Celestial hoping to attract enough Eternals to make another Uni-Mind, but Deviants and the Avengers interfered, and Sprite fled when the Dreaming Celestial woke.
Meanwhile the reunited Eternals discovered Sprite’s work had accidentally attracted the Horde, cosmic creatures that could destroy the Earth. Zuras personally administered Sprite’s punishment, allowing him a mortal death and leaving his body on a train at Union Station in Los Angeles. Though theoretically the Eternals’ Reactivation Chambers could revive Sprite in his Eternal state, Sprite said he would be untrustworthy if revived, and Zuras agreed.
When dead Celestials fell to Earth, it was the onset of the Dark Celestials, marking their Final Host on Earth. Learning that the Celestials’ plan for them was to guide humanity for their whole existence, an antithesis to what they had been doing—fighting Deviants and not interacting with humanity—the Eternals went mad, realizing their purpose was incorrect for millennia. As a result, they turned on each other while other Eternals committed suicide. They were then reborn but this time Sprite was rebooted as a female. Because of her past crimes, she was still imprisoned and restored to her safest backup, not remembering what she had done. Sprite blamed boredom as the reason for her crimes against her people.
When Ikaris was rebooted, he freed Sprite on Zuras’ order. Though Sprite, the chaotic Eternal that she is, teleported to New York City and began reveling in the newness of the world she had missed while imprisoned. They encountered Tony Stark, AKA Iron Man, and then a Deviant in the sewers which Sprite and Ikaris defeated together, like old times. When they returned to Olympia, Phastos informed them of bad news: Zuras had been murdered. Fellow Eternal Druig then suggested Sprite was the prime suspect to which Ikaris punched him in the face. Ikaris and Sprite then ran to the Resurrection Machine which augments their abilities to teleport. The Machine revealed that there was a distorted trace and someone traveled the network that was unknown to them. Ikaris and Sprite then used it to travel to the last place the person went. They ended up in Titanos, the fallen capital of the Eternals, which was destroyed by the Eternal Kronos, who tried to master time. In this place, time is weak and the future and past are mixed together. Ikaris and Sprite saw a vision of the future and then came upon Thanos, cousin to the Eternal Thena, and a battle ensued.
Returning to Olympia, Sersi treated Ikaris’ wounds from his encounter with Thanos which Sprite and Ikaris escaped. Phastos and Kingo Sunen joined them and they began their investigation into Zuras’ murder. They suspected a traitorous Eternal helped Thanos use the Machine since he could not have used it alone, despite being an Eternal (with Deviant syndrome) himself. Though, Phastos explained that Thanos wasn’t their only problem, that this disruption in the Machine would also mean the Earth would be destroyed in a week’s time. Meanwhile, Ikrais had a vision of the death of a human boy, Toby Robson, so he sent Sprite to protect him but it’s all for naught when Ikaris perished. Thanks to Phastos, the Eternals discovered that whenever an Eternal is resurrected, a human dies and, therefore, bringing back Ikaris ultimately led to Toby’s death, something none of them could stop. So Sprite and the Eternals abandoned mainstream Eternal society and retreated to Lemuria, city of the Deviants, to see if they could change.
Meanwhile, Thanos won votes to become Prime Eternal and his first act was to kill Druig. His next act included attacking Lemuria and murdering a bunch of Deviants to kidnap Phastos who could handle a self-destruct mechanism that Thanos was worried about. To save Phastos, Sprite and the Eternals successfully broke into Avengers Mountain to extract information from a dead god, though it led to a fight between them and Earth’s Mightiest. They succeeded at their goal, and convinced the Avengers that they were required to face Thanos who was on Earth. The fight ended and with Druig’s help, whom Thanos had resurrected, the Eternals defeated the Mad Titan. Sprite counted it as a win, but other Eternals like Sersi saw it as a loss.
Sprite was also present in the fight against the Progenitor, a new living god created to oppose Druig who had attacked the mutant nation of Krakoa. Though the Progenitor passed judgment upon all those on Earth, and deeming it unworthy, set out to destroy it. Sprite united with the other Eternals, the Avengers and X-Men to stop the new god, which led to peace with mutants.
