Archetype: The Man Against The Twilight (?)

[Neal_Rick_J at bns.att.com]

      <snip>
        Do you think that this could be a valid archetype?  Do you think
      that  
      someone else could have already ascended as this archetype?  Do
      you think  
      that there could have been at least one other person of this age
      who  
      understood about the 333, and wanted and tried to stop it so much
      that it  
      became a part of universal consciousness and thus allowed him to
      ascend?   


My take on this is that it's not really a valid archetype unless it's
present in the collective unconsciousness of the world. As the world, in
general, knows nothing about the ascensions or the IC, or Il Comte, I
don't really think it's valid as an archetype as it stands. Even if it
were, I'd argue that no one has ascended, because the cycle continues:
you'd think that the ascension of someone in this archetype would mean
the end of the cycle. Also, having an ascended archetype of this nature
is somewhat self-defeating, joining the other team, as it were.

Now, as a more general idea, I think this makes a great archetype: the
Forlorn Hope, if you will. In the Napoleonic wars, the Forlorn Hope was
what they called the first squad through a breach in the wall of a city
under siege, and they were almost always slaughtered to a man. Taking a
stand against unassailable odds for either principle or the possibility
of gain (the survivors of a Forlorn Hope were generally promoted) is an
idea deep in the minds of humanity. The one man fighting off the
inevitable strikes a chord throughout myth and history. That, I think,
is the way I would go with this.

Rick Neal