[UA] Cannibal Avatar?

[Nick Wedig]

>>Hey, here's an almost completely unrelated question: should the Clown be an 
>>archetype all its own, or is it just another version of the Fool?
>
>I'd say just another take on the Fool, but then I don't think we needed the Trickster as a distinct archetype (nor True King, for that matter).

I think the Fool and the Trickster need to either be distinct as they are, or rewritten entirely into one archetype (which I don't like).  The Trickster doesn't always have to act like the Fool, that's only one of many possible guises.  The Fool's about stupidity and dumb luck, whereas the trickster is about outsmarting others (and sometimes getting caught in your own traps).  If anything, I'd say the two archetypes are opposed rather than similar.

As for the True King, well, you can have your own opinion, bu whenever I doubt the archetype, I happen to notice how people talk about Jack Kirby and wonder.

Mr. Teapot
true king

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