I am Trickster
Inpired by Harry's marvelous post on The Hunter, I present my own archetype.
Those of you who know me as John Fenderson, JohnFen, Cheeseball Girdlenose, Zal, That Jerk, and so forth will not find this revelation to be a surprise. The very fact that I use a bunch of aliases and yet do not hide that they're all the same person is a clear tipoff.
I am not a practical joke-type Trickster, although I do make it a point to pull one off every so often to keep the juices flowing. (I'm particularly proud of my last one, which involved placing Do Not Lick magnets on most of the police cars in town.) No, my style is more the mindfuck, the unexpected behavior or reaction. The more subtle and truthful, the better.
If you can't beat 'em, confuse 'em.
Potential enemies make me a low priority because I am a little too random. They cannot develop the necessary faith that I will play Victim, and have a hard time getting up the nerve to test me. The ones that do quickly find that I am indeed an unpredictable foe that will take more effort than I'm worth, no matter how assured eventual success is.
Trickster is equally useful in friendlier surroundings. He entertains my friends, charms my lovers, teaches my child. To be Trickster means being a little of every other archetype -- just as every other archetype has a touch of Trickster.
Trickster allows me to perform heretical mental gyrations with minimal discomfort. Trickster is the one that accidentally falls through the secret escape tunnel that leads from the prison cell.
Yes, I do sometimes don other guises, but my natural state is Trickster, and it is Trickster that I love.
Those of you who know me as John Fenderson, JohnFen, Cheeseball Girdlenose, Zal, That Jerk, and so forth will not find this revelation to be a surprise. The very fact that I use a bunch of aliases and yet do not hide that they're all the same person is a clear tipoff.
I am not a practical joke-type Trickster, although I do make it a point to pull one off every so often to keep the juices flowing. (I'm particularly proud of my last one, which involved placing Do Not Lick magnets on most of the police cars in town.) No, my style is more the mindfuck, the unexpected behavior or reaction. The more subtle and truthful, the better.
If you can't beat 'em, confuse 'em.
Potential enemies make me a low priority because I am a little too random. They cannot develop the necessary faith that I will play Victim, and have a hard time getting up the nerve to test me. The ones that do quickly find that I am indeed an unpredictable foe that will take more effort than I'm worth, no matter how assured eventual success is.
Trickster is equally useful in friendlier surroundings. He entertains my friends, charms my lovers, teaches my child. To be Trickster means being a little of every other archetype -- just as every other archetype has a touch of Trickster.
Trickster allows me to perform heretical mental gyrations with minimal discomfort. Trickster is the one that accidentally falls through the secret escape tunnel that leads from the prison cell.
Yes, I do sometimes don other guises, but my natural state is Trickster, and it is Trickster that I love.
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