#sorry for hijacking your post op but i love that freaky little cat. he's so important to me
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THIS IS EXACTLY IT! pib only really suffers one real "loss", and that's the fall of marienne and the death of tomas to the giants - but even then, pib himself gets out unharmed. he picks himself up, finds another boy down on his luck, and continues his tricker gig; the nature of the trickster spirit is to always win, to persevere, and pib does this, but he also feels a lingering bitterness over marienne and tomas. it doesn't drive him, by any means, but the attachment is still obviously there. he doesn't go out of his way for it, but when the opportunity arises it becomes obvious how much he cares - ie. trying to push to go to snowhold, and his reaction to the fox trying to eat tomas' dead body. his existence as a trickster spirit, as an archetype rather than a character, sets him apart from his fellow PCs, but his care and attachment to one story (puss in boots) and the characters in it and the people he meets alienates him from his fellow tricksters. he doesn't belong neatly anywhere, but a trickster's whole thing is to break the norm and cause a little chaos, and if he wants to use his cunning to carve out a place in the world for him and his friends to be happy, then he'll do so to great success. it's his trickster right to do whatever the hell he wants and do it well
so interesting that pib feels like the odds are against him as a little cat in a human world when i feel like the opposite. he’s an archetypally different character than any of the other pcs and i think it gives him an advantage. the trickster spirit can never lose because they don’t play by the rules everyone else does. villains lose often and heroes usually lose before they win, or they have to give up something, or they have a flaw, but tricksters get out of every problem by definition. the trickster always wins by virtue of their role in the story. and i feel like pib always DOES win. even the dice reflect it, he crits at least thrice in the last episode, and in almost every episode beside that, and even outside of crits i can’t think of a single time (other than rote attacks) that he tries to do anything and fails. he ends his story by stealing from the most powerful witch in the world and she tells him to his face, i respect you for doing what you do and being what you are. he gives things up and steals them back for himself and for everyone else because the trickster never learns a lesson and never loses anything. he always wins
#sorry for hijacking your post op but i love that freaky little cat. he's so important to me#pib neverafter#scal txt
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