The only thing though that all tricksters seem to have in common is that they are deceitful. How and why they are deceitful varies with the time and place the character originates from. Even though some of the specifics in these tales are lost on us the spirit of these that makes us understand tales from far off places. Whether tricksters bring a touch of humanity to the divine and animalistic or vice versa is debatable, but it meshes both either way. Margret Baker puts it perfectly when she says that "the trickster figure is not dead, Read moreonly expanded and refocused in order to retain his relevance in modern society"(Baker, p. 157). Now you, in your modern day trickiness, exhibit trickstery traits. It is a broad archetype though, knowing your subcategory is the rub. So click on.
Yes, I turn it on
No, I'm to busy eating and checking Twitter
Yes, I hide it. Maybe she will get fired and there wont be a final
I slept in
I went to Starbucks instead
I was busy flirting up some chick/dude
It was advising day and I wanted to make Caitlin look bad because she gave me a bad grade
I got lost...
Swim in the stream
Beg for salmon to get stuck in your trap
Bring home fish you've caught
Eat fish that everyone else caught while you were texting
No
Yes
I'm content with my bf/gf I have
No, those are for stupid people
Of course...
Yes
I will blame it all on my cat. It just destroyed them all, it was so horrible :'(
I will tell them I've decided to push back the deadline for turning in loose pages so they think I'm doing them a favor
I'm going to bed. Maybe they just wont notice...
I will tell them they all did so badly I'm going to throw the grade out and give them a new assigment
They probably never look at my comments anyway so I will just put crap grades in new blue colored books and hand those out!
Um No...
Yeah!
Maybe. Is someone attractive there with me?
I do that like once a month
Yes
No but I've said it was my friends Bday when it wasn't to tick him off. It was hilarious
I was trying to run past him, but I accidentally tripped him and broke his arm.
I talked him out of it
I convinced him I would be more ashamed of not being beaten for being puny
I told him my friend was talking smack about him to draw attention away from myself
I draw inappropriate pictures on their face with a marker
I raid their fridge
I hit on their similarly aged sibling
I think its rude so I kick them
I don't notice and keep and talking to them