>>472>I am pretty willing to buy into Hu¢¢ie's FORMS so far as the original four Beta Kids. Yes, it's true that things lean toward tortured/fake territory by the time Dave is introduced though. John and Rose are solidly Dork Boy and Lit GirlHe doesn't really make this argument, I don't even think the intent is there. Because, again, they're all just sort of meant to be him.
He only throws around "platonic ideal" for the Guardians and AR. For the trolls, he just calls them "Internet archetypes"
The way I've formatted this rambling is kind of misleading because it's really two (2) ideas grafted together (1. The lack of Jung and how it would relate to Plato. 2. Trying to discern what Plato actually did for the comic.)
When I said Dave muddled the waters, I'm referring to his Guardian's associated obsession being sort of ambiguous and sort of redundant. In my view, the harlequins/wizards/puppets were all meant to (or should be) be Jungian archetypes and representative of their relationships with their guardians. John is the Hero (a Zanni specifically) and he thinks his father doesn't take him seriously, Rose is the Sage and thinks her mom is taking everything too seriously, Dave is the Everyman/Jester and worries that he's too derivative of Bro. In all cases, the Kids are wrong to some extent (Dad is overly sincere, Mom is just reflecting Rose's energy, and Bro is trying to help Dave spread his wings. Both John and Rose worry that their parents think they're incapable of doing things but for different reasons. John thinks Dad sees him as an idiot while Rose has wizard angst about Mom not thinking she can doing anything beyond blabber. Reread the wizard fanfictions) The puppet thing is too closely related to harlequins though and the symbolism for them is vague enough to where you can argue whether Dave wants a sense of belonging (Everyman) or just wants to have fun (Jester) The former is more significant character-wise and the latter muddles the symbology so I go with the former.
GREEN and taxidermized shit is so nebulous thematically. I can only really read it as Poppop viewing
GREEN as already dead becau
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