SR - Archetypes

Okay, so I wanted to practice with my new graphic tablet so I made little exercices with colors and ambiances beteen two comic pages ^^

In order to coordinate, I chose the theme of Jung based Archetypes. I'm not sure they are exact, that was juste a cool theme to illustrate. I took Shadowrun characters, there's almost all the team !


Anyway, here's a little explanation about the Archetypes, found here : www.soulcraft.co/

The Ego Types


1. The Innocent

Motto: Free to be you and me
Core desire: to get to paradise
Goal: to be happy
Greatest fear: to be punished for doing something bad or wrong
Strategy: to do things right
Weakness: boring for all their naive innocence
Talent: faith and optimism
The Innocent is also known as: Utopian, traditionalist, naive, mystic, saint, romantic, dreamer.

A well-intentionned mutant, he spent years with the mind of a four-years old before getting better thanks to surgery. As a result, he's quite innocent and simple, failing to quite grasp normal human way of thinking - but always intending to act for the better and to be loved for it.


2. The Orphan/Regular Guy or Gal

Motto: All men and women are created equal
Core Desire: connecting with others
Goal: to belong
Greatest fear: to be left out or to stand out from the crowd
Strategy: develop ordinary solid virtues, be down to earth, the common touch
Weakness: losing one's own self in an effort to blend in or for the sake of superficial relationships
Talent: realism, empathy, lack of pretense
The Regular Person is also known as: The good old boy, everyman, the person next door, the realist, the working stiff, the solid citizen, the good neighbor, the silent majority.

Of all the colourful characters of the group, Jaswinder is one of the nicest - a rigger and the owner of the most flowery car in the world. He's a simple man with simple needs - friendship, love, a place where to belong and to call home.



3. The Hero

Motto: Where there's a will, there's a way
Core desire: to prove one's worth through courageous acts
Goal: expert mastery in a way that improves the world
Greatest fear: weakness, vulnerability, being a "chicken"
Strategy: to be as strong and competent as possible
Weakness: arrogance, always needing another battle to fight
Talent: competence and courage
The Hero is also known as: The warrior, crusader, rescuer, superhero, the soldier, dragon slayer, the winner and the team player.

XxDarkwarrior666xX chose his surname at 14 and kept it ever since - a street samurai with the enthusiasm of a teenager and a bright belief in humanity's niceness and potential to get better. He's a simple soul that lives to protect what he holds dear and to try to help others when he can.


4. The Caregiver

Motto: Love your neighbour as yourself
Core desire: to protect and care for others
Goal: to help others
Greatest fear: selfishness and ingratitude
Strategy: doing things for others
Weakness: martyrdom and being exploited
Talent: compassion, generosity
The Caregiver is also known as: The saint, altruist, parent, helper, supporter.

Retour de Cendres, Back from the Ashes, saw her life destroyed... And still she rose back. She raised her daughter alone before taking her revenge against her ennemies. A strong-willed shaman, she's back into mercenary business, fighting to save the world and to follow the most ethical way she can.

(Retour de Cendres is inspired by a French website on Shadowrun, if you're a French Shadowrun GM and like powerful and different scenarii, go check it without hesitation membres.multimania.fr/imaginau…


The Soul Types


5. The Explorer

Motto: Don't fence me in
Core desire: the freedom to find out who you are through exploring the world
Goal: to experience a better, more authentic, more fulfilling life
Biggest fear: getting trapped, conformity, and inner emptiness
Strategy: journey, seeking out and experiencing new things, escape from boredom
Weakness: aimless wandering, becoming a misfit
Talent: autonomy, ambition, being true to one's soul
The explorer is also known as: The seeker, iconoclast, wanderer, individualist, pilgrim.

Nietzche always was a loner and didn't change when he joined his current group. A talented hacker, he is fascinated by IAs and the matrice, preferring the smooth, clean logic of algorythms and mastery over them than the hassles of social life.


6. The Rebel

Motto: Rules are made to be broken
Core desire: revenge or revolution
Goal: to overturn what isn't working
Greatest fear: to be powerless or ineffectual
Strategy: disrupt, destroy, or shock
Weakness: crossing over to the dark side, crime
Talent: outrageousness, radical freedom
The Outlaw is also known as: The rebel, revolutionary, wild man, the misfit, or iconoclast.

For many years, Ariel lived only for revenge. He sacrificied many things for his goal, including his hopes and future, before the spark of niceness that he couldn't quite smother in himself finally led him to - maybe - give up his plans. Raised in a traditionnalist society where anyone different was seen as a threat, he's kept a violent hate toward rule and order ever since.


7. The Lover

Motto: You're the only one
Core desire: intimacy and experience
Goal: being in a relationship with the people, work and surroundings they love
Greatest fear: being alone, a wallflower, unwanted, unloved
Strategy: to become more and more physically and emotionally attractive
Weakness: outward-directed desire to please others at risk of losing own identity
Talent: passion, gratitude, appreciation, and commitment
The Lover is also known as: The partner, friend, intimate, enthusiast, sensualist, spouse, team-builder.

The youngest son of his family, Cihan was raised by a loving family which never prepared him to the complexity of the modern world. He's loving and caring, though very naive, and his magic, like him, is focused on taking care of people.


8. The Creator

Motto: If you can imagine it, it can be done
Core desire: to create things of enduring value
Goal: to realize a vision
Greatest fear: mediocre vision or execution
Strategy: develop artistic control and skill
Task: to create culture, express own vision
Weakness: perfectionism, bad solutions
Talent: creativity and imagination
The Creator is also known as: The artist, inventor, innovator, musician, writer or dreamer.

Mathaer is a musician, he changes his mind about what kind of music he likes to create every week and lives mostly with part-time jobs, consecrating himself to music as soon as he has the time. He's a man of passion who likes meeting with people, though patient and rationnal about life.



The Self Types


9. The Jester

Motto: You only live once
Core desire: to live in the moment with full enjoyment
Goal: to have a great time and lighten up the world
Greatest fear: being bored or boring others
Strategy: play, make jokes, be funny
Weakness: frivolity, wasting time
Talent: joy
The Jester is also known as: The fool, trickster, joker, practical joker or comedian.

A spirit and a magician, having come into this world out of curiosity and having stayed out of affection for the friends he made here, Genesis is a being of passion - be it sadness or joy, fear or hope. He's sensitive, impulsive, fierce and youthful, caring for his rag-tag "family" more than anything in the world.


10. The Sage

Motto: The truth will set you free
Core desire: to find the truth.
Goal: to use intelligence and analysis to understand the world.
Biggest fear: being duped, misled—or ignorance.
Strategy: seeking out information and knowledge; self-reflection and understanding thought processes.
Weakness: can study details forever and never act.
Talent: wisdom, intelligence.
The Sage is also known as: The expert, scholar, detective, advisor, thinker, philosopher, academic, researcher, thinker, planner, professional, mentor, teacher, contemplative.

Your mom: Hismael became a troll late in life and never quite got over the shock of the metamorphosis, losing his family, fiancee and life because of his country's racism. Still he became a powerful shaman, living by the rule of the Wise Warrior - justice, uprightness and fairness. A humble, caring soul despite his firm exterior, he's always calm and patient.


11. The Magician

Motto: I make things happen.
Core desire: understanding the fundamental laws of the universe
Goal: to make dreams come true
Greatest fear: unintended negative consequences
Strategy: develop a vision and live by it
Weakness: becoming manipulative
Talent: finding win-win solutions
The Magician is also known as: The visionary, catalyst, inventor, charismatic leader, shaman, healer, medicine man.

Oza Kumi is the fixer for the team, always seeming to have the world on a string. He's a charming and polite man, knowing all about subtleties of etiquette and politics. He only contacts the group through the Matrix (Shadowrun's Internet) but seems to have the solution to any problem anytime, anywhere.

(Kumi is inspired by a French website on Shadowrun, if you're a French Shadowrun GM and like powerful and different scenarii, go check it without hesitation membres.multimania.fr/imaginau…


12. The Ruler

Motto: Power isn't everything, it's the only thing.
Core desire: control
Goal: create a prosperous, successful family or community
Strategy: exercise power
Greatest fear: chaos, being overthrown
Weakness: being authoritarian, unable to delegate
Talent: responsibility, leadership
The Ruler is also known as: The boss, leader, aristocrat, king, queen, politician, role model, manager or administrator.

Raised in a cold, loveless family and later thrown away as a monster for in forced transformation into a vampire, Egao is the flawless Face - diplomat - of the group. For a long time, he lived for nothing but money and a comfortable, luxurious life. Then he met Darkwarrior, a warm, loving idiot miles from him in everything, and now lives for nothing but money, a comfortable, luxurious life and the person he loves. Is it better? It depends on who you'd ask in the group. He's still scary, though.


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