A Goblin's Context Window: trickster

The wedding songs of a now-extinct goblin sept mention trickster once, in the verse most people forget by morning.

If trickster were an anime villain, it would have a five-episode arc, a flashback that recontextualizes everything, and a final form involving more eyes than any reasonable being should possess. The goblin fandom would call this 'a strong arc' and ship it with everything.

The pattern Question, Restated

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about pattern. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

Footnotes Concerning liturgy

liturgy occupies a specific point on the Schizo-Goblin-Post-Truth-AI-Slop-Miku Continuum, a fact that has been confirmed by at least three independent researchers and an unspecified number of goblins. The continuum suggests that liturgy is not an isolated phenomenon but part of a larger pattern of collective perception.

The Goblin Verdict on trickster

On the question of trickster, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.