Thread:NoFourthWall/@comment-25421326-20141006024440/@comment-1988716-20141006223831

No, the canon can stay how it is, as can the character; I'm not here to tell you how to write. The issue is just the Wiki representation. A Fear archetype is.. admittedly pretty confusing and not really my first choice for how to represent the Fears, but basically it boils down to a collection of motifs telling readers how Fears have collectively been written (SO TECHNICALLY THIS BRINGS UP ANOTHER QUESTION: HAS EVERYTHING ON THE ARCHITECT PAGE HAPPENED IN A STORY ALREADY?). For example, The Archangel as an archetypal Fear would be... fuck, what was it, I guess "embodiment of the afterlife that often appears as a man in a gas mask, often referred to as 'The Archangel.'" If that contradicted an interpretation in a specific story, the Wiki page for the archetype would not change; it's the specific interpretation's page that would change. I think. The nuances do get baffling.

But in general the shorthand for remembering is Fear Interpretation = Character, Fear Archetype = Abstract Summation of All Characters Considered To Be Based On This Concept. ..and then Vanilla Fear = What The Archetype Boils Down To As Abstractly As Possible. The archetypes (and vanilla Fears) are not written into stories.

...what I'm trying to say is we should rework the Architect page to be for a Fear Interpretation.

As for the Architect's vanilla concept (the Fear of Creation), it's highly possible to fear that, though if we break it down it is likely to already be covered. To fear creation could mean many things: Maybe we fear the ramifications of being able to create-- the sheer power and consequence that comes with it. Maybe we fear creation because it's a great mystery of life and implies universal secrets and knowledge we're not meant to know.

The bottom line to even all of this is don't sweat it, you're not in trouble or anything, this is just a necessary dialogue to have when it comes to representing new Fears on the Wiki.