Tricksters

In the fourth episode Pib finds a fox caught in a trap and a rabbit hanging in a net, and the Rabbit greets him with "Hello, Cat." NA E4·00:37:35 NA E4·00:38:00 The Rabbit says "It's us, you know? Tricksy ones, the tricksters." and the Fox says "We are your fellow tricksters." NA E4·00:38:53 NA E4·00:39:07 The Rabbit says they have died constantly and that it is part of the trickster thing NA E4·00:41:36. Brennan says Pib sees across many lives that animals in the stories keep getting up to mischief, and that his role has often been to upset the forces trying to control the flow of the stories NA E4·00:41:49.

In the fourth episode the Fox and the Rabbit ask whether one of them should go back instead, and Pib says he thinks it seems fun and correct to just fuck it all up NA E4·00:44:49 NA E4·00:45:08 NA E4·00:45:13. The Fox says that when a cat is sent as the representative of the tricksters, cats are lazy and want to lay down after one trick NA E4·00:47:03. When Pib stops the Fox from going to Tomas's body, the Fox says "You are more the hero than you think, less the trickster, I say." NA E4·00:48:38

In the fifth episode Brennan recaps Pib's connection to a seeming council of trickster animals in the beyond between realms NA E5·00:02:53. Pib tells the party "Sort of a circle of trickster spirits gave me the choice to go back and I did." NA E5·00:36:37 In the eleventh episode Pib says he talked again with some trickster spirits between lives, that they have a tenuous relationship because they were not sure he could do it, and that he said he could NA E11·01:18:30. The Big Bad Wolf tells Pib "You are a trickster, and I've known some tricksters, foxes and the like." NA E11·01:25:28 In the finale Pib says "I'm either a trickster spirit or I'm nothing at all." and then grabs the page and vanishes NA E20·02:06:42 NA E20·02:06:46. In the epilogue a woman at a banquet says she believes she now speaks to a true Trickster NA E20·02:28:36.