Find out which archetype lives inside you.
There will come a moment when you realize who you’ve been all along: the Soldier, the Poet, or the King. Each archetype carries their own kind of power. One forged in battle, one spoken into being, and one worn like a crown that can never come off. This Soldier, Poet, King quiz looks past your surface-level traits to reveal the role your soul plays in the story of your life.
Are you a fighter who rebuilds from the ashes, a dreamer who heals through truth, or a ruler who bears the weight of responsibility? This quiz was inspired by the Oh Hello's song Soldier, Poet, King. Each verse of the song feels like a prophecy. Three figures rising and falling in a cycle of destruction, creation, and renewal. The soldier fights, the poet speaks, and the king bears the crown of consequence. Together, they form a story about power, faith, and the cost of becoming who you were meant to be. Take the quiz and write your story.
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When everything falls apart, what’s your first instinct?
• Grab the nearest whiteboard and start organizing a 10-step plan to fix everything.
• Sit in silence for a while to get your head straight before reacting.
• Take charge. Someone has to make the hard calls.
• Check in on your people. If they’re okay, everything else will be okay.
• Crack a joke, grab a coffee, and handle it piece by piece.
What do you want to be remembered for?
• Being the one who could always get things done, no matter what.
• Saying what everyone else was too afraid to say.
• Leaving behind something that makes the world better.
• Making people feel seen, even for just a moment.
• Being reliable. Solid. Someone people can always count on.
Which setting feels most like home to you?
• A loud kitchen full of friends eating and cooking together.
• A quiet forest cabin with a single light on and rain outside.
• A high rise city condo at night with the city glowing below. All the view with none of the noise.
• A couch, your dog or cat, and a movie you’ve seen a hundred times.
• A road trip with the windows down and nowhere to be.
What kind of strength is most important to you?
• Discipline. Mastery over yourself is everything.
• Vulnerability. The courage to tell the truth, even when it hurts.
• Vision. The ability to see what could exist and make it real.
• Endurance. The quiet ability to keep going when no one else does.
• Faith. Believing in something larger than yourself.
Someone betrays your trust. What happens next?
• You disappear. No yelling, no closure. You just leave.
• You write a three-page unsent text just to get the feelings out.
• You confront them directly. No drama, just facts and boundaries.
• You forgive, but you’ll never forget the pattern.
• You close off and become more guarded. Lesson learned.
What kind of people are you most drawn to?
• People who take risks and make things happen.
• People who can talk about their emotions without flinching.
• People who stay calm and dependable when things go sideways.
• People who’ve been through hell but still love softly.
• People who don’t care about rules and instead just do what they think is right.
What role do you usually play in a group?
• The one who ends up scheduling things and keeping everyone on task.
• The one who checks in privately to make sure everyone’s okay.
• The one who just goes with the flow.
• The one who cracks jokes and keeps the peace.
• The caretaker. The one who makes sure no one gets left behind or forgotten.
Which line feels truest to you?
• "If I don’t take control, everything’s going to fall apart."
• "I may overthink everything, but at least it means I care."
• "No one’s coming to save me. I have to figure it out myself."
• "If I love you, I’m showing up. Even when you make it hard."
• "I don’t need attention. I just need it all to mean something."
When you fall in love, what does it look like?
• I start planning for forever immediately. I'm all in.
• It’s intense and real. I want to know their childhood trauma and their favorite cereal.
• I show it by doing things. Fixing stuff, remembering details, keeping them safe.
• It’s slow. I build trust one day at a time until it feels unshakable.
• It feels calm, but underneath it’s this constant quiet ache (in a good way).
What do you fear most?
• Losing control and hurting the people I care about.
• Never being truly understood, no matter how hard I try.
• Becoming the kind of person I've always hated.
• That my heart will harden before I find peace and love.
• That I'll never find a place where I truly belong.
You carry a quiet fire that wakes when things fall apart. Your loyalty runs deep, and you’d rather bear the burden yourself than watch someone else suffer. You fight not for glory but for meaning, even when no one thanks you for it. People may mistake your steadiness for simplicity, but there’s an ache beneath your armor that only peace could soothe. You build and destroy in equal measure, trying to protect what you love before the world can take it.
You feel everything all at once, even when you try not to. Words have always been your weapon and your refuge, the way you make sense of the pain. You crave a connection that feels real enough to hurt a little. People come to you for insight, but they rarely see how much it costs you to feel this deeply. You’re always trying to turn pain into something beautiful before it swallows you whole.
You were born carrying weight that others can’t see. Leadership finds you, even when you don’t ask for it, because something about you makes people believe you’ll know what to do. You hold yourself to impossible standards, haunted by the idea that you could fail the people who rely on you. There’s kindness in you, but it’s laced with sorrow from all the times you’ve had to be strong instead of soft. You dream of a world you can’t quite reach, but you keep building it anyway.
See what other quiz-takers had to say about their results on this quiz's Reddit thread.
Your quiz made me cry. 10/10! I got 50% poet, 30% king and 20% solider.
u/Active_Ad_4810That was a really nice little quiz! I got 43% Poet, 30% King, and 28% Soldier, so pretty spread out, but I’ve always identified more with Poet so that tracks
u/LuckyPerro123I got mostly King but kinda spread out! I loved these questions, they were so thoughtful. Thank you so much. 🤍
u/fallgardencolors