She says he's the next best thing to a village idiot.
"So we have to come across sometimes like the village idiot."
"And I thought you were going to be a village idiot."
"We won a lot of games after that, so I won't play the village idiot and say it was the wrong thing to do."
He sounded more like a village idiot than a god.
And he wouldn't talk about village idiots or free agency.
"I was thinking about becoming the village idiot, if my father will allow it."
"Would you want your only son and heir to be known as the village idiot?"
The smile, in the circumstances, made him look like the village idiot.
I should think anyone but the village idiot would have more sense than that.