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Following is for PFS so "Ask your GM doesn't work".
The Occultist necromantic focus combined with familiar archetypes is annoyingly overpowered. The Mauler archetype is particularly strong in combat, other archetypes are useful outside of combat.
It seems quite abusive to me. The Mauler is normally limited by the fact that it is fragile. But the Occultist hardly cares a whit if the familiar is destroyed.
So, RAW, is it legal to add archetypes to a soulbound puppet?
To me, trying to apply a familiar archetype on that necro-ed familiar seems like the horn-blower trying to apply barbarian archetypes on the barbarians she summons with horn of valhalla. Several of the archetypes (like emissary and figment) actually give an origin story to the familiar that directly conflicts with necromantic focus. That said, familiar archetypes aren't a concept that exists in the RPG line, where necromantic focus appeared, so it wouldn't be possible for necromantic focus to directly address them.