Guest Post by Andrew, ENTJ

Dune, Frank Herbert

Dominant Extraverted Sensing (Se): Alia likes to experience the physical side of life. Unusually among the women of her society, she likes fighting with a knife (in fact, she is called “Saint Alia of the Knife”) – and much like her brother, Paul, she is about as good as anyone in the known universe in her teenage years. As soon as she becomes a teenager, Alia embraces her sexuality, which gets her in trouble on more than one occasion. Alia has a penchant for quick action (she kills Vladimir Harkonnen when she is still a very young child), but she is often unaware of the long-term implications of her actions.

Auxiliary Introverted Feeling (Fi): When she is born, Alia is different from other children; she speaks and acts like a miniature adult. Although she is hurt by the epithets given to her on account of this (others have called her an abomination and a freak), she accepts herself for the way she is rather than trying to mimic something she isn’t. Alia has no use for customs of any society, and views her own morality as superior to any that she can take from the outside. She secretly resents her family members (in fact, she orders her own brother killed), and she eventually builds a personality cult whose members are loyal only to herself.

Tertiary Extraverted Thinking (Te): Even though she keeps what she feels to herself, Alia has a tendency to state exactly what she thinks. She is always outspoken and forthright with her opinions, even when nobody else wants to hear them. Alia is appointed regent after Paul’s self-imposed banishment, and she establishes herself as a tough, decisive leader who can take charge, but her subjects eventually see her as a tyrannical ruler with no conscience (she falls into an Se-Te loop).

Inferior Introverted Intuition (Ni): Alia is much more concerned with the here and now than with the future; she would rather do things than think about their eventual effects. She usually doesn’t realize when someone is trying to use her. Alia tries to use the same techniques employed by her brother in order to make prophecies, but they always seem to fail her.

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