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Extroverted Intuition (Ne): Meowth is always bursting with ideas: practical, impractical, and everywhere in between. He always has some new scheme to catch Pikachu or another valuable Pokemon. Some of these are more outrageous than others, and all of them tend to fail. Meowth seldom or never revisits old ideas for catching Pikachu, preferring to devise new ones instead. Especially in the Advanced Generation Continue reading
Extroverted Sensing (Se): Jack lives for thrills, especially ones involving violence. Upon his arrival on the island, he immediately becomes the leader of a group of hunters, whose purpose is to provide meat for all the boys. Eventually, he goes further than hunting pigs, picking fights with other boys, especially Ralph, to satisfy his craving for more and more exciting hunts. He loves ceremonial expressions of his leadership; when he forms his own breakaway “tribe,” he insists that the boys under his rule call him “chief.” Jack has no desire to leave the island; he prefers to stay in his little microcosm, where he is free to live as he pleases and have fun without regard to the future. Jack always wants instant gratification; his initial attempt attempt to be elected chief is a crude, blunt, and transparent attempt to seize power.
Introverted Thinking (Ti): Jack is not already a skilled hunter when he arrives on the island; he has to learn how to hunt from scratch, using trial and error, analyzing why his early hunts failed, and correcting his tactics and techniques accordingly. In his hunting expeditions, Jack also goes exploring; he eventually becomes more familiar with the island than anyone else does. At one point, he uses a logical corollary to his knowledge to argue against the presence of a “beast;” he hadn’t seen any beast while he was out hunting, so therefore, the beast must not exist. Jack is the first and foremost boy to argue against the continued use of the conch to regulate discussions; his justification is that the boys don’t need any external device to regulate discourse, since it is now clear who should do the talking – though he does not share how he arrived at this conclusion.
Extroverted Feeling (Fe): Jack is a charismatic leader, mainly due to his ability to tap into the boys’ basest emotions: anger, bloodlust, excitement, and fear. This last one is the most important: Jack plays on the fear of the beast to draw more and more boys out from under Ralph’s leadership and into his own court. Eventually, he expands the fears of his minions beyond the fear of the beast; he starts having his subjects arbitrarily tied up and beaten, sending a clear message: the same thing can happen to anyone.
Introverted Intuition (Ni): Jack has an overriding interest in hunting; he doesn’t really care much for anything else. He hunts all day, every day, even when he is supposed to be tending the signal fire. In time, Jack learns to strategize during hunts, to lure prey out of hiding, and to wait for the right moment to strike. However, even though Jack can plan a hunt, he never considers what will happen afterward. During his final hunt for Ralph, he and his followers set fire to a group a fruit trees which constitute a vital food source, which would have all but guaranteed everyone’s demise had the boys not been immediately rescued.
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Introverted Thinking (Ti): Piggy is extremely logical and has his priorities right, but he finds it difficult to communicate his thoughts to others. As a result, he is sidelined from an overt position of leadership, instead acting as an adviser to Ralph, who greatly appreciates the intelligence of his counsel. He speaks abstractly with a view towards understanding himself, others, and the world around them; he tries to explain the presence of a “beast” Continue reading
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Extroverted Sensing (Se): Sodapop is a pleasure-seeker who just loves a good adrenaline rush. He fights, not because he hates the people he’s fighting or because everybody else is doing it, but for fun. His penchant for physical activity led him to horseback riding in his younger years. He did not have the discipline to finish high school, preparing to entertain himself in the present rather than prepare for his future. He never let his life in poverty bother him; he was having too much fun to care. Sodapop is also a huge flirt who is a big hit with the girls. He doesn’t often consider the consequences of his actions; He gets his girlfriend pregnant, causing her to be sent to stay with her relatives in Texas and ending their relationship.
Introverted Thinking (Ti): Though Soda lacked the motivation to finish high school, he’s not stupid. In fact, he’s quite smart. Of the three Curtis brothers, it is Sodapop who best understands the situation they are in. As the middle child, he is caught between Darry’s often harsh protectiveness and Ponyboy’s feelings of being unloved. He can see where each of his brothers is coming from, and he has served to bridge the chasm between the two of them. Through his whole experience, he can see that Darry and Ponyboy are drifting apart when they should be staying close to each other.
Extroverted Feeling (Fe): His role as the middleman between Darry and Ponyboy is extremely painful for Sodapop. He often has to take sides between his brothers, something which he never likes to do. He does so anyway for a while, just for the sake of placating the two of them and keeping the peace in their house. Similarly, Sodapop has a need to be accepted by others as well. He will smoke cigarettes (something which he does not otherwise do unless upset or stressed out) to put up a macho front for people he doesn’t know.
Introverted Intuition (Ni): Sodapop displays a patience in dealing with his brothers that he does not show in any other area of his life. In the stress of being caught between his two brothers, he starts to think of the larger implications of their constant friction. He sees that it could lead to the breakdown of the family bonds between them, and that that could only lead to disaster; united they stand, divided they fall.
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Introverted Sensing (Si): Brock has no issue whatsoever with doing the menial but necessary chores around the camp while on his journey, with no help from anyone else. His knowledge of Pokemon is encyclopedic; he knows the attacks, types, preferred diets, and many other things about a vast number of different Pokemon species. Continue reading
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Introverted Feeling (Fi): James is deeply emotional, but is not particularly good at expressing his emotions. When he developed a crush on a girl as a child, he told her how he felt in a letter instead of to her face. Later, when her micromanaging behavior became too much for him to handle, he ran away from home instead of talking through his issues with her. Although a member of Team Rocket, he strives to balance his own Continue reading
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Extroverted Feeling (Fe): Misty is a bundle of emotion who has no trouble expressing happiness, sadness, surprise, anger, or whatever else she is feeling. She is also very accommodating to the emotions and wishes of others; even though she bears psychological scars from the constant teasing of her sisters, she helps them out in whatever way she can. She steps in to star in a last-minute show that they wrote and produced, and when she leaves Continue reading
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Dominant Introverted Feeling (Fi): Cobb represses much of his feeling function so that he can focus more on his professional life using his sensing and thinking functions. He struggles constantly with his feelings of regret, guilt, and grief for Mal, and feels uncomfortable talking about it to others, brushing off Arthur and opening up to Ariadne only when she correctly intuits a good part of his motivations on her own. He resorts to Continue reading
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Extroverted Thinking (Te): Jessie is a domineering woman who controls her teammates, James and Meowth, with an iron fist. She is constantly on the lookout for opportunities to snare a valuable Pokemon or several for her boss, and ruthless in her drive to carry them out. More than James or Meowth, Jessie can separate her emotions from the job she wants (or has) to do; several times, she finds herself in a position where she has to rely Continue reading
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Dominant Ti: Joel understands mechanical and logically subjective systems particularly well; his ability to consistently problem-solve in a world without typical constraints like order and social standing ultimately insure his continued survival. He maintains a survivor’s mindset both before and after Sarah’s death, unlike everyone else around him. Ironically enough, his default, unique worldview adapts quickly to the world after the outbreak since it doesn’t really need to do any adapting at all. Joel always finds a way to survive, finding ways to overcome difficulties of both the financial and fungal kind. Another tip-off: Joel rarely ever voices his thought process and doesn’t order his companions around much. He never comes across as domineering or controlling, unlike most extraverted thinkers. Continue reading
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Dominant Introverted Feeling (Fi):Emotional fulfilment and stability are highly important to Mercédès, and she is quite discerning with regards to her feelings. She asserts that she loves Fernand Mondego only as a brother, while her feelings for Edmond Dantes are very different and more intense. She does not understand Fernand’s jealousy and Continue reading
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