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Sirius Black: ESFP
Guest Post by Andrew, ENTJ
Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling
Dominant Extraverted Sensing (Se): Sirius always craves excitement. He got into a great deal of trouble in school because he took lots of risks for the sake of having fun, and often got himself caught. Sirius almost never thinks before acting, and his reactions to bad situations give even Harry (who has an impulsive streak himself) pause about telling him too much. Sirius is a visual person who decorated his bedroom with pinup pictures as a teenager and who treats Harry like his deceased father (Sirius’ best friend) based primarily on his appearance. After Voldemort’s return, Sirius is stuck inside his mother’s house, which irks him like nothing else. His eagerness to be out there doing something, especially when Harry and his friends are in danger, leads to him being killed in action, and according to Albus Dumbledore, that is his ideal way to die.
Rhaenyra Targaryen: ESFP
House of The Dragon
Official typing by Arvid Walton
Dominant Extraverted Sensing (Se): Rhaenyra is very attuned to the present moment and is quick to adapt to new events. She doesn’t usually need much time to process situations and people, and can make snap decisions when required. She readily accepts what is happening now, even when it’s awful (i.e. a miscarriage). However, she wants physical evidence before she’s ready to acknowledge her second child’s death. She is very driven by bodily pleasure and frequently allows it to cloud her judgment. Her sexual relationships often get her into trouble.
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Gene Hunt: ESFP
Guest Post by Debaparna Das, INFJ
Life on Mars / Ashes to Ashes
Dominant Extraverted Sensing (Se): Gene’s flamboyance marks him out more than anything else. He is committed to an aesthetic based on spaghetti westerns and film noir, made of fast cars, anti-heroic trench coats, bombastic statements, and gun-wielding antics––all the way down to queerphobia, racism, and misogyny. He is given to aggressive behaviour––smashing doors and furniture, beating the living daylights out of suspects (Gene with a forklift crane vs. Trevor Riley in a car being slowly turned to scrap metal, for instance), shouting down disobedient officers, drunkenly attacking a former convict, etc. He is agile despite his obese frame, is good at subterfuge as long as he can keep his temper in check, and can be oddly charming when necessary. He is aware of his team members’ and his own need for a sense of unity and fellowship and consistently promotes that through activities ranging from drinking and revelling on nights at the pub to chasing down criminals together. Although he’s observant in general, he tends to skate over detail and doesn’t have much patience for long-winded procedures. He hates thinking about his past so much that he forgets it almost completely, including the most important part of his duty.
Continue readingGrell Sutcliff: ESFP
Guest Post by Andrea, INFJ
Black Butler / Kuroshitsuji
Dominant Extraverted Sensing (Se): Grell is greatly in tune with their senses, though this is not always acted on in an entirely healthy way, making the character seem somewhat insane.
They are fond of the colour red, explaining that it represents “flaming passion.”
Their affinity for the colour is displayed in their clothing and, more extremely, when they explain that they choose to commit murder so they can paint victims with red colour.
Fond of things they find physically attractive, they freely and flamboyantly display their lust towards Sebastian, in an often theatrical way. The sly Sebastian easily manipulates Grell into doing things for him by toying with this deep infatuation. Grell jumps into action immediately, overcome with thrill by Sebastian’s seductive promises.
Continue readingAlia Atreides: ESFP
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.
Continue readingTyler Hoechlin: ESFP
Guest post by Occam’s Chainsaw, INTJ —http://systematicthinker.wordpress.com
Se: The first thing you recognize about Hoechlin is how utterly physical he is—and by this, I’m not referring to how athletic he looks. I mean how conscious you are about all of his movements, even the small ones. While talking, he engages his whole body in the conversation or in what he’s saying, and there won’t be a moment where he’s just sitting/standing without doing much of anything else; he will either be stepping around, shifting his weight from one leg to another, move his head, smile, gesture with his arms, scratch, make wide movements, wiggle his eyebrows, etc all the time. His eyes are always wide and alert-looking, like he’s constantly scanning his environment for little clues, to suck up as many information as possible from there. He seems to be invested in his surroundings and aware of every small detail of it. He’s clearly an opportunist, willing to try out new things for the experience—according to him, at the age of 8-9, he was offered a role in a commercial and he thought, “why not, that would be fun”. His dominant Se plays a role in the way he acts/depicts characters; e.g. he unconsciously made Derek Hale’s character extremely physical, to the extent that it could be hard for typers who go for stereotypes/are inexperienced/beginners to tell apart Derek’s dom Te from his tert Se, because Hale’s character is also a very strong Se user. Hoechlin’s biggest passion has always been baseball. Continue reading
The SF Type Who Thinks He’s an INTJ
Jannelle67 asked: I often meet people claim to be INTJs who really aren’t when you get to know them (as opposed to people who seem more like INTJs once you get to know them). Which types are most likely to be INTJ posers like this?
Really, any type could try to pose as an INTJ, and could probably convince themselves they were an INTJ if they ignored the evidence well enough. The gal who writes funkymbtifiction did this for years (and then moved on to consecutively convince herself that she was every other type as well). Continue reading
Bellatrix Lestrange: ESFP
Guest post by Andrew, ENTJ
Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling
Extroverted Sensing (Se): Whatever she is doing, Bellatrix likes to be in the center of the action. This especially involves actual fights; Bellatrix revels in dueling her enemies, especially when she fights two or three at once. She has extremely quick reflexes, and she will continue fighting with any other weapon she has after losing her wand. Bellatrix is charming enough to talk the authorities out of imprisoning her after Voldemort’s first downfall, but she is so impulsive in trying to bring him back to power that she ends up in jail anyway with no hope of legal acquittal or social rehabilitation. Bellatrix savors every moment, and always likes eyes on herself, even during her trial, when it was clear that it would be a long time before she would be out of prison. She is always quick to think of something to say, especially when voicing her willingness to further Voldemort’s cause. Continue reading
Se-users: Do you talk with your Hands?
ComradeJocasta asked: Is it possible that upper-Se users might be more likely to gesture a lot when they speak?
I haven’t actually found much research on this topic. However, I’ve given it a bit of thought, and I’d like to hear everyone else’s thoughts as well.
My ESFP sibling definitely is NOT a hand talker. However, he does have a strong need for touch and physical contact with people he’s comfortable around. Same goes for my ISFP roommate.
Out of anyone in my family or friend group, I’m actually the one who talks most via my hands. However, I don’t necessarily attribute this to my Se function so much as to the fact that I’m relatively fluent in Sign Language. Before I learned Sign Language, I didn’t gesture at all when I spoke, but now talking and gesturing practically go hand in hand for me (wow, that was a terrible pun).
It’s the same with any language. As soon as you’re fluent in more than one language, and especially if you know more than two, it’s hard to force yourself not to blend the elements of each. At the same time, you also keep many elements very separate as well (for instance, I swear a lot more in German than I do in English).
Upper Se-users. Now is your time to talk! I’m interested to hear whether you talk with your hands.
Greta Müller: ESFP
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Anakin Skywalker: ESFP
Guest post by Andrew, ENTJ
Star Wars
Extroverted Sensing (Se): Anakin shows a knack for piloting from a very young age. Whether he’s at the controls of a podracer, a starfighter, an airspeeder, or a heavily damaged enemy battle cruiser, Anakin can dodge obstacles and dart through firefights, and fire the kill shot to boot. He has an excellent aim whenever flying an armed vessel; he saves Obi-Wan’s life by blasting diminutive circuit-wrecking droids off his fighter in the middle of an attack run. Anakin tends to charge into fights without thinking, and once even abandons an assigned post to rescue his captured mother. He also has a strong taste for aesthetics, almost letting Obi-Wan die fighting a bounty hunter while he chooses just the right speeder to give chase. Anakin notices small things about his environment which tend to make a great deal of difference; he notices a speeder of which he’d lost the trail re-emerge many feet below him, as well as Qui-Gon’s lightsaber when the Jedi Master is in disguise. Anakin reacts quickly and effectively to sudden changes; when his podracer catches fire in the middle of a race, he stays cool, salvaging both the vehicle and the victory. Continue reading
Ron Weasley: ESFP
Guest Post by Andrew, ENTJ
Harry Potter, J. K. Rowling
Extroverted Sensing (Se): Ron likes to have fun, and lives for the thrills of the moment. He often neglects to study for important exams, as he cannot handle the tedium of prolonged studying. He has the most prominent sense of humor in his inner circle of friends, and is much more likely to crack a joke than Harry or Hermione is. Ron likes physical activity, and has a natural ability for Quidditch. Ron usually doesn’t think before acting, and at times, this has landed him in trouble (blasting himself with his own malfunctioning wand, flying his parents’ car to Hogwarts), but it also allows him to escape from sticky situations (talking his way out of an encounter with a group of “snatchers”). Ron becomes impatient when Harry admits that he has no plan to find all of Vordemort’s horcruxes, and he makes an impulsive decision to bail out of hunt for them. Continue reading
Anna – Frozen: ESFP
Guest Post by E.J., INTJ
Frozen
Dominant Se: Ana loves to be active. As a small child, her way of bonding with her sister was shared activity time. When Elsa is no longer allowed to engage in physical play with Ana, their relationship suffers. Ana misses her sister on an emotional level, but she expresses her feelings by complaining about how bored she is and wishing that they could do something together (“Do you wanna build a snowman?/ Or ride our bikes around the halls…”). Ana looks forward to her sister’s coronation because of the party involved. Excitement makes her move physically–she runs and dances around throughout the movie. Ana’s Se gives her boldness in some situations that would terrify others: she has enough confidence in her physical abilities that she is willing to climb into the mountains alone. Throughout the movie, Ana helps to connect her sister to the real, physical world–running interference for Elsa early on as Elsa grieves, and, eventually, encouraging Elsa to use her gift to delight their people. Continue reading
Maude – Harold and Maude: ESFP
Harold and Maude
Se: Maude enjoys a thrill. She loves to drive crazy, smell things, feel things and do pretty much anything that thrills her senses. She loves to dance and lives to have fun. She’s agile for an old woman and doesn’t have any problem jumping around, stealing cars, shovels and trees right under people’s noses. Her main goal in life is to explore new experience and love every minute of it. Continue reading
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