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Moana: ISFP

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Moana (2016)


Dominant Introverted Feeling (Fi): One of Moana’s strongest character traits is her compassion. It’s implied that that’s why the Ocean chose to trust her while she was still a small child. She is fiercely loving and protective of her parents, her pets (although they don’t always share her taste for adventure), and her tribe. She finds it impossible to disregard her own emotional needs merely to comply with communal conventions. As a result, she struggles because her desire clashes with her duties towards her parents and her island. She prefers to follow her own ideas and ethics, resenting being put down over patriarchal notions (see her reaction to Maui questioning her quest). Automatic empathy with others’ feelings isn’t her forte (again, see her reaction to Maui’s brooding). In the same vein, she doesn’t actively seek out anyone’s help in dealing with her issues. It’s up to her grandmother, Tala, to understand her condition and advise and comfort her. Although she loves the ocean dearly, she decides to sail away mainly in the hope of saving her tribe from a slow death due to environmental degradation and starvation.

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Zuko: ISFP

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Avatar: The Last Airbender

Dominant Introverted Feeling (Fi): Zuko feels everything intensely, a trait that both makes him a force for good (when he can detach his own moral code from what his father expects of him) and causes him a great deal of suffering. When he forces himself to live by his father’s value system instead of his own, Zuko is plagued by inner dissonance and depression. From a young age, he has a strong sense of ethics and is happiest when he feels aligned with his moral code. His drive to do the right thing pushes him to speak against his father’s military plans, ultimately leading to his banishment from the Fire Nation. As much as he lashes out at people (Mai, his crew, Uncle Iroh), Zuko puts them first when they are in danger. When he makes a mistake, he accepts full responsibility for his actions and does everything in his power to correct the damage he’s caused. As Fire Lord, Zuko puts his life on the line to stand up for the misunderstood people of the Fire Nation colonies. However, when gaslighting and manipulation from his family members cause him to doubt his inner compass, Zuko is wracked with anxiety about whether he’s doing the right thing (to the point of being unable to sleep). When under intense stress, Zuko has the tendency to retreat inward, keeping his struggles to himself despite Mai’s urgings for him to talk openly. 

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Aurora Aksnes: ISFP

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Dominant Introverted Feeling (Fi):  Aurora doesn’t care what people think of her. She lives her life in the ways that make her the happiest and encourages other people to do the same. Her music is invested in the idea that people don’t need to try to be what society expects. She’s very open about her inner life and is obsessed with trying to understand and connect with other people better, a theme explored heavily in her discography. She is introverted and often feels drained by the end of a show. Though she loves her fans, she enjoys the creative process of writing music alone in her studio much more than interacting with strangers. 

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Matt Murdock (Daredevil): ISFP

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Marvel Cinematic Universe

Dominant Introverted Feeling (Fi): Matt has solid morals based on what he thinks is right rather than laws. He doesn’t want to defend people if he doesn’t think they are innocent, and after he defended someone he didn’t want to, he beat up the guy in the alley after the court hearing was over. He is a devout Catholic but questions “why God put the devil inside him.” He wants to do good rather than work at Lehman and Zack. Despite believing that “sometimes the law isn’t enough” while going after Fisk, Matt never kills people and has Fisk arrested instead. He is emotional, but is usually private about his emotions and can hide them well. He also hides his identity by not saying anything rather than lying.

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Dave Strider: ISFP

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Homestuck

Dominant Introverted Feeling (Fi): Dave hides his emotions behind a poker face and his poker face behind a pair of shades. He saves shows of genuine, non-ironic emotion for special occasions, such as trying to convince John and Rose not to kill themselves, or greeting John on his birthday, or re(?)uniting with the post-scratch version of his deceased Bro. Even though he is disturbed at finding his own corpse from a doomed timeline, he doesn’t show it immediately. Hanging out with Rose and the Trolls on the meteor helps him realize how messed up his Bro’s way of raising him was, but he never says a word about this realization until he meets post-scratch Dirk face to face, at which point he can’t hold it in any longer. Maintaining harmony with the world at large isn’t very high on his priority list; he pays no heed whatsoever to Karkat’s warnings to stay away from Vriska and Terezi, nor does he feel any need to be polite when telling him off (just compare the way Dave treats Karkat with the way John and Jade do). He acts readily on his feelings; when he finds out about Terezi and Gamzee, he wastes no time in breaking up with Terezi quietly because he feels he’s been cheated on, even though he knows that from Terezi’s perspective, she’s done nothing wrong. He is acutely aware of his own faults and so doesn’t feel comfortable being cast in the role of hero, preferring to leave titles like that to John.

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Wanda Maximoff (Scarlet Witch): ISFP

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Marvel Universe

Dominant Introverted Feeling (Fi): She chooses her side in Civil War based purely on emotions (she is angry at Vision for not telling her about being under house arrest). Wanda is angry about being put under house arrest largely because she doesn’t want to be controlled by other people, preferring to rule her own life. While escaping from house arrest, she uses her powers against Vision despite being friends with him. She and Pietro are very close, and when he dies, her powers explode and kill a bunch of Ultron’s robots. At this time, Wanda is driven by her emotions and seeks immediate revenge on Ultron for Pietro. After joining the Avengers, Wanda has close friendships with Vision and Clint instead of being friends with all of them. She withdraws when stressed. During the battle of Sokovia, she hides in a building at first and Clint has to talk her into fighting. She also strongly values privacy.

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Feanor: ISFP

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The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien

Dominant Introverted Feeling (Fi): Feanor’s fiery commitment to his own values and desires above all else is his single most defining characteristic. His name means “Spirit of Fire,” and he consistently displays this fiery spirit by showing blazing passion, arrogance, and wrath. Like typical ISFPs, Feanor is idealistic and unswerving from his inner moral compass. However, Feanor’s ideals are not altruistic; they are self-centred and prideful. This unhealthy Fi turns him into a wrathful, violent ISFP in order to get what he wants.

The Silmarillion says that few ever persuaded Feanor by reason, and none by force. Feanor consistently refuses to listen to good advice, instead following his own desires. When he feels that his power is threatened, Feanor draws his sword and threatens the life of his half-brother, committing the first assault in Aman (the equivalent of Paradise). He becomes obsessed with the Silmarils, the magical gems he crafted. He refuses to sacrifice these gems, even though using the light of the gems is the only way to restore the light of the dying Trees that illuminated the world. When the villain Morgoth steals the Silmarils, Feanor gives an impassioned speech and persuades the rest of the elves to rebel against the benevolent Valar and leave the Undying Lands to take revenge on Morgoth. Feanor then leads his seven sons in swearing a rash oath that calls down everlasting darkness upon them if they ever stop pursuing the Silmarils. When the Teleri, the Sea Elves, refuse to let Feanor take their ships to follow Morgoth to Middle Earth, Feanor attacks his kindred, slaughters them, and takes the ships. And when Feanor realizes there aren’t enough ships to carry all of his followers to Middle Earth, he abandons thousands of elves in the freezing Northern regions and sails away without them. To make matters even worse, Feanor burns the ships once he lands in Middle Earth. Finally, his wrath drives him to forge his way ahead of his army during his first great battle in Middle Earth, and he is isolated and killed by Balrogs. As his spirit departed from his body, it was so powerful that his body disintegrated into ash.

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O’Dell – October Sky: ISFP

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October Sky

Dominant Introverted Feeling (Fi): O’Dell is a person of deep, powerful emotions, but those emotions are hardly ever allowed to surface. And on the rare occasions when he does express his feelings openly, it’s never in words, but always in actions. For example, O’Dell never once mentions the tragic mining accident that killed his father; the audience doesn’t find out about it until Homer (unwisely) chooses to repeat the story . . . upsetting O’Dell so much that he can’t restrain himself from physically attacking Homer, one of his closest friends. O’Dell is also something of an individualist; unlike Roy Lee (tertiary Fe), O’Dell appears unconcerned about the damage that the Rocket Boys’ unpopular activities may cause to their social reputations at school. In general, established rules and codes seem to matter relatively little in his mind; it was his idea to take apart the (apparently) unused railroad track for scrap metal; and he’s untroubled by the fact that this scheme is actually highly illegal.

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The SF Type Who Thinks He’s an INTJ

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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?

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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 →

Qui-Gon Jinn: ISFP

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Star Wars

Qui-Gon Jinn ISFP | Star Wars #MBTI #ISFP

Introverted Feeling (Fi): Although he is a respected Jedi Master, Qui-Gon is regarded as somewhat of a rebel, as he tends to follow his own agenda rather than the Jedi Council’s. He has his own morality that he holds as sacrosanct, even above the Jedi Code, and he doesn’t mind violating others’ wishes, secretly or not, to do what he thinks is right. Qui-Gon sees goodness and worth in nearly everyone he meets; this turns out to be a tragic flaw due to his dealings with Anakin, a Continue reading →