ISFP 9w8 Characters
Dominant Introverted Feeling – a self-knowledge and a desire to live in accordance with one’s personal values: Ally has a strong sense of who she is, and doesn’t want to compromise for fame; when her manager proposes they turn her blonde for more mass appeal, she argues that she doesn’t want to compromise and lose herself (so they go red instead). She understands and agrees with what Jack tells her, that she shouldn’t sell out to get famous, and that her lyrics must hold meaning, even though she’s later offended by him when he goes off on a drunken, jealous rant and tells her that her music is shallow. She is not one for lengthy emotional speeches about how much she cares for him, she just shows it through her actions, by marrying him, putting up with his behavior, and being present to his life.
Auxiliary Extroverted Sensing – acting on one’s feelings through living in the moment and hands-on learning: She is opportunistic, and focused on what can be had in the moment. Even though she’s tired after her performance, Ally stays up half the night with Jack to get to know him better, goes to bars with him, gets drunk with him, punches out someone she doesn’t know for him, and dreams with him, all before going off with him on tour and to his place, where she pretty much moves in because she knows this is “meant to be.” She is hesitant to put herself out there with her music at first, but quickly becomes famous, with her face on billboards all over town. A lot of her music focuses on sensations and feelings but also…
Tertiary Introverted Intuition – specific insights and premonitions, and a singular state of mind: … what meaning she derives from it. Ally has a few cutting insights into Jack and his personality after she meets him, and specific ideas about what she wants her future life to look like. It does not include being a blonde, as she sees that as a threat to “my true self.” Like compromising on that might cause her to become someone she doesn’t want to be and go on a path that holds no meaning for her (Fi/Ni).
Inferior Extroverted Thinking – blunt and irritated by incompetence when under stress or overly focused on “the facts”: Ally can be impatient and brisque, such as when she comes home and finds the kitchen a total mess, and tells off people for smoking in the house before cleaning it all up. She shuts Jack temporarily out of her life after he deeply offends her, and tells him to get the hell out of the room once he tells her that she’s ugly; it has no longer become a joke about how much he loves her “giant” nose.
Enneagram: 9w8
Enneagram 9 – desires freedom from others’ influences, by going along with them and being tolerant, until it matters not to: Ally tolerates a great deal and goes along with things just to avoid a scene. She makes excuses for her husband when he drunkenly stumbles up onto the stage, ruining her Grammy acceptance speech, before peeing himself. Rather than get upset at him, she cares for him, washes him off in the bathroom, and pleads with him to get help. She amiably goes along with what he wants a lot of the time, and is amenable to what her manager asks of her within reason. Ally compromises on her hair color and experiments with other looks, manages to get herself into a drag show (“I’m the only one allowed to do this”) and is friends with everyone who shows her or her loved ones no hostility. But…
8 wing brings in a tendency to assert oneself with strong but infrequent bouts of anger: She also has a fiery temper that erupts on a regular basis. When fans mob Jack and get in his face about a picture, she punches one of them in the face and has to be pulled off him. She blows up at Jack quite often, when he crosses an invisible boundary (don’t mock her lyrics or call them shallow or make nasty references to how she looks). She has no problem standing up to her manager or anyone else and asserting her views, and no concerns about the consequences of the aftermath to her anger (that’s a “you” problem).
