ESFP 6w7 Characters

ESFPs make good double-agents because they can improvise immediately within the moment and cover up their tracks using their natural physical skills. Sydney says she advanced through the training at SD-6 because it proved so easy for her to learn how to do things—that high Se knack for ‘learning by doing.’ She is an enormous risk taker, confident in any situation that requires her to use her body to problem solve, and often volunteers for risky missions, because she knows she can trust herself to get things done. The payoff, however, is that she believes whatever she sees with her own two eyes and experiences things through the lens of what is tangible—without seeing the big picture. She’s totally shocked when Vaughn tells her that SD-6 is one of many sleeper agencies and there’s an entire network they have to take down; this isn’t as simple as taking SD-6, or killing Arvin Sloane – there’s a whole big picture she isn’t seeing. She also insists that as soon as they take out SD-6, she wants “out” – and has to be talked into staying for the bigger picture, which isn’t her natural focus. Sydney has strong moral values and opinions, and sometimes straight-up lectures people about their immoral decisions, or those she disagrees with—she hates the idea that her dad has had someone killed to protect her, because that seems immoral, even though Jack points out that the man he framed for being a double-agent was “hardly innocent… he was deep within the Alliance.” Sydney struggles mightily with not being able to be honest with her friends and tell them the truth; she doesn’t like lying to them all the time, even if she’s good at it. She will opt for saving people’s lives over allowing them to be collateral damage, and won’t leave rescuing Marshall to anyone else. She is incredibly angry at Sloane most of the time, for being so emotionally detached; Sydney finds that impossible. She is goal-oriented, always wanting to see a direct result for her time and efforts, with the idea that once she’s finished, she is going to use her college education to get a normal job and a normal life. She can put aside her personal feelings to get things done occasionally, but more often than not, struggles to deal with her feelings. Sydney doesn’t care about the Rambaldi artifacts or their deeper meaning, so much as she wants to take direct actions to stop Sloane and other bad guys from getting their hands on dangerous technology.

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Counter-phobic 6s retain much of what’s good about being a 6, like the unshakable loyalty to those they love and to their country, but are also assertive types who confront their fears head-on. Sydney is one such 6. She trusts, then distrusts, then trusts again, at first being suspicious of her dad, then believing she can rely on him, being skeptical of her mom’s intentions, then wanting to believe the best of her. Back and forth on a constant pendulum of blind faith followed by anxiety and fear that she can’t trust them after all, including with Vaughn. She fiercely argues in his defense when interrogated about him at the CIA and refuses to compromise his trust by spying on him, but then directly confronts him about the possibility of being a double agent and keeping secrets that are causing his superiors to doubt his loyalties. Though a risk-taker, she’s unsure of her feelings and what to do about them, fearful for the safety of her friends once she knows the danger they are in, and determined to protect them. When she feels it isn’t safe, she tells Will to get the hell out of town and take Francie with him. Sydney can become too sure of herself at times, causing conflict between herself and others in her assertiveness. She is also warm, outgoing, and self-deprecating to become likable.