ESFJ 9w1 Characters

Daniel is primarily driven by his compassion and his gentle feelings for others; he loves his daughter more than life, and centers his entire world around her. He tries hard to keep her mood bright and cheerful even when they must flee Paris, by pretending to take her on an exotic vacation. He reassures her that where they are going is nice, and that they are going to be safe there. When she and Etienne get into an argument, he doesn’t want her to be disruptive and to be respectful of Etienne’s feelings. He believes in doing a greater good for France, but also prioritizes his daughter’s safety. He is more physical and tangible than anyone else in his family. When they move to a new city, he builds her a model of the streets, meticulously and painstakingly walking them all, counting his steps, writing them down, and then building dozens of tiny houses, cathedrals, and streets, into a three-dimensional map that she can use to feel her way along. He was a responsible museum curator, who held all the keys, and immediately takes the jewels he knows they are after and sneaks them out inside of a T-Rex head. He struggles at times to grasp the bigger picture, not realizing that his actions will draw undue attention to them from the Gestapo. He also trusts what he knows, namely that his forged papers will fool the Nazis because he had a reliable museum artist draw them. Daniel enjoys listening to the broadcasts that are so meaningful to his daughter and sometimes uses picturesque or metaphorical things in his conversation with his daughter. He is technical enough that he can hot-wire an old car to steal it, so they can drive the rest of the way to his uncle’s house.

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“Marie, now you’ve upset him,” Daniel says at one point. It bothers him when she pushes Etienne to leave his comfort zone and go out into the world, where she believes he is “needed.” Daniel does not want her to moralize at him, to make anyone in the house upset, or to face the horrors around him. He is sweet and generous and compassionate and naïve, not realizing that counting his steps and taking notes will be seen as anything other than building a model for his blind daughter to use to find her way around the city. He assumes he will return in a week and that their plans will all go well. Daniel is able to stay calm in intense situations, but also becomes anxious under stress, as he moves toward 6 more. He gets nervous and worries that they cannot make it out alive, then is comforted by his daughter and told that it will all turn out okay. He doesn’t want her involved in the Resistance, out of fear she might get hurt, but is also proud of her for not being afraid. He believes in standing his ground and is able to withstand torture without telling a Nazi what he wants to know, to protect his daughter.