ISTP 5w6 Characters

Werner has an exceptional talent for taking apart and rebuilding radios or even making them from pieces of scrap laying around the orphanage; he beats all of his classmates at putting together a working radio, which singles him out as important and gets him sent to the front lines. He can repair almost anything, using whatever he has on hand; when forced to fix an officer’s wife’s ratio without any tools, he improvises using chewing gum to complete the circuit. Werner is very present and technical, using his hands and his brain, but not thinking beyond the present moment in the risks he takes. He fearlessly charges through an exploding city to get to Marie and defend her from attack, then uses the room around him to his advantage in a fight, and tries to garrote a man. He kills the boy sent to watch him and dumps his body into a carousal on fire to hide the evidence, and is sometimes caught out in public looking for wire to fix his radio. He listens to Marie’s broadcast in public view of others, not realizing it could get him shot. But a part of him, the intuitive side of him, recognizes truth and beauty in the professor’s abstract concept-driven messages. He longs to hear them, takes pleasure in their beauty, and holds onto them as a hope in a darkened world. His emotions are subdued, and he rarely shows them, but he deeply cares about Marie and the professor, having come to know both through listening to them over long periods of time.

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He’s super analytical and withdrawn, he doesn’t make friends easily, and he would risk his personal safety (and that of his sister) just for the pleasure to hear a broadcast that is “intelligent.” Werner considers the professor’s radio broadcasts a “lifeline” in the darkness of the world, a bright spot of intuition, hope, and insight in a world that is increasingly trying to separate him from wisdom and knowledge. It’s only when the Gestapo show up that he realizes having a radio is dangerous, and even then it doesn’t stop him; he thrives in academic places where he can use his technical skills and talent to good use. He occasionally shows 6 wing awareness of the risk he brings to his sister and their friends with his hobbies and interests, and becomes more anxious about being watched, but doesn’t hesitate to leverage what he knows to his own advantage to protect Marie and keep her safe.