Malicia’s MBTI type has quickly become a favorite topic among fans of The Amazing Maurice. In the film adaptation of Sir Terry Pratchett’s novel, Malicia displays the hallmark traits of an ENFP personality and aligns strongly with Enneagram 7w6. Her boundless imagination, narrative-driven thinking, and enthusiasm for turning everyday life into an epic adventure make her one of the story’s most vivid examples of Extraverted Intuition in action, constantly spinning possibilities, magical explanations, and heroic storylines wherever she goes.
ENFP 7w6 Characters
Why is Malicia from The Amazing Maurice an ENFP? Continue reading for my argument using cognitive functions! The headers for each section are clickable, so you can easily access more information about the dominant function and the Enneagram type, or discover more characters who share the type.
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Extraverted Intuition
Malicia is wildly enthusiastic about everything, and instantly puts together the truth when she meets Maurice and Keith. Once finding out the cat can talk, and meeting a talking mouse, he tricks him into answering her, then notices Keith is carrying a musical instrument, and accurately surmises they are working together to con people out of their money with a rat scheme, since she instantly connects their actions to random things she has heard about towns being infested by rats. She wants to join them on their adventure and solve the mystery of where all the food is going in her town.
Everything they encounter, she comes up with a wild, magical explanation for it, derived from all of her favorite books; she believes everything in them is real, and struggles to deal with the real world, which is “boring” most of the time. (She assumes Keith has a hidden super power, or will discover his magical abilities on his “hero’s journey,” or that he is the comedic relief, or maybe a love interest, even though he’s not good-looking enough for that… she just spins stories and narratives the entire time, some of them plausible and others totally unrealistic, while being frequently disappointed when things are realistic.)
Introverted Feeling
She has a strong sense of herself and her own opinions; but is not always aware of what other people are feeling or thinking. When Peaches excitedly mentions a favorite book, Malicia goes on and on about it being a stupid children’s book with an unrealistic ending, a place where “nothing bad ever happens,” without realizing that Peaches is becoming more and more upset, since she actually thought it was real. Maurice has to make her shut up before she notices Peaches is distraught. She often says what she thinks and feels without thinking about how it will be received; such as saying that Keith isn’t very good looking, or he’s not that talented, or she’s not attracted to him, or he’s an idiot for not knowing that it’s not about the music, but about him playing the music that will work to untangle the rats.
Extraverted Thinking
Once she knows Keith and Maurice are con men, she recruits them into helping solve their mystery and becomes bossy, telling them what to do and establishing what she feels are ‘realistic’ scenarios (some are, some aren’t). She states a lot of random facts about her life, without enhancing them (she knows how to pick locks, because her dad locks her out of her tower room since he thinks she reads too much; this or that book isn’t that great of a framing device, or had a bad ending). She bluntly tells Keith that since they are about to die, now would be a good time for him to admit his true feelings for her (because that’s what happens in books!).
Introverted Sensing
Malicia is actually pulling all of her expectations about how reality is ‘supposed to go’ from the fanciful novels she reads, rather than her own lived experiences. She assumes if this happened in a book, and it’s a repeating pattern, that it will happen in real life too—the good guys always win, the hero discovers something about himself on the way, Keith must be a changeling stolen away by faeries with a magical gift to charm animals, etc. It’s not until Keith buys into her narrative, and tells her that the hero and heroine always kiss at the end of a story, that she warms up to him romantically and kisses him back.
The Enneagram 7
“Enthusiasm” might as well be her middle name. Nothing is ever exciting enough for Malicia; she has to put a polish on it. She even makes a game out of sneaking around town and looking nonchalant by sneaking in and out of doorways, edging around lampposts, and picking locks with her hairpins. She is annoyed to break into the rat’s guild office and find a dusty old room full of a lot of junk, because she wanted something exciting to be lurking behind that door (ooh, there must be a secret trapdoor instead!). Even when the situation seems dire, she remains optimistic and looks on the bright side, assuming that one of them is going to manifest magical powers and break through the ropes. Rather than cope emotionally with her impending death via Pied Piper, she changes the subject and encourages Keith to tell her how he feels about her (and when he says she’s quite annoying, she doesn’t appreciate it).
The 6 Wing
Much like Maurice, but less rational, Malicia feels a sense of personal responsibility to the townspeople, to her rat friends, and to a cat she barely knows; she risks her life to save them all (but also for the fun of it, via 7!). She analyzes her way through situations, and comes up with creative theories, but also occasionally reveals a sense of awareness about the danger they are in, and her hope of avoiding it.
