MBTI Type: ESFJ
Dominant Extroverted Feeling—ease of emotional communication and shaping their actions around how their decisions affect others: Chief frames all of his decisions around how they affect others, which also makes him fantastic at rallying his people, keeping up their morale, and knowing how to motivate them to work together on the Galactica. For example, in one episode, he builds a new fighter ship from scratch. Initially he’s doing it by himself, but people gather around him and everyone gets involved, from those who do communications to his flight deck crew. On New Caprica, he’s a fierce underground resistance fighter, who has no problem telling people if they work with the Cylons, they will get strung up one day (“and people like you and me, we’ll be tying the knots” he tells one of his friends, not realizing he’s working for the underground police). Chief is instant in his emotional reactions and goes off of his basic ideas of humanity; he does not see a Cylon being a machine as a reason not to treat them as a human being, and is almost executed by Admiral Caine for killing one of her officers during the rape of a Cylon agent. It just guts him to do anything to cause anyone harm, such as when he wakes up from a nightmare and beats the hell out of Cally before he realizes who she is and that she’s not a Cylon. He breaks off his relationship with Boomer, because “this isn’t just about you and me now, it’s affecting other people.” He doesn’t want to keep lying and hiding their relationship when it puts his flight crew at risk.
Auxiliary Introverted Sensing—working with what exists and their personal history to make an immediate impact: He can build the Blackbird, a new stealth fighter ship, because of his extensive history rebuilding fighter jets on board their spaceship. Chief is comfortable getting up and doing the same thing every day, working with all the same machines, and develops strong relationships with all of his crew (FeSi). He takes things at face value and tries to live each day as if it holds equal importance. He is one of the best repair chiefs in the fleet, because of his extensive knowledge of planes and older technology, even if another chief’s remarks about his antiquated Battlestar provoke his temper. Chief rarely speculates about what might happen, and this means…
Tertiary Extroverted Intuition—an interest in many possibilities and in seeing connections between unrelated ideas: … he is clueless about Gaeta being the agent who is working with him in the Resistance on New Caprica. He doesn’t know one of his closest friends joined the Cylon police force, because he doesn’t think he would be a “coward and a traitor.” Even though no one has ever created a stealth ship before, Chief believes they can do it, and figures it out as he goes along. He has an optimistic perspective about life, and hopes for the best for everyone he knows, except when things get really hard on New Caprica, and then he fantasizes about revenge.
Inferior Introverted Thinking—critical under stress, can get hung up on the “logic” of things: Chief is great at figuring out how planes work and putting them back together, but can also be critical and angry under stress. He rants about having no good machinery to work with, and telling off his pilots for taking such poor care of their machines. Driven to extremes on New Caprica, Chief becomes uncharacteristically inhumane and believes in suicide bombers and in executing enemies of the state.
Enneagram: 9w8
Enneagram 9—desires freedom from others’ influences, by going along with them and being tolerant, until it matters not to: Chief is good-natured and doesn’t care if he bends the rules in his desire to be with Boomer. He just assumes the consequences won’t catch up to them, and it shocks him when his own men wind up in the Brig for lying about their relationship to cover for them. On his better days, he is tolerant and compassionate, using empathy and kindness to motivate his crew rather than being strict, and he tells off people a few times for haranguing his deck crews, who are working their butt off for the Fleet. However…
8 wing brings in a tendency to assert oneself with strong but infrequent bouts of anger: Chief is a powder keg waiting to go off. He has a ferocious temper that causes him to punch superior officers in the face, leads him to attack a man who is trying to rape Sharon/Boomer with such aggression he winds up killing him, and who becomes ruthless on New Caprica. He incites riots and bombings, recruits suicide bombers and disagrees with Laura Roslin that it’s an immoral thing to do, he will line up and shoot people who worked with the Cylons, and he plans the assassination of President Baltar.
