ESFP 3w4 Characters

Cressida starts out as a shallow woman who only cares about how she looks, and is interested in attracting the best kind of partner, but in season three, she proves how impulsive she can be. Forced to marry an old man who threatens her with a half dozen children and a boring life in the country with no socializing or attending plays, Cressida announces that she is Lady Whistledown, knowing that this confession will take her off the marriage market. She doesn’t stop to think that she’ll have to face the Queen, who has a beef with Whistledown, possibly prove it (she can’t write well and must enlist her mother’s help to fake the evidence), and that she will lose her liberties and social standing, forcing her into the kind of life she actually doesn’t want, and making her ‘make a run for it’ by fleeing London. She just acts in the moment, and leaves the consequences for later, dealing with them as things arise. Cressida has trouble landing a proper suitor because she doesn’t easily know how to charm others; she has a sharp tongue and knows her own mind, and what she thinks, and isn’t afraid to state it most of the time. She can be quite blunt, but also speaks the truth when she tells Eloise to get over her hangups with her old friend, to focus more on what’s happening now, and that she feels as if Eloise “used her” to get over Penelope. When push comes to shove, Cressida does manage to get herself out of the messes she creates, but she shows very little long-term thinking (low Te/Ni).

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Cressida cares about being in the top tier of life, being accepted, and being admired; in her brief stint pretending to be Lady W, she gets a lot of attention for it and loves every minute of it, but the second that turns into social scandal and everyone not liking her anymore, Cressida wants an “out” and feels remorse for having sacrificed her reputation on a gamble that is so easily disproven. She ‘fakes it’ but can’t make it, then winds up taking charge of her own life as soon as she can to escape the scandal and boredom of being stuck at home or packed off to the country. Her 4 wing is quite snooty and elitist in the first season; she’s rather mean, and something of a bully toward anyone whose taste is subpar. Later, she learns how to be a bit nicer and feels bad about the “nasty things” she and her mother wrote about the Bridgertons.