INTJ 5w4 Characters

Nicholas is a dreamer at heart, who sometimes refuses to accept the reality of the situation in favor of his ideal; the doctor accuses him of being someone who won’t believe anything unless he wants to, and who can’t face the fact that his son isn’t going to live very long. He is often morose and lost in his intellectual thoughts, wondering if pla­­nts have thoughts and are philosophical. He values his own intellect and looks down on others who do not have original thinking, and can be quite abstract at times (his wife says she doesn’t understand quite what he means a lot of the time, because he is vague and lofty in his ideals). He says that his bloodline never does anything at first sight, much less fall in love, yet we see him be impulsive at times as he shifts into lower Se (murdering his wife, then proposing to Miranda almost on the spot, and running after her to propose before a proper amount of mourning time has passed, and insisting they get married the next day). He leans into lower Se with his opium addiction, although he sequesters himself away from the world to do it. He is also very Te, in that he sees the feudal system as the proper way to do things; it makes sense to him that he owns all the land, and the farmers pay him for the right to work it, and he aggressively pushes back when they want the right to buy their farms off him. Nicholas is often detached in his reasoning, arguing against religion and for his political views, and doubling down on a low Fi insistence that he does not care to be like anyone else, or cares what others think of him and wonders why anyone else does. When mourning his son, he removes himself from his wife entirely and spends a whole week locked up in his tower room, rather than to talk about his loss. He becomes offended when she asks him what he’s doing in her room, since does he not own the house? As time goes on, he becomes more and more unhinged, giving himself over to addictions, hallucinations, and violent behavior, which is abnormal for his usual calm, cool detachment.

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Nicholas makes it known over and over again that he refuses to live by anyone else’s set of rules, or to live his life according to a ‘moral code’ set by anyone else; he answers only to himself, about himself, and he isn’t about to live by ‘ordinary’ standards or to ‘run with the pack,’ which he finds abhorrent. He frequently elevates his own intellect and encourages it in his second wife, but we subtly find out that he despises a lack of original thinking, and his feelings toward religion are full of contempt, because it tries to dictate how people act and is without rational thought in his mind. Nicholas refuses to change his mind about anything, because he assumes he is right, but he also has elitist thinking that is deeply attached to his aristocratic upbringing. He doesn’t see anyone else as his equal, and thinks others are beneath him, but also doesn’t care what anyone says about him or his wife or see why his wives should care what others say about them, since it’s all irrelevant and meaningless. He is withdrawn, refusing to dance ‘in public’ (but happy to do so at home) and all find him disconcertingly detached; his only concern when his wife falls ill is that no harm befalls his son and heir. Rather than move on after his loss of a child, Nicholas retreats into opium addiction and mulls over the tragedies of his life. He also says that nothing can be wonderful that’s shared with other people.

I won’t be typing his wife, but she’s a sexual 9w1 SFJ, as is usual for gothic romances.