ISTP 8w9 Characters
Dominant Introverted Thinking – striving to understand how things work to hack existing systems: Rita is extremely logical, but also works on her own, and is not always that considerate of the emotions of those around her; the second time Cage goes through reliving the day, after he saves her life, she steals his electric pack off him and he winds up dead almost instantly (survival of the fittest in her mind). She doesn’t mind killing him or others to restart the day or for logical reasons. Rita is a woman of few words; she doesn’t talk a lot, and doesn’t appreciate him talking much, so she often tells him to shut up.
Auxiliary Extroverted Sensing – acting on what exists by living in the moment and hands-on learning: She has the respect of everyone on the team for how tough and skilled she is in combat situations. Rita throws her body into action and doesn’t hesitate, from killing creatures coming at her from all angles with little preparation needed to abandoning her suit, walking to a farm house, and figuring she can get the dilapidated chopper in the yard started.
Tertiary Introverted Intuition – specific insights and premonitions, and a singular state of mind: She intuitively knows to trust Cage after a certain point, so he doesn’t have to painstakingly recount his story over and over, and sets her will toward one objective, which she is convinced is true: the destruction of the Omega.
Inferior Extroverted Feeling – an awkwardness around emotions and little desire to meet others’ expectations: Rita showcases her low Fe in how immune she is to emotional dynamics, how disinterested she is in adapting to others to make them comfortable, and her general bluntness.
Enneagram: 8w9
Enneagram 8 – defiant and strong-willed, with a need to control their environment and assert themselves to get what they want: “Who said you could talk to me?” That’s our introduction to Rita, when Cage approaches her, and she shows the same tough, no-nonsense behavior throughout the story. He has to fight for every inch he gets with her, from finding out her actual middle name (she apparently lies to him about it to “get him to shut up” in an alternate day) to dealing with her tendency to shoot first, ask questions later. Rita is so dead-set on nobody controlling her, even after Cage tells her that she always dies when they reach this point of the day, she bull-headedly gets into the chopper and starts it up anyway. She just has to prove to him that nobody gets to tell her what to do, even if it means certain death—and she doesn’t believe she’ll die anyway. Multiple times, to end his version of the day and hit reset, she point-blank kills him without hesitation or remorse, and she mocks him for not being able to get out of his cuffs in fifteen minutes.
9 wing brings in a desire to mediate conflict by being the top dog whose peace nobody disturbs, with a gentle side: She doesn’t waste time with people, but instead wants to be left alone and to maintain an aura of indifference. She doesn’t want people to irritate her, and so she ignores them altogether, and gives them a hard time by being unreachable.
