ESTP 7w8 Characters

Ferris lives purely in the moment, although he planned out his entire day to set everything up to con his parents into thinking he’s sick. He rigged up ways to propagate this lie even in his absence, including a dummy to sleep and “breathe” and snore for him, whenever anyone opens the door, and an answering system both on the front bell and on his girlfriend’s home phone. Ferris is hyperactive and always has to be doing things, and is quick to charm people and insert himself into the middle of situations—he makes up an identity on the fly in a restaurant and quickly plays a telephone prank to convince the matre’d of him being a professional businessman. He takes his friends to a tall building and convinces them to press their noses against the glass. He takes an expensive far for a joy ride, and he races home to get there before his sister “busts him” for his day out. At no point does Ferris think about or care about how these behaviors could get him expelled or forced to spend another year in high school, because who cares about tomorrow? He’s clever, smart, and funny, with an explanation for everything and total assurance that he can skate by on charm alone—and the way everyone in school, the local police department, and even the entire town is falling all over themselves with admiration for him shows he can schmooze people successfully. He does care about his friend Cameron, but it seems somewhat superficial at first, until he offers to take the heat for wrecking Cameron’s dad’s car, so Cameron won’t be in serious trouble. That shows he has a good heart, even if he’s always getting people to do whatever he wants.

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Ferris has no interest in being bored in school when he could do fun things on a “wonderful” spring day outside, including coercing his best friend into letting him borrow his father’s car, driving it into the city, manipulating his way into the best restaurant in town, and pulling a fast one over on his principle. He has had 9 “sick days” and/or avoided school for the last few months, enough that the principle threatens him with being held back and having to complete another year of high school. Ferris doesn’t care about that; he sees the future as coming, the present as interesting, and argues that one ought to take advantage of opportunities as they arise. Though often unapologetic in being self-centered, Ferris also re-frames his intentions to paint himself in a good light for the audience—he is really doing this for his friend Cameron, who is “wound a little tight” and could use “a fun day out.” Ferris shows a smidgeon of responsibility for his actions after Cameron wrecks his father’s car by telling him, “I’ll take the heat for this; your father hates me anyway,” but most of the time, he sees no problem with stretching the truth and/or flat out lying to get what he wants, including manipulating his parents, sweet-talking others, tricking various authority figures, stealing, and other shenanigans.