ESFP 9w8 Characters
Dominant Extroverted Sensing – living in the moment, hands-on opportunism, and learning by doing: Furiosa is quick to adapt to and use her environment skillfully, in ways that prevent her from being captured or killed many times, but also cause her to take risks. As a child, she gnaws through a gas line to sabotage a motorcycle and almost escapes several times. She gets captured because she is messing with a stranger’s bike. Sensing a man intends to assault her, she creates a wig out of her own hair, so when he grabs her, she can slip out of it and flee. (She winds up clinging upside down to a pipe.) Then she goes to work as a mechanic, where she sneaks parts into a tanker rig along with a stolen/built motorcycle she intends to ride to her escape. She proves her effectiveness in battle to Jack when she helps thwart an assault on the rig, and winds up his copilot. Many times, she rushes into battle to save his life, or her own, even tearing free of her mangled arm to escape after the villain catches her and strings her up to watch her lover die. She hunts him down and shoots him in the head (if that’s the version of the story you want to believe).
Auxiliary Introverted Feeling—a self-knowledge and a desire to live under one’s personal values: Her sense of personal injustice and having had a wrong done to her drives her to seek vengeance on the man who murdered her husband and her lover in front of her (“I want back my mother and my childhood! Can you give that to me!?” she screams, while beating him around the head with a pistol butt). She makes emotional decisions at the cost of rational ones or her own safety—her mother tells her to abandon her and get away, but hearing her scream and a shot, she runs back to help her and gets caught. She endures questions with silence and indifference, choosing not to speak to anyone until she finds one person (Jack) she cares about. When he goes on a suicide mission in the tanker rig, she escapes, but turns around and goes back for him, almost getting killed. Her feelings of being kidnapped and almost assaulted lead her to empathize with the wives at the citadel and rescue them. She is quiet about her feelings, and shares them through actions (showing Jack the pit of the fruit her mother gave her, and asking him to come with her) rather than words.
Tertiary Extroverted Thinking—a desire to assess the facts of a situation and get things done efficiently: Furiosa is successful at doing things for an objective reason—to escape. She has no desire to torture the man who killed her mother, other than to sit with him in silence all day as punishment for his sins. When he tells her they are alike, she gets offended and rejects this in favor of her own values (Fi). But unlike a low Fe type, she does not make him suffer unnecessarily. She deals with him, tells him about his crimes, and kills him in retaliation for the suffering he caused her. Many times, she puts her emotions aside to make a rational judgment and decision, from keeping her mouth shut and pretending she can’t talk to the riggers to making a wig out of her own hair, stealing supplies from the Citadel, and building her own bike. When she meets Jack, she sees how useful he could be and learns to trust him.
Inferior Introverted Intuition—a desire to experience deeper meaning and a singular path, but sometimes being wrong in their intuitive conclusions: Furiosa only wants one thing—to get back to her homeland and her mother’s people, and she works toward that steadily with determination for fifteen years, but I saw little futuristic foresight. Only when she seeks revenge does she deviate from this one mission and goal, and she later adopts the wives into her desired outcome, by wanting freedom for them. She carries around her mother’s fruit pit and protects it until she can plant it in the body of a dead man, and let it bear fruit to inspire hope in her companions. Seeing that as a symbol of her future life and what she intends to accomplish.
Enneagram: 9w8
Enneagram 9—desires freedom from others’ influences, by going along with them and being tolerant, until it matters not to: Furiosa is a long-suffering and patient girl, who adopts stoicism in the face of persecution, cruelty, and abuse. She withholds emotional reactions from the man who forces her to see awful things. She can’t stand to ‘reward’ him with a response. Rather than protest, cry out, etc., Furiosa pretends to be a mute for fifteen years so she can go unnoticed. She is in this for the long haul and plays a long game of waiting, collecting what she needs, and planning. She initially does not want revenge, just to get away and go home.
8 wing brings in a tendency to assert oneself with strong but infrequent bouts of anger: … but all that changes after Jack dies in front of her. Furiosa draws from a deep well of wrathful anger and power to get things done. She kills people with a sniper rifle and blows them up with grenades. She saws off her arm and makes it back to the citadel by force of will, tears of rage sparkling in her eyes. Furiosa tells her boss if they find this guy, “he is mine,” and then hunts him down and kills him for what he has done to her. She identifies with the marginalized and oppressed and does not want to give anyone power over her.
