ISFJ 6w5 Characters

Rory is very much a methodical creature of habit, who likes to be on time, study for tests in advance, and has a great capacity to remember details so that she can ace all her classes. She likes comfort and routine – the day before she’s about to start Chilton, she considers staying in Stars Hollow because of “a boy” who talked to her, because she’s really afraid of change. She needs time to think before she makes major decisions and has always had her heart set on attending Harvard… only to decide when she reaches college age that she would rather attend a school meaningful to her grandparents. She likes to watch and rewatch the same movies over and over again, listen to the same kinds of music, and keep her life as peaceful and neutral as possible. She is a direct contrast to her mother, in that where Lorelai refuses to be inauthentic with her Fi, Rory’s argument is often if it pleases her grandparents and she’s doesn’t really care, why not do it for their sake? She often wants to come clean and be honest within her relationships, which her mother warns her is a bad idea – hearing her own “I kissed Tristan” story as told to her mother, as she intends to tell Dean, Rory reaches the conclusion that she is “an awful person.” She has no problem forming rapid assumptions about people and telling them off; she informs Tristan, despite his numerous attempts to get her to go out with him, that she would never do it in a thousand years. When Paris asks if she likes Tristan, Rory answers a big and definite, unchanging “no!!” She can be impulsive in following what her instincts tell her to do, such as when she becomes the “other woman” in Dean’s life, and later, becomes a man’s weekend mistress, with no thought for his wife’s feelings. Her mother judges it from a strong Fi standpoint, wheras Rory tries to make excuses rationalizing it.) When her mom breaks up with her professor, Rory asks her questions in an attempt to “understand” where her mother is coming from. She uses her Ne to banter with her mother, come up with alternative perspectives to frame into their arguments with each other, and to freak out under stress. She can become impulsive whenever she’s running away from things – kissing Tristan at school, stealing a boat, and endangering her future prospects through brief whims.

Enneagram: 6w5

I’ve gone back and forth a few times between 9 and 6 for Rory, but I think she’s more of a head type. She’s always planning out everything, trying to take on too much of a workload, then getting upset at herself if she’s not getting straight A’s in all of her classes (9s tend to be more chill). She over-thinks almost everything and freaks out easily, so her mother often has to talk her off the ledge whenever Rory starts worst-case scenario thinking (she won’t get into school and she’ll wind up homeless someday). She’s easily able to keep up with her mother’s witty banter, but is also more responsible and annoyed with Lorelai’s mistakes or poor decisions (eating week-old pizza). Rory is more of a peacekeeper who doesn’t want things to go wrong with her grandparents, and who thinks she is a “bad person” for not having the right reactions to things (“she’s my great grandmother, shouldn’t I cry? What if I don’t cry at the funeral! What will Grandpa think?”). Her 5 wing is very withdrawn and doesn’t like to get involved in too much “living” – for example, she tells Paris that maybe while in Florida on spring break, they should do “spring break” things instead of hiding in their room watching the same thing they’ve seen 4/5 times… so she walks to the door, looks out at the teeming mass of people outside, and decides to stay indoors and watch her movie after all. Rory buries her nose in books and ignores the outside world as much as possible; she can be a bit of a literary snob and, as she gets older, sometimes miscalculates with people and/or job interviews because she assumes she’s the smartest person in the room. Other people putting her down just makes her determined to work harder, and she tries to put a unique spin on everything she writes for the paper (5s like to mine things for unique angles).