INFJ 6w5 Characters

Ryan is a bit of an enigma, because she spends most of the movie in crisis mode—and she does not deal well with it, in contrast to her ENTP fellow astronaut, who keeps things light and adapts quickly to a changing environment. She gets so focused on what she’s doing, it’s hard for her to stop in time to avoid the debris field, which knocks her around pretty bad, and almost loses her in deep space. She went into a very abstract profession / field, and is singularly focused on whatever task she is performing, ignoring the environment and often reacting badly to it (inferior Se). Inferior Se problems plague her from start to finish—she’s not good at reacting quickly, at knowing where she is spatially, or at orienting herself to an unfamiliar environment. She makes it out of bad situations by the skin of her teeth most of the time, and is inactive, shocked, or unable to figure out what to do if it means reacting to something going on around her. INJ types are out of their depth in real-world situations, much less deep space, because they went there to do one thing (Ni) and now have to adapt to a rapidly-shifting environment with a function that doesn’t handle it well (inferior sensing). Beyond that, she’s intelligent and compassionate, wanting to save her friends even though it’s irrational to do so and might get her killed; the shock of losing them sends her into an emotional state, and the relief if being inside the space station causes her to curl up like a fetus to recover. She becomes deeply emotional when she hears earth, but realizes they can’t understand or communicate with her, and she assumes she is going to die alone in space; this makes it impossible for her to do anything, much less think logically. Ryan is good at figuring out how to fix things, but also a little slow at it – she doesn’t realize she can repurpose working implements on a space station pod to serve a new purpose at first, since that’s not what they were designed for (Ti is skilled at figuring out “hacks,” but lower Ti takes time to do this). Eventually, Ryan becomes determined to survive and manages to save herself, after she realizes how to help herself.

Enneagram: 6w5

Ryan is clearly a head type, in that she has to mentally process everything as it’s happening and can’t just work off her gut instincts. This slows her down a lot in the midst of the crisis, because she needs to figure out logically what to do, rather than just react to it with her survival instincts. She is slow to realize she can adapt things to her needs (using functions for something other than their programming, such as landing bursts for propulsion) until she’s had time to calm down, and even that is after she has become resigned to her impending death and not tried to do anything about it (she dreams or hallucinates her dead friend, who tells her how to get out of this situation). Ryan doesn’t trust herself, either – she failed the flight simulator so many times, she’s convinced she can’t do it now either, and has to be encouraged by others to do things on her own power and get herself out trouble; being disconnected from them and from Nasa makes her feel “alone” in the universe. Her 5 wing wants to double down and avoid reality as much as possible; Ryan became a hermit and pulled away from everyone after her daughter’s death, retreating into her work and shrinking rather than enlarging her comfort zones.