ESFP 1w2 Characters

Rey is impatient and always wants to act here and now; he complains when it takes twenty minutes for them to check a car (“nobody is coming! Let’s check it out now!”) because he doesn’t think the suspect is coming back to it (and he’s right, they find a body in the trunk). He’s forever chasing people, tackling them, and even pretending to set them up to get them to talk (using baking soda in a bag to get a drug dealer to squeal on someone, otherwise “we’ll say we found this on you”). He also, many times, gets in the faces of suspects, slams people into walls, or yells at them to intimidate them (resulting in one of them peeing himself from fear). Him being very physical with people tends to tick Lennie off, and he reminds Rey on occasion that being so “immediate” isn’t always what’s “humane.” “You could have asked her parents that in three days and gotten the same answer, but it would have been a little more humane,” he tells him, after Rey ignores his advice to keep his mouth shut. Part of this aggression comes from his tertiary thinking function, which is blunt and wants to get the job done fast. Rey is often demanding, confrontational, and factual, but also shows a lot of personal, subjective moral judgments about everything. He doesn’t like Lennie passing the buck, taking freebees, and doing other things that aren’t by the book, but never reports him or tries aggressively to change him after airing his views. Whenever anyone comes onto him, he firmly points out that he is married. Rey is often so eager to get moving, he doesn’t see the big picture or think about the eventual consequences of his actions (being impulsive or bullying suspects can get evidence thrown out in court).

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Rey is extremely moralistic and opinionated about anything anyone else does wrong, from Lennie getting a “free special” at a restaurant (“in the Academy, we called that a bribe”) to his general distaste for law-breakers and those who cheat on their wives. He often makes disparaging remarks about criminals, and his boss has to pull him out of an interrogation room on several occasions, because Rey became belligerent and started harassing a suspect on his moral faults. He has a hot temper and tends to react quickly, even pulling a gun on someone who calls him a “spick” (Lennie drags him away and says “for a minute, I thought you were going to get our asses kicked!”). He has no problem asserting his authority, making ethical judgments, or leaping into action, since he reacts from the gut. He has incredibly high standards of behavior, which comes from his idealism. He’s forthcoming with his views, and proud to be serving his community in a way that makes a real difference, through being a cop.