ESTP 8w7 Characters

When we first meet Rigaud, he’s in jail for murder… and he wastes no time wherever he goes in blackmailing people, killing them, or leaping on whatever opportunity comes his way. Miss Wade hires him to follow a young man and keep his company, so Rigaud invades his life, spends all of his time hanging around the man’s hotel room, drinks his wine, and poisons his dog after the beast tries to attack him (rightfully seeing him as a threat). He is forever invading people’s personal space to intimidate them, from kissing Amy on the cheek and pinching Pet to threatening Mrs. Clennam in her own home. He notices a man guarding a box rather protectively in a tavern, immediately approaches him, gets him drunk, then kills him in the alley and takes the box, rifling through it and finding something with which to blackmail a woman he has never met. All of these actions gain him something, but he also gets the benefit of messing with people for his own amusement, including tormenting his former inmate whenever their paths happen to intersect. He gets nothing out of this except watching the man squirm and be made uncomfortable through his presence, any more than he benefits from the pleasure of exposing Mrs. Clennam’s secrets to Little Dorrit. His behaviors are all very much in the moment, with a total disregard for his future, but there are flashes when he has a sense of something going on that’s hidden beneath the surface, and he roots it out through some physical action or by piecing the truth together about someone’s past. He can be superficially charming, but mostly just comes across as creepy.

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Rigaud has no shame in going after whatever he wants, and going through anyone who stands in his way. He likes to scare people, even if it just involves barking at them to unsettle them, because he sees everyone else as being afraid of him—and most of them are, for good reasons. Rigaud doesn’t hesitate to throw his influence around, to use his physical presence to make a point, or to knife someone in the back, literally or figuratively. He’s also a cheerful man out for a good time, who drinks too much, sleeps around, and becomes a financial drain on others due to his overall enjoyment of whatever the world has to offer.