ISTJ 1w2 Characters

Walt cares a lot about the details, and uses them to determine his expectations and figure out what needs a deeper investigation and what doesn’t; the minor fact that he did not find all the pieces of buckshot near an apparent suicide causes him to suspect it might be a murder investigation instead. He constantly references back to his past, to his experience in law-enforcement, and uses his previous experiences with people as a guideline for how he anticipates they will act in the future. Walt is solid and dependable, showing up for work on time and rarely going outside of his routine. He makes rational decisions, even at the cost of his personal feelings, and on his principles; just because he is best friends with a suspect does not mean he is allowed to break the law. At times, his methodical and logical way of crime-solving causes issues with his daughter, such as when he tracks her phone as a way to find out where a suspect lives (since she won’t tell him, due to attorney/client privilege). He knows the letter of the law so well, he can figure out workarounds when he truly wants to get things done, and he is offended when he isn’t called to testify in court as part of the justice system. Walt deeply internalizes his emotions and doesn’t talk about them; he never tells his daughter that her mother was mugged and killed rather than died of cancer in Denver, because in his words, it wouldn’t change anything, so what is the point? He holds onto her ashes for a long time, before being ready to bury them and move on. Initially, a therapist refuses to date him, because she says she deals with emotionally repressed men all day long at work, and doesn’t want to come home to it at night. His Ne is so-so; he doesn’t put much thought into theories without any basis in reality. And he is oblivious a lot of the time to intuitive leaps or connections; he gradually figures out who did it based on facts, and sometimes has a vague notion that “things don’t add up” but never knows whodunit immediately. Walt is oblivious to the fact that his best friend is leading a dual life, because he doesn’t think to look beyond the surface of his actions.

Enneagram: 1w2

Walt is stubborn in doing what he believes is right, whether or not it includes obeying the law; at times, he thinks the moral thing to do is to break the rules and find ways around them, to make bad guys pay for what they do. He also uses 1 to stop and harness his anger, and make him not do things he actually wants to do (such as beating up a suspect; in one episode, he’s about to hit him, then changes his mind and arrests him instead). His stubbornness becomes an issue whenever he refuses to compromise, such as when he’s being sued and he won’t back down; he would rather go through with a full-blown court trial than settle, and only reconsiders this when his ranch is threatened. Walt argues he is only trying to help people; he shows up and is there for them when necessary, offering moral support and guidance, helping his deputy pack her stuff, and being apologetic that he has to evict her from her ex-husband’s house. Walt sometimes shows his feelings with reacting through anger and punching people, rather than talks about what he is upset about.