ISFP 4w3 Characters

Aurora is highly emotional and filters all of her feelings through her own subjective reaction to things. This enables her to give Jim the silent treatment for months after she finds out he woke her up on purpose; she dwells in the pain this has caused her, how much he has changed her life, and how he has disrupted her ‘plan’ (she had everything all figured out). When in a healthier space, Aurora easily knows what she wants and goes after it. She immediately initiates sex upon dating Jim and moves in with him, because she feels things for him. But she can also turn around and use her aggression in other ways, such as when she sneaks into his room and beats him up, then thinks about whacking him with an axe in the middle of a temper tantrum. She spends a lot of her time exercising, running, and swimming in the pool, as a sensor who immerses herself into her environment. Aurora doesn’t read anything into waking up in advance, until she discovers the truth, showing that she takes things at face value. But she also had a firm, linear plan about what she wanted for her life and is very angry and upset when she doesn’t get it. Her inferior Te can be cutting when she’s mad; she wants direct solutions and doesn’t question things, so much as she tries to take advantage of immediate problem-solving techniques.

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When Aurora plays back a phone conversation from her friend on earth, her friend says that she has always known that Aurora lived a life of ‘frustration’ and dissatisfaction, that nothing ever felt ‘good enough’ for her, and she hopes Aurora will find something to make her happy in her new life on another planet. It’s true that Aurora is both highly emotional, and unable and unwilling to move on from her pain. She refuses to even think about Jim’s loneliness or the reasons he woke her up once she finds out the truth; she instead over-focuses on her own pain and anger over his betrayal and refuses to speak to him for months at a time. It’s only when she thinks that she might lose him, and that Jim might die to save everyone else, that she realizes she loves and wants him back, and agrees to help him. Then she saves his life, by going outside the ship to bring him back inside, and uses a medical tube to save his life. This is the push-pull between mid-level 4s, who hate the people in their life until they fear losing them, and then want them back again. Her 3 wing is flamboyant and extroverted; she wanted to go to the new world and experience it, then return to earth and write a story about it, without ever living a ‘normal’ life. This would have made her famous and fulfilled her need to be ‘seen’ as the only person in history to live on two different worlds.