ISFP 9w8 Characters

Jesse acts on whatever she feels, without hesitation—when she realizes Lestat has been concealing lyrics to expose a vampire coven in his songs, she immediately packs up and goes there, to the shock of her colleagues in the department (it’s not her place to do that, since she isn’t a scholar and has no authority). When she wants to see Lestat again, she gets herself picked to be one of his feeding groupies and goes to his house, with no fear of what might happen to her there. She takes pleasure in him jumping her around the city and in showing her a good time. Though initially shocked at the violence of a vampire attack, Jesse decides it’s not wrong for her to become one and when her life is threatened, says “it’s time” (for this to happen). Since she’s not fleshed out well, she doesn’t really show any lower functions, although she is the only person to accurately interpret his lyrics by comparing them to what she knows of the history of the region and to theorize that vampires exist and she now knows where to find them. When she realizes she’s been foolish to enter a vampire den unprotected, she tries to protect herself by claiming that she belongs to Marius—an impulsive thing to do, since she doesn’t know whether or not he’s in the club. Their reaction makes it apparent it’s time for her to leave (an example of low thinking — getting into a dangerous situation and then not knowing how to extricate yourself, other than to give a firm no and walk away).

Enneagram: 9w8

Jesse gets herself into dangerous situations out of a naïve trust in the goodness of vampire-kind; even though it’s dangerous and foolish to go to a vampire dive alone, she doesn’t second-guess her decision to sneak in until she attracts an undo amount of bloodthirsty attention. She decides from the gut, based on what she feels, rather than by an objective criteria—if she wants to meet Lestat, she goes where she can attract him; she even decides that she wants to give up her mortality and become a vampire, when Akasha tells Lestat to kill her out of jealousy. Though she is appalled at Lestat murdering a woman in front of her, she goes along with whatever he wants to do, and is at risk of losing herself in him. She shows a little anxiety under stress as she rethinks her decision to put herself at risk, but never really questions her own thinking or relies on anyone else to provide solutions for her. I see little in the way of a wing, but she is fairly assertive in drawing boundaries with vampires and has no super-ego hang-ups about becoming one (or offering someone else immortality—“do you want to try it?”).