ESFP 7w8 Characters

Rowdy is an opportunist who loves traveling around, never staying in the same place twice, and has a girl in every town he passes by. He acts before he thinks most of the time—in one episode he decides since they can’t ride behind sheep all the way (the sheep eat all the grass too close to the ground and leave none for the cattle), he will ride up to the sheep herd, fire his gun, and scare them in all directions, so the herder and his dog have to spend several days rounding them up, thus allowing him and his men to get the cattle through the valley and out the other side ahead of them. Rowdy promptly goes off and does this, not realizing that the herder is going to ride down the hill and do the same to his cattle in retaliation—sending three thousand steers into the brush. When his furious boss confronts him about this, Rowdy says he didn’t think that would happen. And so Mr. Favor says that’s his problem—he doesn’t think. He’s a good cattleman, but also an emotional one. In another episode, he finds out the truth about his father and falls in with him, but wants nothing to do with him because Rowdy can’t stand his low morals (he’s willing to shoot a man in the back to claim the reward, something Rowdy finds reprehensible, so he turns his father in to the police). Rowdy will go against his boss if he thinks what he is doing is right; he goes off to warn the sheep herders against anthrax on the east shore, even though his boss told him not to, and then stands with them, when Mr. Favor tries to stop them from crossing the river. He advocates for them to talk things through and reach a peaceable solution instead, because in the two weeks he’s spent with an injured sheepherder, he soon sees their point of view and care about their welfare. It took that personal connection, however, to make him care. Rowdy has some common sense, but not a lot of skill in planning, although he comes up with strategies from time to time about how to work around problems, get the herd moved quickly, etc. He shows no real long-term thinking and no interest in speculation about the future.

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Rowdy has a hot temper and a short fuse, but also a tendency to brush over pain and move forward. When tending to a sheepherder he hurt in a fight (he’s forced to travel with the sheep by his boss) and hearing all of his regrets about having killed his brother, he encourages the man to move on and let it go—much as Rowdy does when he rides away from places and leaves his cares there behind him. He also re-frames the situation where he stampedes the sheep (and the herder then stampedes their cattle in retaliation) as “just trying to be helpful.” His 8 wing shows in how reactive and aggressive he is; often he leaps into fights under the slightest provocation (he’s been insulted at a tavern or someone called him a bad name or spit at one of his friends). He’s a tough-talking man who often flies off the handle, and sometimes doesn’t know when he’s been licked.