Harry Vanderspeigle MBTI & Enneagram | Resident Alien

INTP 5w6 Characters

Harry is very detached and analytical in how he handles problems; he finds humans interesting and likes to study them, but does not want to get emotionally involved with them. He is so logical, others fail to understand him or his off-brand sense of humor, which he tries to cover up with low Fe general awkwardness (laughing when he wants them to not take what he let slip too seriously). As the series goes on, he becomes more and more “low Fe” – he complains that when around certain humans, he starts to “feel what they are feeling” and is aggravated by it. He begins to feel responsible for them and has to act on their behalf (he turns his truck around and goes back to protect someone). He finds the entire experience of his awakening emotions to be painful, as he becomes “more human” just by being around them (he does not want Asta to leave him, since “it hurts”). When jealous, Harry becomes quite competitive and demands attention by drawing it to himself, and using others to validate his self worth (they liked him before they ever met the new doctor!). He often becomes emotional when stressed or gets into arguments with a child, in which he tries to threaten, scare, or demean him, and is irritated if it doesn’t work. Harry at all times tries to keep his “mission” (destroy the humans) in the forefront of his mind and intentions, even as he becomes interested in humans and life on planet earth, and tries to experience as much of it as possible. He learns fast how to appear human-ish, even if he doesn’t fully know how to interact as a real person; and sometimes, he doesn’t think about the consequences of his decisions in a Ne-ish way (assuming he won’t be on the mountain long enough for the body to get discovered of the man whose face he stole). He is opportunistic in how he solves problems (stealing a child’s foreskin to pass off as human DNA from a corpse) and quite eccentric, but also uses low Si in his continual comparisons between human life and his own life on another planet. He likes to reference what is familiar, struggles to adapt to what is not, and eventually finds the human way of living quite pleasant when it involves his sensations (pizza is delicious!). How he learns is to watch movies, television shows, and other animals and people and to mirror them.

Enneagram: 5w6

Harry is super detached and focused on carrying out his mission by being competent; he thinks everyone else is a fool compared to his superior intelligence, and looks down on the human race as getting most things wrong. Rather than ask for or expect help, he isolates himself from the humans and is annoyed when others intrude on him. His lack of a decent bedside manner makes him a doctor who routinely insults others without meaning to, and who tries to be objective at all times (this one is dying of cancer, that one is fat, let’s see your ___ now). Harry becomes increasingly irritated by his own human feelings as the series unfolds, and becomes more reactive and emotionally attached. He can’t help feeling like he should help a woman when he leaves her with her abusive boyfriend, and goes back to tear him through a wall and strangle him for daring to hit a woman half his size. Harry becomes fond of the kid who sees him as an alien, almost against his will, and then comes to trust him and even sometimes rely on him for help on the rare occasion he can’t handle something for himself. But most of the time, he wants to be isolated, and learn by mimicry and assumes that any problems that arise are coming from his compromised inability to remain disinterested and analytical about humans (ie, he has too many feelings now and he resents it, since it makes him not do his job properly).