INTP 6w5 Characters

Simon is highly logical and analytical, and doesn’t see room for hope where his feeler friends are more content to want to believe that Maddie will come back to them; he points out that her blood was found in the boiler room, and that her boyfriend had her phone, and he only accepts that he is seeing her ghost when he can make sense of it. The two of them then embark on finding out the truth of what happened, so they can bring the murderer to justice. Maddie took everything at face value, but Simon does not; he points out to her that he ‘told her’ that her boyfriend was a jerk, and she wouldn’t listen to him. Simon saw his ‘true’ nature as a cheater, and was shocked that she had no intuitions about him, so it doesn’t surprise him to find out Xavier cheated on her. Simon switches between theories about who did it, throwing ideas out there and running with them, until he finds a dead end, then he picks up another thread, comes up with a new theory (in direct opposition to the previous train of thought) and runs with that, until he exhausts all of his logical resources. He is methodical about how he gathers information, but at times, impulsive and oblivious to his surroundings (he has to pretend he is talking on his iPhone, so people don’t think he has lost his mind; he also steals information right off a man’s desk in front of him). Simon’s low Fe gets upset when Maddie is rude or inconsiderate, or draws attention to him when he does not want it. He loses his temper a few times in public and has to be talked down (even starts a physical fight with Xavier at school). It’s hard for him to process Maddie’s loss, and he often withdraws from other people to try to make sense of it, or takes a little comfort in discussing it with those he cares about; but he can forget to involve other people in his process.

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Simon, unlike Maddie, is way less invested in having a positive perspective about the people she loves and cares about; he is suspicious of everyone and everything, instantly assuming the worst about people that have been in their lives for a long time (he thinks it’s creepy that she has her English teacher’s phone number, and thinks he may have murdered Maddie; then he suspects their mutual best friend of being an obsessive stalker; all this after being convinced that Xavier killed her and confronting him in front of people). Simon questions, analyzes, and interrogates people, never quite sure of their motives or even of his own thinking; he thinks Maddie is dead, in blatant disregard of the ‘delusional’ thinking of the more positive types around them, and then when he sees her reflection in a mirror, assumes he has gone crazy and/or he is seeing her as a ‘coping’ mechanism to deal with her abandonment. While warm and outreaching to other people, Simon also withdraws from them to solve problems on his own, has limited interests, and can get overly invested in his own rational process.