ENTP 7w6 Characters
Dominant Extroverted Intuition—chasing after idealistic possibilities, conjuring up theories, and focusing on what’s happening in the bigger picture: Wyke makes his living writing famous detective novels, in which he has created a character rather like Sherlock Holmes, who cleverly solves crimes with his mind while outwitting the police. He also thinks on his feet and revises his own plans constantly when dealing with Milo. He has schemed an entire plot to “kill” Milo and mess with his mind, but when Milo turns the tables on him and engages him in a game of his own, Wyke starts continually improvising. We see him making up stories as he goes, amusing himself with wordplay and clever barbs, reframing situations in terms of what he will tell the police and how he will get away with it. He also dictates his books, since he can’t be bothered to write them down and does his best thinking out-loud. Everyone knows what a prankster and a troublemaker he is, along with what a braggart and a liar he can be when the situation suits him (Ne/Fe).
Auxiliary Introverted Thinking—looking for loopholes to exploit existing systems, and a desire for logical consistency: He is quite logical when explaining to Milo the reasons why he should get involved with defrauding the insurance company and steal gems from Wyke’s safe. (Are you prepared to keep my wife in the lifestyle that she has become accustomed to, after being married to me for a number of years? How much money has she spent already? Can you afford to keep her? If you scheme with me, I can ensure you have at least a hundred thousand dollars with which to start your new life abroad…) He is also known for his witty and clever books. Wyke loves puns, tongue twisters, games you need to figure out on a whim, puzzles, and all kinds of mental activities.
Tertiary Extroverted Feeling—gauging the emotional environment with a desire to influence it in their favor, and often being out of touch with their true feelings: His entire purpose in inviting Milo over for the day is to mess with his head, humiliate him, and scare him half to death. Wyke makes up lies about his own lifestyle, to lead Milo on and convince him that this scheme is in their mutual best interest (you can have my boring wife, I want to live with my mistress anyway). Rather than getting right to the point, he engages him in lively conversations, competes with him, shows him up at the pool table, cons him, and then frightens him, only to later reduce himself into a begging, emotional mess when trying to figure out the clues and save himself from being arrested for murder by the police. He likes to snub Milo and try to put him in his place with classism (your sort don’t belong with my sort’s wives!). He starts practicing what he intends to tell the police when he decides to shoot someone on the spur of the moment for humiliating him—and really, that is his main motivating drive, that Milo has humiliated him.
Inferior Introverted Sensing—skewed sentimentality toward particular items or beliefs, a loss of details: Wyke clutters up his house with sentimental objects attached to his books—hundreds of little playacting theaters devoted to each of his murder scenes, trunks full of costumes, and dozens of toys, games, puzzles, and old-fashioned things of all kinds. He waxes and wanes about the past, the class system in England, and traditionalism (where the landed gentry deserve more respect than the have-nots), and looks down on Milo for being half Italian compared to his own noble lineage.
Enneagram: 7w6
Enneagram 7—a playful and quick-witted optimist who stays in constant motion and is always looking to the future: Wyke has an innovative and fast-paced mind, devoted to enjoyment through provoking other people, playing mind games with them, introducing concepts, etc. Milo finds out when he talks to Wyke’s former mistress that his tendency to mess with people for laughs is notorious; he likes to set them up for a lark, often without any true regard for their feelings or potential trauma. As long as it amuses him, he loves it. And he frequently amuses himself—breaking out into song, engaging in ridiculous antics, delighting when Milo teases him back, tricking people with his toys, and setting off his laughing sea captain as the punchline to his jokes. He is also clever and impressed with his own intelligence, while looking down on the “shlubs” who work for the police.
6 wing brings in a desire for a solid support system and occasional self-doubts: It’s all fun until it isn’t, and then when Milo turns the tables on him, Wyke freaks out and starts nervously trying to ensure he won’t go to jail. He becomes doubtful and suspicious, but also believes Milo when he thinks he hears confirmation on the phone. The formerly clever and self-confident man starts trying to over-explain his actions, defend himself to the police, play up his likable tendencies, and finally begs Milo for clues and help to conceal a crime.
