ISTP 9w8 Characters

Tom is detached enough from his external environment to make quick, tactically advantageous decisions based on purely logical outcomes. He has analyzed Liz so completely as to have a sense of who she is, so that he can predict her next movements. In a crisis, Tom does not panic, but remains cool and clear-headed (for example, when he is nearly caught by Liz in his hideout while burning evidence, he immediately knocks her to the ground and slips away). Without his ability to charm, Tom could not have pulled off an entirely different persona, that of the “down-to-earth, normal teacher” with subtle ISFJ overtones, in his falsified desire to “just have a family” and his “traditional” way of thinking. Tom reads the emotional environment and uses it to his advantage. He knew how to give Liz just what she wanted. He pays close attention to his physical environment and has no trouble fitting into it seamlessly; he is a tremendous risk-taker and unafraid to use brutal force when necessary to complete a task. Tom enjoys purely physical sensations and is nearly led astray outside his marriage by a sexually aggressive “fellow teacher.” In life and death situations, Tom turns to his physical environment for solutions—using the world around him and objects in it to his advantage. He is good at assessing facts and situations and people objectively. His intuition tells him when Liz has “found out the truth” and suspects him, even though her behavior does not dramatically shift. Tom has invested in this marriage for the long term, showing his patience and ability for strategic long-term visualization and planning. He considers the consequences of his actions and what impact they will have down the line.

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Tom keeps a cool head even in an intense situation; when Liz finds his hideout and breaks in to find out who is after her, he calmly burns all the evidence, knocks her out, and slips away without being caught. When others tell him to ditch his job and get out because she has found out the truth, Tom refuses to listen to them and insists that he will know when it’s time to leave. Tom does so, after subtle hints clue him into her being on to him—and he does so gracefully, by offering to take the dog for a walk and never coming back. He tells her he doesn’t want to hurt her, though he knocks her around to protect himself when she tries to detain him. He acts like a passive-aggressive husband—responding to her workaholic behaviors by leaving food out where she can see that he prepared it, going out without telling her where he’s going, and hanging out with other women at the bar. Tom can be assertive and direct, even dangerous when he needs to be, and has no trouble establishing boundaries. He doesn’t plan on sleeping with a co-agent, even though she aggressively comes on to him and kicks her out of his hotel room.