ESFP 8w9 Characters

Ebony lives totally in the moment, and that’s what has gotten her into trouble with the law in the past (her drinking, her bad temper, her tendency to confront people instantly, etc). She takes things at face value and always believes in a concrete reality before anything else; she assumes the weird noises in her house are her kids being up after their bedtime, the flies are a problem in the basement, etc., until she starts seeing stuff she can’t explain, and THEN she knows something weird is going on. Her lower Ni kicks in and convinces her there is something wrong with her kids, something tormenting them, even if she doesn’t necessarily want to believe in something that intangible. But when she sees her eldest son trying to drown his brother, and then her kids start acting up in class, she can’t deny it and seeks ways to immediately bring it to an end (Te). A lot of what we see from Ebony is her sharp tongue, how she puts people in their place, and takes direct steps to make things happen, but a lot of it is also motivated from an emotional place. She gets mad because someone isn’t taking her kids’ problems seriously and wants to accuse her of things instead; her mother warns her to dial back her feelings or “they’ll take the kids away from you.” Ebony doesn’t talk about her relationship with her husband, which seems to be rocky, other than to demand her kids not go to him behind her back. She also insists on taking a call to her phone at work despite having a client, and expects her boss to just deal with it.

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Ebony is known for having a bad temper; in an early scene, after one of her kids gets hit in the head with a rock from a local bully, Ebony marches down the street and kicks that bully in the balls. Literally. She tells him if he ever messes with any of her kids again, she will “end him.” Her mother tells her that her temper is going to get her into trouble one day. Ebony has a short fuse, and doesn’t take any “lip” from her kids. In another scene, she smacks one of them across the mouth and makes it bleed, for which she feels remorse. But being a highly aggressive, combative person comes in handy when a demon starts taking over her family, because it gives her the defiant courage to stand her ground, rebuke it, seek out what help she can find, and “end” it. Often, her aggression brings out complaints in her kids and that makes her back down, or pull away, and we see growth in her character at the end of the film when she says she’s contacted their dad and is “willing to try and make this marriage work.”