Sally MBTI & Enneagram | The Nightmare Before Christmas

ISFP 6w7 Characters

Sally has an enormous problem with being held prisoner by her creator; she doesn’t see any reason to obey him even though he brought her to life, and repeatedly resists his attempts to control her and keep her a prisoner inside their home. She doses him with sleeping potions many times to escape into the outside world, where she wants to spend all of her time. Sally doesn’t want to go along with the scheme to take over Christmas, and tells Jack she thinks it’s a bad idea, even though the entire town gets behind him. She has no reason other than that it feels wrong to her, a bad thing to do, and has a sense that it’s all going to go wrong in the end. She has trouble admitting to her feelings for Jack in verbal ways, instead bringing him food, following him around, and ‘stalking’ him from the shadows. She is impulsive and impatient to get her life going, climbing out her window to escape, going into the town, and haunting the graveyard at night. She flings herself out of a second story window, then calmly sews back on the limbs that came off. Impulsively, she rushes off to rescue Sandy and gets herself captured in the process. She often reacts in the moment, whether that involves trying to prevent Jack from leaving town by pouring fog into the fountain, to using a spoon with holes in it to convince the mad scientist that she hasn’t dosed his soup again. She shows flits of lower intuition; though she has no proof, she believes this is a very bad idea, that Jack needs to not do this, that it won’t end well—and she’s right. She has a premonition that causes her to act against his plans and prevent them, but can also be short-sighted. She gets dragged home all the time, despite her frequent escapes, and uses that tactic so much, the professor becomes suspicious toward her. Sally can be rational; she tells the professor that she wants to leave, and he can create other creatures like her, so he doesn’t need her for company.

Enneagram: 6w7

Sally is fairly extroverted and impatient in her proactive thinking; she doesn’t wait around to be rescued, but instead, challenges, drugs, and repeatedly escapes from the mad scientist holding her prisoner, in her desire to get closer to Jack. She sneakily convinces him the soup is safe to eat using a spoon with holes in it. Sally wants to leave her small life and explore, and is frustrated because she’s without any stimulation. She warns Jack that what he is doing is ‘wrong somehow,’ and she worries about it going badly and backfiring on him and hurting him. Sally is often fretting, but also thinks she can convince Jack to change his mind through conversation, warnings, and appeals. Sally doesn’t want him to take this risk, to avoid being his true self, and she cautions him to not want to seek out what is missing, in favor of being true to himself. Sally is fearful about what he is doing, and worries about tragedy being at hand, but also hopes that she is wrong. She can’t “shake this feeling that I have that the worst is just around the bend.”