ISFP 9w8 Characters

Davinia has an intense connection to her emotions, which are deeply internalized and dictate most of her decisions. She resents having others influence or control her, and will go against and even punish them if she believes they are immoral (even Elijah experiences pain, because she judges his blood-drinking as wrong). Davina intentionally pushes away from others when defining who she is and what she wants, and prioritizes those she cares about most. She refuses to compromise on anything she believes strongly in, causing Vincent to chastise her for not playing nice with the covens. Instead, she deems them as her enemies and pushes away from them, insisting on ruling them through fear rather than inspiring their loyalty. All the time her mother and others were preparing her to become a sacrifice, Davinia naively took the situation at face value and believed them. Once Marcel rescues her from death and places her in the attic, she quickly becomes bored and longs to engage with the outside world. She draws and paints but likes interacting with her environment and the Quarter more. Davina is impulsive and makes risky choices in pursuing what she wants; she does not always think through the consequences of her decisions in the moment. Though the past influences her feelings toward the witches, she refuses to live in it and instead wants to move forward. She learns magic quickly through hands-on experience and adaptation, and can leap on chances to act prematurely. Her inferior Ni shows in many of her short-sighted decisions (Marcel warns her that certain actions will cause conflict with the witches, but she does it anyway) and her fierce determination to cling to a certain interpretation or intention once she has made up her mind. Without much prodding, Davina can put her foot down, and once she knows what she wants, there is no shifting her course. She is objectively logical, assessing people easily with the facts and using them to build toward what she wants. Davina can be a schemer, and come up with plans, but her emotions completely control her decisions. She can be blunt and even cruel when trying to control or punish others.

Enneagram: 9w8

The withdrawn triad (4/5/9) all move away from others to get what they need or want and intend to solve their own problems—which is Davina in a nutshell. She is self-confident almost to a fault, arrogant in assuming she can use magic, and wants to hold onto it for 8 wing reasons—to protect herself and her autonomy, and to get revenge on those who have wronged her. She shows a 9ish innocence at first, admitting that she never once suspected the witches intended to sacrifice her and her friends, and then going along with Marcel’s desire to keep her safe in the tower, but she dips regularly into assertive behaviors—attacking those who come after her, threatening their lives, using blackmail against them, etc. Davina both gets along with Elijah and tries to control him when he goes against her; she has been almost murdered, kept imprisoned for her own safety, put under spells, and abused by vampires, witches, and werewolves for so long that she has become angry and determined never to let anyone else control her again. She asserts herself angrily and forcefully, but also tends toward a 6ish need to find protectors (Marcel and then Kol). She has become overly distrustful, suspicious, and reactive toward her enemies. Under stress, Davina free-wheels most of the time, between over-trust and under-trusting those she holds onto for protection; she believed in what the witches told her and was loyal to her coven until the harvest turned out to be a suicide pact, then she clung to Marcel as her rescuer and savior. After he betrayed her and allowed her to die, she no longer feels she can trust him, and fears the consequences imposed on her by the witches (who threatened to hurt her if she abused her magic again). Davina trusted Elijah and then distrusted his intentions; she moves on to befriending Josh as a support system, but gradually becomes more and more arrogant and fiercely determined to hurt anyone who crosses her. She doesn’t want to leave the attic at first, out of fear of what will become of her; but then wants to go out into the world, experience love, meet the boy she has a crush on, and not be trapped and cooped up all the time.