INTJ 6w5 Characters

Keith trusts his instincts—which is what gets him fired from the Lily Cane case, because he was convinced her father did it, and refused to listen to anyone else arguing against it. He got booted out of office, and is still working on the case in his spare time—giving it thought, going over the facts and evidence, etc. Veronica often consults him for advice, and he has an instant strong intuition-driven answer (“Why would someone accept a payoff when they’re going to be dead and can’t enjoy it?” “So that someone living can benefit from it.”). He anticipates and thwarts his daughter in various ways, including planting things for her to find and then rigging the safe to blow an ink bomb in her face to “teach her a lesson about spying.” It turns out his instincts were right sometimes, but not entirely. And he is a better judge of character than Veronica is, often writing off people she gives too much credit to, or saying someone isn’t guilty (and it turns out to be right). He went straight from law enforcement into being a private detective, and mostly what he cares about is the bottom line: closing the case and getting paid, though he uses his tactics for good if someone has a need (such as scaring away Wallace’s mom’s horrible sublet renter). When Veronica asks him why he reaches certain conclusions or ruled out specific suspects, Keith points to the stack of evidence he has gathered to inform his decisions (“Weevil couldn’t have done it, there were a dozen witnesses to him picking up trash along the highway”). He is emotionally restrained and never really talks about things with his daughter that are personal; he makes the decision without her to run a notification for his wife seven days in a newspaper, in case he wants to start divorce proceedings on her abandonment of them, and then apologizes later for not telling Veronica he was doing it. It was an afterthought to him to bring her into his situation. Keith is leery of dangerous situations; he is always warning Veronica to be careful, and sometimes recklessly rushes into somewhere to get her, heedless of the danger to himself.

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Veronica and her dad have a lot in common—they are both suspicious of everyone and everything. But Keith is way more concerned with keeping his daughter safe than anything else. He frequently tells her not to get involved in his cases. He warns her not to go out at night and take photographs; he tells her to wait for him and/or the police. Not that she listens! He tracks her phone one night when a serial killer is on the loose and bursts into where he thinks she’s being held, only to find out she’s been listening to a local band with her new boyfriend. Concerned that Wallace and his mom might be in danger from a nutty renter, Keith goes over there to harass him, play up the ‘crazy’ and threaten him unless he leaves. He’s not above using leverage to get what he wants, but ultimately has a good heart and offers help to anyone who needs it. He doesn’t hold grudges when there’s a paycheck involved. But where Veronica is more outgoing and flippant, Keith is more paranoid, secretive, and self-assured in his sometimes wrongful conclusions. He does not want to let go of whatever he has his teeth sunk into (a theory on who did it) or back down, showing that he takes his own intelligence seriously as a competency wing.