INFP 6w5 Characters

Rachel filters everything through her emotions, and can almost get into a comatose state when she does so and gets scared—where she’s non-responsive to anyone around her, and does not really listen to them. She, unlike her father, is emotionally affected by everything going on around them and wants to know why they can’t let some people get into the car with them; she doesn’t understand that they can’t, it’s not safe. She is easily traumatized by everything, but unable to articulate her feelings beyond sharp low Te comebacks. She insults her father right in front of him, by focusing on her own need (for her brother to stay with them), for example. And when she gets a sticker in her hand, Ray offers to dig it out and she tells him no, her body will “push it out on its own, when it’s ready… I read about it.” She does not show much Ne, except in that she’s useless in her environment—unlike her brother, she doesn’t react quickly or know what to do when things happen in which she is unprepared. Her father and brother constantly must rescue her, since it doesn’t dawn on her to move, run away, defend herself, or fight people off who seem to want to do her harm. She shows evidence of low Si in that she’s practical, but also uses a lot of her own previous experiences as fodder for her decisions. She doesn’t trust her dad to look after her, because he has never done so in the past. He knows nothing about her, even that she’s allergic to peanut butter (“Since when?” “Since birth,” she says, annoyed). So she wants her mother, the one person in her life who feels safe and stable, or her brother (“If you leave me, who will take care of me, Robbie?!”).

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Rachel is just a kid, but she’s also very dependent on everyone else to make decisions for her and to take care of her, and she doesn’t want to be left alone, to see her brother run away, etc. She’s easily scared, so much so that her brother had to teach her how to create a “happy place” inside a square made by her arms, where “nothing can get me.” Where her father thinks the storm is cool and fun, Rachel immediately gets anxious and wants to go inside. She cautions him all the time, and gets down on him at times for being a poor parent (not having a sense of responsibility; if he goes to bed, what’s she supposed to eat?!).