ESTP 7w6 Characters

Rey has no kind of domestic life at home; he doesn’t have food in the kitchen, and the milk is bad in the fridge, but he’s good at thinking and reacting fast, while everyone else is in a blind panic. He at first thinks the lightning storm is incredible and a once in a lifetime visual experience, then immediately throws himself out into the street in the aftermath to experience first-hand what is happening. After witnessing an alien spacecraft burst up from the ground, he rushes home, throws his kids into the only working car on the street, and steals it—driving it away after telling a neighbor to “get inside, or you’re gonna die.” From that point on, he keeps the kids safe through various perils by watching the environment, avoiding dangerous busy roads, tackling them, and even getting himself taken by the machine so he can retrieve his daughter. He blows up one of them by getting “eaten” and throwing two grenades into the tube. But he’s also always thinking, trying to figure out what’s going on, and putting the pieces together; he is intrigued and suspicious because “lightning doesn’t strike the same place twice,” yet this kind does. He has a motor in pieces on his table, implying that he’s been fixing it. Ray says they can’t stop for anyone or take on anyone else, that he’s sorry but he has to keep the car doors locked and not accept responsibility for any third parties—and yet, he winds up trying to help people where he can, taking them along, etc. He knows rationally to protect his daughter, he has to kill someone, so he does it, but he finds it hard to deal with her constant emotional outbursts (“It’s hard for me to think when you’re screaming”). He notices that the aliens are dying and their shields are down, but doesn’t really understand why they came here or what destroyed them, just that they want humans.

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Rey’s son accuses him of being an absentee father, and says that sooner or later, he’ll dump the kids off on his ex-wife, so he can “care only about himself, as usual.” It’s true, prior to the invasion, Ray hasn’t been the best dad—he hasn’t bothered to change anything in the house to accommodate the kids, he doesn’t have a working relationship with them, neither of them trust him, and Rachel even tells her brother in his hearing that if he leaves, “who will take care of me?” (Implying that her father isn’t known for being reliable.) At first, Rey is fascinated with what’s going on in his environment and thinks that the storm and the lightning is “really cool,” but then he kicks into aggression and a ruthless attitude of keeping his kids safe, no matter what it takes, even if he has to run over people, or kill them, in the process (even though it sickens him, he has to kill Harlan to keep him quiet so that his daughter can be safe). He repeatedly doesn’t want his son going out there to fight the aliens, and tells him to watch out for his sister, and to keep her calm; he says there’s two things out to get them that are dangerous, and “the second thing is people who want our car.” Though he accepts help from Harlan, he quickly senses he is also demented and might be dangerous, so he keeps his daughter away from him.