ESFP 6w7 Characters
Emma Myers’ Enid Sinclair is one of the breakout stars of Netflix’s Wednesday, instantly winning over fans with her rainbow room decor, quirky energy, and unwavering loyalty to her gloomy roommate. In terms of personality typing, Enid is best understood as an ESFP 6w7: a spirited, fun-loving, and anxious extrovert who thrives on connection, colorful expression, and loyalty to her friends. Her playful warmth, social savvy, and occasional bouts of insecurity make her the perfect counterpart to Wednesday Addams’ brooding, controlling personality. In this deep-dive, we’ll explore how Enid’s MBTI and Enneagram traits make her one of the most relatable gothic sidekicks in modern television.
A Rainbow in a Gothic World: Extraverted Sensing
Enid is everything Wednesday is not; a social butterfly, a gossip blogger with a social influence, someone who “knows everything” about everyone at the school and tracks them. She is interested in “superficial” things like clothes, boys, and makeovers; whenever she’s upset, she comforts herself with shopping, going places, and doing things. She decorates their room in pretty colors, and gets annoyed with Wednesday’s doom and gloom scenarios.
When she body-swaps with her roomie for the day, Enid takes advantage of the situation and puts on color. She dances around the quad, grins at people, and makes a fool out of “Wednesday,” before breaking out in hives because her roomie is actually allergic to color.
She and Thing spend a lot of time doing manicures for each other and talking about their lives. She makes him a lovely little home in a corner of their dorm room, so that he has a space to call his own. Enid also gets involved with the physical activities the school has to offer, including a team that competes annually in a relay race in which anything is possible. She uses her claws to take out a competing team’s canoe by “taking a play from the Wednesday Addams playbook.”
Enid knows and fears the potential consequences of being an Alpha, but she also believes it’s the only way to save her friend—she wolfs out under a full moon to dig Wednesday up from under the skull tree, and then flees into the woods. Elsewhere, she rather arrogantly assumes she can handle things physically, until Wednesday reminds her that she only won her fight with Tyler because his dad put a bullet in him.
Staying True to Her Colorful Self: Introverted Feeling
Enid is emotional, sensitive, and upset when others do not want to be friends with her, but even though she receives harsh feedback from her roomie, she never changes her personality to reflect their expectations. She knows that she’s a failure in her parents eyes when she’s late to wolf out, but refuses to go to camp to learn how or to allow them to pressure her. Enid remains happy and positive despite Wednesday telling her not to be; she stands up for herself, and puts distance between them in the first season by moving out when she feels offended. She makes the wrong assumption that because she likes something, other people will like it too—giving Wednesday a “friendship snood” and throwing her a surprise birthday party, even though neither of those things fit her personality.
Though a nice girl, Enid can also be blunt or blurt out her true feelings, without thinking about how the other person may feel about it. When Ajax doesn’t take her hints about wanting to go on a date, she blurts out the truth to him. After her emotions change toward him, rather than tell him about it, she ghosts him and makes up excuses about not having a phone all summer. She is brutal to Agnes and makes her cry by telling her she’s a try-hard and a copycat, but feels for her later and befriends her, allowing her to dance with Enid for the Venetian Ball fundraiser. She pushes Agnes to stop copying what other people are doing and be “true to your own psycho self,” which allows Agnes to start wearing color, take down her hair, and let her weirdness “shine.”
Fangs Under Pressure: Extraverted Thinking
Enid plays by the rules until Wednesday teaches her otherwise, and then she becomes more objective—slashing through a competitor’s boat to win. She recognizes she and Agnes can’t dig up Wednesday in time to save her, and self-sacrifices by wolfing out to save her life. Before this, she calls a meeting of a secret society to help her friend out, because she knows that she and Wednesday can’t save themselves on their own. She can become practical and organized when stressed.
Because she is quite young, more often her Te comes out in harshness or bluntness. Enid tells her mother that she isn’t going to a wolf camp, and to leave her alone. She tells off Agnes for being a “creepy stalker,” a “psycho,” for spying on her, and says Wednesday just “uses her.” She moves out of their dorm for a while, angry about how Wednesday keeps her in the dark about everything and doesn’t warn her about danger.
Why Enid Misses the Bigger Picture: Introverted Intuition
Enid rarely looks beyond the surface of anything, which means others find her easy to manipulate. She gets asked out by a boy to the dance, and never thinks he has ulterior motives until he pulls a prank on everyone that ruins her brand new dress with red paint. It never dawns on her that Wednesday would lead her into danger until they are in the thick of it. She fails to think through the consequences of ghosting Ajex, or to deal with her feelings having changed toward him in a meaningful way. Enid never once suspects there’s a secret society at the school, but is angry when she finds out about it and learns she wasn’t invited, but everyone else she knows is in it.
A Loyal Wolf to the Pack: Enneagram 6
Enid has a tendency to over-adapt to others’ expectations about her, and to want to avoid them if she thinks she’s going to let them down or incite their wrath. This could be 9ish, but given her open anxiety and social butterfly tactics, it feels more 6ish. Particularly when you think about how Enid has certain expectations about her relationships—she stands up for Wednesday because “that’s what friends are supposed to do” and then assumes Wednesday will do the same for her in return. That’s a social 6 tendency to assume that you make friends by being reliable, loyal, and trustworthy, and then to feel hurt if others take advantage or don’t reciprocate.
No matter what, Enid will show up for her friends, even after they hurt her. She often “wolfs out” to defend them—her first turning time is to save Wednesday, and she permanently becomes a wolf in season two for the same reason. The expectations and demands of others also weigh heavily on her. She’s worried about meeting with her parents’ approval and not living up to their hopes. She moves out of their room temporarily after a fight, but comes back out of an inability to leave the friendship.
She is cautious and does not like to take risks. She tells off Wednesday for not warning her about danger or threats to their lives, for putting her in bad situations, and looks to others for support in bad times. (She calls together the Ravens and gets a “gang” to help protect them from Tyler.)
Sunshine & Escapism: The 7 Wing
Enid may be a worrywart, but she has a lot of positivity and sweetness. She is all rainbows and puppies and sunshine, and assumes life is going to be wonderful and she will become best friends with her new roommate. She ignores the negativity about Wednesday and rewrites her in her mind, greets every day with the expectancy that good things are going to happen to her, and is eager to connect to others, be included, appreciated, and seen. Even when stuff goes wrong, she finds a way to insist it will be okay (she hasn’t wolfed out yet, but it will happen when it’s meant to).
She also has some of the darker traits of 7, in that she assumes ignoring her problems and running away from them will make them go away so that she doesn’t need to face the consequences or the pain. Rather than talk to Ajax, she just avoids him and pretends that nothing is wrong, leaving him to wonder what’s going on with her, while she has fun with a new wolf instead.
A Wolf With a Good Heart
Enid has some ups and downs in the second season in particular, but is overall a likable friend and support system, someone whom Wednesday learns to care about even if she won’t admit it. She is anxious and reactive, funny and lighthearted, good-natured and intense. I enjoyed their dynamic, but I enjoyed seeing her and Agnes team up and become almost friends even more. It’ll be fun to see what happens in season three.
