ENTP 3w2 Characters

Neal calls himself an ideas man, which means he is mostly interested in intellectual pursuits and thrives the most on solving puzzles, coming up with ideas on the fly, and talking himself in and out of trouble. When a crime scene has nothing for him to think about, he is not interested in it, but when he has to think up how to get through bank security, or pull a random performance out of his hat by impressing people on the fly, Neal comes alive and impresses everyone in the process. He is quick-thinking and analytical, looking for loopholes to exploit the system, and at times, finding creative ways to irritate suspects or charm them, depending on what the situation demands. His amoral attitude is what caused Peter to come after him in the first place, because Neal logically assumed if nice things exist, he ought to have them for himself, so he took up a life of white collar crime. Neal also struggles to let go of things until he understands them; it’s not enough to know that his girlfriend has left him, he has to come up with hypothetical theories and intuitive leaps about why she did it, and make sense of a murder later in his life (why it happened). He is very good at adapting as he goes, and in improvising under pressure, by appealing to people’s emotions, sweet-talking them, etc. Neal doesn’t show much Si, except in his attentiveness to the details about the things he cares about (art, culture, literature, antiques, fine things) and in his wealth of reserves when it comes to knowing who to contact from his life of crime to pull off a gig for the FBI.

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Neal is incredibly proficient at manipulating situations to his best advantage, in cultivating a state of refined tastes and interests, and in convincing others that he has class, sophistication, and deserves all the best in life. He is a charming swindler, who manages to convince a woman he barely knows with some sweet-talking that she should offer him her dead husband’s clothes and a nice apartment, since the hotel Peter put him in is so undesirable. He easily makes other people like him and effortlessly becomes whatever the situation requires from him, by shape-shifting his image, reputation, and approach to fit (pretending to be everything from an art critic to a gangster). He also a genuine ability to soothe people, make them feel good about themselves, and convince them to like him and meet all of his needs by coming across as a gentleman with only their best interests in mind.