INFJ 6w5 Characters
Dominant Introverted Intuition – strong and specific personal plans, insights, or predictions that lead them to set their ideas in motion far in advance: Elphaba has a premonition early on that “someday, there will be a celebration throughout Oz that’s all to do with me!” She gets flashes into the future, of Dr. Dillamond’s arrest. Her song about meeting and working with the Wizard is specifically about what her life will be like, and what she will accomplish, and how he will take away her green skin and make her normal. She intuitively knows how to speak an ancient dead language in order to read the Grimoire, but then is shocked by the consequences because she didn’t process or understand the implications of the spell before performing it (a lack of details). Later, she has a sudden inspiration based on a single remark that the Wizard has no power, that he is behind all of the evil actions in Oz to oppress the talking animals, and that is why he needs her magic, to keep his ruse going and create spies.
Auxiliary Extroverted Feeling – ease of emotional expression and shaping their actions around how their decisions affect others: She frames her entire life about the welfare of others—initially, she comes to the school just to settle in her sister and gets upset on her behalf, when she is manhandled and has her rights taken away from her. When the Wizard asks her what her deepest desire is, rather than ask him to make her not-green as she wanted, Elphaba says she only cares about the welfare of the animals. She knows how much her friend Galinda wants Fiyero, so she reminds herself in their song that she can’t have him (“I’m not that girl”). In her letter to her father during “Loathing,” she echoes Galina’s statement that “for I know that’s how you’d want me to respond,” and that she is looking after her sister as he asked. She blames herself for being the death of her own mother, even though it had nothing to do with her (“If I hadn’t have been green, she wouldn’t have eaten those milk flowers!”). In giving up her dream, she puts her own ambitions aside for the greater good – “I don’t want it… no, I can’t want it anymore!” Though she pretends not to care, when everyone mocks and humiliates her in the Ozzdust Ballroom, Elphaba becomes emotional and cries when Galinda dances with her, to show her support and acceptance.
Tertiary Introverted Thinking – desires to understand how systems and people work so they can better communicate or figure out how a hack that works: She wants to know what is going on in Oz, and to get to the bottom of it. To understand why the animals aren’t allowed to talk, and are being silenced. She is inquisitive and curious, spending a lot of her time in the library reading books, and is somewhat jaded about Fiyero being shallow, until he shows her he has compassion for the animals.
Inferior Extroverted Sensing – impulsive and hedonistic under stress, often miscalculates when they act rashly: Elphaba is not very good at Se activities; circumstances frequently get away from her. She misjudges how others will respond to her in the Ballroom. When they drag out Dr. Dillamond, she protests it and demands the students stand up for what is right, but doesn’t know how to help him. Then when her poppies put everyone to sleep, it’s Fiyero who shares her outrage over the imprisoned lion cub, breaks it out of his cage, and demands “Are you coming?” She was slow to think of such an action.
Enneagram: 6w5
Enneagram 6 – questions everything in a desire to understand it, and attach to and test those in authority: Elphaba pretends not to care what people think, but actually cares a great deal. She is obedient to her father and “takes care” of her sister as instructed, becoming upset on her behalf when someone pushes her wheelchair rather than allows her to do it for herself. She, unlike most of the other students, doesn’t sit around and wait for things to happen, but takes an active concern in the vanishing of animal teachers from Shiz, and wants to know what is going on and who is behind it—but she places her authority in an external figure to solve the problem (“The Wizard needs to know about this, that’s why we HAVE a Wizard!”). Her active questioning of authority and disbelief that others can stand by and do nothing while injustices are carried out is what causes Fiyero to stop his life of “just living” and “think more.” Elphaba pictures her future life as one of togetherness and support; she asks Galina to come with me, “Imagine what we could do together!” but then learns to stand on her own two feet and defies everyone in authority, because of her moral outrage over what is happening.
5 wing brings in an esoteric quality of withdrawing from others to create safety: She is a loner, for the most part, who withdraws from others and tries to head off their rude questions and comments upfront: “Before you ask, no, I’m not seasick, I didn’t eat grass as a child, and yes, I have always been green!” She prefers to be alone, and for it to be quiet around her, and has to be convinced to go out and have a good time and to take action, because her first response is to express outrage or be emotional.
