Avatar the Last Airbender: Zuko [INFP]
OFFICIAL TYPING BY: mysterylover123
Introverted Feeling (Fi): Zuko’s decisions all have to be motivated by his inner sense of right and wrong, and by his personal feelings. He cannot change or act because other people tell him to; to do so would be inauthentic to who he is. He’s always angry, always making decisions based on his emotions and morals, short-fused and not openly affectionate. He loves his family and Mai a lot, but he struggles a lot with expressing that affection out loud. Instead, the strength of his feelings always comes through with his actions. He’ll go through exile for years searching for the Avatar to win his father’s approval. He’ll keep up the faith in Azula (check the comics for this) long after everyone else has given up on her. He breaks up with Mai when he’s leaving to help the Avatar to keep her out of danger, no matter how much it hurts him. His obsession with getting his honor back demonstrates his Fi-dominance; he’s not satisfied until he feels he’s done the right thing.
Extroverted Intuition (Ne): For all of Zuko’s conviction, he can get easily distracted. He has about zero patience and constantly keeps trying to rush things; the first episode has him demanding to move past basic training, regardless of how much Iroh insists he still needs to learn, in order to achieve his goal faster. He can lose his focus pretty quickly, whether it be getting distracted in a fight, struggling with which side he should come down on in Season 2 again and again (and again in season 3). Most significantly though, Zuko has a tendency to question things, particularly when he can see potential outcomes that might have terrible consequences. To be specific, when he speaks out against the Fire Nation general in that fateful war meeting.
Introverted Sensing (Si): Zuko struggles to move past his prior ideas about how the world works. He keeps going back to the old ways of doing things, the traditional expectations of the Fire Nation, his subjective memories of what happened before. He feels that if he can just right what happened in the past, he can go back home and everything will be better - because his subjective memories paint his childhood in rosier shades. His associative flashbacks often tie his experiences to what’s going on with him now. He often brings up his prior experiences via specific details as evidence for why something’s a good or bad idea (“My mother used to take us to see them. They butchered love amongst the dragons every year.”)
Extroverted Thinking (Te): Generally, Zuko’s tactical skills leave something to be desired. He spends much of the serious frustratedly trying to live up to the standards of his Te-dom relatives, and failing because he just can’t make those kind of objective decisions. He has to do what feels morally right, not what is logical. He does bring some Te-style strategy to good use on occasion (using his sword to refract the light and speed up the eclipse). More often than not his Te comes out in unhealthy ways, like desperately trying to appear competent in front of others even if he has no idea what he’s doing, or rudely insulting people when tact would’ve worked better.
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