1stwitch replied to your post: @People quasi-literate in MBTI: Is Willow...
I read tht she was infp but maybe not?
That’s a popular reading! But when I eventually decided I disagree with. She’s a ES*J in my own (very sloppily edited) book.
Characters, including Willow herself, refer to Willow as “mousy” but how she actually socializes in canon is often contradictory to that? She’s awkward in those early years, yes, but not in any way that most growing teens are awkward at that age and “awkwardness” doesn’t necessarily mean introverted. Willow doesn’t...do well when she’s not in an immediate partnership or part of a team; of all the Scoobies, she responds the worst to break-ups, often adapts the aesthetic of her partner, and is actually pretty gregarious and talkative.
And I read her information-function as Sensing over Intuitive (by a very small margin); Willow is very much a in-the-now processor. Her relationship to magic (like her relationship to computers) is mostly literal and utilitarian; she takes in the information she needs to improve her powers or get the task at hand done. She gloms onto what magic does and how it can be used. Contrast that to an Intuitive person like Tara who processes magic as a more ephemeral experience and focuses on why she should use magic in certain ethical situations. Sensing is concrete and pragmatic; Intuition adds on and depends on symbology.
