“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering” – Nietzsche
The INFJ personality type is very rare, making up less than one percent of the population, but they nonetheless leave their mark on the world. As Diplomats (NF), they have an inborn sense of idealism and morality, but what sets them apart is the accompanying Judging (J) trait – INFJs are not idle dreamers, but people capable of taking concrete steps to realize their goals and make a lasting positive impact.
INFJs tend to see helping others as their purpose in life, but while people with this personality type can be found engaging rescue efforts and doing charity work, their real passion is to get to the heart of the issue so that people need not be rescued at all.
How does your character think of their father? What do they hate and love about him? What influence - literal or imagined - did the father have?
As a little girl admires her father- he is Sara’s ultimate hero. He has never strayed her in anyways, and has always been right at her side whenever she needed him. Sometimes she feels smothered by his love, and protection, but she knows it’s in his best intentions as her father to keep her loved and safe from the ‘harm’ in the world.
Their mother? How do they think of her? What do they hate? Love?
Sara’s mother died when she was fifteen as her body deteriorated from the same disease that Sara has. (Cerebral Palsy) She admired her mothers strength most, never showed the world her sadness worried that it would affect others. She didn’t want to die with the memory of sadness-but happiness.
What influence - literal or imagined - did the mother have?
The influence of acceptance and strength.
Brothers, sisters? Who do they like? Why? What do they despise about their siblings?
Sara is an only child.
Were they overprotected as a child? Sheltered? or were they allowed to do as they pleased?
Overprotected and sheltered. Sara never minded until she grew older growing curious of the outside world. The smallest of colds always sent her to bed rest for weeks, so Sara’s father kept her cooped up from the outside world most of the time.
Did they feel rejection or affection as a child?
Affection from her family. Rejection from her classmates as they made fun of her for the tubes she wore in her nose, or they gave her remorse for being the ‘sick’ girl. Neither was she ever too fond of.
Is your character street-smart, book-smart, intelligent, intellectual, slow-witted?
Book-smart. Her nose was usually buried in any sort of book her fingers could reach for. She often found herself getting lost in the other worlds of the books she read considering her sheltered life.
How do they see themselves: as smart, as intelligent, uneducated?
She see’s herself as a coward at times, but doesn’t attack herself negatively. She know’s she’s intelligent but doesn’t put it out in the open.
Did they like school? Schoolmates?
Sara always enjoyed school as it was the most she ever got to be out of the house. She never had any friends. The closest friends she had from school were those who briefly gave her their time in group projects.
What does your character do for a living? How do they see their profession? What do they like about it? Dislike?
After graduating high school, Sara has been a hermit. She doesn’t see a reason to tire herself of college knowing that her lungs will soon diminish and she doesn’t want to spend the remainder of her life trying to become something she’ll never get the chance of starting.
Did they travel? Where? Why? When?
California is the only place Sara has ever traveled outside of Oregon, but her eyes are full of stars--she has traveled many places in her imagination.
How does your character react to stress situations? Defensively? Aggressively? Evasively?
Sara reaches a peak of anxiety easily but she keeps it tamed with a mask of timidness. She often tries to calm herself down with practiced breathing patterns.
