Mayuri Shiina
ESFJ
Functional order: Fe - Si - Ne - Ti
Spoiler warning This article will cover Mayuri’s analysis with precise reference to the plot. Also, please note that:
this article only refers to the anime adaptation of S;G, as none of us mods has still played the visual novel.
this article only refers to Stein’s;Gate classic, as only ENFP mod have seen the movies and the Zero. If you have further comments or want to discuss about it, leave a comment or contact us!
Judging Functional Axis
Extroverted Feeling (Fe) / Introverted Thinking (Ti)
Mayuri’s main focus throughout the series lays on people: their happiness, their well-being, their dreams, their goals, their interactions. She was happy with being with Okabe at first, but she’s way happier when the number of lab members increases. Mayuri is deeply fond of the group, enjoys the atmosphere of shared joy and friendship in the lab, and the only occasion in which we see her making a stand is when someone (often Okabe) threatens that sense of familiarity, or wrongs someone who’s part of the group. We rarely see her getting angry during the episodes, but when it happens, it is for one reason: someone is being rude or too hard with someone other. For example: Okabe hurting Luka’s feelings in the timeline when Luka is a girl, or Suzuha hating Kurisu for apparently no reason, or Okabe deciding that the round table is cancelled without an explanation. All these things aren’t fine with her, because they mean that the group can’t be all united anymore: if someone is angry or sad with someone other, the atmosphere is heavier and less lively. This is because Mayuri wants everyone to be friend with each other in the most pure way, and is often the one who makes the first step toward that, or the one who mediates between two contestants in an argument - those usually being Okabe and Kurisu.
Her warm and caring Fe is opposed by her repressed Ti, that often shows when Okabe, Kurisu and Daru are discussing time-traveling theories: she doesn’t understand all that science, nor she wants to, because to her, the happiness of her friends matters more than the experiments they are doing. She tends to approach problems only looking at how people feel about the situation, and might get upset or call it “heartless” if someone tries to discuss the matter in a more logical way - because people are people and not problems to be solved.
Perceiving Functional Axis
Introverted Sensing (Si) / Extroverted Intuition (Ne)
Mayuri is a hard worker, puts passion and dedication in everything she does. She doesn’t have many hobbies aside from geek culture and cosplay, but she puts a lot of effort in making the costumes with a precise method and the right planning. She’s very reliable and tends to look at the details in the world surrounding her, often offering information to both Okabe and Kurisu when they feel they’re forgetting something. She is also very fond of the memories of her childhood, and uses to bring them up when conversing with Okabe or generally talking about him - she values those experiences, they are precious to her because they’ve led the two of them toward the present situation and the friendship they now share.
Mayuri remains more of a comprimary in S;G and shines brighter in Zero, thus her Ne isn’t deeply covered in the series, but it can still be spotted in her optimism and her ability to come up with unconventional propositions or ideas from nowhere - usually regarding things the group can do together- or a different way to think about some detail the others forgot. She is quiet and enjoys the established routine of the lab (aux Si), but this doesn’t stop her from wanting to be part of the changes that occur when other people join in (Fe-Ne). She is also extremely positive in attitude and tends to always see the brighter side and the glass half full.
Also typed as: ENFP
This is ENFP mod writing, specifically, because well - this feels kind of personal. I’d like to say that I see why people think Mayuri is ENFP, but truth be told, she’s way different even from the stereotypical way of thinking about ENFPs. She does have Ne in the stack, but it’s only tertiary - there’s no way she could be a Ne dom. She is enthusiastic but towards people and not towards ideas, she’s the opposite of scatterbrained or unmethodical, she can’t stand abstract discussions and on contrary, she much more shies away from them because all that stuff about time traveling and worldlines is complicated and she doesn’t even want to understand it. ENFPs can be passionate, driven and even strict if they want to -that’s when tert Te and inf Si kick in- but not in the way Mayuri is towards her friends. Friends aren’t important only because they’re friends, they matter because they are people and Mayuri deeply cares for people even if she barely knows them: that’s Fe. So, looking at the aux and tert: Mayuri doesn’t have Fi but most importantly, she’s not a Te user. Even in a tertiary position, Te makes someone interested in results, objective data and practical applications of what one’s doing. Mayuri doesn’t show a single sign of having either Fi or Te during the series.
