chomiji: Shigure from Fruits Basket, holding a pencil between his nose and upper lip; caption CAUTION - Thinking in Progress (shigure-thinking)
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A Saturday is a perfect time for a meme! This one is ganked from kispexi2:

Your Thinking is Abstract and Random
You are flexible, adaptable, and creative. There's many ways that you can learn - and you're up for any of them.

You relate well to other people, and you do well working in groups. You can help people communicate together and work with each other's strengths.

You don't work well with people who are competitive or adversarial. You prefer to work toward a common goal... not toward conflicting goals.

What Kind of Thinker Are You?

Whoa, pretty good result there for only 4 questions!

Date: 2008-07-15 01:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] freeradical9.livejournal.com
Hhhm, your result reminds me of my sister, who rides the edge between INTJ and INFJ.

Ooh, very interesting. Seems like a lot of folks have a thin line dividing T and F. ^^ In my case, half my job description is scientist (ISTJ) and the other half is teacher (ISFJ), and those are pretty dramatically different skill sets, so that probably has something to do with it, as well.

I'm curious about how your S/J function works in with the length at which we rattle on here sometimes, on sheer speculation!

*laugh* Well, I'm not sure that Judging has much of an effect, except that it's probably one of the reasons I don't get involved much in discussion threads. I have to think things through twice and three times before posting--and by then the topic's usually already moved past the point where I can say anything useful! ^_^ But, oh, I love speculation. One of my favorite aspects of it is to try and take a wild idea and find a way to make it fit with existing canon facts (which is probably why I like writing for prompts. It also seems to drive a lot of my independent writing ideas).

In Saiyuki, I identify very strongly with Hakkai (I bet he'd be an ISFJ). IMHO, we're a lot alike in personality--minus the incest and mass-murders, of course. ;)

So the MBTI only takes one so far ... .

*laugh* I'd agree with that. Organized, hah! Meyers and Briggs haven't seen my desk. Sure, I know which *pile* I put that important paper in, but at the end of the day it's still a messy desk. ^_^


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Date: 2008-07-16 04:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] freeradical9.livejournal.com
I identify much much more strongly with Gojyo in general...but he's something of an extrovert (tho'...I think he has a shy side....

I'd agree with that. Gojyo's interesting that way, actually. I'd certainly call him an extrovert, but he's a small-group extrovert. Definitely not the "always has to be the life of the party" type, and not the performance/grandstanding type. In a way, he might be only one step up from an introvert. ^^

Kenren, funnily enough, while I love him to pieces, I just can't identify with him the way I do Gojyo

This is really interesting--because I feel a very similar way about Tenpou. I *like* Tenpou and feel I understand him fairly well, but don't have the shameless fan appreciation for him that I have for Hakkai. I'd originally thought that might just be because there's so much less of Saiyuki Gaiden, and there hasn't been the time to really fully develop the characters. But I think you've really hit on something with the comment about a painful past, because trauma and the reactions to it have a strong impact on both Hakkai's and Gojyo's motivations. The crew up in heaven just never had that.
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Date: 2008-07-16 04:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] freeradical9.livejournal.com
Did you ever read the children's book The Gammage Cup?

I'm afraid to say that I've never even heard of it before. The description made me laugh. Clearly I'm gonna have to go look it up, now. :)

I usually say that Gojyo resembles the inner me - the part that people only see when they know me well - and Hakkai resembles the outer me.

That's a good combination. The best of both worlds. :)

I have a feeling that Hakkai doesn't think much of the human (or for that matter, the youkai) race in general....whereas Gojyo....

I'm intrigued by that comment, because the "in general" makes me think again in terms of groups or scale (see extrovert Gojyo comment above). Hakkai would willingly give up everything (kill 1,000 youkai or take a head-on strike from Kami-sama's prayer beads) for someone important to him but Gojyo is unflinchingly willing to act on behalf of complete strangers and often for people to arguably don't deserve it. His capacity for acceptance and forgiveness of people in general (and generally of the worst sorts of people) really does make Gojyo the most compassionate of the ikkou.
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