#6s with either wing are the champions of ambivalence 🫠

[novafire-is-thinking]

As per my last reblog/post:

I came across this excellent complaint about Prowl in IDW.

They make a good point about JRo writing Prowl as being too expressive at the end of MTMTE, which I agree with, but the first part is a different story:

@/icecreamrobot writes:

“As amusing/classic IDW Prowl as that line is, it directly contradicts pretty much everything about Prowl’s character/development in SOTW. This takes place after SOTW, doesn’t it? SOTW, where Prowl directly acknowledged that his way of doing thing’s wasn’t perfect, and that he’d been wrong? Recall his decision to *not* pop a cap in Hubcap’s aft? That change of heart? That doesn’t seem like the kind of mech to say “Everything I did was right” a few days later.”

While I understand the confusion, what I see here is perfectly believable. In fact, it’s an excellent example of unhealthy use of Te and Fi in an INTJ.

Most of you have no idea what I’m talking about at this point, but that’s okay. You don’t need to. Just read and learn. :P

Immature Auxiliary Te expression:

extremely inflexible; cannot change ideas and plans

addicted to work and sabotages personal life

tends to be stiff, humorless, controlling, forceful

excessive or perfectionistic pursuit of “productivity”/“results”

categorical black/white judgment; blind to nuance/context

Tertiary Fi loop:

can’t see that black/white approach creates or worsens problems

easily frustrated by challenges; takes results too personally

refuses to accept negative results, thus, doesn’t learn from mistakes

knows the right way but continues with the wrong way anyway

uses trite moral justifications to harden faulty beliefs/approach

treats moral judgments as factual truth despite no evidence/poor results

shoots down good advice as being too hard or too complicated

irrational fear about “compromising” oneself or one’s integrity

(source: @/mbti-notes)

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Sounds almost exactly like IDW Prowl, doesn’t it? Maybe even Soundwave, at least a little?

So what I’ve decided to work with in my story is a messed up INTJ (Prowl) and a slightly less messed up INTJ (Soundwave).

I am having fun. (Mostly true)

#it also doesn’t help that Prowl is a 6w5 on the enneagram #6s with either wing are the champions of ambivalence 🫠 #the wolf of petrex #nova talks mbti #me and my weird hobby hehe #nova’s nerding out again #soundwave keep an eye on this #<- Prowl is counting on it lol