Alrighty:
Andrew: ENFJ-T (protagonist)
This is unsurprising as he very much so gives off the friendly, "I love everyone" golden retriever energy typical of a shonen protagonist, though he's only a side character lol.
He's the sort of character who dislikes no one unless they give him a reason too, and he does many of the things he does based on how they make him feel, regardless of how wise a decision it would be in the long run. This is made pretty clear by this excerpt:
“You waited 3 months to tell me you were in a crash?”
“It wouldn’t have done you any good to know…”
“Done me any good? I could have sent you - or come to see you - arranged something - been praying instead of just believing we were alright-” his voice sounds like tears-
Jinho ISTJ-T, the Logician.
Again, that makes a lot of sense. He's Andrew's saving grace, and Drew knows it. Without Jinho helping take the reins of the business a bit Andrew would be letting his humility and people-pleaser attitude keep him down, and people would be getting over on him. Jinho is generally pretty focused on reason and facts, the only person whose feelings he prioritizes are Andrew. He's not a jerk, but he also doesn't go out of his way to try to make anyone else happy.
Now for "Rigamarole" Leia is INFP-T, the mediator.
This made SO much sense the second I thought about the name. It's literally the role she complains about having to play in the very second section, but she's showing the way she plays it in the very first. She's trying to be the buffer between her parents and her brother to keep chaos from ensuing.
I feel like Adam and Eve must have - trying to ignore the sound of our parents downstairs in the living room asking where we are - if we’ve come home from school yet-
I almost shut the bathroom door, leaving my foot in the space between the door and its frame - whispering harshly for all my panic-
“Wash your face.”
Riley obeys. Plunging his hands into the ice cold water vomiting from the sink, he wipes the last delicate dribbles of golden bile from his lower lip, and I shove the door open again with a violence that makes it slam against the wall behind it - leaving a dent like a pitted scar-
“Now hurry up and get to your room and your homework before they come up here.”
This he does too, without a word, and I pretend not to notice the smudging in his eyeliner - hoping mom and dad won’t notice either.
(this is free on my public Posts)
I still have to do Riley, Melissa and Emelia.
But this shows me interestingly enough, how the same personality type can show itself very differently.
@beebutterbee had asked me if my FLs tended to have similar personalities, and while I'm almost positive my other female leads are very different from these two, I was surprised to find the Leia and Alicia are the same one. When I took the test for Alicia, I had yet to even write the way she served as a mediator in her childhood to protect her little brother from the reality of their mother, but as I wrote it, it just made sense for her, without me even remembering it was her MBTI type.
Both Leia and Alicia serve these roles in their lives, but this displays entirely differently between the two of them. Though when I think about it, they both mediated by lying and keeping secrets a lot. That said, while they have a lot of behavioral parallels, their methodologies could basically not be more different most of the time.
They both tried to protect their little brothers from the harm they could suffer from their mothers, and both did so by lying, like a lot. But Alicia has always been a much sweeter, babying, cuddly affectionate person who would easily be assumed to be a "damsel" until people learn more about her. Meanwhile Leia is harsh, aggressive, and would probably be considered mannish by most people, very obviously the knight in shining armor in her novel. Alicia's mental health issues stand out on the surface while people would think Leia is a totally fine, in control "put together" "tough" person because she believes she can't be weak. Alicia's view of herself fluctuates easily while Leia's doesn't really. She's not very happy with it, but she usually knows how she feels about things and where she stands, while Alicia definitely doesn't.
Now I'm just curious where my newest female lead falls. I'm pretty sure she wouldn't match with the other two, but then again, Leia and Alicia are more different than I'd originally supposed.
Still, I think despite the odd similarity between these two, Eliza and Essence are nothing like these two, so it's probably just an unusual coincidence XD.
I'm also kind of curious how alike my male leads are as well now, but Kattar and Riley are probably night and day XD.
