Something to pass the time · 7:09pm Jan 3rd, 2013
There's a popular personality test you may have been introduced to that separates individuals into one of sixteen personality types. It costs 5 dollars US to take, apparently I'm INTJ.
I'd thought if I were to try my hand at writing a story I would use these archetypes to help make a more believable character, and I think Queen Faust may have had a similar idea. That, or she's just used to thinking up interesting characters. So I picked the archetypes that I think best fit the mane six, and a couple of my favorite characters on the site. On the off chance someone reads this I'd be interested in knowing if you feel there is a better fit than one of my choices, or if one of your Favorite OCs lines up with an archetype.
Applejack The Duty Fulfiller
Fluttershy The Nurturer
Twilight Sparkle The Thinker
Rainbow Dash The Doer
Pinkie Pie The Performer
Rarity The Giver
Big Macintosh (from Keeping it Simple) The Mechanic
Sky (from Fragments) The Caregiver
The sixteen personalities is a topic that interests me as well, and probably the first thing that convinced me that psychology isn't all Freudian balderdash.
My personality is also INTJ - the second-rarest type, I believe - and while I don't usually use personality types to determine how I craft my OC's, I do keep it in mind. Most of my major characters tend to be close to my personality type, I believe, simply because I find it hard to understand how an extroverted, here-and-now oriented, emotional person would think. Stasis Silvertongue, the protagonist of Prodigy, is probably INTJ as well, even if the details of his psyche are far different from mine.
Haven't thought too much about the show's characters. I think I just always assumed that this was a pretty good approximation:
i.imgur.com/YXRLm.jpg
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