#Zachery Hale Comstock

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BioShock Infinite MBTI and Enneagram — Zachery Hale Comstock Zachery Hale Comstock is the Main Antagonist of BioShock Infinite and the Secondary Protagonist/Antagonist of BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea. Since he’s part of two multi-verses so we’ll be segmenting this analysis into 2 parts. BioShock Infinite: The Main Story. Burial at Sea Comstock: This takes place after the events of Bioshock Infinite and concludes Comstock’s story. Dominant Function: Extroverted Feeling Our baddie Zachery Hale Comstock is a superb example of an unhealthy FE user. He’s a pathological liar and a master of manipulation. He was so charismatic and popular with the people that the United States government funded his creation of Columbia. This is where we see his influence explode. He created a party called The Founders and instilled the beliefs he gained from the culture below upon them. Before we proceed, keep in mind that America’s society in the late 19th century had vastly different views and values than today's American society. Some of the views revolved around elitism, militarism, white supremacy, and ultra-nationalism. Comstock being an unhealthy FE user took those values to heart and turned it up a notch. Even the Confederacy has nothing on this guy. Eventually, Comstock met Rosalind Lutece, and they both worked together for a while. He provided her income to fuel her research and experimentation. She made his city float Comstock knows how to strike a good deal! As time advanced Comstock gained more power and influence over his subjects, he proclaimed himself as The Prophet of their society. He used tears created by the Lutece machine and “predicted” the future to prove that he could see the future. His supporters concluded he could truly predict the future, and he against used that to his advantage and furthered his ambitions. A lot of this information can be found on the Wiki for Comstock and The Founders. Now we’ll be looking into Fe examples we can recognize within the game. The most obvious example is how Comstock can manipulate anyone into believing him by using emotional pitches. He often does this to both Booker and Elizabeth. Here are two examples. For Booker’s example Comstock had all his guards stand down because he wanted to deceive Booker into accepting that he’s an omnipotent prophet that knows everything about him, this does somewhat get under Booker’s skin. This tactic was designed to dishearten Booker by making him feel insignificant and powerless against the almighty being that is Zachery Comstock. For Elizabeth, he attempts to mislead her into believing that Booker is the false shepherd that would lead her astray and then he uses the siphon on her causing her to scream in pain while explaining that he does all this for love. This is a classic example of the manipulation tactic called “playing the victim” where the abuser pretends they’re the victim and that they don’t want to hurt the actual victim. Almost every action Comstock takes is driven by his overwhelming emotions. Even his desire to burn the Sodom below was because America disowned him after he opened fire on Chinese citizens during the Boxer Rebellion. Oh, this also caused him to promote Columbia as the only true America to further unite the people in by making them feel unique.   Auxiliary Function: Introverted Intuition Zachery Comstock may be a fake prophet, but man does he ever use his NI function effectively! I’ll be explaining this through a brief story about how Comstock was born. At 16 years old, Booker DeWitt felt regret for his actions at Wounded Knee and sought redemption through baptism. From that baptism, he was forever changed. He no longer was Booker DeWitt, for he was born anew in the blood of the lamb! After this event, he changed his name to Zachery Hale Comstock and his identity along with it. Comstock became infatuated with Christianity and wanted to share his beliefs with everyone, after all, it saved him from his sinful past. One day an angel named Columbia gave him a vision of a city that he would create for his followers. He named the city Columbia after the angel. According to the wiki, Comstock began to view the idea of America as “the New Eden,” and the Founding Fathers as prophets of God’s Great Plan. His vision was now set into motion he immediately turned the Founding Fathers George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin into saints who would guide his citizens to righteousness. As time passed Comstock’s idea grew more and more radical. This caused disagreements with the American government leading to Columbia and Comstock being disowned by them. Comstock’s idea of America being “the New Eden” was challenged he then later claimed Columbia was the only “True America” and the true New Eden! Now that we know that information we can discuss NI examples that can be seen in the game. We can observe our first example in his action to murder Lady Annabelle Comstock and the Luteces. Our dastardly villain predicted that his wife would betray him by telling the citizens of Columbia that Elizabeth was not their daughter. To stop this from happening, he formulated a plot, murder Lady Comstock while her maid Daisy Fitzroy was working and blamed it on her. As for the Luteces, Comstock predicted, once they saw the future he wanted for Columbia they’d try to stop him. He was right. He sent Jeremiah Fink to sabotage their Lutece Device while both Rosalind Lutece and Robert Lutece were inside of it. This killed them, but also indirectly caused the Luteces to exist across all space and time…  We can see our second example in how Comstock changed history to make him and Columbia look like heroes while antagonizing minorities and individuals who fight for them such as Abraham Lincoln. He knows if history contradicts his actions people will see him as a fraud, therefore why not change history? Comstock is a clever man, I’ll give him that. Before we discuss our last example there is a downfall to using too much NI, this can be seen at the end of the game when Booker and Elizabeth meet Comstock face to face. He realizes that he planned everything for nothing. He should've just went to Elizabeth in person and convinced her to join his cause using charisma. Instead of waiting for Booker to rescue her and bring her to him. Sometimes the practical solution can be the most effective. Too much NI causes an individual to become delusional with their dreams and visions, which disconnects them from reality. Such as believing your city is the new Noah’s ark, and that it’s your duty to cleanse the Sodom below of sin through righteous fire because you were chosen by God! Yep… Speaking of setting the world on fire, our final NI example is exactly that. Comstock had a vision that Elizabeth would be the one to set the world below on fire and guess what? He was right. Too bad he also didn’t realize that Elizabeth would break out of her brainwashed state and save Booker from death to stop this all from happening. Still, he’s one hell of a prophet. Tertiary Function: Extroverted Sensing Zachery Hale Comstock does not shy away from this function, he embraces it and often enters FE-SE loops. He often uses this function when he’s manipulating others by reading their body language and using it against them. His Se function also manifests within his surroundings if anything Comstock is obsessed with the idea of beauty and tries to make everything he’s involved within look stunning such as his fake history museum exhibit within the Hall of Heroes. The design of the Columbia which he designed himself or the sheer beauty of his personal chambers. Fun fact we often observe this level of interest in beauty within INFJs and INTJs, which is fascinating. This is because the NI function absorbs information from the unconscious mind which makes them highly sensitive to beauty, be it visual, metaphorical, or otherwise. One of the most interesting in-game examples of his SE can be seen when Comstock presents himself in front of an armed Booker DeWitt and commands a nun to set herself on fire to slow down Booker from reaching Monument Island. He does this to mess with Booker because he knows Booker will survive the outcome, but he wants to see him struggle before he reaches Elizabeth. Inferior Function: Introverted Thinking  Comstock neglects his TI function. This is because he has an extremely developed FE function. This causes him to not rationally think out solutions since his decisions are based on his emotions and morals. He believes the world should burn because America didn’t agree with his "righteous and pure” ideals and principles. This is because he truly believes he was chosen by God, therefore his reasoning must be just and true. If you disagree with it, then you are not worthy and will either be disposed of or humiliated. We can see his lack of TI in allowing Booker to meet him in person. Comstock knows Booker is dangerous and has killed everything he’s thrown at him, yet he assaults Elizabeth in front of him. What did he think would happen? Did he assume Booker would just allow him to harm Elizabeth in front of him without any consequences? No, instead Comstock thought he could use emotional manipulation to get what he wanted from the situation and relied on his vision that Elizabeth would serve his goals regardless of what happened. Truly a foolish way to die. Before we wrap up this analysis, we’ll be looking into the last example of his poor usage of the TI function. This example takes place in the Burial at Sea DLC. In an alternate universe where Comstock and Booker fought over Anna and instead of Comstock winning, he lost to Booker. Sadly Booker wasn’t able to pull away Anna from Comstock fast enough this caused the tear to decapitate her. Fun fact! For that to have happened the Luteces sent over 123 alternate Booker DeWitts to Comstock universes to stop Comstock from winning over Anna. In one of these universes, after losing Anna, Booker ended up becoming the leader of the Vox populi. This means both Comstock and Booker who are the same person waged wars on themselves. Man, I love this lore of this game! Anyway, back to our analysis. Comstock was mortified by the decapitation of Anna and instead of finding a rational way of dealing with the situation he decided he was done with it all and asked the Luteces to send him far away from his timeline. They obliged and sent him to Rapture. The effects of using a tear caused Comstock to forget who he was and returned him to being Booker DeWitt. However, that didn’t fix the core issue Comstock has shared through each multiverse version of himself. His goal is always to steal Booker’s child and if he couldn’t succeed that he’d get another child. That core issue would be his downfall, ignorance doesn’t fix our problems. Eventually, Elizabeth, filled with vengeance, hunted him down as he was masquerading as Booker DeWitt. She exploited his problem and made him realize who he was. After Comstock realized who he was, a Big Daddy impaled him with his drill. Thus ending his life. Elizabeth’s goal in breaking the circle succeeded. All because Comstock didn��t have enough introspection to deal with his problems in a logical and mature way. https://youtu.be/Dp3rHyO1kQw

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I just realised

Bioshock Infinite is basically just :

congratulations you played yourself

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Is a better home awaiting?: This is my pencil and inked illustration with watercolor/Crossover fan art piece of three Bravest Warriors characters from the animated web series cosplaying as the three main video game characters from Bioshock Infinite, I honestly didn’t like that video game themed episode of Bravest Warriors that the Boom comics writer, Ryan North wrote about that Bravest Warriors Web TV Universe being a video game dimension where fictional video game inhabitants such as the titular BW have no free will, because what such a fictional video game Universe had free will like Bioshock characters do, because not all playable video game characters from Infinite video game realities lack free will at all when it comes to ambitious video game creators such as Tetsuya Nomura, Hideo Kojima, Lorne Lanning, and Ken Levine who all try to make big games with big stories have story driven video game protagonists explore the meanings of life, existence, Morality, and relationships, so who the 🤬 does the writer of Video Game themed episode of Bravest Warriors season 4 think he is😡? 😔 not all great games as well as a good FPS game series like Bioshock are for mindless Gamer-self entertaining violence with story plotless sequels like that story plotless FPS game series: Call of God🤬 Duty, speaking of FPS video games, the BW blond haired character is Chris Kirkman cosplaying as Booker Dewitt from Bioshock Infinite, and the BW Black haired character is Beth Tizuka cosplaying as Booker Dewitt’s Biological Daughter: Elizabeth a.k.a. Anna Dewitt, and the blue eyed old man from Bravest Warriors is Emotion Lord Chris a.k.a. 200 years old Chris cosplaying as Zachery Hale Comstock, the confusingly neglectful but supposedly adoptive father of Elizabeth/Anna Dewitt, honestly I’d have like a PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PC or etc? You’re gonna have to buy Bioshock Infinite, play through it’s thrillingly interesting story and find out about the Bioshock Infinite cast’s relationship with each other and find out for yourselves one of these days, anyway I hope you folks like this illustration today😉. https://www.instagram.com/p/BtrymafBSG-/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=fzzktisg6zhb

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BioShock Infinite MBTI and Enneagram — Daisy Fitzroy Daisy Fitzroy is a major side character who is both hero and a villain to our main protagonists. Before we analyze her we will look into her past. Fitzroy’s birthplace and origins are unknown so we can’t speculate about her upbringing and past life, but we know that Jeremiah Fink "procured" her and brought her to Columbia intending to use her for menial labor within the city. As you would imagine she was not happy with this but she obliged for a short while. During that time Lady Annabelle Comstock employed her and had Daisy work as her maid. This worked well and Daisy ended up respecting Lady Comstock because she treated her with respect. Alas, that respect was short-lived. One day she found Lady Comstock dead and was wrongfully accused by her murderer Zachery Hale Comstock. Fitzroy escaped and vengefully founded the Vox populi. She was eventually captured by local authorities years later in Finkton. This lead to her being interrogated by Dr. Francis Pinchot who found out she had genius-level intelligence surpassing his. This resulted in the scientific community of Columbia declaring her a threat thus wanted to lobotomize her to make her more servile. Her intelligence impressed Dr. Pinchot, and he feared the lobotomy would render her useless, thus tried to stop it. We’ll be continuing this story in our analysis of her dominant function. Dominant Function: Extroverted Thinking Daisy Fitzroy is an exceptional TE user. She’s ambitious, intelligent, structured, and she knows how to turn situations to her advantage and quickly. To continue our story, we’ll be seeing the first example of her Te usage. As Dr. Pinchot disagreed with the Columbia scientific community, Daisy formulated a plot to escape. She would use Pinchot and then eliminate him. This plan worked, she asked for “help” and lured him into bringing the keys to escape, she then shot him to tie up loose ends. Ruthless and efficient. Daisy then planned her revenge against The Founders. She quickly raised an army by using her voice of reason, telling them they are tools to be used and discarded like she was. Unlike Comstock, Daisy doesn’t mince words, she’s direct and to the point. You’re either helping us or you’re a liability. Extroverted Thinking dominant and auxiliary users often see the world in black and white. Daisy Fitzroy is no exception she takes black and white thinking to the next level. Now we’ll be moving to Extroverted Thinking examples as seen within the game. Our first example will reflect her black and white thinking. Daisy states Fink sees people as livestock and wants to keep them controlled like the animals they are. She uses this as her argument to recruit more members to her cause by uniting them against a single cause. Daisy, however, is doing the same as Fink albeit, in a much more moralistic light, she uses people like tools to achieve her goals for the sake of revenge. Daisy exclusively uses facts and statements to prove her points. She often does that within her speeches and we can hear one of these speeches inside of the Graveyard Shift bar in Shantytown when Booker and Elizabeth enter the tear which allows the Vox populi to have their weapons for their revolution. Daisy mentions that if you were able to rationally think you’d be striving for your own dreams and aspirations. Not the aspirations of men who want to control you by telling you when to eat, when to sleep, when to stand or when to sit down. The thing is, Daisy Fitzroy is absolutely correct men like Fink and Comstock seek to control the people of Columbia, especially minorities such as Daisy Fitzroy. It’s entirely rational and in your own self-interest to defend yourself against people who will use you until you hit your breaking point. They only care for their self-benefit and will dispose of you when they’re done. Overall Daisy Fitzroy is a noble example of a TE user it was her structured mind that united the people of Shantytown against all of Columbia. She isn’t doing it because it’s the right thing to do. She’s doing it because it makes logical sense to not want to be oppressed, how could you succeed in life if every action you take is controlled by another individual. As Malcolm X once said, “I believe that there will ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those that do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice, and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the systems of exploitation.” Auxiliary Function: Introverted Intuition  Daisy Fitzroy is a visionary and opportunist who knows how to use her NI function wisely. We’ll be backing up that claim with a brilliant example. During the start of the game, after Elizabeth knocks out Booker, he’s left unconscious on the First Lady airship. Daisy boards the airship with her Vox populi and runs into Booker. He demands her to get off his airship; she retorts by mentioning they’re in the middle of a war and that she needs his help. She does this by telling him if he wants his airship back he must work for her by getting her the weapons she needs for her revolution. She then knocks him out of the airship, sending him on his new quest. Her intuition about Booker ends up being correct. He succeeds and recovers the weapons she required to kick off her revolution. But now there’s an additional problem. Booker and Elizabeth needed to open up 2 tears into parallel universes to get this job done. Meaning this deal never happened when they meet up with Daisy Fitzroy again. Our next example of her NI function being used exceptionally is seen when Elizabeth and Booker return to Columbia through a tear, they arrive in a world where Booker died for the Vox populi. As they contact Daisy Fitzroy, she mentions there’s no way he survived since she saw him die with her own eyes she then turns her guards against these “imposters”. This ends up being a clever ruse. Fitzroy willingly sacrifices her men to lure Elizabeth and Booker closer to her. Once they reach her she pretends that she’s gone mad with power and she’s willing to kill children for her revolution. This causes Elizabeth to freak-out and murder Fitzroy while Booker distracts her. This plan was designed to harden Elizabeth by turning her into a killer. This action ultimately would be the one to ensure the success of Fitzroy’s revolution, the destruction of her oppressors, and all the events that occur in the original BioShock. Fitzroy may have not known it, but her sacrifice also saved the Little Sisters in Rapture and allowed Elizabeth to murder the final Comstock. We can see our last NI example in the DLC Burial at Sea in Fink’s private quarters. Within those quarters is a seized kinetoscope from the Graveyard Shift bar. Inside that kinetoscope lies Fitzroy's thoughts about God. She believes there is no God and claims men like Comstock use the idea of God to control the common folk by shaming them. " If there were no God, you could rest assured the first deed done by the first rich man would be inventin’ him.” - Daisy Fitzroy. Within a historical context, Fitzroy is correct, the rich and powerful often used the “Wrath” of God to control the public. This was especially true in the Middle Ages to the 20th century. Tertiary Function: Extroverted Sensing  Daisy Fitzroy doesn’t seem too interested in her Se function and prefers to use her dominant and auxiliary functions. However, that doesn’t mean she completely neglects it. We can see her Se function within her actions. These actions are usually caused by TE-SE loops. They often end up being violent because that is the quickest way to get results. To Daisy, actions are louder than words. Sure you can reason with people, but will it get you what you want right away? No, therefore take action. She keeps this mentality throughout the game. Most of these actions can be seen by how the Vox populi functions. She’s instructed them to act first by killing everyone and then decorate the area with red by claiming this is their territory now. Daisy is concerned about the future as seen by NI function but will achieve that by first destroying everything and striking fear into the hearts of the people who align themselves with the oppressors. Her tactics are basic overwhelm the enemy, do what you have to do, and execute the ones who won’t cooperate. Many of her speeches are driven by TE-SE loops, she’ll go on about facts, and then she’ll refer to the actions that The Founders have taken against the minorities to convince them fighting is the only choice. Our main example of SE can be seen in the Speech she makes about Booker DeWitt dying for the cause. She mentions he died for the cause and now we must stand true to the cause by killing Fink, to only relate it back to Booker’s death. With that logic she’s suggesting because Booker died for the cause we must also sacrifice our lives like he did because that is the truest way to show your dedication to the cause after all he’s a hero you want to be a hero right? Inferior Function: Introverted Feeling We can definitely see that Fitzroy struggles with her FI function. On one hand, she is very aware of how her feelings often control her when she enters angered states and that they drive her revolution but on another hand, she knows when they’re appropriate and when to seal them away. We can hear her speaking about that within her voxophone recordings. Most of the recordings will follow the same premise she reflects on her morals and feelings towards her actions and then justifies it. So we’ll be using one voxophone example. This voxophone recording can found in the office of Jeremiah Fink chief executive area in the Burial at Sea DLC. This is before Daisy organized the Vox populi and rose up against her oppressors. Within the recording, she recognizes that violence only causes violence and that the rational mind wants to find a peaceful solution but she asks herself what does a father do when he sees his child bleed out on the streets? Do you deny him his vengeance? She then refers to her own moral code and understands because she’s been there and lived through it, this leads to the biggest question “Will I be able to stay the hand” From the actions we’ve seen in-game Daisy Fitzroy could not stay the hand and instead she gave in to her feelings and lead a revolution very much knowing she will hurt others to achieve her goals. She does, however, redeem herself within our last example. This occurs when the Luteces let her know she must make Elizabeth think she will harm Fink’s son so she could have her revolution succeed. That action was driven by her NI function to piece together the puzzle for the long term but was completely inspired by her FI function. Her moral code would not be broken even with all the anger in her heart Daisy never planned on harming children, especially Fink’s child because he did nothing wrong. “I will not hold the son to account for the deeds of his father” https://youtu.be/2r6btwu_hPA

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BioShock Infinite MBTI and Enneagram — Jeremiah Fink Jeremiah Fink is a major side character who acts as a secondary villain towards the protagonists and the Vox populi faction. Before we analyze him, we'll be taking a brief look into his past. Not much is known about his birth but we know that he is one of The Founders of Columbia. Fink gained his massive empire through “persuasive” monopolization and through his close ties with Zachery Hale Comstock. His wealth knew no bounds, and in no time he had the police force in his pocket. Comstock noticed Fink’s increasing influence and hired him to “accidentally” get rid of the Lutece twins. His reward would be ownership of the Luteces’ patents. We will continue our story within his Dominant Function analysis. Dominant Function: Extroverted Thinking  If you could describe Jeremiah Fink in one word, it would efficient. Jeremiah Fink is what happens when a TE user is extremely unhealthy. His concept of morals doesn't exist, all he cares for is efficiency and monetary gain. Now we’ll return to his story since his TE function will play a huge role in it. He “killed” the Lutece’s by destroying their Lutece Device. He was efficient since this action got rid of them from that timeline, but he wasn’t effective. That action had consequences such as accidentally making the Luteces’ capable of existing across multiple dimensions. This would be his downfall. The problem with Fink is that he wants work done fast and he doesn’t care how it turns out since he’ll replace the workers with other workers who could do it faster and better. Another fascinating example of his TE function can be observed by how he organizes his office and workplace. Every action he takes is timed and he can’t stand when time is wasted because he could be doing something productive. This need to be productive is so extreme that he even has a giant clock that is used to control which rooms open at what times in his private quarters! He’s a complete control freak and sadly, this treatment is also extended to his employees. In a way, Fink is a one-dimensional being who only focuses on one aspect of Extroverted Thinking... Say it with me... EFFICIENCY. Auxiliary Function: Introverted Intuition Fink is the example of an NI user with a rotten core. He uses this function to understand people’s intentions so he may further control them like the puppets he perceives them to be. We can see this within his actions and speeches towards his workers. Fink actively discourages his employees from being self-sufficient and ambitious since being ambitious is too much work, and why would you want to work harder than you’re already working? As Fink says, “Simplicity is beauty“ He purposely manipulates his workers so he may further exploit them, which is his end goal for every worker that works under his establishment. For him, they’re simply tools. One of the best examples of Fink’s NI function can be seen in how he predicts Booker will come for Chen Lin and kills him. But he doesn’t just kill him, he manipulates Booker and Elizabeth into thinking they have a chance of saving Chen Lin even though he was already dead. Since Fink knows Booker needs Chen Lin to get the First Lady airship to escape Columbia to pay his debts, he figures if he removes Chen Lin from the equation Booker will have no choice to work for him and if Elizabeth wasn’t able to make tears into different universes that would be absolutely true. Even Fink’s success can be attributed to his NI function. Fink may be obsessed with efficiency and success as we mentioned in his TE function segment, but he also can think outside the box and often does to achieve his goals. Fink uses tears to look into alternative realities and takes inspiration from them. This results in him making his variations of what he sees. Such as vigors, he used what he saw in a Rapture tear and then observed Yi Suchong using slugs to extract ADAM. Fink copied Suchong’s idea and added a twist to it. But due to Fink’s need for efficient results, his invention of the vigor was much more costly and 10x less effective than Suchong’s plasmids. Speaking of “borrowing” ideas, Fink also made a profit by sending his brother to tears that contained music from the future. They both plagiarized songs such as Everybody Wants to Rule the World from Tears For Fears and Happy Shiny People from R.E.M and tweaked them slightly to match their time-period. This borrowing of ideas and innovation eventually got the attention of Suchong, who started to copy off Fink. They both indirectly collaborated with each-other on the inventions such as the Songbird which was based on the Big Daddy and the idea of imprinting their creations onto desired hosts which was also influenced by the Big Daddy. Fink may have cheated by viewing tears into the future, but he innovated on the ideas he saw and put them to use in Columbia by improving the lives of its citizens and his wallet. Our last NI example links back to our first example, Fink pays his employees in “Fink coins” why Fink coins you ask? Well, of course, it’s for controlling them so they can’t buy any other products at other establishments. This causes the cash-flow to always return to Fink, limiting his losses to almost 0%. Pretty intelligent if you ask me, and equally cutthroat. Tertiary Function: Extroverted Sensing Fink is a unique individual he both uses and neglects his SE function at the same time. His usage of the function can often be seen within a TE-SE loop. Our first example takes place at the Columbia Day Raffle. To celebrate, Jeremiah Fink set up a large carnival for the people filled with attractions based on his company. Such as Fink product trails, Fink’s music, and Vox populi shoot-'em-up games. Fink did all of that because he understood the power of propaganda and his physical appearance. If he makes himself look like a celebrity more people will buy his products is his logic. Our next example can be seen within Fink’s surroundings. He’s obsessed with beauty. This is best seen in his Private office which contains a giant golden clock, gigantic windows, fancy curtains, and 4 other rooms within it. That’s not all. He also has 2 humongous golden statues of himself in his work district. It’s commonly known that SE users are the most sensitive to beauty thus desire the most. Our last example occurs when he’s “interviewing” Booker DeWitt for a new job position of head security of Fink industries! This interview is forced onto Booker, who’s confused to why Fink is doing this. Fink retorts by claiming that Booker needs to kill the other applicants if he wants the job. But in reality, Fink just wants to be entertained by Booker’s ability to kill others. Inferior Function: Introverted Feeling We’re going to be straightforward on this function. Fink only uses the FI functions for 2 things. To spread his ideas about how work is hard and how everyone should work as hard as possible and for his projection of his “strong” values on which humans are worthy of his respect and which ones are tools to be used. This is driven by his white supremacist morals and ideals. Fink only hires non-American white people such as the Irish and minorities of all backgrounds. He does this intending to keep everyone underpaid and overworked. He wants to control their lives since he doesn’t see them as human. It’s pretty bad, but that’s how he functions Jeremiah Fink represents the extreme values of the 1900s America. He also represents a human who has been stripped away of all morality, thus resulting in Fink only caring for his own personal gain and the thrill of crushing his competition or anyone he deems a risk. These traits can be linked to psychopathy. https://youtu.be/FVhDUf-speQ

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BioShock Infinite MBTI and Enneagram — Cornelius Slate Cornelius Slate is a side character within BioShock Infinite, he’s a disturbed man with an interesting backstory who stands in the way of our protagonists because he wants a worthy death. We’ll be taking a deep look into his history and the history of the battles he took part in. Dominant Function: Extroverted Thinking Outspoken, organized, efficient, practical, rigid, stubborn, aggressive, and a leader, Slate bleeds TE dominant traits. To start our analysis on him, we’ll first need to know some of his backstory. Captain Cornelius Slate served in the United States Armed Forces. He participated in several battles but most notably the Battle of Wounded Knee where he became acquainted with Booker DeWitt, The Battle of San Juan Hill which is not mentioned with the game and The Battle of Peking during the Boxer Rebellion on behalf of Columbia who was allied with the U.S. After the battles Slate questioned Comstock’s systematic whitewashing of history. Slate wanted the truth and confronted Comstock. This defiance against the prophet stripped Slate of his rank, publicly branded him a liar, and forced him to work at Finkton. Slate immediately vowed to destroy Comstock. This prompted him to join the Vox populi and united they waged war on Comstock, this action was inspired by a TE-NE loop. His first action was to take over the Hall of Heroes and vandalize it, calling it the Hall of Whores. Comstock is a sellout who changed history. This action was meant to enrage Comstock and make him face a real soldier aka Slate. He believes practical action always trumps political subterfuge and strongly dislikes when anyone isn’t honest or direct. We can identify Slate’s TE-SI traits through his beliefs, and actions he takes against Zachery Hale Comstock. Such as organizing an army who willingly joined him to fight Comstock. Slate also tests Booker DeWitt to see if he can meet his expectations to consider him a worthy soldier by sending hoards of soldiers at him. This impresses Slate since Booker provides his men with the glorious death they seek. Slate only cares for the feelings of his men and can see Booker has no interest in harming him or them. Apparently, this is how Slate has always been he’s been disregarding others and always making enemies as Booker claims.  Auxiliary Function: Introverted Sensing Before we venture into Cornelius Slate’s SI function, we’ll be looking into the battles Slate was a part of so we can better understand his experiences. (If you have no interest in history, you can skip this segment) The Battle Of Wounded Knee or better known as the Wounded Knee Massacre which took place on December 29, 1890, near Wounded Knee Creek in Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southwestern South Dakota. Tensions were high before this battle took place because the U.S. government was seizing Lakota Sioux lands and refused to stop. There was great unrest. Later, a prophet named Wovoka founded the Ghost Dance religion. This caused a movement. The Ghost Dance movement was associated with Wovoka’s prophecy of an end to white expansion while preaching goals of clean living, an honest life, cross-cultural cooperation, and peace. This united the Lakota Sioux peoples, and in 1889 they gathered at Wounded Knee to participle in the Ghost Dance. Fearing large numbers of armed Lakota Sioux peoples, the U.S. military surrounded Wounded Knee and attempted to ban the Ghost Dance ceremony. This failed, and the government sent Indian agency police to arrest Sitting Bull, a Hunkpapa Lakota leader whom they suspected in joining the Ghost Dance Movement. This ended in bloodshed and resulted in the death of Sitting Bull. Tensions drastically increased and on the morning of December 28, the U.S. Army’s 7th Cavalry surrounded a band of Ghost Dancers under Spotted Elk, a Miniconjou Lakota chief. They demanded Spotted Elk to surrender his peoples weapons, they complied since they did not want violence, they were escorted to Wounded Knee and asked to set up camp there so 7th Calvary could slowly remove their weapons. It’s now December 29 and this is when the massacre would start. No one truly knows who fired the first shot, but some claims mention a misunderstanding broke out between a solider and a Lakota warrior. Thus the bloody massacre had begun. Historians estimate 150—300 Lakota peoples perished in that battle. Half of the casualties were unarmed women and children. While 25 U.S. soldiers died and 39 were wounded. This battle was the last major battle of the American Indian wars. Our next battle is the Battle of Peking, which took place during the Boxer Rebellion on August 14th to 15th 1900 in Beijing. Before we get into the battle, we need to understand how it started. In the mid-1880s a secret society called the Yìhéquán or the Fists of Harmony and Justice started to gain power within the Qing Dynasty. By 1899 their numbers increased drastically. Their numbers swelled to 50 000 to 100 0000 members, they were now known as the “Boxers” to the rest of the world. They oppressed the Westernization of China and Christian missionary activities being practiced by foreigners. Eventually, the Boxers became violent. They torched Western churches, murder Chinese citizens who practiced Christianity, and attacked foreigners. This kicked off the Boxer Rebellion and lead to the Battle of Peking. The battle was massive over 18 000 soldiers from the British Empire, Russia, France, Japan, Germany, the United States, Italy, Austria-Hungary joined forces with the Mutual Protection of Southeast China against the Boxers and the Qing Dynasty. The objective of this battle was to fight their way into the city of “Peking” to rescue 900 foreigners who were captured by the Chinese Army since the 20th of June. Peking had formidable defenses. The city was surrounded by walls that spanned 21 miles with 16 gates. The wall around the inner city was 40 feet tall and 40 feet wide. On the dreadful night of August 13, The Eight-Nation Alliance thought they failed their rescue mission because the sounds of heavy artillery and machine-gun fire could be heard within the city. Within those walls, another battle was taking place. The Pei-Tang cathedral was being sieged by the Boxers and the Chinese army. 28 foreign priests and nuns, 42 French and Italian soldiers, and 3400 Chinese Catholic citizens defended that church. Inside that church 2800 Chinese Christians took shelter. Several hundred people died from starvation and disease, while 66 of the 900 foreigners died and 150 were wounded during that battle. Sadly, the casualties among the Chinese Christians were not recorded. But that’s not all the battle still rages on! It’s now 3:00 am on August 14 that assault from the allies has started, each nation attacks a different gate. First to attack was the Russians who broke formation and took the Americans designated gate. This resulted in the Russian army getting pinned by opposing forces, 26 of their soldiers die and 102 are wounded. The Americans arrive at their gate at 11:03 am to find the Russians pinned down both join forces and scale the walls. By 4:30 pm the siege has ended. There were 60 recorded deaths and 205 wounded within the Eight-Nation Alliance. As a consequence, the city was looted and burned. Many of the nations committed atrocities and even the captured civilians, missionaries and Chinese citizens pillaged the city for all it’s worth. At the end of it all, China had to pay $335 million (over $4 billion in current dollars) plus interest for 39 years, exile the government supporters of the Boxers, and destroy Chinese forts within northern China. The Qing Dynasty would end in 1911 as a consequence of the Boxer Rebellion. Alright, the history lesson is over, we’ll be returning to the analysis. Slate took part in both battles. He massacred the Lakota Sioux peoples and set fire to Peking. During that battle, he lost 30 men and his left eye. He’s so obsessed about these battles that he forces Booker and Elizabeth to combat his soldiers through “replicas” of them. These battles also have shaped his personality and identity. Therefore Comstock changing history hurt Slate since he was part of that chaos and he’s the one who suffered. To Slate, you should never change history, especially if you didn't fight within it. Most of the time Slate's SI function is used interchangeably with his TE function. However, his SI function is overdeveloped and refuses to let go of the past. Instead, he’ll drag others into like Booker and Elizabeth. Here are 2 examples influenced by SI usage that involve protagonists. As Booker DeWitt and Elizabeth enter the Hall of Heroes, they spot a grand statue of Zachery Comstock. Slate immediately contacts Booker and remembers him being a true soldier and demands Booker to kill his men. “All my men have left is a choice: die at the hands of a tin soldier, or a real one!” This forces Booker's hand who has no interest in harming Slate or his men. We can see another example after Booker kills Slate’s men, Slate calls Booker a hero and Booker disagrees. Slate then explains to Booker that if he takes away all parts of Booker DeWitt that Booker tries to erase, then what’s left? Slate is suggesting that our past is exactly what makes us. By deleting your past, you delete yourself. The last example of his SI function can be seen within his attire. To further prove he’s still living in the past and denial, Slate still wears his uniform but with a twist, he has an American flag on his right shoulder and a Pinkerton badge on his eye. It’s possible Slate views the Pinkerton detective agency as an organization that deserves his respect thus uses it to cover his left eye to fill what he’s missing with justice and law. Tertiary Function: Extroverted Intuition Slate often ignores the NE function for his dominant TE and auxiliary SI functions but will use it effectively when he feels threatened or wants to prove a point. Slate has a problem with Comstock altering history other than his strong personal feelings towards the subject. Changing history means Comstock is becoming a tyrant and will silence anyone who opposes him, including Slate himself who is a known war hero. Slate proves his point by having Elizabeth and Booker walk-through Comstock’s false history. Slate also ends being correct about Comstock silencing him. His disagreements with the prophet got him arrested and sent to work in Finkton. Slate isn’t dumb though and saw this situation as an opportunity and joined the Vox populi. He knew that after he’d defeat Comstock he’d be labelled as an assassin and would trade Comstock’s lie for another. This suggests that thinks the Vox populi would change history to indoctrinated younger generations as Comstock did. His analysis is completely based on inductive logic and patterns that have occurred in our history. This type of thinking can be seen within individuals who use both TE and NE. TI users rely on deductive and situational logic. Inferior Function: Introverted Feeling The FI function is pretty tricky with Slate, since most of his feelings are driven by his past and how he refuses to let go of it. Oh, and he’s also gone completely mad. Naturally, this causes him to become trapped in an FI grip. For Slate, he must remain as true to himself as possible, and he projects this idea onto his soldiers. Slate believes he’s still a soldier, therefore he must do his duty as one, and if that fails he must die as one. Slate and his men believe to die in battle is honorable, but they don’t want to die to fake “Tin men” but rather a real soldier such as Booker DeWitt who’s proven his worth time and time again. This belief is so extreme that if Booker refuses to kill Slate at the end of the Hall of Heroes battle, he will equate Booker to a heartless “Tin Man” and will allow himself to get captured by Comstock to be tortured into submission. To Slate, if a real soldier like Booker doesn’t kill him then he is not worthy of an honorable death. Here’s a bonus fact. Ken Levine’s inspiration to create Slate was driven by the pathologizing of soldiers in war. In the end, Cornelius Slate was a victim of his own inner war. An unwavering soldier to the end. https://youtu.be/jJMc0ishwbs