#he's allergic to hostile environments! okay

[mnemo-sick]

while I'm looking through my files of mtmte screenshots:

(minor spoilers for the dark cybertron arc)

just. the minor dig at (what seems to skids to be) brainstorm's cowardice.

ultra magnus calling out in worry but also "wait wtf? nobody even hit you yet"

the subtle difference between the "pain is nothing, I'm a warrior, I long for death" mentality we usually get from transformers characters vs "guys something is really wrong I urgently need a medic" which like,, it's the dead universe for god's sake. not just pain, but the visceral existential dread of death. he feels, truly, like he's dying.

there's also this, from before:

it already hurt. (stress-related, fine. try tinkering-with-dead-universe-juice-related.)

god. I just. I love him. he's so character

[just-a-cup-of-anxietea]

Three characters to describe yourself with

Tagged by the marvelous @the---hermit ! Thank you!!

Preface: Listen. Listen. I have been waiting for precisely this kind of tag for AGES. THANK YOU FOR THIS TAG. I have a multi page spreadsheet with MANY colorful charts about this because I am a nerd that is DEEPLY invested in personality systems.** (A few characters already mentioned here and here)

Rachel Elizabeth Dare.

Okay, I was HIGHLY tempted to put Annabeth here instead (bc of the obvious sustainable design architecture connection) but I think Rachel is the funnier option of the two bc of my history with it. If you were here about two years ago, you might recall the initial Rachel Elizabeth Dare comparisons (referenced here and here). It is my great pleasure to inform you all that I have firmly crossed over from Blonde territory into Redhead territory due to the passage of time and the insanity that is hair color genetics. My hair also gets puffy and curly now, just because it really wanted to commit to the Rachel Elizabeth Dare bit. I don't know how this happened, honestly, but strangers now refer to me as a redhead, and I'm fairly certain it is through the power of manifestation of all the mutuals who called me Rachel. Well done friends. You are all magical beings who have cast Become Rachel spell on me so consistently and for so long that it WORKED. I was always decently Artsy + Environmental Justice-y, but I am especially so nowadays, mostly by virtue of being involved directly in both fields as a sustainable design, marine science, and bio-systems design student. There’s just a lot of environmental stuff happening in those, but it all has a distinct artsy side to it bc it’s heavily design oriented. So. Yea. Redhead, artsy environmentalist with,, ahem,, relatively loud opinions. Oh, I also own a blue hairbrush!

RACHEL’S PERSONALITY DATA:  ENFP - 4w3 - sx/so - 478 - EIE - SLUAI - EFVL - Sanguine [Dominant]

COMMONALITIES: Ne-dom (ENxP), 3 feature (4w3 to my 613), SXXAI (SLUAI vs. SCOAI), E1 V3 (EFVL vs ELVF), Sanguine feature (Sanguine vs Choleric-Sanguine)

Mark Watney

This one is also admittedly here partially for the joke. If you’ve been following me for awhile, you might have noticed that I seem to be allergic to a lot of things. Like way too many things. A concerning amount of things. But fret not friends, because I, like Mark Watney, have the ever reliable Irish staple that is the potato to keep me from dying! For whatever reason this food has been consistently pretty kind to me, even when everything else tries to kill me a little bit. Which is great! And just,, really weird. Anyway Mark and I both seem to inhabit a world that constantly poses threats, a world that no one else experiences but that they still try to understand and support us through. And we don’t have a lot of food options, but we both have the potato. Blessed be la pomme de terre. Honestly any character in a hostile environment is one I immediately and irrevocably pack-bond with (see also: Katniss Everdeen, Robyn Davidson (a real person!!), Pi Patel, Steven Callahan. (also a real person!!)…), but I ESPECIALLY identify with Mark for his commitment to levity. I love that he is a relentless problem-solving optimist, quick with a joke, but also expressive of other emotions too. My identification with Mark is more,, aspirational than of Rachel. Mark is me at my best, and I hope to become more like him with time. Also, he’s into botany and mechanical engineering which is just the COOLEST. I love both of those things but haven’t made a career out of them (though I’m not ruling it out!).

MARK’S PERSONALITY DATA: ENTP 6w7 so/sx, 638, SCUEI, phlegmatic-sanguine (I’d argue for sang-chol, but phleg-sang is PDB’s verdict.)

COMMONALITIES: ENTP, 6 primary type, 36x (3 and 6 feature in tritype, 6 lead), SCxxI (SCUEI vs SCOAI), sanguine component

Ariadne from Inception

I tried to pick characters that I haven’t already expressed an instant pack bond with, so here I am with my last choice: Ariadne. First I would like to plainly state that Ariadne is, like, way cooler and more fashionable than me. This comparison will not be one of THOSE metrics bc she and I are just,, very different in those regards. HOWEVER, these other two characters don’t quite carry themselves with the seriousness that (I have been repeatedly told) I do. Ariadne is a dreamer, a visual thinker, and a creative soul, but she’s rather less sanguine about it than Rachel or Mark. She knows her goals, she sets her sites on them, and she pursues them without hesitation but WITH consideration for how her actions might ripple out and effect change. I really admire her deep consideration of things, her ability to think abstractly, and her willingness to just Go Try New Things. I might not be quite on her level in those regards, but I’ve been told I SEEM like her at least, and I do actively try to be embody those traits. So, like Mark, her character is one I generally aspire towards. On the flip side though, Ariadne can get a little lost in her head and can become pulled into things that she’d probably be better off leaving alone, which I completely understand and relate to. Curiosity and cats and whatnot. Also, she’s an architect, so there’s that. Similar training!

ARIADNE’S PERSONALITY DATA: INTP, 5w4, so/sx, 514, FLEV, melancholic-dominant

COMMONALITIES: xNTP (NeTi as primary and auxiliary), tritype featuring 1 (also 2nd placement), 2L & non-dialogic F

ALSO, while we’re on the topic of characters and personality, I am once again imploring all of you to take the open psychometrics character personality quiz. It’s SO COOL.

**if I receive any asks about it I will very much share chart data. It’s also a whole standalone system, so if you provide a list of characters you identify with, I can run the system for your specific characters based on Personality Database data (with optional alterations provided by yours truly for data gaps)!

No pressure tagging: @daydreaming-optimist @sweetlikehoneysteve @oh-toasty @willowstea and anyone else who wants to! (The personality data stuff was just a thing I added. I promise you guys don’t have to do that.)