#i just love her a lot. and reviving her muse. means i won't shut up about her.

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would your muse consider themselves an extrovert or an introvert? / karen

tania always coming in to give me good questions!

Okay, so first, let's preface that people can change between two over the course of their life. I'll provide a webster definition of the terms as well. As well as I speaking from 616 Karen and my own takes on Karen, which will be influencing her "cherry picked mcu-lite" verse.

INTROVERT : a person whose personality is characterized by introversion: a typically reserved or quiet person who tends to be introspective and enjoys spending time alone

EXTROVERT : a person whose personality is characterized by extroversion: a typically gregarious and unreserved person who enjoys and seeks out social interaction

I wanted to be an actress once. I wanted to be the center of attention in the worst way... and that's exactly what happened.

Additionally, I wanna highlight this quote from Karen. Plenty of people who become actors and actresses, are by internal nature, introverts yet present as an extrovert given the nature of their work and how public facing they are. The same can be said for Karen.

And sometimes who you are... or were... gets in the way of doing that. So you put on a mask...

Karen fluctautes between saying she is an extrovert and presenting as an extrovert; to saying she's an introvert and still presenting as whatever you expect for her. Given all of what happens to her, how much she was in the spotlight until that dimmed and she fell far down, she became a lot more reserved after that but she still had to present herself as extrovert.

She was an extrovert and is extrovert, because much of her life, the darkest parts of her life; she was alone and desparately craving to not be alone. That's one of the by definition traits of an extrovert. She seeks social interaction, enjoyss it, and that's where the need for social validation starts to come in. It consumd her, and now she seeks to reverse and hold close all the parts of her life, and comes off as an introvert; sets herself apart from others and goes off alone, needs to be alone to some degree.

As she kind of heals, she does go back to truly being an extroverted person, whose not using extroversion as a mask, as an expectation and an act. Although, Karen's still a lot more inwardly reverse than she was before she became an addict and an actress.

Now for how she is portrayed in the MCU? Karen actually comes off a lot more as an introvert presenting as an introvert. Now, I am fuzzy on MCU Karen to be fair, and am working on re-fleshing her out and writing up my fusion / what I will allow and acknowledge for an MCU verse (i am sorry fam but my special interest is 616 comics so mcu is hard for me to get into and i wont be except for daredevil). She definitely is much harder to read through the MCU lens and a totally different identity than her comic counter part.

Meanwhile 616 Karen, who is kind of both, beecause she loses some of herself and loses her ability to have an identity that is solid to her. It's why Paige Angel is such a big and important arc to her, and from reading Cutting Edge (which is canon to me) I wanna hare this exert again as a final say of extrovert turned introvert still playing an extrovert Karen Page.

Karen Page liked to do her show in near darkness. It made it eaiseer for "Paige Angel", her on-air alter ego, to perform. Karen put into "Paige" all of her curiosity, her cynicism, her sympathy for the ideas and fantasies of the people who called in to her show. But there was something else about the show for Karen. It allowed her a safe place to perform, to play a role. She loved acting once, and it had led her as close to hell as she ever hoped to come. That was a long time ago, now. With painful effort, chance, and the help of friends she thought she had driven away, she had gotten her life back. Got away clean, except for the memories. In ways Karen Page didn't talk about, "Paige Angel" helped her exorcise the last bad demons of that ugly time. And if she could help her listeners just a little, or someone like Louis Bastuo, that was better than good: it was redemption.

Discovering this novel and this paragraph, it sums up Karen so well and presents to me, the answer to this question that you do not really know which she is. She's been both, she's been one, she's pretended to be one, she's needed to be one and then became the other.