ESFJ : Character Development

Designed for writers and method actors who have never studied psychology and who have no interest in studying psychology. This series outlines each of the sixteen Jungian personality archetypes to better get you inside your character’s head. Special emphasis on how each type processes and priorities information, the nuances of their communication style, how their humor manifests, and what each type looks like as a villainous character. This week's focus is on the ESFJ's personality.
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[@Naafidy]

Why doesn't this have more views? This is amazing.

[@cynthiapayne9906]

Aww, thank you!

[@militaryhomes6292]

Hit the like button on the video. It makes youtube show it more in people's recommendation more if it has more likes.

[@michellechouinard4958]

I so appreciate that you showed some ESFJ villains.

[@sabertooth160]

I am an ENTP with a ESFJ mother You can only imagine 😂

[@cynthiapayne9906]

OMG I am so sorry!! 🤣 Bad enough with my ESFJ mom and me as an ENTJ, but still I've got it SO much better than you lol!

[@tresbeans]

Great stuff! I would love to see your take on INTJ

[@cynthiapayne9906]

Thank you! I will add your vote to the tally :) The pandemic has me sewing masks all the day long, but I promise I really do intend to get back to this series. 😷

[@solarflare1206]

I'm writing a sci-fi/fantasy villain in a setting where blood fuels magic and he enslaves people to have far more power than he could achieve using his own blood. He wants to perfect the world and make everything predictable and safe, but he also believes in a hierarchical society, and he wants himself at the top and able to assign the level of everybody below him in accordance with his vision of a perfect world that "runs like clockwork". I haven't started working on the protagonist and deuteragonist, yet. I'm thinking this villain I want to write is either an ENFJ or an ESFJ.

[@cynthiapayne9906]

That sounds really cool! My first thought is that your villain sounds more ISFJ-ish, but it kinda depends on how you plan on having your villain go about it. ISFJ villains are more like assassins--they don't want their enemies to see them coming and will set things up for a quick strike. If he's willing to be more visible and openly aggressive then I'd lean more towards ESFJ. An ENFJ villain is more likely to take the form of a micromanaging taskmaster, which depending on how your villain is managing his slaves could work, but if he's just in it for the blood than you're looking at a type more inclined to be purely pragmatic in their villainy, so ISFJ or ESFJ. Hopefully that helps you. Thank you so much for watching and let me know how it goes :)

[@solarflare1206]

@@cynthiapayne9906 I could actually see this character as a villian protagonist, possibly. My idea is this villain protagonist is an allegory for the well-meaning "woke" capitalist who means well and thinks they are improving the world by continuing the family business, but they still are exploiting people and making the situation worse. The hero antagonist is more of a socialist mindset and wants people to no longer have to literally sell their blood for pay to survive. The hero antagonist thinks common people should all be equal to each other, all areas of life should be democratic, and there shouldn't be a master class bossing everybody around. I do agree with you that ISFJ fits my villain protagonist, but I'm still working on my hero antagonist. As the author, I'm 90% sure I'm an INTP, and I'm pretty far left in my politics, but I'm writing to a younger audience in my story, so I don't want to be too blunt with the political subtext to my work, but I do want the subtext to be there. Also, as an INTP, I don't want all the characters to become INTPs, like they did in the last book I wrote, or half the characters did in the short stories I've written. I'm still working on how this allegory is going to shake out

[@solarflare1206]

@@cynthiapayne9906 I could actually see this character as a villian protagonist, possibly. My idea is this villain protagonist is an allegory for the well-meaning "woke" capitalist who means well and thinks they are improving the world by continuing the family business, but they still are exploiting people and making the situation worse. The hero antagonist is more of a socialist mindset and wants people to no longer have to literally sell their blood for pay to survive. The hero antagonist thinks common people should all be equal to each other, all areas of life should be democratic, and there shouldn't be a master class bossing everybody around. I do agree with you that ISFJ fits my villain protagonist, but I'm still working on my hero antagonist. As the author, I'm 90% sure I'm an INTP, and I'm pretty far left in my politics, but I'm writing to a younger audience in my story, so I don't want to be too blunt with the political subtext to my work, but I do want the subtext to be there. Also, as an INTP, I don't want all the characters to become INTPs, like they did in the last book I wrote, or half the characters did in the short stories I've written. I'm still working on how this allegory is going to shake out. I want to flesh out all my major characters first, then I'm going to need to set up a plot that can get me though 75000 words, plus or minus 1000 words or so. 75000 is definitely my target, though, since I want this book to feel like "a real book".

[@idontexist5041]

Once it's done, I want to read it.

[@cynthiapayne9906]

@@solarflare1206 That does sound interesting and it's fantastic that you're willing to learn your own weaknesses from your earlier works (so am I). If I had to give any advice about writing allegory, it would be to not. I'll explain--unless you're good, and I mean George Orwell good, then you probably don't yet have the skill set to both tell a good story while consciously balancing the metaphors and allegories. The problem with allegory is that it never makes a good story, and a good story is what invests readers. A good story can contain good allegory, but the story must come first. Since you have strong beliefs, you will naturally gravitate towards stories that reflect those beliefs anyway, so writing allegory generally becomes a writer with a solution looking for a problem, as it were. My humble and completely unsolicited advice would be to focus on the story and make it as consistent, logical, and true to itself as you possibly can. Then, in later drafts, if you still think it's necessary, beef up any allegory that is already naturally there. That way what you end up with won't feel forced or artificial--it will have stemmed from what the story already had to be anyway. If that makes any sense. Thanks again and I wish you the best of luck!

[@sad_doggo2504]

People always talk about how warm and cuddly ESFJ are but fail to mention that as antagonists they are one of if not the most damaging types of people you will ever come across. Excellent video!

[@sevendegrees]

How is this true?

[@Elloleoo]

Loving this series!

[@cynthiapayne9906]

Thank you!

[@djjw2102]

Are you going to do the rest types of personality?

[@edwinsiu5205]

I feel ESFJ are too sentimental to me, kind of annoying, but they are attractive person and supportive, an ISTP guy.

[@cynthiapayne9906]

SPs tend to be attracted to SJs ;) It works, though, because SJs think that SPs are the bee's knee's.

[@sevendegrees]

Iregardless ??

[@Swampert444]

The Directors also confirmed Anna is ENFP and Elsa is INFJ, look up the tweet.

[@idontexist5041]

Her: A personality type does not a character make. Me (An ENTJ) OUTLOUD: *does not make a character

[@cynthiapayne9906]

Ya'll yanks just canno' appreciate my southern comin' through ;) Bless your heart.

[@idontexist5041]

@@cynthiapayne9906 You should talk about ENTPs. I'm writing a story and the villain, in my opinion, is somewhere between an ENFP and ENTP. I would love to hear your take on both perspnalities.

[@cynthiapayne9906]

@@idontexist5041 ENTP is next, and I'll add your vote for ENFP

[@e.m.g.9657]

Infp please

[@Swampert444]

So many mistypes, Anna is ENFP, Donkey is ESFP, Dolores Umbridge is ESTJ.

[@ceriseispink6110]

@Lestrange Bellatrix that’s probably inferior Ne. And if it is inferior Ti, than Anna would be an esfj or enfj.

[@Swampert444]

@Lestrange Bellatrix Anna has inferior Si. Reckless and forgetful and bad with details. Anna cares about efficiency and results and getting things done efficiently, Te tertiary. Anna never uses Ti like Elsa does. Dolores Umbridge is a ESTJ and Te dom. She cares for efficiency and is logical and cold and clear has Fi inferior. She acts nothing like an esfj, she’s estj

[@Swampert444]

@@ceriseispink6110 Anna is definitely ENFP and a Fi and Te user. She has inferior Si. Mufasa is a real ENFJ, Snow White and Mother Gothel are ESFJs.

[@ceriseispink6110]

@Lestrange Bellatrix I literally never said she led with Si, I was just discerning the other persons example. I do think she is an ENFP, Elsa is an ISTJ.

[@ceriseispink6110]

@@Swampert444 I think Mother Gothel is an ESTJ. Inferior Fi, and she shows her love through actions.