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Brothers work?

Game of Thrones. Tyrion (ENTP) and Jaime (ESFP).

Both extroverts. Both social. Both tend to leap into things without looking first. But their motivations and emotions are diametrically opposed.

Tyrion is interested in new ideas, in possibilities, in novelties. He can keep up a steady stream of abstract conversation with just about anyone, including Lord Varys, discussing concepts such as fate… destiny… the good of the realm. He is interested in experiences in so much as what they show him, and prompt him to think about in broader terms. Much of what he sees, he relates to his own subjective experiences… to his past, to incidents with his siblings and father, to the first woman he loved and who he has never quite recovered from. He often falls into his rumination of the past, into reliving it and analyzing it. In the latest couple of books, he is obsessed with the question, “Where do whores go?”

He analyzes and over-analyzes what he has done, trying to weigh morally whether it makes him good or evil or if it even matters. Intense internal rumination on abstract thoughts, on the inner workings of things, in trying to strip them down to their barest essence. It is always the WHY of everything. He is a philosopher type, constantly floating in a sea of notions and concepts and memories and ideas and thoughts and questions… things that his Te-dom father hates because it is unproductive and “useless.” Mostly, though, there’s just a lot of Fe involved. Others’ slights, insults, and attacks hurt his feelings. He feels deeply the cuts of his father, the burden of not being good enough, of being a dwarf, a disgrace to the family. He responds to positive affirmation. He goes out of his way to observe social niceties, whether he feels like it or not. He actually slaps Joffrey for not pretending to care about Bran’s fall, because it’s socially inappropriate. Fe. He responds to Lord Vary’s persuasions because he feels better if someone, somewhere, just one person, BELIEVES IN HIM.

Jaime is not like this. He’s a Se-dom. All about awareness of his environment and soaking it up for the sensations it brings. He likes to be hands on. To get in the thick of things. To fight. He chooses a profession (the King’s Guard) that forces him to do those things, and to use his skills in combat. He doesn’t care about having philosophical discussions so much as meaningful ones, about something that matters. He forms intense, selective, loyal bonds to his siblings and to Brienne, but to no one else. He chooses who he cares about carefully and does not want external affirmation. Though his father yells at him for being a King’s Guardman, and it hurts, Jaime still does it, because it is who he is, and to pretend to be something he is not would be offensive. Not authentic. He does not merge with society. He does not people please. He does not do things merely for social niceties.

When he unwisely mouths off to his captors and has a hand cut off, Jaime thinks he’s finished. Done for. I have no hand. I can’t be a guard now. I can’t fight. I’m worthless. He doesn’t analyze his situation, he just objectively assesses it and comes to terms with it – and then someone else intervenes and teaches him how to fight with his other hand. Jaime isn’t much for emotional expressions, either. He forms silent bonds. Love is shown through action, some of it amoral, but all of it oriented to show his feelings. Unlike Tyrion, who agonizes over killing their father and analyzes it obsessively, including himself, in an attempt to reconcile his actions and fully comprehend them on an internal logical level, Jaime processes his actions and moves past them. They happened. He can’t change it. He wouldn’t change it if given the chance. They were necessary.

Both are emotional, but Jaime acts on his emotions, and Tyrion shows his. Jaime feels happy with himself by being himself; Tyrion loathes himself because he is not what his father wanted.