Star Wars: Ben Solo / Kylo Ren [ENFP]
OFFICIAL TYPING by Charity / The Mod SPOILERS
FUNCTIONAL ORDER: NE-FI-TE-SI

PERCEIVING FUNCTIONAL AXIS:
Extroverted Intuition (Ne) / Introverted Sensing (Si)
Snoke and Hux consider Ben a loose cannon since they can never predict what he will do – and he often doesn’t know until he’s in the middle of doing it, since he improvises every step of the way and abandons many of his former plans. Ben lives in a shifting world of intuitive external possibilities, which makes him deeply inconsistent and erratic (changing his mind about his parents and confronting them, waffling on which side of the Force he belongs on, changing his mind about destroying his mother, etc), but he also has strong powers of seeing not what people are, but what they could be – he sees the immediate potential in Rey to use as a weapon for the Dark Side, and makes numerous attempts to convince her to join him, be his apprentice, and his ‘equal’ in the Force. Unfortunately, his tendency to re-interpret reality warps all his former experiences with his family; Ben chooses to see them through his selective memory in a negative light, based on what he personally experienced in the moment (waking up to find Luke standing over him with a light saber, he leapt to the wrong conclusion and denies Luke’s version of events). He chooses to idealize only part of Darth Vader’s story, in an attempt to recreate his former success by unsuccessfully modeling himself after Vader’s detached and distant persona. Examples of his Ne-changing course are: setting out to find the droid, abandoning that plan to kidnap Rey, ignoring the droid in favor of bringing her to his side, submitting to Snoke, turning on Snoke, hesitating to destroy his mother (allowing others to attack the ship), then ordering everyone in the Rebel base destroyed, helping Rey defeat Snoke then turning on her when she refuses to join him. His inferior Si shows in his assumption that Rey is like him – unable to let go of the past; he insists he (and she) needs to let the past die, out of fear he can never move beyond it (while in the first film, emulating Vader with a total lack of creativity; now, fearful he has no independence or originality, he strikes out to ‘forge his own’ destiny). He’s afraid he cannot move forward (a classic inferior / low Si indicator; a desire to move forward / improve himself with Ne, but Si not knowing how to do it without copying others’ success).

JUDGING FUNCTIONAL AXIS:
Introverted Feeling (Fi) / Extroverted Thinking (Te)
Ben is in a constant struggle between his emotions and what he thinks he should be according to the rational world’s standards (in his case, comparison to Hux and Snoke, two rational, detached Te-doms) – a problem with EXFPs too focused on the external world to forge a true sense of self, and who choose via Te to become hard, detached, and attempt to achieve power or success to cope with their insecurities about a lack of self-importance. He tries to ‘force’ himself to become detached through murdering his father, but cannot do the same to his mother, even though he knows it would be the rational way to end the Rebellion – he hesitates. He forms an intense Fi-bond with Rey through their shared loneliness, abandonment by their parents, and inability to fit in, and tries to convince her to help him create a new order. Kylo shames her for her emotional decisions (your parents abandoned you, let go of them!) while failing to admit or acknowledge that all his decisions are motivated through his anger and resentment toward Luke, his father ‘abandoning’ him on missions / being absent in his childhood, and his mother sending him away to train under Luke. He projects a lot of his own feelings onto Rey and cannot understand how she does not share them (his Si subjective impressions of his father do not match her experiences.) His emotions dictate his decisions, from kidnapping Rey and trying to turn her (instead of focusing on his original plan / obtaining the droid) to turning against Snoke, because Snoke shamed him for his feelings and asked him to kill Rey. Ben admits he feels “torn apart” between the Light and the Dark, at constant war with his true self (an emotional, sensitive Fi) and his idealized self (Ne). He struggles so much to find self-importance, he seeks to create it via Te (and Si: clinging to his grandfather’s identity) instead of self-acceptance. In his Ne/Te loops, Ben leaps on every chance to prove himself, and achieve short-term success, sometimes at great cost (he kidnaps Rey for her Force potential, kills his father, targets his mother’s ship, murders Snoke, assumes command, orders Hux’s army to kill everyone on the rebel base and “end this,” and tries to defeat Luke, but his lack of rationality makes him neglect thinking through the potential consequences of these decisions, which include loss of life, and the Rebellion leaders escaping through a distraction). His lower Te shows in his ability to give direct orders and his capability to plan and execute rational strategies, but also in the limits of his thinking; he often pushes too hard, or goes too far, when it would be tactically advantageous to pull back, withdraw, or continue with his original plan.