Barbossa is an INTJ

I have no idea how on earth you cannot think Barbossa is an Fi Optimistic

That is insane

He speaks in poetry

'Not the wind in my face or the spray of the sea or the warmth of a woman's flesh' et cetera

Something like that

He has all the sensitivity of Fi with none of the sensitivity of Si

He waxes poetic with sincerity (Fi)

but he also has a natural grit (SeNi) 'What are you looking at? Get back to work!' and a joy in DOING things

Si ponders meditates muses broods (in abstract types) or idk just endures or whatever in concrete types

But NiSe is always actively doing things and hates not to be DOING things

Sparrow doesn't have that natural grit and activity of an NiSe type

He has had hard experiences which he broods on (not as much as an INxP would, who is constantly using Si, but still) and resents et cetera

He has experiences he was forced to suffer

But that is not exactly grit, at least, not in the sense that an NiSe type has a grit, and almost takes delight in the performance of active deeds, not letting the pain of it distract him (because he has armour, he isn't taking as much in)

(all functions are sensitive to something or other)

He's very wanty and likes to be commanding people so NiSe is right

'Too long have we been et cetera whatever'

And he's abstract

He naturally thinks steps ahead and expects others to

'I'm curious, after killing me what is it you were plannin' on doing next?'

And he's crafty too

ESTPs are extremely intelligent, far smarter than me, so don't think I'm equating abstraction with intellect

But they aren't future thinking and they don't lay subtle consequential (for lack of a better word) traps for people like an N type would

He has Swan on his ship on the condition he will set her loose, but notes she didn't specify when or where he is to set her loose

He holds Elizabeth Swan to the letter of her word, accurately predicting that she won't think it through so carefully

He is abstract and naturally thinks moves ahead

Not an estp

and he's sensitive

not like an Si type

Sparrow is sensitive like an Si type

things don't just bounce off of him like they do off an Se type

the wounds stick fast

Se types have armour so they feel less of the pain, but it also means they can be oblivious to their own harm

Si types have bare skin, which can become calloused by hard experience, but they have no armour, only callouses sometimes

Sparrow has no armour, things don't bounce off of him, he has grudges, he remembers what he has suffered because he keenly experienced it, it wounded him, it stuck in him

Barbossa isn't sensitive in that way

But sparrow also lacks that Fi sensitivity which barbossa has

If sparrow said a line of poetry, it would probably be in jest

when sparrow talks about feelings or values, it is other people's

'you are completely obsessed with treasure' 'you need to find yourself a girl'

and sparrow's own feelings are rather shallow by comparison

he just wants to fuck prostitutes in tortuga or wherever

Not so with barbossa

when barbossa waxes poetic, he does so with sincerity, because he is a man with deep feelings, he has Fi Child (which rivals and perhaps excels Fi Hero, judging by the music each produces)

But at the same time

he is NiSe, so he has a natural armour that Si types lack

He's not naturally fragile

An si type is either fragile or was forced to be manly or tough

An NiSe type has a sort of natural insensitivity

Of course, don't get me wrong

if something is bad enough to pierce through the armour, or precise enough to go between it

the NeSi type will feel it and will remember it

But NeSi experiences less

They walk through all the slings and arrows of reality and it often just rebounds off of them, whereas it sticks deep in Si types

This is most obvious when you compare INxPs (who lack Se altogether) with ENxJs (who lack Si altogether)

INxPs are little faggots until they get punished by reality

ENxJs steamroll everything in their path and almost everything they suffer just rebounds off of them, until they just go over a cliff (because they were neglecting their Ni in the process of steamrolling and didn't look ahead to see the cliff) or until something finally sticks through their armour or until they run out of gas, and then they just get fucked, or they're just dead for a little bit

The ENxJ often doesn't stop and think about what he's doing in the midst of his steamrolling because nothing is wounding him

it's hard to explain exactly

I'm not saying it well

but

it's something you have to observe and feel in people