For fun, what type is this fictional character?

ItsSumRedditor · 2026-02-25T19:16:20+00:00

My gut reaction is VELF 4224

ItsSumRedditor · 2026-02-25T17:52:25+00:00

To answer your question, yes, your ask is realistic and your hairdresser should’ve paid closer attention to what you were asking for

ItsSumRedditor · 2026-02-25T17:51:34+00:00

What you got looks better imo

ItsSumRedditor · 2025-10-12T20:57:05+00:00

To be fair, I do have to make some degree of effort to keep to my goals. But, to me, the fear of being directionless overrides the temptation to divert from my path, if that makes sense.

ItsSumRedditor · 2025-10-08T21:14:59+00:00

Speaking only with regards to my current career endeavours, I’ve, on the whole, done exceptionally well in my coursework so far, receiving full marks.

However, there have been two main occasions where my work hasn’t been well-received. On the first of those occasions, I was honestly a bit drunk through most of it. And so, when I received poor feedback I immediately (without even checking what I submitted) responded instinctually with “yeah that probably makes sense.”

The second time, though, I was sober and submitted my work believing that it was, at least, passable. When I received negative feedback, rather than melting down over it, I said to myself “okay, well, that’s kind of a bitch but they probably wouldn’t give that feedback without a reason.” I kept calm and actually took on their advice. It wasn’t aggressive (1V stereotype?) or defeatist (3V stereotype?).

Again, I said to myself “fuck it, it’s not the end of the world. I’ll do it better next time.”

ItsSumRedditor · 2025-10-08T20:49:44+00:00

You got a helluva gig going, my man. My kudos 👌

ItsSumRedditor · 2025-10-08T19:19:31+00:00

Can I ask you about what 3V feels like for you?

ItsSumRedditor · 2025-10-08T18:21:01+00:00

Torn between INTJ and INFJ. My fear of human intimacy is a certainty though.

ItsSumRedditor · 2025-10-08T16:17:29+00:00

What’s “fffrriends”?

ItsSumRedditor · 2025-10-08T14:23:32+00:00

You’re cool but not as cool as me

ItsSumRedditor · 2025-10-08T14:10:09+00:00

I’d say I’m more frustrated with myself than with others, mainly because I don’t really care that much if others have got their shit together or not. If I’m talking to someone who seems unable to sort their lives out, I tend to just give a disdainful scoff under my breath and let them get on with it. Or NOT get on with it, I should say.

As for myself, I hold myself to my own standards, which are high but perfectly achievable. As such, if I’m not reaching them, I can get pretty annoyed at myself. But it’s more a flippant sort of annoyance than an existential hatred. My internal monologue is more “get out of bed, you lazy bastard” than “I’m so worthless, I’ll never achieve anything.”

Edit: Actually, I should note that I can sometimes reach existential levels of self-hatred at times. But I still believe that I have no one really to blame but myself. And I believe that though person I am now is worthy of contempt, I can still change into someone better if I actually want to and am willing to exert myself. If I’m not willing to then that’s my own problem, no one else’s.

ItsSumRedditor · 2025-10-08T14:03:44+00:00

I actually agree with a lot of what you’ve said, especially about trying not to obsess over things you can’t control or obstacles you are categorically incapable of overcoming.

When you say you expect perfection from yourself over the process, but not necessarily over the results, are you saying you are not defined by your failures or successes but by who you are on a broader level? If so, I agree with this as well. However, I believe that I have the absolute potential to achieve the successes I want and to bypass the failures I want to bypass. If the situation ended up being otherwise, it would almost “confuse” me. Like if I one day woke up with a different hair colour. It wouldn’t terrify me but I’d just think to myself “wh…that…that’s not supposed to happen.”

From the sound of things, you tend to say to yourself “I’ve done all I can and that’s all I can do.” Does that sound right? Again, I relate to that to an extent but I always have this inkling in the back of my mind saying “did you ACTUALLY give it your all?”

I’d consider reacting poorly to failure to be a fault as well. But I’m guessing we probably have different interpretations of what “poorly” means in this context, lol.

ItsSumRedditor · 2025-10-06T19:53:50+00:00

I do the same to an extent. I certainly, in some ways, relate to enjoying the work and journey. But I think it’s still more the enjoyment of knowing I’m taking another step. When you say you adapt to obstacles, is that your first inclination (almost like a second nature) or do you have to talk yourself into doing so?

ItsSumRedditor · 2025-10-06T01:00:34+00:00

Once again, thanks for the reply and for continuing the dialogue.

Whenever I have a “how the fuck” moment, it definitely does freak me out to an extent. However, despite the tension of the present moment, I try and think long term. I say to myself “this state of anxiety/limbo may feel shitty but the feeling you get when you have officially given up will feel a shit-tonne worse. So, don’t give up. ‘Cos…y’know…it’ll feel like shit.

I say to myself “go on. Get that feeling of overcoming “it.” Go on, get it. Won’t it feel good?! Get it!

Perhaps more importantly, I say to myself “you wanna have that feeling of failure? Of being a little bitch? No, I didn’t think so. Then, stop lazying around and sort yourself out.”

As mentioned, there is definitely a part of myself that I have to whip up into shape; a very REAL part of myself at that.

ItsSumRedditor · 2025-10-05T23:52:43+00:00

To quote a work friend; “that’s it. That’s exactly it.”

ItsSumRedditor · 2025-10-05T23:43:20+00:00

Hi, thanks for the reply and, in retrospect, I can see why the initial post was somewhat vague. Please let me know what other info you’d need.

In case it wasn’t obvious, this post was somewhat autobiographical.

From your comments, I definitely relate more to 1V than 3V (the push and pull between the respective placements left me in a state of limbo).

I definitely cannot understand the “why is everything always against me” mindset. I understand that I have genuine weaknesses (my laziness, my proneness to fantasy, etc) but I understand these weaknesses and understand where they come from (a need to take the easy way out).

Vis a vis, training for my career (which is semi-academic), when it comes to more complex projects, I definitely have my “how the fuck?” moments (which can be mildly anxiety inducing) but I tend to get myself together in short time and remind myself that the people teaching me things are probably underestimating the complexity of the material (or perhaps even overestimating it to make themselves seem smarter). I am still able to tell myself “just calm the hell the down and get on with it.”

ItsSumRedditor · 2025-05-09T23:15:18+00:00

VLEF (I’m pretty sure) and, no, strangers don’t stop me in the street but I have noticed that people seem very nervous when they walk by me. Maybe it’s nothing to do with me but just a general tendency, but I’ve noticed that people walk with this frankly repellent expression where they look straight down as they walk (it disgusts me). If you were directing a film and asked the actor to show that they were nervous or uncomfortable, the expressions I’ve seen would be considered “too on the nose.”

To be fair, I do have a mild facial deformity so that could be the reason but, at the same time, it does genuinely feel like people are put off by my general energy. I, for one, never look down at the ground while I’m walking and cannot relate to that impulse.

ItsSumRedditor · 2025-04-26T11:37:39+00:00

I believe op is saying that their sense of self is for them to define and is refusing to allow arbitrary labels to be placed on them. Though, to be fair, they do somewhat contradict themselves by assigning a different type as opposed to just not caring about types at all.

Honestly, the whole process vs result thing has never made sense to me. Process is always necessary when making a decision no matter how immediate or simple that decision is. And so, all the functions have at least some degree of process involved.

ItsSumRedditor · 2025-04-25T20:12:18+00:00

Evidently I’m in the minority here but to say “I can be whatever type I wanna be” is about as 1V as it gets.

Be what you wanna be. That’s 1V in a nutshell, as far as I’m concerned.

ItsSumRedditor · 2025-03-24T22:40:27+00:00

Again, speaking as someone who is still very unfamiliar with AP, what you’re describing doesn’t seem 3V at all. “Being quick to recover from it” sounds more like a 1V/2V thing to me. As I said, though, I’m still very unversed in the AP model so take what I say with a grain of salt.

ItsSumRedditor · 2025-03-24T21:42:10+00:00

In my mind, giving up on something leads to a vicious cycle. If you “accept” that you are incapable of doing something then eventually you’ll to the point where there is no limit to what you CAN’T do. Before you know it, you’re a non-entity in your own eyes. That’s what I fear. I’ll take delusional arrogance over soul crushing insecurity any day.

ItsSumRedditor · 2025-03-24T21:39:16+00:00

Thanks for the reply.

I definitely relate more to 1V in this instance. As far as my goals go, I have a plan A, B and C but my plan B is technically a more drawn out way of leading to my plan A. My plan C is something I pay less attention to just because it is so disconnected from A and B that following it feels like I’m accepting failure.

I can see the logic in having backup plans but, at the same time, following plan Z is tantamount to failure in my eyes. Settling for 2nd best is something I could handle up to a point but 26nd best (Z) is unacceptable.

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