Buntarou Mori MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Buntarou Mori? Buntarou Mori is an INTP personality type in MBTI, 5w4 - sp/sx - 594 in Enneagram, RCUEN in Big 5, SLI in Socionics.
Mori is a very introverted, closed-off and complex character, making him difficult to type. I am glad to see that the consensus agrees that he is an Ti/Fi dominant as he cannot be perceiver (Although he has a copious amount of Si, I couldn't form any solid argument for ISXJ, he lacks Te/Fe too much to be either). In this comment I will discuss ISXP and INFP vs INTP. I believe a lot of voters, "see" Se-Ni in Mori due to two factors. One is simply due to the correlation of Se to the nature of climbing. Se is a function that primarily seeks out new experiences, its way of perceiving the world is directly as is and through "unfiltered lense". Mori's repeated statements of feeling only alive whilst climbing is may look like Se. The issue here is that though Mori does seek out the sensations experienced during climbing 1. this isn't Se, (he sees climbing a form of escape from the outside world, rather than just fun. If Mori were to be a high Se user it would be seen across all aspects of his life rather than JUST climbing. Instead Mori lacks any of Se's impulsivity and aggression, being called "discreet" and timid. Only time I could see actual Se in him, this being on K2 when he was battling his guilt of actually enjoying dancing with death instead of trying to safely get back to Rokka and Hana) 2. Mori does not perceive reality as is, he always either compares it to past experiences or straight up imagines things (connects abstract thoughts to seemingly unrelated things) as references to the present, he almost never is present in reality itself. Examples like, imagining the woman at his house as a mantis, imagining himself as a shell cocooned in his sleeping bag, thinking back to Oonishi whilst climbing his route, seeing Mount Yari and comparing it to bare bone of a vertebrae and many more. All these instances point to the Ne-Si axis rather than Se-Ni. I also believe that the confusion of his perceiving functions stem from the fact that originally Mori was written to be an ISFP, most likely. As the original author wrote the character, the Se-Ni axis was much more visible, like when climbing, the Ni "aha" moments of intuitively seeing the holds how to climb the wall due to complete inexperience or when on Mount Yatsugatake he, again, knew intuitively the route to the top. However, from Ch. 31 onwards Sakamoto Shinichi takes over the story, where the Mori we all know and love becomes. I will shortly give my explanation why I believe on Ti>Fi in Mori's stack. In the comments. Thank you for reading this and I'm open to debate and any pointers on my argumentation or understanding.
