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Type Moon Personality Quizzes

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Cherry Lover:
Well, it's an interesting concept, although you'd have to actually get the characters to fit the types first. Also, I suspect that would throw up some odd results, because it doesn't take into account things like morality.

Also, I'm not sure you'd find characters to fit all of the types, honestly, or at least not characters that would make sensible matches. For example, I'm not sure who would be INTP or INTJ, since those character archtypes don't tend to show up very much in fiction of this form.

Shirou seems like he's probably INFP, at least initially. He's generally pretty introverted and he definitely tends to act more on emotions. The N and P part I'm not quite so sure about, though. I think I'm mainly going on the description....

LostHanyou:
Yeah, I don't expect there to be a character for every type, at least if I'm trying to be as true to the characters as possible. 

Cherry Lover:
Yeah, I think that's an issue you're going to have here. You can't really just fit the characters neatly to the categories, and nor does fitting those categories necessarily mean you're that good a fit to a particular character (as an example, a generally caring person who is INTP wouldn't fit well with a villain who is INTP). Plus, of course, you need to devise a test that actually gives the personality in a reliable way....

Alice:
Yeah, probably something a bit more flexible that goes more by the character's personalities than trying to match Brigg-Meyers exactly. I actually used the site you linked to find the Keirsey Temperament Sorter, which uses the same personality sortings and seems to be pretty similar in terms of its examination (plus it was free to get the basic results, so there was that too :3). Analyzing my results, I actually seem to be between INTP and INFP, leaning far more towards INFP. I actually have taken the test before it turns out- I actually got INTP as my result the first time, but got INFP when I took it tonight, and I wondered if it was a bit off. So I took the test again and got INTP again.

The reason I bring up my own results is to demonstrate that the test can be somewhat malleable with the results, and that the results may not always fit perfectly (INFP actually fits somewhat well... except for the whole "Ignores logic and facts" thing. I like facts and logic. They make sure I'm halfway right when I say things about stuff).

So we may need to make sure we set it up so the results are less likely to change so quickly, and also make sure the results are able to correlate to each character so that it's truly a test to see which character a person is the most like.

Cherry Lover:
Well, yeah, the problem is that people don't generally fit neatly into categories. Even the people making the tests know that (that's why the full version gives you a "scale" rather than a simple number).

For example, I am generally INTP, like you, but sometimes I am very definitely ruled by emotions, even to the point of ignoring facts on occasion. In particular most of my explosions on BL and the arguments I had with the admins come more from that side, and the way I talk about people like Altima and DP is also very emotional rather than logical. Similarly, I usually fit with being introverted, but sometimes I can be more outgoing, and I can also sometimes be judgemental.

I would say you are like me. Generally INTP, but if you're stressed out or unusually emotional you end up more on the feelings side.

Your basic point is right, though. Whilst the test is useful as a basis, it is not as simple as placing people in a particular category and assuming everyone in that category is the same. Two people in the same category can be radically different, whereas two people who are in slightly different categories can actually be very similar. It's also not always even obvious which category characters fit in.

The main point of doing an actually good "which character are you?" test is to leave out the stupid questions like "what hair colour would you like to have?", and to not associate characters with abilities they use but which don't really match their personality. For example, picking "darkness" as your favourite element in the first test makes you closer to Sakura, because that's the element she uses, but personality-wise she doesn't fit with that at all. Similarly, my favourite colour says relatively little about my personality (although it does say a certain amount about my political beliefs), and certainly doesn't imply I match up to Rin just because I also like the colour red.

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