Yuma Kuga MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Yuma Kuga? Yuma Kuga is an INTP personality type in MBTI, 5w6 - sp/so - 593 in Enneagram, SCUEI in Big 5, ILE in Socionics.
I don’t think there is any discourse about this, but let me explain why Yuma is an INTP (since I haven’t seen any fleshed-out analyses of his MBTI on this page yet). He is very obviously a Ti-dom which instantly narrows his mbti options down to ISTP and INTP, but here’s why: As a Ti-dom, he follows his own personal philosophy which he adopted from his father; 1. Learn to protect yourself and be capable because your parents won't always be around to do it for you 2. There's never 1 correct answer 3. Your parents aren't always right At the start of the manga, he works based off his own logic and thinking that only he understands; Osamu doesn't get why he's so unpredictable because he can tell that Yuma isn't a bad person, but he acts in a way that can very easily be classified as dangerous. Even so, he’s open-minded and asks questions about what he doesn’t understand, not having a pre-existing image of how he thinks things should work. Despite how analytical and innovative he's shown himself to be capable of, he has an inability to process the feelings of others, like his father‘s love (also shows inferior Fe). He has this incomprehension of why his father sacrificed himself for him, even when it was his mistake for disobeying him in the first place. To him, he deserved to die that night and that resulted in him coming to earth to find Border as per his father's wishes, but for a different reason; to revive his father. And with that goal, he knew that if he succeeded he would die in his father's place. He was ready to do it and resolute enough to pull through even after 4 years, when he had much time to change his mind because that was the way he thought, his logic is that he deserved to die so he's pulling through with it. Imo, that’s hardcore Ti-dom behaviour. Ne Aux: Right from the start, Yuma is established to have exceptional creativity even within Border and its acknowledged by high-ranking agents such as Izumi for it. He's the only person so far to be shown using grasshopper in a way that doesn't just propel himself forward; he uses it as a tactic to move objects and pieces of surrounding terrain that can catch his opponent off guard/restrict their movements and even assist his own teammates in escaping, like when Chika was running from Inukai in the 3-way showdown, he uses his grasshopper to push her forward so she can gain more distance. This creativity isn’t limited to grasshopper. He doesn't see dead-ends but opportunities even where there looks like none, being really adaptable and depending on the situation, has the ability to make split-second decisions that affect the tide of the entire battle. it's shown multiple times when he fought opponents more powerful than him; he came up with ways to defeat them by capitalising on what they didn't know about him/couldn't predict (e.x ko couldn't predict him attempting to fight underwater, viza wasn't aware that his normal body was also made of trion). When fighting against Ko in subsequent battles, he still managed to win him a few more times even though Ko has a ridiculous side effect and can remember all previous moves used against him so any strategy that has worked on him once won't work ever again; it shows how many answers he can devise to combat him. From one outcome/situation, he sees many possibilities and can improvise from it. This tells me he has high Ne. Tertiary Si: He's not aware of his own bodily sensations at all in his non-combat body, which might be attributed to it being made of trion but it's still an odd level of unawareness (getting hit by a car multiple times bc he's not paying attention to his surroundings) He also relies on past combat experience to move as well as he does and adds current observations and skills he gains to his inventory for the future, shown when he uses Jin’s Mole Claws and Midorikawa’s Pinball tactics which he got from sparring from them against Ko. He fights for the sake of planning ahead as much as it is current satisfaction/need. Inferior Fe: Again, his incomprehension of other’s feelings. Unable to understand his father’s reasoning behind sacrificing himself, he asks Osamu why he’s so compassionate and willing to save others even though he’s so weak. He is direct and blunt in nature as well, so much so that it almost comes off as socially oblivious. Not sure if anybody will mention ISTP as an option for him, but I’d like to counter that in the event that a discussion like that arises; His split-second decision-making skills, how agile he reacts to external threats and his like for battle can appear like Se but what overwhelms it is the way he intakes information about his surroundings; he relies on past information like his old battle experience. He doesn't know everything, but what he does know he knows in great detail to the point of mastery as he relies on his old experiences to hone his skills to perfection, along with everything I said under the Tert Si section.
