David MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is David? David is an ENTJ personality type in MBTI, 8w7 - sp/sx - in Enneagram, in Big 5, in Socionics.
Ah, David, the kid at the center of one of Animorphs' most horrifying arcs. When a bunch of birds try to steal the mysterious glowing box he found, he immediately pulls out a BB gun and starts shooting at them. Also, he owns a cobra. Definitely ISTP vibes. Upon re-reading his books, though, and actually trying to identify functions, I think his current ISTP typing is incorrect. First, the easy part. The biggest suggestion of Se is his impulsivity. I know impulsive =/= high Se, but it's still a pretty good indicator. Take, for instance, David killing the crow when he's first flying as an eagle. He's living entirely in the moment there. He also starts to morph a lion in #21 when he should be morphing to escape, jumping at the chance to test out his power. I don't really see any Si in him anyway, so Se is the way to go. Ni is harder to spot in David at first, but I think his analyses do show some Ni. He's pretty good at predicting the enemy's plans / future moves, whether the enemy is Yeerks or the Animorphs. It becomes more prominent in the third book, when he develops more complex plans and has clear goals. It’s harder to decide which T/F functions David has. David assumes the previously-mentioned birds were trained to steal the box and that the box must be valuable, so he sells it online. That’s more Te than Ti, immediately considering how to use this box to benefit him. When he has morphing powers, he also notably starts thinking about how they could be used for personal gain via theft. During the infiltration of the resort in book 21, David starts to show more of his analytical side, including having the idea to pull a fire alarm to aid in the Animorphs' escape because he'd done it before to get out of taking a test. There are instances of both Te and Ti in his thinking, but I think practical Te is stronger. Here’s a David quote from book 22: “See, I was smarter than any of you. That’s why you lost. I’ll be more careful. I’ll only choose the kind of guys who are too dumb to do anything except obey me.” Finding instances of Fi/Fe is more difficult, because this kid is probably a sociopath. He has no regard for society’s rules or his with the Animorphs, that’s certain. He doesn’t hold particularly high moral stances himself either. The most notable exception is the fact that he refuses to kill the Animorphs while they’re humans. He has no qualms murdering them while they’re in morph, but when they’re human he won’t come after them. That’s some form of Fi. After he joins the Animorphs, he also has this little speech about how he can tell the others don't like him, but that he doesn't care and that he won't let them push him around. That too leans more toward Fi than Fe. He’s not going to let their moral stances influence him. Putting his functions in the order of how he uses them is interesting. David’s Te is always prominent, and he does show quite a bit of Se in the first book and a half of the arc. In the third book, though, he’s formed a long-term plan, and you can see the Ni at work. Fi is definitely inferior. That leaves ENTJ as the best option. Maybe he’s in a Te-Se loop in the first part of the arc. He’s definitely going through a lot of stress at that point. TLDR: David looks like an ISTP, but looking at the functions he uses shows that he’s closer to an ENTJ, possibly in a loop. Whatever his type, he is definitely unhealthy and mostly likely a sociopath.
Biography
After finding the Morphing Cube and subsequently revealing its location, David became target number one for Yeerk forces who were searching to gain the morphing power. After a battle that destroyed his house, David's parents were taken by Yeerk forces. Frightened, alone and unable to trust anyone, David was given the morphing power by the others as part of an attempt to recruit him, but his growing resentment for them strained relationships within the group. Feeling that his life was threatened not only by the enemies that took his parents but also by the new strangers that now surrounded him, he turned traitor and promptly attempted to eliminate the Animorphs one by one.
