Akihiko Sanada MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Akihiko Sanada? Akihiko Sanada is an ISTP personality type in MBTI, 3w4 - sp/sx - 368 in Enneagram, RCOAN in Big 5, LSI in Socionics.
[1/3] "I was too obsessed with power. Ever since I lost Miki, that's all I've cared about. I thought that if I was strong enough, I could protect anyone. " Akihiko Sanada is sexual 6, a power-hungry, vigilante-minded brother figure for the SEES members. It may easy to interpret Akihiko under the idea that he would fit heart and gut themes because of his attachment to bonds but also action-orientation. However the most crucial way you need to interpret not just his character, but all characters in stories, is paying attention to their backstory and motivations succinctly. I've forgotten personally to really dig into this for characters, and without this, it can allow you to opt for a more superficial typing that doesn't touch on that subtype's life themes. Within all the neurotic tendencies in all enneagram subtypes, the SX6 entirely relies on the fixation of power to mask vulnerability. I believe SX6 fundamentally as a type is about mental and physical strength as these ideas both bounce each other, the mind is their greatest weapon. Having a need to overthink and translate this into coming off as a physically imposing character most of the time is a central theme of this type, it's how it should behave archetypically in most of Naranjo's books. Physical strength is the most tangible and verification information they can perceptually take in, it becomes more intensely focused on the more it is relied on to compensate for weakness. Gut types compared to head types generally speaking should be more problem-less, focused on living life as it is and without deep hidden agendas, turmoil, and turbulence. HOWEVER, this isn't good enough reasoning alone as gut types that undergo trauma may very well cope with action-orientation in a way that destroys their happiness and well-being, so let's really dig into this. The first thing that is very glaring about Akihiko is his obsessiveness. He rarely catches a break, and mostly lives his life focusing on ways to become physically stronger. Rigorous strength and endurance training such as sitting while eating and talking to his peers without a chair, always working out and practicing on his boxing skills, it makes him seem tense and serious. E6s tend to be serious characters due to their fixation on voiding fear and thinking to overcome it. Relying on self-control and being guarded inhibits the rich inner emotiveness. "A central characteristic among the descriptive traits of ennea-type VI is the peculiar emotion that contemporary psychology has described as anxiety. This may be likened to a frozen fear or a frozen alarm before danger that has ceased to threaten (though it continues to be imagined)."-Character and Neurosis "In addition to being useful to defend against emotions, cynicism is also the mask of imperturbability that hides your difficulty in surrendering to feelings and relationships. Not to mention his belief that someone who is possessed by sentimentality is unintelligent or psychically unstable." -Cobardes "The sense of being watched, judged, and so on that is part of type VI suspiciousness can also be interpreted in terms of externalization: the mechanism of transferring an intra-personal event to an inter-personal relationship."-Character and Neurosis If I could describe Akihiko's life theme with one word, it really would be "control" more than any other word. Not only is the E6 associated with paternity, but so is the Emperor arcana, which both of his personas symbolize as heroes and rulers (Polydeuces and Caesar). He clearly fits the Emperor arcana more than the Star which P3P changed for a social link, as his roles as a character is about the paternal themes of becoming an authority and having more control of things.
Biography
Akihiko Sanada is one of the playable characters in Persona 3. He is a student at Gekkoukan High School and a member of the SEES. Akihiko is a cool and well-respected upperclassman, whose personality is serious and determined, sometimes being sarcastic as well as cracking small jokes on small occasions.
