Yellow Diamond MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Yellow Diamond? Yellow Diamond is an ESTJ personality type in MBTI, 8w7 - sx/so - 836 in Enneagram, RLOEN in Big 5, LSE in Socionics.
Obviously not an Eight. This type is dominated by the vice of Lust which means a passion for excess and intensity, and nothing she does is really ever motivated by a need for intensity and stimulating engagement, the only possible reason to think she could be this type is because she is angry and authoritarian, but as Naranjo says, Type Eight's assertiveness is one of "harsh, tyrannical demandingness" which takes advantage of others' subservience to meet one's own needs (this can happen to varying degree, so mind that not all Eights are megalomanical tyrants). Yellow Diamond's character is centered around authority as means of preserving order, hierarchy. This sort of dutifull commitment to one's authority in favor of such things is quite contrary to type Eight's avoidance of responsibility and its rejection of a hierarchical perspective, as they limit their independence to pursue their wants with the desired intensity. Yellow's assertiveness is the "moralistic dominance of ennea-type I, who exacts his due as an authority". Because of this, I do understand the recent Type One votes, but I go further and say that in reality Yellow is a type Six, more specifically a Social Six. She looks a lot like a Type One and displays many core traits that are related to it. There is clear anger/wrath against disorder, chaos and mistakes and she seems extremely commited to her work and to doing it excellently. However, when it all comes down to it, all of this is still related to a sense of obedience to White. Type Six's passion of fear is related to a distrust in one's own judgement as well as in the external reality, and in order to alleviate this doubtfulness they seek places in which to anchor their trust and have guidance. On the Social Six, this guidance comes from authority, objectiveness, rationality... they need clear categories, hierarchies and frameworks so that they can act safely reliant on these unquestionable parameters. One way to differentiate these two types is that Type Ones do things according to their own internal standards of duty, moral, justice and etc., while Sixes follow external standards based on an authority figure or the symbolical authority of rules and reason; Yellow always follows the latter. In "Change Your Mind" for example, as she is attacking Blue it is visible in her expression that she is uncomfortable with that, it doesn't feel RIGHT for HER. And when Steven says she doesn't have to do that she responds "Yes I do! This is what White Diamond expects from all us [...] we all must make sacrifices for the sake of our perfect empire!". Steven then proceeds: "Does this look perfect to you?", her expression changes, it visibly doesn't, not to her. But it is perfect for White. Yellow doesn't mind what feels right for her or what she deems perfect or not, she just follows the duty bestowed upon her by the ultimate authority of homeworld, following her reason and leadership blindly. (Link to this clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMKBd7hGPao&list=PL2E7Vy0VGhDefyYqCA7aD8Mnit6Wbens0&index=2) Beatrice Chestnut says: "Individuals with this subtype [Social Sixes] can have many characteristics in common with Type Ones, especially Self-Preservation Ones. Like Ones, they follow rules and tend to be controlled, critical, hardworking, punctual, precise, and responsible. However, while Ones are guided in a confident way by a sense of their own internal standards, Sixes' fear of making a mistake has more to do with getting in trouble with an external authority." Besides what I already mentioned from her, another example of this is when they're running towards Pink's legs to flee homeworld (same episode), and when they get there White tells them through her Pearl that they're not going anywhere and should instead each go to their rooms, and when Blue tries to buy time by asking "to which rooms should we go to" Yellow fearfully tells her to stop and don't make White any angrier. She has listened to Steven and decided that putting her dutifulness to White aside is the right thing and is taking action towards this, but when confronted by White, she still hesitates. A One would be much more anchored to their inner sense of rightness and confidently act upon it without fear of disturbing authority, not if they deem them as wrong or bad, but Yellow doesn't. She feels she must fulfill White's expectation and has that clear "Prussian Character" that Naranjo names as this subtype's black and white categorizing of friends and foes, "everything in my group is safe and everything outside of it is a threat and must be neutralized" (which also showcases the hint of counterphobia in her so/sx stack). For her, homeworld is good, eveything else is bad. For her, diamonds are ultimate authorities and "organic life" or "lower life forms" are all subservient to them. It's all very categorical and black and white, clearly representative of the Social Six.
Biography
Homeworld reputes Yellow Diamond as a perfectly logical and rational leader, though in reality, she is vindictive and quick to anger. When her followers contacted her but failed, she is rather annoyed but will offer them multiple chances to redeem themselves. Yellow is shown to have a blunt and "down-to-business" attitude, taking over the call Peridot was having with her Pearl to get the message that the former had quickly. She tells Holly Blue Agate to "get to the point" when she begins to ramble on, something which she did again with the prosecuting Zircon's praises. She also kept pushing to shatter Steven/Rose and get the trial over with. Yellow Diamond has a dangerous and lethal temper, treating an act of disrespect against herself or her fellow Diamonds with aggression and violence. This was shown when she detonated the Diamond Communicator with the hopes of destroying Peridot and when she attacked both Zircons. Yellow is shown to get fed up when anyone disagrees with her beliefs
