Goyou MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Goyou? Goyou is an ISTJ personality type in MBTI, 5w4 - so/sp - 514 in Enneagram, RCOAI in Big 5, ILI in Socionics.
shtdn is a short and very concentrated game. it almost purely explores the minds & existential musings of agape and goyou. given how straightforward the characters are, there's little need to go by triads, object relations or groups. goyou is a self-preservation 5. they lack the outer tension and "Anger" of an e1. they don't display resentment or undertones of morally tinted Injustice that drives their 'job' or duty as a virus buster. they are steadfast and violent, but that's moreso because they are an *antivirus program*. ti ego -- quite literally their program btw. what isn't in their program, is the introspection and final breaking out of their programming in the true ending (but also their very endearing inner dilemma when they feel sorrow for the first time in the bad ending; a sorrow they can't explain and won't ever resolve with agape gone). goyou's character isn't based around upholding the rules as much as it originates from there. retentiveness. a key word for both the e5 and goyou. goyou's insensitivity to agape's affection until the very end is, just like an e5, for holding onto satisfying their emotional needs rationally (goyou's job). e5 and e8 are the most rejective of external love and getting their needs met by relying on others. this is especially interesting with agape's 'love need'. quite a lot about the e5 is circular and basically comes down to a sensitive character who is especially vulnerable to pain and thus pathologically detaches from emotions as a whole. they hold on to what little they have, get used to less than they'd like because they hope to build resilience, and avoid deprivation by the way of self-sufficiency. if they don't detach, they fear to be hurt in ways they can't recover from. in another sense, there's a timidity to e5. much of the personal giving up is not only to lower own expectations and soften Worldly disappointment but also resignation (over-docility, interestingly described by naranjo as a strong repressed love need) and full knowledge about their own weaknesses and shortcomings, similar to e4. this gets stronger with se polr, but i think goyou is a good example for LSI anyway. the final and most outward differentiation between the virus buster e1 front of goyou and me believing them to be 5w4 is the structural feelinglessness of e5 -> "[...] a loss of awareness of feelings and even an interference with the generation of feeling, which results from the avoidance of expression and action. [...] while ennea-type I is aversive to pleasure, ennea-type V simply appears as having a diminished capacity to experience it." this is lighter in goyou who has a 4 wing and also a 4 fix. they still resonate with their inner world and experience cherished concepts intimately that they form a connection with through the familiar desktop and agape's explanations. i won't go into the traits of demandingness, dominance, over-control and the other very action-oriented traits of e1 (gut triad), because even an sp1 doesn't quite fit goyou unless one only chooses to just look at them being a virus buster, which would be a very flat interpretation. e5 already has a perfectionistic flavour to it, also has guilt and a high-superego in its structure. the major point with those is that they're purely inward; goyou lacks the externalisation and projection of said perfectionism and super-ego to come closer to e1.
