Sancho MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Sancho? Sancho is an ENFP personality type in MBTI, 9w1 - sp/so - 963 in Enneagram, RLOAN in Big 5, IEE in Socionics.
This might seem like a contradictory typing, but hear me out. Sancho is the true identity of Don Quixote, and Don Quixote herself is unmistakably an ENFP SX7w8; both in the way she carries herself, her attachment to the ideal of being a Fixer and how explosive her NeFi is. Given that Sancho acts the opposite of Don Quixote, I would understand the temptation to vote ISTJ, I actually think she's an extremely unhealthy, traumatized ENFP SP6w7 due to how horrible her life was. When Sancho was young, she was described as having sparkles in her eyes much like her Don Quixote persona, that was slowly lost over time over the nature of the dystopia that makes up the worst of the City. When the real Don Quixote not only offered to sire her as a Bloodfiend and give her a place of belonging, she was shocked that anyone would give her anything resembling kindness, as she's so used to the worst impulses of the City's denizens that anyone who genuinely seeks to help another person was completely beyond her ability to understand. Nonetheless, she found herself having undying loyalty to the real Don Quixote ever since. Hell, Sancho with her memory wiped is effectively a reversion of Sancho without her trauma. Being constantly hurt and burned by the City has made her into a depressed, miserable person, but look how quickly she takes to the real Don Quixote's antics and sincerely wants to believe in the idea of justice. She even reinforces this in Canto VII's ending, with her clash between herself and the real Don Quixote: "My name is Sancho! And I, Sancho, declare upon my honor: this lance shall end that festering, slothful dream! No matter how impossible it may be... Until I reach that dream... I'll keep pushing to the—Nay... I shall gallop ever-onward, unbroken, unrelenting to the end!!" Sancho even recreates her Don Quixote mantle after all the other Sinners effectively *beg* her that they want their "idiot" back. Sancho is baffled by this, as she sees that it was a waste of time trying to play a childish fantasy, before deciding that it was *her* journey that made it worth it... and what kind of ISTJ would go back to playing a flight-of-fancy after violating what they know to be real? In my opinion, Sancho was in a *very bad* Si-grip before the memory wipe, and is a hallmark description of what a SP6 is. Naranjo describes the SP6 as the following: "The E6s Fear combined with the anxiety for survival of the SP instincts leads the SP6 to be anxious of everyone, and believe that the best way to avoid said anxiety is through warmth. Because they see others as a threat to their survival, they will try to befriend others and align themselves with them to ensure others won't lash out against them. Fear here takes place as a constant submission in order to gain protection. They also have difficulty in looking at things as black and white, as they can see multiple shades of gray in between everything. Ichazo called SP6 "Affection", resulting in a character that is afraid of everyone, believing that affection is the only assurance, so this excessive need for affectionate treatment leads to the repression of aggression. Naranjo would say that fear in the conservation sphere is a insecurity and unprotection, this character wants the warm benevolence of the other to feel that he will not be threatened by loneliness or the inclemency of life and the world, he believes he must be "good", suppressing and inhibiting his aggression and impulses." This *perfectly* describes how it was Sancho ended up coming to terms with being so utterly loyal to Don Quixote, even though the darkness of the City deeply terrified her, and serves as contrast to the natural state of Don Quixote without her memories being a SX7w8. So yeah, I think Sancho is still an ENFP, like Don Quixote; I think trying to type a character's true self as separate from an alternate self is foolish unless it's explicitly a persona (and Sancho is shown that for all her cynicism and fear, she wasn't acting about the desire to be a hero of justice, even after the City broke her). So I think that while it's understandable to think of her as an ISTJ, I think that's her trauma making her an RLOEN; Sancho is indeed an ENFP SP6 in my opinion.
