Mahito Maki MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Mahito Maki? Mahito Maki is an ISTP personality type in MBTI, 4w5 - sp/sx - 461 in Enneagram, RCOAN in Big 5, ESI in Socionics.
Using physical self-harm (bashing head with rock) to cope with difficult emotions & to feel slightly more in-control of intangible and out of control situations doesn't seem like something an INTJ with inferior Se would do. If anything, I think an INTJ in his situation would either completely withdraw into the world of the book his mother left for him, or fail to eat/be physical altogether out of depression. Mahito is very logical and physical throughout the film- notice how his first instinct towards the Heron is to detect abnormalities in behaviour and then to come up with a physical defense (A stick to beat it with, then a bow and arrow)? Why not try talking to the Heron first? To try to understand what it wants before assuming it wants to fight? His negative emotions manifest through subtle, yet physically violent actions. It reminded me a bit of San from Mononoke Hime's (ISFP) depiction of being wild as a way to cope with her deep anger and pain towards humans. Mahito is traumatized from losing his mother and not ready to move on, but his Fe doesn't allow him to express this directly the adults in his life, so he bottles it in and takes it out on himself. These broken and confusing feelings directly conflict with dominant Ti, making him rebel and go to the tower and reject his stepmom.
Biography
Mahito Maki is the protagonist from of the film The Boy and the Heron.
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