Bubbles MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Bubbles? Bubbles is an INFP personality type in MBTI, 9w1 - sx/so - 972 in Enneagram, RLUAI in Big 5, EII in Socionics.
I believe Jung once said this about Fi: “It is principally among women that I have found the predominance of introverted feeling. "Still waters run deep" is very true of such women. They are mostly silent, inaccessible, hard to understand; often they hide behind a *childish or banal mask*, and their temperament is inclined to melancholy” (asterisks mine). It’s striking to me how Bubbles serves as a textbook example of this. She’s someone who presents herself in an extremely cutesy manner, but in her interview, it’s evident that toughness is ingrained as a part of her self-image to the point that her inferior Te starts showing when it’s questioned. Other people might not take her seriously, but she takes herself very seriously (similar to a Ti-dom sticking to their own logic no matter what), and is prone to cold-blooded fury when there’s a threat to something she perceives as part of her identity or values. Indeed, her cutesy presentation is actually shown to indicate a lack of compromise with other people’s expectations, because it flies in the face of what people expect from a superhero (little girl or not). And yet she has an iron-clad, nigh-rebellious grip on it. It’s everyone else who’s the problem when they underestimate her for her sweet demeanor—she is what she is, and they have to deal with it, or else. The fact that she’s able to remain so bubbly all the time, regardless of the atmosphere around her (the mime episode comes to mind), and the fact that her mood usually changes on her own whim, indicates that her feelings are self-fueled. Kind of like Pinkie Pie, who’s similarly infallibly cheerful because she just isn’t swayed enough by the emotions of others to let them bring her mood down, unless her own self-image is tied into it. I think unless you have introverted feeling, it’s actually kind of difficult to maintain the sort of authentically bubbly image that brings light to other people’s worlds. I’m guessing that’s why the childish/banal mask is part of Jung’s description of Fi users—that sort of idealistic worldview won’t likely survive long in someone who’s fundamentally attuned to the objective social/emotional environment, although they might be better able to “play by the rules” and influence others that way. When Bubbles does have the chance to reinforce her self-image as tough, notwithstanding her unapologetic cutesiness, she acts smug, such as when Buttercup jumps into her arms out of fear for once. She’s actually pretty angsty, too, when she’s not focused on expressing her own idealism—in the comics, she shouts, “I’m not dumb! I just like nice things that make me happy! At least I don’t want to fight and be mean all the time like some people!”, which again shows that her cuteness is deliberate, partially obfuscating the intensity of her more negative emotions. If you read her Powerzine profile (link to all three PPGs’ here: https://hafanforever.tumblr.com/post/126292746083/rocketcandycouture-ppg-profiles-from/amp), you can also see how focused on her own emotional world she is, though it works out for her heroism. She primarily wants to see a smile on “her” face, for one—her emotional landscape and drives are independent of the outside world. Her fighting is entirely decided by what she considers moral—if she wants to apologize instead of fight a monster, she’ll do it, and she alone decides whether Mojo’s been a bad monkey or not, and thus deserving of her punishment (“So I kicked him in the FACE!”). She’s also the only Powerpuff girl who’s incorruptible by HIM, as shown when Blossom is confronted with pride and Buttercup with wrath, while HIM can’t find any moral weakness to exploit in her at all. That could indicate either high Fi or Fe in a heroic character, but given that Bubbles is so independent in her emotions and has such a tight grip on what she personally considers moral, I think high Fi is indicated here. Although the self-sufficiency of Fi users’ principles can be incredibly reassuring—you know Bubbles isn’t going to betray/twist her own sense of morality like Blossom (low Fi) or Buttercup (Fe)—their unmovability personally unnerves me a bit. Hopefully Bubbles stays on your side, is what I’m saying… Also, her Ne is quite evident in the paragraph where she talks about her favorite color: “Blue. No, red. No, pink… oh, I just like all the colors. They’re all so very, very pretty!” I think this is another textbook example of a cognitive function, though this time of Ne instead of Fi. Her approach to the abstract is impartial: she evaluates possibilities objectively instead of subjectively filtering them like a Ni user. (Ni users are often certain of one possibility, dismissing others, based on criteria undeterminable to others (“gut feelings” or “hunches”). That’s what makes their intuition introverted/subjective.) She sees the potential of all the colors, so she won’t pigeonhole herself into liking just one of them.
