Kira Nerys MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Kira Nerys? Kira Nerys is an ISFP personality type in MBTI, 6w7 - sp/sx - 684 in Enneagram, in Big 5, ESI in Socionics.
I see Kira as a healthy ISFP. Fi- She seems to know herself and her morals very well; indeed, when the Dominion occupy the station and she capitulates to them in an effort to keep the peace, she literally looks at herself in the mirror and reaffirms her own personal code of morality and creates a resistance cell to sabotage the Dominion's efforts to explode the minefield. When her sense of self is threatened, such as in 'Second Skin' when she is gaslighted into thinking she was a Cardassian agent, she becomes mortified, but insistent that she is Kira Nerys, Bajoran terrorist. Her sense of self is one of her defining characteristics throughout the series. Se- Kira seems to have little to no interest in fantasy and imagination. She subverts the ISFP stereotype that she is an artist by having no artistic talent as seen in ‘Accession’. Unlike most of the other DS9 cast, she dislikes holosuites and reaffirms her opinion about them in ‘Second Skin’ preferring to do things in reality. When she does indulge in holosuite activity, such as with Dax in ‘Way of the Warrior’ or with Odo in ‘His Way’, she looks uncomfortable and unnatural implying that visiting the world of imagination was not her idea. As the series progresses and her relationship with Odo develops, she seems more comfortable in indulging in the fantasy realm of Vic Fontaine and helping him in ‘Badda-Bing-Badda-Bang’. Ni- Like most Bajorans, faith is incredibly important to Nerys. She is always insistent that her cause of action is ‘what the Prophets have laid out for (her)’ such as her choice to sacrifice herself to save the lives of thousands of colonists that were created through a time anomaly by advising the others to not use their knowledge of the accident to avoid it in ‘Children of Time’. When under stress, Kira finds it difficult to brainstorm new ideas (Ne), such as her dogged determination to avenge the deaths of her Bajoran terrorist friends in ‘The Darkness and the Light’. Te- Kira is an effective leader suggesting that she is a healthy ISFP who can use her inferior function to achieve results. It is through her commanding presence that she helps to prevent bloodshed between fellow Bajorans in ‘Shaka’, for instance. However, even this can be limited. Her angry, officious reprimands to Bashir in ‘Defiant’ and ‘Wrongs Darker than Death or Night’ show that when stressed, Kira can be formidable, and afterwards, she often needs to be relieved of duty to be destressed.
