Bertholdt Hoover MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Bertholdt Hoover? Bertholdt Hoover is an ISFJ personality type in MBTI, 9w1 - sp/so - 964 in Enneagram, RLUAN in Big 5, SEI in Socionics.
Here's why I type him as ISFJ sp/sx. Si-Ne: Bertholdt seems dutiful and predictable, rarely changing his acting/thinking pattern. Something he himself was aware himself about, he told Armin: "Did you think I would lose my cool... again? That because I'm the meek and timid Bertholdt, you could fool me into letting my guard down?" (which very much shows Fe-awareness btw, he knows how others see him.) He prefered staying in the background and following Reiner, and even when presented with new information, he never changed his opinion or tried to find a way out. I think part of this is that he feared the unpredictable (inf Ne) and just went with what was already estabilished (dom Si). He didn't even tell Annie his feelings or tried to get very close to her, I think because he was content with the way things were because he avoided change. He lacked an inner determination, assertiveness; rather let himself be passive. In my experiences, Fi-Doms, even when they are enneagram 9, still have a very strong inner 'identity construct' in them. Compare him to Tommen Baratheon, for example. His passiveness seemed more like he simply refused to be anything different, it seemed deliberate; his thoughts and opinions always stayed pure (he didn't even want Joffrey to kill Robb, the way he treated Margaery, the way he never said a bad word about anyone). They even stayed pure when he obv lost his will to live. When he eventually killed himself, in a sense, it was a very intentional, empowering act; he freed himself from the control others had on him. Bertholdt never wavered, although what he did to others hurt him badly and he tried to explain his perspectives to the others. He doesn't have these kind of convictions though. He was ready to do terrible things without blaming himself afterwards for betraying morals or something like that... it's more like he coped with the circumstances by doing predictable things, good or bad, and avoiding thinking about himself and what this made out of him if he could. He wasn't passive out of intentional values. Fe-Ti: I think another reason why he seemed to be very passive is because he always concentrated on other's emotions instead of his own. When Reiner was calm and played along, so did he. The only times he became more assertive when Reiner got him fired up for a fight "Are we doing this? Reiner?"; or when the others began throwing their emotions at him. He seemed very, very understanding of the others, and also wanted the others to understand him. "None of you have done anything wrong and you're not devils either. But you all still have to die. That's just how it is." "Do you think I wanted to do this?!" I think that's Fe-Ti, intellectual understanding of other's perspective and being this kind of defensive about what others thought he was when they didn't have a clue (because Fe = external information, it gets to you as a Fe-User so you have use Ti to protect yourself). His Ti also shows itself in his analysis of what Armin's intention were, similar to how Armin himself, an INFJ with tert Ti, analyses situations. He didn' let himself be fooled twice. His change in his last fight, when he said "he accepted whatever happened, no matter what" (-> again, Si-Ne; he could accept terrible possibilities and stopped relying on safety of predictability) and "That's right, nobody's in the wrong. There's nothing we could do. Because this world is just that cruel." A logical (Ti) analysis of the actions of himself and others (Fe). Also, compared to Eren. Bertholdt's sense of revenge or anything like that for Annie's supposedly turtore didn't stay for long. He even said he wouldn't lose his cool again for her. It was never his own feelings or convictions that drove him; I think because he understood the others too well, he could never be as determined in his own subjectivity until he intellectually decided to. (what I think he did for Reiner, btw, and that's where the instinctual variants come into place) sp/sx: I think the thing he cared about the most were safety (sp) and his sx connections, Reiner and Annie, and not much else. He always avoided bonding with the others as much as Reiner did, I suspect out of fear that he could begin to care for them and that it would break him even more. But as the end result, he was very fixated on Reiner and he was the reason why these two just always stayed together. He always seemed to care much about him. I think the reason why he never confronted Reiner about his split personality until he was forced to was because he didn't want to push Reiner. He didn't feel the need to move the mission along, I think his sense of duty was moreso dedicated to Reiner than to his mission; if Reiner had decided to stay a soldier, I suspect Bertholdt would have let him. And eventually, his bond to Reiner also was the reason why he decided to change.
Biography
Berthold Hoover was an Eldian and one of Marley's Warriors. He possessed the ability to transform into a Titan known as the Colossus Titan. In the year 845, he, Reiner Braun, and Annie Leonhart breached Wall Maria in an attempt to lure out and acquire the Founding Titan for Marley. After that, he joined the military and graduated the 104th Training Corps, ranked 3rd, and later joined the Survey Corps, until his identity as the Colossus Titan was revealed.
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