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Nov. 26th, 2002 05:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
katallisonOne of the Quizillas currently making the rounds is the Which Buffy & Enneagram's 9 Personalities Are You? I haven't gone into it to see all the results, but the ones I've seen so far seem to me off-target. Spike a Seven? Oz a Four? No WAY. So, for what it's worth, and not that anyone was asking, I give my own utterly inexpert Enneagram classification of the various Buffyverse characters.
Buffy: Eight, with a Seven wing. Loyal, responsible, action-oriented, driven to be strong, to cope, to compete and win. The Seven adds some cheery optimism, some capacity for denial about the darkness of her world, and is probably a good mental-health survival trait for a Slayer.
Willow: She pings as a Five, with all the emphasis on learning, the intellectual life, knowledge for its own sake; but she doesn't really have the defendedness and emotional distance that's a core Five thing. I'd guess she also would score high on Two and Nine.
Xander: A big old Six -- the loyalist, who seeks authority he can truly trust and believe in, self-sacrificing for people or causes that matter to him, desirious of security and guidance, mistrustful of himself and his own competence, suspicious of the unknown/unproven.
Spike: Spike is *such* a Four. Fours are the drama queens, the ones who are fixated on their own specialness, their differentness, their sufferings; self-absorbed, constantly searching for love and yet feeling no one really *understands* them. Spike and William are both Fours, in their respective ways; it's one thing they have in common.
Oz: To me, Oz has all the zenny go-with-the-flow openness and peaceableness of a highly-evolved Nine. At their best, Nines are the water that flows around rocks, flexible, relaxed, equable, conflict-averse, and very likeable.
Giles: He's a bit hard to place, but I'm really drawn to seeing him as a well-developed One, with probably a lot of Five in the mix. He's got the One's dedication to principle and higher purpose, and the One's tendency to anger when the world fucks up around him. On the other hand, Ripper is not even *slightly* a One, so there you go. Hard to say.
Faith: An unhealthy Eight (which is why she makes such a great mirror for Buffy), with a Seven wing. Confrontational, violent, egomaniacal, impulsive, hedonistic. There's a lovely description of unhealthy Eights here. That's our Faith.
And from that latter link, the "Self-Study" button will take you to some interesting general descriptions.
Buffy: Eight, with a Seven wing. Loyal, responsible, action-oriented, driven to be strong, to cope, to compete and win. The Seven adds some cheery optimism, some capacity for denial about the darkness of her world, and is probably a good mental-health survival trait for a Slayer.
Willow: She pings as a Five, with all the emphasis on learning, the intellectual life, knowledge for its own sake; but she doesn't really have the defendedness and emotional distance that's a core Five thing. I'd guess she also would score high on Two and Nine.
Xander: A big old Six -- the loyalist, who seeks authority he can truly trust and believe in, self-sacrificing for people or causes that matter to him, desirious of security and guidance, mistrustful of himself and his own competence, suspicious of the unknown/unproven.
Spike: Spike is *such* a Four. Fours are the drama queens, the ones who are fixated on their own specialness, their differentness, their sufferings; self-absorbed, constantly searching for love and yet feeling no one really *understands* them. Spike and William are both Fours, in their respective ways; it's one thing they have in common.
Oz: To me, Oz has all the zenny go-with-the-flow openness and peaceableness of a highly-evolved Nine. At their best, Nines are the water that flows around rocks, flexible, relaxed, equable, conflict-averse, and very likeable.
Giles: He's a bit hard to place, but I'm really drawn to seeing him as a well-developed One, with probably a lot of Five in the mix. He's got the One's dedication to principle and higher purpose, and the One's tendency to anger when the world fucks up around him. On the other hand, Ripper is not even *slightly* a One, so there you go. Hard to say.
Faith: An unhealthy Eight (which is why she makes such a great mirror for Buffy), with a Seven wing. Confrontational, violent, egomaniacal, impulsive, hedonistic. There's a lovely description of unhealthy Eights here. That's our Faith.
And from that latter link, the "Self-Study" button will take you to some interesting general descriptions.