Bleach: Nnoitra Gilga (ESFP)

Se:

“I want to die gloriously in battle. That’s why I work so hard to become strong. If I am strong, people will come to me looking for a fight. And when I’m fighting, that’s when I feel truly alive.”

“The strongest liquor is nothing compared to a fight.”

“Fighting itself is my purpose.”

“If I am grateful to him for anything at all, it’s for making me more powerful. Because of him, I experience more intense battles.”

Nnoitra lives to fight, and only feels truly alive when he is fighting. It is his addiction, and he likens it to a strong liquor. He has no goal beyond a desire to die gloriously in battle. He is shown going beyond Aizen’s orders and mass killing a bunch of hollows simply for the enjoyment of it. Although, he makes up an excuse to justify his actions. He also refuses to kill someone who cannot fight back, because he sees no point in it. Nel accuses him of being a beast, acting purely on instinct and without purpose. Nnoitra is also highly impatient. In Hueco Mundo, he disobeys orders, not wanting to wait, and goes out early to fight the intruders.

As a few last notes, Nnoitra constantly talks and screams during battle. He isn’t often shown exercising any caution or planning in advance, living more for the moment. He mocks Nel when she speaks in a manner that he deems “so philosophical it makes me want to puke.” This suggests an undervaluing of Ni, and thus high Se. He is also shown literally licking the blood from the first wound Kenpachi manages to inflict on him in battle.

Fi:

“Fighting isn’t logical. It never has been.”

“Taking pity on an enemy won’t save a comrade. It’s foolish.”

“I am the strongest!”

“Don’t start acting like you’re my equal. You’re not.”

Nnoitra desires to be the strongest, and failure to be that means that he might as well be dead. Nnoitra ultimately wants to be acknowledged as powerful, and this is what drives his actions. If an action won’t bring him that acknowledgement, he has no interest in participating, hence why he refuses to kill Chad. We contemplated him being an ENTJ, but this action was in complete contradiction to a Te user’s natural tendency toward task completion.

His Fi is overall very unhealthy, which results in him being hypocritical. Nnoitra is constantly judging others by his own standards, whether or not he is willing to adhere to them himself. He hates whenever anyone treats him as less than an equal, such as refusing to kill him in battle. However, in direct contradiction to this, he refuses to kill Chad in battle, claiming that there is no point. His judgemental Fi is further shown by his tendency to constantly hurl insults, and make statements like “you make me sick” and “simpleminded fool.”

Yet, his desire to die honorably in battle is ultimately very Fi in nature, since no matter what, he doesn’t want to live with the shame of defeat. It’s this hate of dishonor that drives him to want to kill Nel.

Te:

“This fight is over!”

“I don’t have time to play around with you clowns!”

“This has gone on for too long. Hurry up and die!”

Nnoitra’s Te manifests mostly in a bad way, as he is in a Se-Te loop. He is obsessed with being more powerful than everyone else. He wants that power so that he can shove it in everyone else’s face. His ideas of strength and superiority are skewed. He views any victory as proof that he is more powerful. Even in cases where he uses dirty tactics like teaming up secretly with someone else or attacking an already weakened opponent, he still claims these as legitimate victories and proof of his strength. He even goes so far as to state battles aren’t supposed to be fair. He doesn’t care about a fair fight; he just wants to win.

He likes to use his rank as proof of how powerful he is, and uses it as proof that he is more powerful than Grimmjow. All in all, his constant assertions of how powerful he is reveals the inferiority complex he has about his strength. More than anything else, he hates the idea of being viewed as inferior or weak, which is indicative of low Te. He is constantly needing to validate his power by either stating it or challenging other strong people to prove it. He also hates those who don’t give up, even when they know they don’t have a chance of winning. He finds battling with them to be a waste of time.

Ni:

“Those that defy us are renegade elements. Eliminating them benefits Lord Aizen, doesn’t it? …I think I was within my orders.”

“Here’s the reality that is your fate. You’re about to be slashed to pieces by all six of my deadly arms.”

Nnoitra’s use of Ni is fairly weak. There are only a few examples seen in the show of him using it. One of those would be how he reads between the lines on Aizen’s orders to justify massacring other hollows. He disregards Nell’s literal interpretation of their instructions, claiming that killing hollows that don’t align with Aizen benefits them and therefore is within their orders. The only other example would be in the way he withholds two of his six arms for a surprise attack against Kenpachi, which shows a limited level of forward planning. Along with revealing his extra arms, he claims that things aren’t that simple, which nods to him believing there is more than meets the eyes in some situations, like his deception suggests.