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Question #1209066161Thursday, 24-Apr-2008
Category: Typing Celebrities
What type is Lyra Belequa (from the book, NOT Dakota Blue) from the Golden Compass/Northern Lights? -- Anonymous
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A1 Child heroes and heroines in books tend to be INFps. Like Oliver Twist. Lyra's similar. It's how adult writers think a generic kid's mind works - like an INFp. It's done so often it gets bland, not just with child heroes, but lazy writers in general always make the protagonist an INFP. Has anyone else ever noticed this? I've only seen the film, mind you - she might be different in the book, but from what I've heard, she's not really. Sorry people who really like this story, or those really like INFps. I like them as well - if anything, I'd say the multitude of fictional INFps do the real ones a disservice. -- pandapanda
A2 Oliver Twist is an ISFP, IMO. I think Tiny Tim is INFJ. So, not always INFP, although I don't know of too many stories, off the top of my head, with prominent child characters. In the Narnia Chronicles the children types were really diverse, ISFP, ISFJ, ISTP, ENFP, etc. -- Anonymous
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A3 Maybe you're right. They just all look like INFps to me. I have a hard time telling Dickens's 'good' child characters apart (I'm a bad English student). What makes you type them differently? I reckon Doug Funnie and Tommy Pickles are INFps (but that's cartoons, I suppose). And I still reckon Lyra is one in the Gold Compass film, at least. Though the other child characters are other types. I've never read any C.S. Lewis stories - he was an INTj, right? His theological writings put me off a bit (that's a different matter though). -- pandapanda
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