#double badger

T.E. Lawrence & Sharif Ali

Just got out of a fantastic 70mm screening of Lawrence of Arabia, my favorite film so, let’s do it. Here's the system I'm using, let’s figure out these enigmatic characters. 

T.E. Lawrence is a tricky one to sort, because two of the central questions of this film are Who is Lawrence? and What does Lawrence want? I at least need an answer to that second one before I'm able to sort him.

We also get a few potential answers. Lawrence latches onto the idea of Arab Independence, so the obvious answer is – okay, he’s a revolutionary motivated by a Cause. But if that's the case, his Cause is less politics (he's NOT a politician) and more a manifestation of ‘Lawrence of Arabia’s’ love for Arabia in general.

When the movie starts, Lawrence has this kind of weeaboo-ish fascination with Arabia. He reads Arabic, he's memorized the Quran - but his engagement with the culture can also feel a little performative. He won't drink more water than his guide, makes an effort to eat local food he doesn't like, and is flattered when people think he has prior experience riding camels.

Lawrence isn't really motivated by a group-focused love of the people/culture, because he doesn’t know the people, and he romanticizes the culture. Prince Feisal calls him out on this: “No Arab loves the desert. We love water and green trees, there is nothing in the desert. No man needs nothing. Or is it that you think we are something you can play with..?” Lawrence accepts a job in Arabia he has zero information about because he thinks it's “going to be fun.” In a lot of ways, this is his version of running away with the circus.

Faisal, who is probably the character with the best read on Lawrence (although Brighton and Ali figure him out pretty well by the end) calls him “another of these desert loving English - Doughty, Stanhope, Gordon of Khartoum.” And good lord does Faisal nail him dead-to-rights. Charles Doughty was a poet and writer who traveled extensively in Arabia, Lady Hester Stanhope was an adventurer/antiquarian who who spent a lot of time adventuring wearing Bedouin/Turkish men’s clothing, and Gordon was a British military guy who became kind of a folk hero after he ignored orders to retreat. String those people together – and yeah. You DO get T. E. Lawrence. 

I also love that one of the people Faisal compares Lawrence to is a lady, because watching this movie now… oh man, Lawrence is SO queer-coded. Peter O’Toole described his character as “genderless,” and director David Leans comments “[homoeroticism] does pervade it, the whole story, and certainly Lawrence was very if not entirely homosexual. We thought we were being very daring at the time: Lawrence and Omar [ie Omar Sharif, who plays Ali], Lawrence and the Arab boys.” 

Lawrence is… just… very femme and very swishy, especially compared to the very British, very masculine characters surrounding him. There’s one scene with him literally skipping that got a huge laugh at my screening because it is just that blatant. This actually feeds into a key aspect of early movie Lawrence though - which is just how out of place he is. He’s remarkably ill at ease in his body (with his comically terrible salutes and badly-fitting, rumpled uniforms.) His introductory scene involves him pinching out a match with his fingers, saying “the trick is not minding that it hurts.” So this is a character actively disconnected from his physical self, in a way that’s pretty easy to tie into the queer experience. As he puts it, “it’s my manner that offends.”

(and... not here to comment on the historical TE Lawrence, BUT I will say that his signature gold-on-white Bedouin robes were wedding robes originally belonging to Prince Feisal. Apparently Feisal re-gifted them to Lawrence after his aunt sent them as a not-so-subtle hint that he really needed to get married already.) 

I came into this write-up thinking that Lawrence would be a Bird Primary, because he’s quiet and not particularly emotional. BUT… he’s got this preoccupation with freedom, which is definitely a Lion thing. Lawrence is happiest when he’s able to get away from his orders, take initiative, and have a sense of autonomy. When he gets to Arabia he’s finally in a situation where he is able to follow his own internal felt compass, and just comes alive. But (despite his love for the place) he isn’t actually changed by the experience the way I would expect an External Bird primary to be.

ALLENBY: Do you think he's gone native? BRIGHTON. No. He would if he could, I think.

General Allenby (probably a Bird primary himself) goes on to say that Lawrence doesn’t have any kind of Code or System to work within. “I have my own orders thank God. Not like that poor devil. He’s riding the whirlwind.” 

Lawrence is a bit of a Glory Hound Lion for the first half of the film: he eats up praise (“those are not followers. These are worshipers”) happily makes a billion snap decisions and is remarkably… rules optional. Lawrence authentically believes that rules don’t really apply to him, even ones like “no eating in the officer's mess when you’re not an officer.” Eventually, his Primary warps into a more Exploded Lion, and he gets very 'if you’re not with me, you’re my enemy.' We especially see this in the way he lashes out at the members of his crew who question the literally impossible ‘Invade Deraa’ plan. 

Things start going very, very badly for him after this failed “invasion." He’s captured and then… whipped (and like. he’s raped. It’s the 1960s, so we’ve got to imply it, but it’s *barely* implied. I’ll link the scene here. It’s not even subtle, this isn’t even a slightly controversial opion.)

After this experience, Lawrence seems to have trouble trusting himself. He thought the Deraa plan would work, it didn’t… and he goes borderline catatonic for a while, then tries desperately to ask for orders. But the generals tell him to just keep on doing his thing. HOWEVER. What actually seems to properly BURN Lawrence is the realization that he’s been *manipulated* by the British higher-ups, and has unknowingly been lying to the Arabs this whole time. They were never going to let Arabia be independent. “Let's have no displays of indignation,” says Dryden. “You may not have known, but you certainly had suspicions.”

So, Lawrence is faced with the weakness of his own soul, his own instincts. He can’t trust them not to betray him, just like he can’t trust his body not to betray him (first by looking physically other enough to catch the attention of the Turkish General, then by bleeding through his uniform in a way that lets the British generals put two-and-two together.) These two invasions of Lawrence’s being are absolutely linked by the film, and the more metaphysical rape is treated as worse: 

BENTLEY. What did that Turkish General do to him, in Deraa?  ALI. He was the same man after Deraa… What did the English General do to him, in Jerusalem? 

After Lawrence's Primary Burns, he starts performing a version of his old Exploded Lion: surrounding himself with a (paid) bodyguard, instead of recognizing his remaining loyal friends. We don’t know exactly why he makes the controversial “no prisoners” call during his attack on the fleeing wounded, but it seems like a combination of wanting to recapture that sense of good-feeling righteous warfare he got from conquering Aqaba, AND an attempt to get a little of his agency back, by going off-script.

But... that goes poorly too, and Lawrence trusts his Primary even less. By the end of the film, Lawrence has gotten subdued and reasonable in that way Lions only get when they’re extremely Burnt. And sadly, that’s where we leave him.

My insight watching the film this time was that Lawrence of Arabia T.E. Lawrence and Our Flag Means Death Stede Bonnet are very similar characters - just one is treated tragically and the other comically. Both are loud Lion primaries stubbornly insisting on a version of the world that doesn’t exist, an idealized version where they can get enemies to work together, where pulling off incredible feats of survival work miracles, where innocents don’t have to die. If they believe hard enough in their version of the world… then surely it will manifest. 

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In terms of Secondary, Lawrence is also a Lion. He would prefer to handle a problem by charging at it, in as straight a line as possible. Even (especially) if that line is unusual or dangerous. Lawrence likes simple plans. He likes marching into people‘s offices and saying the literal truth. He’s completely comfortable insulting people, even powerful people he maybe shouldn’t be insulting. He also needs a strategy to fail, dramatically, before he changes his tactics. He's fiery and effective on the battlefield… but has no idea what to do in the council scene, where he’s supposed to be dealing with tiny, nitty-gritty conflicts between tribes. Maybe he has a little bit of a Bird secondary secondary model – he’s got a pretty impressive education he can pull out for trivia purposes. Mostly though, he just seems to wing it. 

This is the quality that makes him such an inspiring commander. It also makes people like Ali and Auda trust him when maybe they really shouldn't. Lawrence doesn’t lie, and when he does – it’s only because his personal version of reality doesn’t line up with the truth. 

BRIGHTON. He hasn't one-tenth so many men, sir.  ALLENBY. He’s lied, in fact. BRIGHTON. Well, yes and no, sir... he doesn't claim to have done anything he hasn't done. ALLENBY. Then there is an Arab North Army? BRIGHTON. No, sir. He has lied about that. 

Sherif Ali is the inverse of Lawrence. (Even visually he's the inverse of Lawrence.) He gets a villain introduction: matter-of-factly killing Lawrence’s guide for drinking at a well that doesn’t belong to him. Ali has an intensely Loyalist morality, and while he has no issue with killing people for threatening the group – he performs executions and is fine when Lawrence does the same thing – people actually do have intrinsic worth to him.

ALI. God help the men who lie under that! LAWRENCE. They're Turks. ALI. God help them.

I was all set to say Snake Primary for him, because his morality for the second half of the film is so focused on Lawrence. At first, he's impressed by Lawrence's suicidal bravery, which is why he commits to the plan to take Aqaba from the land. But what really makes him ride-or-die is when Lawrence risks his life to save one of Ali’s men. Gasim is not a particularly developed character, but that’s not the point – the point is that he’s one of Ali’s, and Ali starts off the movie kind of Burnt. I’m sure he would love to live in a world where he never has to leave one of his men behind (the way he absolutely REFUSES to leave Lawrence behind, later on.) But doing that isn’t smart, it isn’t practical. Over time Ali has had to lower his expectations. That’s how a Burnt primary thinks.

But the second Lawrence proves himself – Ali makes him part of the community in every way he possibly can: gives him water to drink, his bed roll to sleep on, a new name (Aurens) and then the signature white Bedouin robes. It’s all so, SO Badger. Ali starts the film as a slightly Burnt (slightly hopeless) Badger primary, and meeting Lawrence shows him that maybe things could be different. 

Then, at the end of the film, Ali's tragic ending is to be left without a community. He’s let the old animosities bubble to the surface and alienated Auda. Lawrence has rejected him. He can’t go back to his original way of life, because his perspective on what his "community" is has changed - he's an Arab now (this hypothetical category that mostly just exists in Lawrence's head) in addition to being a Bedouin. The one hint we get about what he’s going to do next is “learn politics” - something which the film has very mixed feelings about. 

No matter the situation, Ali adapts and does whatever’s required of him with the quiet confidence of someone who’s done this a million times. He’ll be differential and fade into the background in Faisal’s tent, he’ll be Lawrence’s hype man when they’re trying to get Auda to help, he’ll even take out his sword and fight alongside the group in a battle he doesn’t ideologically believe in. He struggles finding common ground with Lawrence at first, because he’s never met anyone like him, but he still tries. (“I have been in Cairo for my schooling. I can both read and write.”) This is honestly a great example of a Courtier Badger secondary. 

So, we get this complicated interplay between a Double Lion and a Double Badger. Lawrence is spectacular, but also prone to losing sight of reality in a way that makes him easy to manipulate. (This is a double Lion beat I wish I saw more, the only other example I can think of is, strangely, Newsies.) And Ali’s Double Badger makes him stubborn and conservative, but also reliable and grounded. He’s the one who survives the story. The film does frame Ali (and Colonel Brighton to a lesser extent) as Lawrence’s real legacy.

tl;dr

T.E. Lawrence: Glory Hound Lion that Explodes, then Burns, then starts modeling Exploded Lion, then Burns some more / Lion (slight Bird model) 

I still remember the first time I saw this movie-- I went in with super low expectations and LOVED it. It's regularly quoted in my household. "Oh, you have allergies, Spencer? I'm missing the top two feet of my body!" So, without further ado...

Spencer is a Badger primary. He was devastated when his childhood best friend, Fridge, backed away from him in search of a cooler crowd. But he doesn't let that stop him from doing Fridge's homework in hopes that he'll win a place in his life again. He's an affable, sweet young man, who notices people who typically fly under the radar-- like Martha. In Jumanji, his primary concern is keeping the group together and alive. He's non-confrontational (until he has to be) and tries to find ways to break bad news gently ("that's not how I would have put it..." he says after Fridge drops the bomb on Alex). He builds people up by talking about their strengths. He has a very clear Bird secondary-- he's the guy who plays video games. "That's literally the main thing that I do." He strategizes rather than charges and sees his physical strength as Dr. Bravestone as a skill, narrating the steps to himself ("uppercut!").

Fridge starts off as a self-centered Snake primary. He traded Spencer in for a cooler crowd to boost his own social status and is primarily concerned with his own football career-- not the impact that cheating will have on his or Spencer's lives. It's not until he gets to Jumanji that he starts to look outside himself. He seems to take special care of Bethany-- urging her to get up when she's fallen down, trusting her when she tells him the cake is bread (oops...), etc. It takes him and Spencer some time to work out their grievances, but once he's in, he's in, and Fridge helps to build up his courage in a moment when he needs in the most. Fridge is definitely a Lion secondary, he's the guy who's always shouting and making his displeasure known, who picks fights with Spencer, but who also charges in to save the day ("Zoology, bit***!")

Bethany begins the film as a myopic Badger primary, whose definition of "people" is pretty limited. She has the best growth arc of the movie, IMO. She cares a lot about what other people think of her, works hard to look perfect and appeal to her boyfriend, and tries to charm her teacher to get out of detention. She shares parts of her life with Martha and is offended when Martha acts "judgy," but accepts her influence and grows. In a conversation with Alex, she says something to the effect of, "sometimes, you get so caught up in your own stuff that you forget other people have stuff too..." She also gives up one of her lives for Alex, so he can get home too! She tells him, "you're our missing piece--" bringing him into the group. In the second movie, she's been off on a humanitarian trip, is so excited to get the group back together, and starts a cheerleader-style chant before wading into battle. The flirting lessons for Martha?? Badger, badger, badger. Her strength is in connecting with and encouraging others-- a Badger secondary.

Martha is kind of hard to read, but I see her as a Bird primary. She's a little black-and-white in how she views the world-- "gym class is not going to get me into Princeton!"-- and has ambitious goals that are largely focused on external things. She sees Bethany as fitting into the "hot, popular girl" mold and it takes her some time to see past that to the real person. She, like Spencer, is a Bird secondary. She's very systematic in how she approaches things, takes the skills that her character (Ruby Roundhouse) has very literally, and applies what she's learned to other people and situations ("Alex, if I can fight those guys, you can fly that helicopter!").

Bonus! Alex is a Snake primary, Bird secondary. He thinks a lot about his parents and says that he's a drummer, "just like my dad." Though he likes the rest of the group, he has a special bond with Bethany. He offers his life for hers, and when that doesn't work, he charges at the big bad guy to rescue her. When he sees them all again after getting out of Jumanji, Bethany is the first one he recognizes (he still calls Martha "Ruby Roundhouse"-- did he forget her name, or was he teasing? IDK). He names a daughter after Bethany, the girl who saved his life. His Bird secondary has burned after being trapped in the game for so long, he doesn't trust himself and his skills anymore and has been living in limbo.

TL;DR:

Spencer: Badger Primary, Bird Secondary

Fridge: Snake Primary, Lion Secondary

Bethany: Badger Primary, Badger Secondary

Martha: Bird Primary, Bird Secondary

A basic overview of the SHC system by @wisteria-lodge is here.

Ralph - Badger Lion

The first thing that we see Ralph do in the movie is going to a Bad-Anon meeting. His driving motivation for getting the medal is not because of the medal itself, but for everything that the medal will get him - acceptance from all of the other characters in his game. I did consider Snake primary for Ralph, since his friendship with Venellope and the characters in his game seems to be enough for him, but he's so focused on groups that I settled on Badger.

As for Ralph's secondary, he gets stuff done. He needs a medal? He deliberates about the specifics with Tapper for a bit, and then he climbs a building and goes Turbo to get it, risking his own death. He does have a Snake secondary model that he uses for other things, like taking Markowski's clothes to sneak into Hero's Duty and lying to Venellope about the tree-trimming service when they first meet. He also lies to Felix about how he didn't know that there was a party, and it's worth mentioning that Venellope calls him a liar, but it's not his primary way of doing stuff.

Venellope - Double Lion

Venellope was by far the easiest character to sort for me. I mean, "I know I'm a racer. I can feel it in my code." might be the most Lion primary sentences ever written. Even though everyone else tells her that she's just a glitch, she knows she's a racer. I mean, the first thing that she does when she first meets Ralph is race him for the medal. 

And Venellope's secondary? She's a loud Lion secondary. She knows what she wants, and she's not going to back down from it no matter what. She wants to win the race, even if it's on her own. 

Felix - Double Badger

Like Ralph, Felix is fixated on groups. He wants to include Ralph at the party, even if it's uncomfortable for both him and the other characters in his game, and he tries very hard to keep the peace. 

As for his Secondary, Felix primarily seeks out other people. He finds Calhoun when Ralph's gone Turbo, and coerces her to help him. When he gets to Sugar Rush, the first thing that he does is seek out Sour Bill. I considered an 'I-know-a-guy' Bird, but Felix doesn't collect anything else like how most Bird secondaries do. When he's locked in a dungeon, the first thing that he does is call for help. I think that a Bird Secondary would at least try to look around first. 

Calhoun - Badger Lion

She was hard to sort for me, because she's very stereotypical? I mean, she likes groups and bossing people around, so I could say that she's an Authoritarian Badger? Maybe a Snake, since she cares about Felix and her troops? She definitely doesn't like selfish people, judging by her saying that the selfish man is like a mangy dog. I'm going to cautiously say Badger, because when a Cy-bug escapes her game, she goes after it so that the other games don't have to deal with it. Snakes can do that too, obviously, but it wasn't even a question for her.

Using the @sortinghatchats system best explained by @wisteria-lodge. Check them out for more info.

As per usual, trying to get a show out of my head involves a sorting post. When heroes fly is a 9-episodes long Israeli tv show about four former army friends coming together after a fallout to save a common disappeared friend. 

Double lion, double bird and double badger. If the snake lion was a double snake, the show would have all sortings represented as pairs.

Aviv, the designed MC, gives me a strong lion primary vibe. He is the guy who is unstoppable on a mission, but who is completely lost without one. He burns hard after the death of his commander he had to leave behind to save the rest of his squad and never stopped hating himself for it. It’s like he failed to live up to his ideals in his own eyes and the resulting trauma made him even more angry with himself as a failure and he chased everyone, including his big love Yeali, away from his own suffering. 

Foreword:

I'll be uploading each character in separate post, because tumblr doesn't allow a 4,000 words article plus pictures in one post. I'll start with Mafuyu then Ue, Akihiko, Haruki, Ugetsu, Hiiragi and Shizu in this order. I will sort each character in separate posts daily except for Hiiragi and Shizu whom I will put together due to their limited screen time. I'll not sort Yuki, because he has too limited screen time, but he is ESTP 8w7, probably so/sp.

Without further ado, let us get to our mc and most adorable guy ever, Mafuyu!

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MBTI: INFP

Enneagram: 9w1 sp/so

Primary: Badger (initially burned and traumatized)

Secondary: Badger 

The entire story Mafuyu’s story arc is about him getting out of Fi-Si loop. Initially, he is incredibly withdrawn. He seems to be detached from everything that’s going on around him, only staring off into the space and hugging Yuki’s guitar. That is him falling into Fi-Si loop. He is literally stuck in his past trauma and memory of his time with Yuki. He loses touch with the present and wallows in his memory. That is until Ue comes along and introduces him to the world of music. He slowly heals from his past trauma and by extension, slowly getting out of Fi-Si loop to be more in touch with the world around him. But it’s not that easy. With him being Fi-dom plus being 9, it’s really hard for him to verbalize and confront his feelings. (Fuyu no Hanashi song).

He buries his griefs and past regrets under the numb indifference. He stops ‘thinking’ of anything and just floats in past memory and trauma. However, thanks to Ue and the band, he finally finds courage to settle his past and verbalizes it on stage through the song. While he looks emotionless on the surface, he actually contains so much pain and sadness inside himself (which is also Fi-dom trait), but after he settles them and pour them out, we see more of his Ne-aux. He absorbs music like crazy, he starts thinking about future and seek inspiration from the world around him (like the song Yoru ga Akeru). His Ne is strong and when he is released from Fi-Si loop, he reveals just how observant and intuitive he is about what is going on around him (correctly intuiting true reason Haruki cuts his hair, and that Haruki lives with Akihiko. Correctly intuiting Akihiko's unrequited attachment to Ugetsu, among others). Though it is to be noted that Ne isn't magical, it is simply perceiving and connecting dots that exist.

He also becomes a lot sassier and more assertive. Actually, Mafuyu is far from being socially inept and withdrawn. He is introverted, yes, but he is also quite strong-willed and playful in his own right. (I mean, he confesses to Ue first and being adorably pushy when he is sick.) Enneagram 9 people are usually mistook for being cinnamon roll, but actually 9s are pretty strong willed, especially when we are happy and confident. (Or stubborn, like when Mafuyu refuses to deal with his grief at all).

Sorting wise, he is Double Badger. His primary was initially burned to crisp. He felt he doesn’t have community and ran away from his old friends and new friends alike. Because he fears their judgment (like that scene where Hiiragi bumped into Mafuyu and Uecchi). But after he joins the band, he finds himself surrounded by new community and start to take in their values and heal from it. He thrives in community of like-minded people (which also attribute to him being enneagram 9. 9 is attachment type, hence they need community of like-minded people who see them to thrive).

The reason he was burned in the first place was because he felt he was left out of his community (his childhood friends, Hiiragi, Yuki and Shizu formed a band together and spent so much time together that Mafuyu was left out). He loved music, but he didn’t realize it himself at first, he just wanted to stay with his friends and boyfriend. He wanted them to ask him, to invite him. And then Yuki hanged himself after their fight at train station (and Mafuyu found his corpse, imagine the pain he must have felt, seeing his boyfriend hanged himself and knew that it was partially his fault). He burned his primary and isolated himself from everyone. He became hesitant and withdrawn. Later on, though, after he settles his trauma and reconnect with his communities (Hiiragi and Shizu, Given band, Ugetsu, friends at school and of course, his 新彼氏 Uenoyama-kun ><). He unburns his primary.

His secondary is straightforward though, he is all about hard work and community building. His power comes from integrity of methods. He is a talented guitarist and vocalist, but it’s his perseverance and integrity that earn him respect from Ue and everyone around him. He practices hard, he tries out whatever Ue and the band suggested in earnest. All because he wants to do better, to improve himself. When he wants to join the band, he works hard, finding part-time jobs in order to pay for the studio and things. He earns himself friends and allies left and right because of this. And when he’s stuck, where does he look first? His network, or course. He is stuck with guitar, he follows Ue. He is stuck with song, so he goes find Ugetsu. His methods lie upon calling on his community and putting in hard work, so he is Badger secondary.

@writingonesdreams you told me to tag you if I do any anime sorting. Here you go! I don't know if you watch this anime though, but I really recommend it. This anime is a pure gold!!!

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PS. Mafuyu's, Yuki's and Uenoyama's names also a kind of symbolism to them as well. Fuyu (冬) means winter in japanese, Yuki's name (由紀) is homophonous with 雪 means snow and Uenoyama's name, Ritsuka (立夏) has kanji for summer (夏 - natsu). Mafuyu's story takes place in winter and ends in summer (hence Fuyu > Natsu) and it reflects his journey toward healing.

He moves on from the winter (his relationship and regrets about Yuki) to summer (his blooming relationship with Uenoyama and his healing from trauma). Another thing to note is that Uenoyama is like a new dawn for Mafuyu (implies many times in manga, anime and ova), so he is 'summer' to Mafuyu's 'winter'. They fulfill each other.

Every name in this series have some sort of symbolism to it, and they reflect each character's personal journey in a way that is intricate and meaningful. Props to Kizu sensei for her genius!

Hmm!

The similarities are obvious: Badger Sec gonna Badger Sec. So the whole - wanting to be the person who problem-solves by just... continuing to build things and chip away at things, who does the honest-yet-fluid thing in social situations, etc. And...

Í think Badger Primary and Badger Secondary have some similar effects in terms of focusing you on your surrounding community. So it wouldn't surprise me at all if Lion Badgers tend to be more community-focused than Lions with other Secondaries on average, and that that may also affect their morality - I know a lot of Lions end up with Badger-flavoured ideals as-is.

I suspect the main differences are going to be: what happens when there's a point of disagreement with the community? And how often does that happen, and what about?

Because Lion Primaries are Internal, while Badger Primaries are External. There's a certain... fluidity to the Badger Primary's morals to go along with the fluidity of the Badger Secondary's presentation - @reds-burrow wrote a great post about Badger Primaries getting their morality from the group that I can only cosign. This means that it can be really hard to have a serious disagreement with your community about something important, because we put a lot of weight on their opinion. For a Badger Primary, I think that's most likely to happen if we feel people are being hurt somehow (aka the disagreement gets at those core Badger ideals), and it may end in us leaving or withdrawing from the community because the contradiction is too much to bear. On the flip side, if people aren't being hurt we're probably much more likely to go with the flow, and also handle minor disagreements where there's a diversity of opinions with a "live and let live" attitude.

What I'd expect to see from a Lion Badger: more disagreements, more willingness to stand up or use their Badger power base if they have one to go "nope I have opinions and I disagree with this" without it leading to an irreconcilable breach. Because Lions are so internally focused, the community's opinion doesn't have as much weight - which means that it's more likely for disagreements to happen but a disagreement happening isn't as world-shattering as it can be for a Badger Primary. I'd also expect more disagreements on smaller issues where a Badger will often go "eh, nobody's being hurt, what's the point in arguing about this" (although not as much as a Bird Primary, since the Lion isn't so prone to refining minute details of their moral system through debating it with others.)

I'd also suspect that losing a community is easier on the Lion Badger than the Double Badger and they're more capable of being loners, although it's probably not going to be fun for either party, and that the Lion Badger is more likely to be able to act as some sort of driving force who is working with some goal in mind where the Double Badger is wholly focused on the overall community.

Thank you for the ask anon! I wanted to do this so bad. Of course a disclaimer that any bashing I do of your particular sorting isn't meant in any malicious way. It's not my fault your sortings are unsexy alkgvljrsf. No but seriously this is all meant in good fun and more at characters than real people. I guess we're going in ascending order once more.

5. Badger Snakes - Badger Snakes aren't UNSEXY per se, however whenever I look at the word it makes me think of an ugly green like chartreuse or vomit. Actually I can tell you exactly what it reminds me of it reminds me of the Yellow Wallpaper. Badger Snake when it is written out makes me think of an ugly old fashioned wallpaper that's an ugly vomity chartreuse color. It doesn't fit the sorting at all being the power behind the throne (which always makes me imagine a throne room sans the ugly wallpaper) but that's what it reminds me of and for that it is UNSEXY! I'm sorry Lucifer I think you're very sexy but your sorting just doesn't sound nice.

4. Lion Badgers - Lion Badgers also face the same problem as Badger Snakes as they also don’t give me a nice image when I think of them. They make me think of a clashing red and yellow and remind me of ketchup and mustard, not a pretty image. But also Lion Badgers have different variants of unsexy. Some of them can be just so deeply boring or they can be so insecure it kills any sexy vibe they might have going on. Or they’re Castiel and they just...do not convey any sex appeal despite REALLY trying. (and clearly I’m the minority since a lot of people DO find Cas sexy-I just can’t for some reason. It’s probably Misha’s face) However irl Lion Badgers have rights.

3. Bird Lions - The only sorting that has no Badger lmao. Bird Lions once again are not necessarily unsexy (physically) but oh my GOD they can be so fucking annoying and whiny. Like my guy I’m not looking for a Hamlet I want an Oberon. Bird Lions are like “I have a strict code and I have to follow it forever with full force” like they didn’t grow out of that immature stage of their sorting and then be shocked and sad when they find out one part of their system was wrong or not perfect and break into a million pieces. Baby girl let’s get you some therapy and maybe you can be a sexy Joe from the Old Guard type.

2. Badger Lions - It was between this one and Double Badgers for a little bit, but ultimately Badger Lions was slightly sexier than Double Badgers because I quite like plenty of Badger Lions and find them massively sexy. You may say “Oh but I’m the protagonist sorting” yes and you deserve to be taken down a peg you unsexy sorting you. Badger Lions do consist of the two most annoying and unsexy sortings. I love Badger primaries but you explode way too much and way to easily, and Lion secondaries are just fucking annoying. Truth be told Burnt Badger primary Badger Lions are the hot ones.

1. Double Badgers - EW SO UNSEXY!! Bleh! Sorry, but you are very unsexy. Stop exploding and maybe I’ll consider your sexiness. I looked at the list of characters that are Double Badgers, and I didn’t know most of them, but the ones I did know aren’t exactly dripping in sex appeal. Get your shit together, I want peace and peacemakers to be sexy, but y’all keep being so boring and sweet or fucking EXPLODING, btw you are the worst sortings to explode because I HATE exploded Badger secondaries and primaries. Get sexy!!

Badger. Badger. Badger.

Seriously, "the emotional bedrock of the group" is a Badger Secondary at their most assured. "Able to take pain and bring peace and calm with the touch of her hand" is certainly what Badger Secondaries can look like from the outside. While "wanting to save everyone" could be Lion Primary with a Badger flavored morality, wanting to heal and bring peace feels very Badger to me.

Thanks for giving me a chance ☺️