#personal sides

Instead of dark sides, each have their own version of the Yerkes-Dodson curve: what happens when they’re overactive versus what happens when they’re at a healthy balance of control. (If they’re underactive, that usually means one of the others now has an out-sized influence)

Conviction

Title: The Lawyer

Name: Elle

Her best analogy within Thomas' sides is a Logince fusion. When she’s balanced, she’s my confidence and academic excellence. She intimidates people (particularly my male friends) because she will smack down your arguments with facts and valid logical arguments. When she’s overactive, though, she becomes stubbornness and obnoxiousness. She's who threatens to fight people, and brashly jumps into new situations. She has Strong Opinions on the Oxford comma and exclusively uses “literally” in its original meaning.

Aesthetic: Pencil skirts, Black & White, Red & Navy; wears glasses

Whimsy

Title: The Dreamer

Name: Alice

Her best analogy is a Royality fusion. When she's balanced, she's unbridled creativity and joy. She's my inner child and embodies the term "squee!" When she's overactive, she's carelessness. Her head is too far in the clouds to pay attention to details or real-world concerns. She's flighty, and will jump from one idea to the next, and tends to be the least realistic. She loves comics, cartoons, children's movies, and animals. (She's also covered in tattoos - every single one I've considered getting).

Aesthetic: Sundresses, Flower crowns, and floral tattoos; no glasses, freckles

Caution

Title: The Guardian (aka The Mom)

Name: Clara

Best analogy: Analogical fusion. In balance, she has the clearest view of the real world, of the likely outcomes and obstacles. She's the unbiased weighing of options and healthy risk assessment. She's the voice of self-preservation that keeps me from overextending myself, or rushing off into the unknown, or adopting all the cats and dogs. But, when she's overactive, she's my anxiety. She's choice paralysis, where I can't be sure of the outcome so I do nothing. She's Doubt given a loudspeaker. Despite not being an overbearing personality, she's usually the loudest voice and the one domineering control over the others. And when she blocks everyone else from speaking, it gives more room to constant doubt and intrusive thoughts.

Aesthetic: Cardigans and leggings, mom purse filled with everything that could possibly come in handy (just like me in real life); wears glasses

Empathy

Title: The Humanitarian

Name: Lucy

Best TS Sides analogy: Patton. In balance, she's a caregiver and a teammate. She champions my friends and their endeavors, and she allows me to see other people's sides in an argument. She wants to do the best she can by the world around her. When she's overactive, she's selflessness to the point of forgetting to take care of herself. She's heartsickness and guiltiness for not doing more. She gets overly invested in a cause and feels like a failure when she can't solve it single-handedly. She's the part of me that originally planned to go into on-the-ground international development work. Caution (gained from living abroad) was the one who talked her down from that. She's most likely to wear flannels and tanks, particularly the Could Be Gayer one (that I own :D).

Aesthetic: Flannels and tank tops and jeans; no glasses; freckles