As An INTP I Don’t Apologise I Just Point Out How They Were Illogical

Royce: [teaching Arista how to drive] So, you're driving down the road and see Gaunt and Hadrian on the road. What do you hit?

Arista: I hit Gaunt. I could never hurt Hadrian.

Royce: [rubbing his temples] The brakes, Arista. You hit the brakes.

Okay but that is soo NOT “The secret life of INTP- Anna Kendrick”. It’s the secret *lives* of INTPs by *Anna Moss*

INTP the Chameleon

Unlike most people, INTPs do not come pre-programmed with acceptable social behaviour patterns. Rather, they learn to fit in through conscious observation and deliberate mimicry.

While other people talk, the INTP watches and wonders. They observe what a person did and figure out what they should do as a response. Widening their sight, nodding, and smiling, the INTP responded with a fake social skill.

Like actors on a stage set, INTPs are playing a role. They know that being true to themselves doesn’t fit too well with average people, they slowly accumulate a little acting knowledge to help them get by.

INTPs could be described as a human chameleon or a mirror. If a person is friendly, funny, boisterous, and waves their hands around a lot, the INTP will start gesticulating, speak in a louder voice, and smile and joke more to match the other’s behaviour. And when the person  is finally gone, they will turn into their typical self which often is silent, aloof and nonchalant, and slowly cocoon themselves inside their room.

Most of the time this mimicry is unconscious and is basically the result of playing a role deeply enough that it becomes embedded. Chameleons don’t have to think about changing their skin colour to match leaves and branches–it just happens.

Not that INTPs are good actors. They only act because they have to, and only put forth as much effort as is required to get by. An INTP, for example, does not have a giant palette of varied emotional responses that seem totally genuine. Instead, they are controlling their bodies like a puppet-master controls a puppet, and the resulting clumsy imitation of reality is just not lifelike. But it’s enough to get by, as long as there isn’t too much pressure.

If the pressure increases or the situation warrants it, however, an INTP will switch back to their regular selves for as long as necessary, perhaps stunning their acquaintances with a display of cool, clear, cogitant reasoning.

(The secret life of INTP- Anna Kendrick)

“Because that’s what he is,” Royce assured them as he approached from the direction of the keep, “a big, dumb street thug. I once saw an old woman better him senseless with a butter churn.”

-Hadrian proceeds to own the fuck out of Mauvin, the son of a noble family renowned for their swordsmanship and who was trained in an ancient art of swordplay considered to be unbeatable-

With his eyes on Hadrian and an expression of awe on his face, Denek (Mauvin’s youngest brother) turned to Royce and said, “That must have been an awfully wicked old lady and a big butter churn.”

Lmaooo I loved when he punched Gaunt

Too bad it wasn’t for you Alric :)

Hadrian: I punched Gaunt in the face.

Mauvin and Alric: 

just one letter makes a huge difference…

Ughh I know right. These two are the sweetest

so apparently there are folks who don’t like hadrista but how anyone can not want Arista “so convinced I’m unworthy of love I start crying when I discover my feelings are reciprocated” Essendon and Hadrian “clueless about feelings to the point of thinking the woman who very obviously loves him will hate him if he confesses his feelings to her” Blackwater to find happiness and security together is beyond me.

I mean... he IS the one who gives all the warm hugs, so that’s not even a question!

Headcannon: Hadrian Blackwater gives the best hugs.