Designated Survivor: Alex Kirkman (ENFJ)

Functional Order: Fe/Ni/Se/Ti

Dominant Function: Fe

Alex is a warm and compassionate woman that is deeply invested in humanitarian causes. She is a charming presence and offers emotional support for her husband. Her motherly nature extends not only to her kids, as she also tries to use her influence to support social causes in the countries, like helping rejected immigrants. She is understanding towards her husband and children and quite patient with them, but sometimes struggles with being conflict avoidant. An example of this would be that instead of telling her some that Tom might not be his true father she keeps silence over this only to regret it later.

Auxiliary Function: Ni

Alex is highly idealistic and sees it as her mission as a lawyer to help as many people as possible, often being frustrated by the bureaucratic processes and the realities of political life. She often appeals to President Kirkman‚s conscience and makes him hold true to his ideals, but can be overtly idealistic. Still she is also quite perceptive, often offering good advise, as she is able to look at the bigger picture. She often correctly predicts what’s going to happen and strongly trusts in her good instincts. Like when she tells Tom to stop the inauguration of MacLeish, as she has bad feelings regarding it that turn out to be correct.

Tertiary Function: Se

Alex is somewhat impulsive at times and is somewhat frustrated by hesistance to act faster. Still she is able to take a step back and look at the future consequences of her actions, showing that her Se is balanced by her Ni. Alex is well aware of her presentation and involved in some of the more practical aspects of political like, often being the one that makes contact with the people in the moment and tries to help them with problems at hand.

Inferior Function: Ti

Alex prefers following her heart over cold logic, which can be to her disadvantage at times. She can react rather sharp under stress and distances herself emotionally from her husband when she feels hurt by him. She is also able to sie this function healthily and strategize along her husband or critically analyze the political schemes she is confronted with.