Functional Order: Ni/Fe/Ti/Se
Dominant Function: Ni
Mycroft said as a child that Euros had the ability to see things she shouldn’t, to know things about people beyond her years or level of comprehension; she was seeing and factoring in “patterns,” which lead her to formulate singular visions of what she wanted to accomplish. She created a difficult, metaphorical “clue” for Sherlock to find Redbeard after kidnapping (and subsequently murdering) his friend, which was so individualistic (subjective) that neither he nor Mycroft could make any sense of it. Euros solves complex puzzles from her prison cell, in exchange for “treats” from Mycroft; she set the events of Moriarty in motion, years in advance. The fact that she has contingency schemes for anything that might go wrong reveals she’s seen potential alternate outcomes, and shifted them all to support her greater vision (the end game was always Sherlock returning home and finding or losing John). She intuitively reads her brothers strengths and weaknesses, sensing their weak or blind spots, and…
Auxilliary Function: Fe
… targeting their emotions. Everything she does is calculated to hit them where it hurts; she wants Sherlock to make difficult moral decisions, to face the emotional torment of taunting Molly into confessing love for him, knowing how painful it will be for both of them; she uses a frightened child to elicit Mycroft and Sherlock’s empathy; she revels in the emotional reactions to suicide, to dropping people off cliffs, to baiting them with the thought of crashing an airplane into a city full of people; in her “interview” with Sherlock, she tries to entangle him in emotional discussions and shocks him with cruel revelations; she’s good enough at flattery and emotional “faking” that she seduces Watson into a texting relationship that strokes his ego, and is a passable therapist; she flatters, charms, and flirts with Sherlock in pretending to be someone else. She “convinces” people to let her control or manipulate them, using emotion. Finally, her entire motive is emotional: she got jealous that Sherlock wouldn’t play with her as a child, so she constructed a “puzzle” and “games” (Ni) with which to emotionally connect. At the end, Sherlock talks a “frightened child” into revealing John’s location, using empathy and emotional appeals.
Tertiary Function: Ti
She clearly sees humans as lab rats; Sherlock knows this, also that she has no motive other than to “study” them. Euros has no logical reason to do this to any of them, other than to deepen her understanding, satisfy her own abstract intellectual understanding of reality, and further support and shape her own conclusions. She is so detached (as a psychopath) that she understands emotion on a conceptual level, but not on an actual level, so the fact that Mycroft refuses to kill someone, that John also cannot pull the trigger, and that Sherlock would rather kill himself than the two people he loves most, both excites and baffles her. There’s no “rules” to her logic or the games themselves, other than to have fun and explore.
Inferior Function: Se
She doesn’t act until she’s sure, and prefers not to have to react in the spur of the moment; she runs things from behind screens, but also confesses that she can go “overboard” when engaging with physical reality; Euros dismembered a nurse enough that she couldn’t tell whether it had been male or female when she finished; and she doesn’t mind shooting people when the occasion calls for it, even if it’s still from across the room.
Note: This argument has been taken from Funky Mbti in Fiction
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