Functional Order: Ni/Te/Fi/Se
Dominant Function: Ni
Henry is a meticulous planner, who doesn’t like it when things don’t go “according to plan.” As a mere child, he ‘saw into his parents’ and discovered their inner darkness, which he took pleasure in showing them in order to emotionally torment them and remind them of their inhumanity (while being incapable of recognizing his own lack of humanity). He planned to murder his mother and his sister and to frame his father for the crime, and was angry to wake up and find himself, instead, under the control of Dr. Brenner. He also involves himself in a “long-con” involving El, in which he pretends to be a friendly orderly, while planting negative ideas about the other kids in her mind, and causing her to doubt Dr. Brenner. He tells her the truth about her mother not having died, and frames Dr. Brenner for the jealous kids attacking her while the cameras are turned off (no doubt, he did that) – all in an attempt to convince her to like him, help him, and remove the devise from his neck that prevents him from using his powers.
Auxilliary Fucntion: Te
"I could restore balance to a broken world." He is trying to change the system, not the people themselves. (Te>Fe) He tries to change how the world itself works, also for the greater good, but more directed at systems and mechanics world instead of people. I think it's due to his desire to "change the world", he's not focused on people or their relations (Fe), but on how things are done by people (Te), how things are working in the world, and how he wants to change it. Te is about being systematic, functional, and efficient in the external standards of the world. He used his Te all the time even when he was talking to el, how he narrated about himself observing the world in an impersonal view. And what I meant by the word “impersonal” was not his feelings, but how he referred to the world and society as if he was not part of it. As if he perceives them from above, observing their actions and implying / finding a meaning within those actions.
Tertiary Function: Fi
„Like you, I didn't fit with the other children. Something was wrong with me. All the teachers and the doctors said I was... broken, they said.“
His values seemed more emotional, he was focused on individualism and the emotional understanding of others. Even the reason he wanted to bring order and structure to life is because he thinks the current system is broken and takes away people's individualism and people/things of higher values.
Inferior Function: Se
He does much of this from a distance, using his powers to make up for the weakness of his body, and over-relying on his strength of mind, which shows an inferior Se. He also translates things into symbols of the things he hates, in a Ni-dom way – his loathing of clocks representing his hatred of man-made establishments and constraints, for example. He roots himself in their ancestral home as his base of operation not out of sentiment, but because it’s the only place he ever found “friends” – his black widow spiders.
Note: Parts of this argument have been taken from Funky Mbti in Fiction and Personality Database.
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