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good at planning trips.<br />
• Secrecy. Van Helsing's team was occasionally required to commit stealthy criminal acts<br />
(breaking and entering, hiding activities from the authorities, etc) in the service of greater<br />
good. Van Helsing proved himself skilled in concealing the team's activities from both the<br />
law and Dracula. He was often the first to think of the measures that would need to be taken<br />
to cover their tracks, or to avoid notice altogether. INTJs are good at keeping secrets.<br />
If Van Helsing's leadership had one weak point, it would probably be unexpected physical clashes.<br />
At one point, the group was taken by surprise when Dracula showed up at a house they were in. On<br />
this occasion, an SP named Quincy Morris took over the group and created an instant ambush plan.<br />
Artisan leaders seem to be the best at this sort of immediate response to the unexpected. In this<br />
case Van Helsing wisely stepped aside and let his colleague take over.<br />
Despite this potential blind spot, it is clear that INTJs have many advantages when it comes to<br />
destroying the Undead. With their knowledgeability, mastermind organizational skill, global<br />
perspective, and farsighted vision, they pose a genuine threat to vampires.<br />
But what if the vampires themselves are INTJs?<br />
Count Dracula – INTJ?<br />
Did you know that Count Dracula was a Rational?<br />
The million dollar question is, what kind of Rational was he? Unfortunately, the case is a fuzzy<br />
one, partially because of the scanty and conflicting evidence, but also because becoming a creature<br />
of darkness appears to have confounding effects upon one’s type. When I wrote The Secret Lives of<br />
INTPs, I thought it possible that he might be either an INTP or an INTJ. But, after learning more<br />
about INTJs and reading Dracula again, I think it likely that he was an INTJ.<br />
First let us examine the evidence for the fact that Dracula was an NT, and from there we can look at<br />
his Extraversion/Introversion and Judging/Perceiving.<br />
Evidence for INTJ:<br />
• Dracula told his guest that, “I love the shade and the shadow, and would be alone with my<br />
thoughts when I may." (I)<br />
• He lived with a small circle of intimate companions in an otherwise deserted castle. (I)<br />
• He always wore the same style of clothing—pure black—day after day after day. (Argues<br />
for unchanging INT dress habits, but then again, none of the vampires in the book change<br />
their costumes either, and they probably aren’t all INTs, unless you change type when you<br />
become a creature of night.)<br />
• Liked reading informational books (NT)<br />
“In the library I found, to my great delight, a vast number of English books, whole shelves full of<br />
them, and bound volumes of magazines and newspapers. A table in the centre was littered with<br />
English magazines and newspapers, though none of them were of very recent date. The books were<br />
of the most varied kind, history, geography, politics, political economy, botany, geology, law, all<br />
relating to England and English life and customs and manners. There were even such books of<br />
reference as the London Directory, the "Red" and "Blue" books, Whitaker's Almanac, the Army and<br />
Navy Lists, and it somehow gladdened my heart to see it, the Law List...<br />
‘These companions,’ and he [Dracula] laid his hand on some of the books, ‘have been good friends<br />
to me, and for some years past, ever since I had the idea of going to London, have given me many,<br />
many hours of pleasure.’”
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