Functional Order: Si-Te-Fi-Ne

Introverted Sensing: Hajime is a grounded, hard-working, and reliable guy who has his head firmly on his shoulders. He trusts his experiences and memories as true, causing him to struggle to let go of past preconceptions of himself; he’s always seen himself as a ‘talentless scrub’, so when Juzo reaffirms that notion, all his progress towards accepting himself is erased. Related to this, he doesn’t handle change or surprises well; he needs time to process things first. As such, when the class is suddenly teleported to Jabberwock, he freaks out and eventually faints when the situation becomes too much for him to handle. He can tolerate it once he gets used to it, though he still thinks it’s absurd.

Extroverted Thinking: He’s one of the trail point-getters for a reason—he’s very good at sorting and examining information. He can look at the facts of a situation, understand how they come together, and rip holes in illogical arguments. When he has to, he’ll put aside his emotions to get the job done— he may be distraught at ousting Chiaki as the traitor, but he’ll do it because the alternative is everyone else dying. Hajime also has little patience for bullshit and no problems calling people out on it, infamously making him a sassmaster.

Introverted Feeling: He’s loyal and steadfast once he actually opens up to people; as such, he feels personally betrayed when Nagito turns out to be not who he thought he was. Hajime wrestles with feelings of self-worth, but struggles to articulate them–even when asking for advice about the Kamukura Project, he avoids directly addressing his feelings on the matter. He’s soothed by people (Chiaki, Chisa, his friends in Chapter 5) accepting him as he is.

Extroverted Intuition: He’s skeptical and pessimistic, which makes him misread the situation at the beginning of the game. While his classmates are having fun, he’s worrying about something going wrong and can’t understand why no one else is. At the end of the game, he has a mental breakdown when he’s overwhelmed by multiple, negative possibilities for the future. Even in that state, though, he’s willing to accept new ideas, and is helped out of his Ne-grip by Chiaki (Ne-aux) pointing out positive possibilities.

Enneagram Type: 631 (6w5, 3w4, 1w2) - The Taskmaster (He’s responsible, but wants to live up to societal images of talent. Willing to make sacrifices to get ahead. Very self-critical, knows what he wants to be and is disappointed that he can’t. 5-wing makes him more of a loner and aggressive in arguments, but because of his other wings, he’s pretty warm once you do get to know him. Extremely anxious, has a panic attack when people from his old high school gossip about him.)

Hajime already makes me want to give him a hug because he’s got such low self-esteem, and looking in-depth at how he ticks just makes that urge stronger. He’s geared towards having familiar spaces to think in and he lives in a franchise that loves sudden surprises in unfamiliar environments.