Saturday, January 3, 2015

Dystopian world-building involving MBTI, school uniforms, and a curly-haired girl.

I don't know why, but this idea has been pestering me like crazy for the past few days. What if, in the future, there was a country whose society revolved around personality types?

Wouldn't be too far-fetched for an INTJ to decide that s/he wanted to organize the world a little better, and type everyone in it to find their "ideal" location in the country. Trust me. I'm already on that path.

So I've been doodling characters and maps and floorplans to a ridiculous extent. I have a document made just for random observations I make on personality types - which has mostly digressed into me rambling about the different between "F" and "T" types - and I just finished up a quick sketch of a school crest.

A school for ISTJs, mind you.

World-building aside, this is what I have so far for the story:

"At the age of fifteen, every one in the country of ___ takes an important test. This test - or inventory, if you want to be specific - will determine their future. After their personality type has been recorded, they are sent to a school, where they will learns skills specific for their type. During their senior year, they will choose from a list of possible professions, and, after graduation, begin working in that job.

It's a foolproof plan, except for one thing.

There is no personality type that matches Poppy Wynd."

So basically since I decided my world wasn't interesting enough, I had to make up some conflict. Meaning I have a "personality-less" fifteen-year-old named Poppy.
(She actually does have a personality type, but that's a bit of a spoiler. I'm still figuring out how much of the story I want to give away.)

Some pictures to illustrate:

Miss Poppy. If she had a determined personality type, there would be a crest on her jacket. Since she has no type, she gets no crest.

This looks really confusing now, but it made perfect sense when I drew it. The colors are for the various personality type "groups," and the crest is what an ISTJ would wear. And there's a big splotch around the crest because my art program decided to spaz.

Haha, Maebh (Mave). She has nothing to do with the aforementioned story. Just a character in a book I'm hoping to illustrate.

I hope you've enjoyed this trip into Dee's brain. Tune in next time for "A Ramble on MBTI Types, and the Slight Differences Between INTPs and INTJs."

(I'm being serious here, though. I might post that.)

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