u/EldianDestiny

With the exception of tiktok, I see Floch hate everywhere, so I wanted to gather my reasons why he is an amazing character.

As the sole survivor of the charge against the Beast Titan, he went through unimaginable trauma. At just 15 years old, he called himself weak, yet he still chose to ride into certain death.

Instead of letting that fear control him, he allowed it to forge an unyielding resolve to secure a future for Eldia. He didn't just survive but carried a dying Commander Erwin across a bloody battlefield and then stood his ground against Eren and Mikasa on that rooftop.

Floch was never weak or spineless. He was a terrified, honest boy who managed to conquer his terror.

He confronted Eren, Mikasa, and Armin with brutal honesty, refusing to back down on the rooftop or at the military ceremony, completely ignoring the social or emotional consequences.

On top of that he entirely abandoned any resentment toward Eren for choosing Armin over Erwin. Instead, he recognized that Eren was the only one willing to do what actually needed to be done. Floch saw a mirror of his own conviction in Eren.

People can judge his morality all they want, but Floch understood Erwin’s ultimate lesson: to change anything, you have to throw away your humanity.

Almost single-handedly, Floch organized a coup, orchestrated an assassination, and built a paramilitary movement. He did this while fighting against the entire main cast, even though he was ultimately fighting for their future, too.

It feels very much like Isayama tried to take Floch down a notch with moments like Kiyomi Azumabito overpowering him. (Which felt completely unrealistic, like it was intended to make him look ridiculous and stop the audience from liking him too much.)

But in the end, when the main cast killed him at just 19 years old, Floch didn't beg for his life. Instead, with his final breath, he begged them not to stop their devil from saving Eldia. He proved his absolute bravery by sacrificing everything for his homeland.

Even Hange ultimately looked at his body and admitted that he was completely right, but they stood against him for moral reasons.

It seems that it is an uncommon type for ESTJs on here? I know several ISTJ 6s, and one ESTJ 6w5 so/sp, which I found quite fitting but later realized might be much less common than I thought.

If you're an ESTJ 5 or 6 - do you strongly relate to other ESTJs or do you feel like there is a gap? Or perhaps that others mistype you or perceive you differently at first? Please share your experiences.

Rant:

I constantly see people claiming "well actually Eren and Gabi are really similar" or even weirder "well actually Floch (???) and Gabi are really similar" - and I'm just asking myself - did we read the same manga, did we watch the same show?

Is this an attempt to protect how badly written Gabi is? She's literally Isayama's plothole filler. "Someone needs to get shot from an impossible distance during movement? Great job for this child." - Instead of using older characters to make it more realistic (Colt instead of Gabi? Why not?)

Nothing about her is like Eren or Floch - Eren and Floch aren't even alike at all. People really see 'aggressive character' and are unable to look at any underlying thought process or how well written they are.

Floch's and Eren's goal might be similar at first glance, but their motivations and cognitive path to "this is what needs to happen" is completely different. Meanwhile Gabi is a brainwashed child who can no-scope experienced soldiers with heavy weapons she hasn't used before.

(Question for other INFJs, but I'm also interested in how other types feel about this.)

This of course depends on your understanding of morality, if you even believe in morality as a concept and such, but in any case you might have a feeling about yourself as "good" or "bad." With high awareness about how other people feel - do you care about being seen as morally good? Do you care about how others perceive you morally or how you perceive yourself morally?

I think if I were to speak truthfully all the time and entirely drop the Fe mask, I would largely be seen as a morally bad person, but at the same time that doesn't really distress me at all, because I think I'm "right." The reason I don't do this is purely pragmatic, because it would be disadvantageous for me to be honest, so I mask it by staying silent or covering and twisting my opinions until they are digestible.

To some degree this is just what people do, I understand that, but I'm interested in how you experience this yourself. Please also state your enneagram and instincts, because I suspect there's some correlation.

Please also include your instinctual subtype, if you know.
I'd also like to know if you identify with stereotypes about ESTJs or if you feel like you are 'different' - do you feel very Te-heavy or more Si/Fi? Do you like to be responsible for situations in general (work, family, decision making) - does it stress you out, or do you prefer it over someone else making the decision? Do you feel like your Fi is healthy or very repressed?

Tumblr is dead, tiktok has nice edits but that's it, twitter is a mixed bag, most discord servers seem to be dead. Are you active anywhere else, any places, sites, servers you can recommend?