discoursekind:

I’ve seen a few of people call Dirk an extrovert, and I wanted to respond to that, but I don’t feel like I can cover my points in a blog post reply.  @landofsomethingsomething and @revolutionaryduelist, I’d particularly love to hear your opinions, since I’ve found your meta on the subject the inspiration for considering this in detail. 

Personally, I see him as someone who is introverted and has a difficult time handling people, but who is extremely clingy and in need of attention from specific people. 

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Hmm, so I’m by no means an expert on introversion/extroversion, so I’m afraid I don’t have that much to add to this other than to say…

I’m kind of convinced? At least, I find it about as compelling as the alternative, in lieu of a devastatingly powerful argument in favor of extrovert Dirk. This is an area of the canon that is vague enough that it seems to me you can read Dirk either way depending on which you relate to more. (I definitely relate to introvert readings pretty hard so…that…might be influencing me here in fact!)

So yeah I’m interested in hearing how others respond to this and I don’t think it changes a heck of a lot about the way the plot goes down but that isn’t all that matters. I appreciate the different reading on Dirk a lot, so thanks for writing this out like this!