The Myers-Briggs® Personality Types of the Castlevania Characters

I wasn’t much of a gamer until just a couple years ago, and I hadn’t even heard of Castlevania before my siblings convinced me to watch the Netflix show. I quickly got caught up in the world, characters, and story. Fantasy is one of my favorite genres, and I can never get enough of good fantasy books, movies, and series.

I enjoyed Castlevania even more when I rewatched the series and took notes to write this article. The character arcs in this show are amazing. It’s so refreshing to see characters that grow and change as much as someone like Isaac does, especially when the writers are careful to stay true to the characters’ core personality traits.

The typings in this article are based only on the Castlevania animated series, not the games. If you’ve played the games and think the characters might be typed differently in that version, I hope you’ll comment and share your perspective.

Disclaimer: These typings are based on my 10+ years’ experience studying Myers-Briggs® Personality Types, but they’re not fool-proof. Fictional personality typing always involves guesswork and is open to interpretation, and what I offer here aren’t the only ways that people could type these characters.

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The Myers-Briggs® Personality Types of the Castlevania Characters

Trevor Belmont – ISTP

“We need friends, but we also need coins. For food, and for somewhere to sleep that isn’t the back of the wagon.”

Like so many great fictional heroes, Trevor is a talented fighter who pretends he’s only out for himself. He tries to hide that he cares behind snarky insults and downplaying his heritage, but he just can’t keep himself from helping people. Resentful of institutional power, he prefers to act on a smaller level to protect individuals or oppressed groups. Like many other ISTPs, he’s an action-oriented person who is more focused on things to do than on studying abstract knowledge. He’s far cleverer than he lets on, though, and makes a great leader when he steps into that role.

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Sypha Belnades – ESFJ

“Isn’t it silly? They’re heading into who knows what danger, and I’m standing here sad and angry because they’re together, and I’m alone.”

Sypha’s character is largely defined by her relations to other people. She fights her own battles, but she wants to do that within a community. She’s also insightful into other’s emotional states (ISTP Treavor doesn’t realize what he’s feeling until she tells him he’s “sad”) and she’s even able to empathize with Alucard’s complicated mix of emotions after killing his father. These superpowers come from her FJ “Extroverted Feeling” side, which also helps make her unafraid to voice her judgements of others. Her Sensing side makes her practical and grounded; she values knowledge and magic for its useful applications to the real world.

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Adrian “Alucard” Tepes – ISFP

“I don’t have a strong opinion. Magic and science are two sides of the same coin to me.”

Alucard makes decisions based on a strong internal sense of right and wrong that isn’t swayed by outward circumstances. He respects the heritage of his human and vampire ancestors, but he makes his own choices and is his own person. Like many ISFPs, Alucard is a dreamer and storyteller who paints vivid word pictures when speaking and appreciates the sensory world around him. Though he’s an introvert, Alucard is happiest when he’s part of a community where he can play a key role protecting people and founding a new generation of scholars and magicians.

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Vlad “Dracula” Tepes – INTJ

“There are no innocents! Not anymore! Any one of them could have stood up and said: No, we won’t behave like animals anymore.”

Dracula is a brilliant inventor, strategist, and long-term thinker. Most of his time in the Castlevania show is spent as a villain who’s bent on exterminating the human race because an overzealous bishop killed his wife—the only person Dracula saw as justifying humanity’s existence. Like many fictional portrayals of INTJ villains, Dracula doesn’t think morals apply to him. He’s also a strategist. Before losing his wife, he used to spend days plotting his kills and revenge, reveling in the details and planning process. He also has a very personal code of conduct. Even after he goes mad, he still acts to save Isaac’s life and stops fighting when he realizes he’s killing his son, hinting that the personalized moral compass INTJs use isn’t entirely gone even for him.

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Lisa Tepes – INFJ

“They won’t be peasants anymore if you teach them. They won’t live such short, scared lives if they have real medicine. They won’t be superstitious if they learn how the world really works.”

We don’t see much of Lisa Tepes in the Castlevania show, but her screen time and the way people talk about her reveals key aspects of her character. First, we know that she easily sees things from multiple perspectives—a hallmark of INxJ personality types. She also seeks knowledge with a passionate curiosity and desires to apply that knowledge in the service of others. Her focus on other people indicates an outward-facing Feeling function that values community and harmony. Indeed, she even begs Vlad not to avenge her death because she can understand why the people who targeted her don’t really understand what they’re doing.

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Isaac –INFJ

“I want of all things a pure world, a clean world, where there is only loyalty and love.”

Isaac’s insight into other’s motivations, desire for harmony in the world, and focus on a better future are closely connected to his INFJ personality type. Like many INFJs, he values discipline, loyalty, and self-determination while also understanding that not everyone is at a level of maturity where they can offer kindness and understanding to other people. His dramatic character arc begins with him pledging his loyalty to Dracula without any deception on Dracula’s part; Isaack knows Dracula intends to exterminate humanity and Isaac agrees that seems like the best way to create a better world. Then, his ideas change. His goals become more future-oriented. He wants to build something hopeful and good. When he kills Carmilla it isn’t out of vengeance or rage; it’s because he thinks the world will be better off without her.

Hector – ISFP

“You do not question my loyalty. All I’m saying is that our goal can be met without gleefully paddling in the blood of children.”

At heart, Hector has a gentle soul and he can’t stand the idea of suffering, especially if it’s animals or pets being hurt. Even after joining Dracula’s cause, Hector hopes for “a quick, orderly, and merciful war.” He’s okay with killing and containment to make sure that humans stop harming other creatures, but he’s not on board with torment and genocide. Isaac’s insightful assessment pegs Hector as a scared little boy who can’t figure out why he was beaten for keeping undead pets. Hector knows people will hurt him, but he’s still naïve and uncurious enough that Dracula, Carmilla, and Lenore all find him easy to manipulate. Though his personality growth seems stunted, I picked ISFP because people with this type are often compassionate and sensitive. They also tend to approach the outer world by being ready for anything and reacting to it, which in an unhealthy ISFP can help explain why Hector isn’t forward-thinking until later in the show.

Carmilla – ENTJ

“Because I take things away from stupid, evil old men. It’s what I do. I’ve always done it. They deserve to lose everything. And I deserve to have all their stuff.”

Carmilla is always coming up with plans and schemes for how to get what she wants. She can be manipulative, sly, and seductive, but those are tools she uses to achieve her ambitious goals. She drops pretenses the moment she succeeds, needing to gloat so that the people she bested will know how clever she is. For example, she needs Hector to know she despises him after outmaneuvering and manipulating him. Lenore calls her the brain of the four vampire queens; they rule as a quartet but Carmilla leads because even as mad as the others say her schemes are, they also think she’s brilliant. And, despite her temper, she is logical. Not always practical or grounded in reality, but she can do the forward-thinking plans and strategizing that comes so naturally to many ENTJs.

Lenore – ENFJ

“I’m a diplomat … I make peace. And because of that people think I’m soft. People think I’m weak. You won’t make that mistake again, will you?”

Lenore succinctly describes herself as “the diplomat.” She values relationships with the people she cares about and knows how to manipulate relationships to get other people to do what she wants. This insight into other people and keen interest in using connections is a hallmark of FJ types (though healthy ones aren’t this manipulative). Despite her understanding of people, she claims to prefer a basis of commerce and rules for negotiation rather than building faith. However, she does use that comment to build Hector’s faith in her, so we can debate how honest she was being about the role trust and emotions play in her plots. Despite her vampiric capacity for violence, she also shows empathy (she once tore the castle apart to splint a spider’s broken leg). In the end, she chooses to let go of her undead existence rather than live in a cage or continue being stuck as a vampire endless grasping for power.

Striga – ESTJ

“Vampires always have plans, don’t we? Maybe it’s just in our nature to overreach, grasp at too much at once, try to drink everything. Maybe that’s why in the end, we win all the battles but always lose the war.”

Striga is a talented tactical general whom Lenore labels “the warrior” of their sisterhood. She is blunt and openly critical of Carmilla’s insane plan, but also says she could make the military side of conquering an empire work if she can get the numbers. Once it’s clear the plan won’t work, though, she’s smart and practical enough to agree they need to stop before the plan gets even more out of control. Striga describes herself as someone who “can’t shake the past,” and like most SJ types she likes to draw on lessons from that past when making decisions.

Morana – INTJ

“We would own and control the land from here to Braila. Almost to the Black Sea. That’s not a country or a region, love. That’s an empire! … Imagine. An empire ruled by four women.”

Morana is the one Lenore calls “the organizer.” Together with Striga, she’s the vampire queen who actually keeps the kingdom running. She lives in the present and future, and she’s the one most quickly enamored with Carmilla’s idea. Morana wants to imagine being one of four women controlling an empire, and the challenge of finding innovative ways to manage that empire fascinates her. It’s only after she’s actually out in the field testing this idea out with Striga that she realizes it won’t work. Her reevaluation is also future-focused, imagining a world where they never stop fighting to hold what’s theirs. Unlike the other NTJs in this show, though, Morana is able to step back and come up with a new plan before the one she’s currently working on kills her.

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Saint Germain – ENTP

“Of course I shall triumph. I am immortal and glorious, and all these other people smell of piss.”

Saint Germain is educated, refined, inventive, knowledgeable, and so used to looking down on everyone else that he’s shocked when someone calls him out for being condescending. As an immortal, talented alchemist he’s able to use language and allusions go over other people’s heads and he enjoys the sense of superiority it gives him. He’s used to being the smartest person in the city. Our heroes see through him, though; Trevor calls him a con man and Sypha calls him sad. He’s got all the bluster and pizzaz of so many fictional ENTPs, and he’s also driven by something that dug into his emotions and won’t let go.

What Are Your Thoughts?

What did you think of this article? Did I leave out any of your favorite characters, or do you have a different typing to suggest? Let us know your thoughts and chat with other readers in the comments!

About the Author:

Marissa Baker is the author of The INFJ Handbook (available in the Amazon Kindle Store). You can find her online at LikeAnAnchor.com where she blogs about personal growth and development from a Christian perspective.