Friday DE

[bjornwilde]

 Using the theory of multiple intelligences*, which sort of smarts would you say your pup possess? Or are they a mix of them? If so, which is dominate?

If none of these ring true for your pup, feel free to create one that applies.

*Here's the wikipedia article or a handy inforgraphic.

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[feminine_menace]

I can summarize how YT rates in most of these.

Excellent
- Visual-spatial
- Bodily-kinesthetic

Very Good
- Logical-mathematical (as relating to distance, time, and speed)

Average
- Musical-rhythmic and harmonic (considering that she has no formal training)
- Verbal-linguistic¹

Meh
- Naturalistic
- Existential

Her strengths and weaknesses in Interpersonal and Intrapersonal intelligence are, from my view, what make her really interesting to play.

YT has very little Intrapersonal intelligence. She is not prone to self-reflection or examining her own motivations: she acts or reacts instinctively.

Her Interpersonal intelligence is all over the map. In some ways she is very insightful and sensitive, and is very good at using non-complimentary or unpredictable behavior to her advantage. However, she also has massive handicaps and blind spots: she literally can't be polite to save her life, and she has trouble being vulnerable with the people closest to her. I suspect this has a lot to do with her aforementioned lack of Intrapersonal intelligence, as well as her age.

YT will likely improve in both these areas as she gets older, but I'm not sure how much.

¹I should note that in canon her verbal-linguistic intelligence was not great, probably due to a poor education: she didn't know what the word "colleague" meant, for instance. But she is improving as she focuses more on reading and intellectual pursuits. I envision her verbal skills developing in an interesting way so that she eventually becomes Sophisticated as Hell.

[death_gone_mad]

Considering Amascut's talents and her past roles, she probably excels in interpersonal, linguistic, bodily-kinesthetic, and naturalist intelligence. She was THE judge of character and knew how to bring everything back to life, now she knows how to best deceive anyone and kill everything. Life got strange for her. She is lacking in the intrapersonal intelligence side of things, unfortunately, and while she poses an existential threat, I don't think she dedicates much thought to existential questions. Things must die and that is all there is to it.

Fairy Fixit is a strong logical-mathematical thinker, with naturalist, linguistic, and existential influences. Flying around in 3-dimensional space when most things are confined to scooting about in 2 dimensions gives her a natural advantage in spatial and bodily-kinesthetic thinking, but considering she sometimes plays around with 4th dimension shortcuts, that's gotta give her a couple more points in spatial.

Evil Chicken's spatial intelligence is great, even at much higher dimensions. It leads to gross overconfidence, though. Evil Chicken severely lacks interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligence.

[runningred]

Funny story, years ago when I was studying early childhood development for a career I'll never go back to, I did an assignment in the application of Multiple Intelligence Theory.

I wrote to Howard Gardner, asking for some clarification on what he meant by existential intelligence. His answer was swift and simple - I really don't know because I don't have it. But some people do and hopefully they can explain it to me.