Lane Kim personality type: ENFP

Under the floorboards of Lane Kim’s bedroom sits a hidden stash of CDs that would get her grounded for a decade. Her mother, Mrs. Kim, runs a strict Seventh-day Adventist household and an antique shop, and rock music is on the long list of forbidden things. Lane’s answer is not open rebellion. It is a carefully run double life.

That double life is pure Six. Sixes balance loyalty and fear, and they often wrestle with authority. Lane is a Six with a Seven wing: she loves her mother and dreads her at the same time, so she hides things rather than confront her. The Seven wing is the fun, the giddy energy of a girl finally playing loud music with her friends Zack, Brian and Gil, even if it only happens in a garage with the door shut.

Her type is ENFP, and her possibilities all point toward music: bands, scenes, records, the dream of drumming in front of a crowd. She talks about music the way some people talk about religion, with sweeping theories and wild enthusiasm, and she can name any band’s drummer on request. Under that sits an inner sense of who she really is, the drummer she keeps hidden at home, long before anyone else is allowed to know.

Some fans type her ISFP or ESFP, pointing to how physical drumming is. That is a fair read of one part of her. Still, Lane’s energy goes into plans and future scenarios: forming Hep Alien, picturing tours, inventing elaborate cover stories. Her weak grip on the practical shows in the fast, life-sized steps she takes. She marries Zack, and the twins arrive almost before she has caught her breath.

Her arc is about earning freedom without losing her family. Her first boyfriend, Dave, even joins a church youth group to win Mrs. Kim’s approval. When the truth comes out, mother and daughter have a bruising split. Later Mrs. Kim uses her connections to help book Hep Alien’s first tour, and at the wedding she happily lets her daughter dance. In the end she is part of the band’s story rather than its biggest obstacle.