She Can't Make the First Move Because She Fears Being Judged
✦ Main Characters
The two people this post follows
Koharu wants to make friends, but when she speaks first, she worries about how the other person will take her. What should she say to sound natural? Is her expression weird?
She gets lost in thinking about it, and the nerves hit before the conversation even starts.
That blank expression her classmates see is what the tension looks like from the outside. The more she wants to get close to people, the more she frets over first impressions and how others react, and the harder it gets to close the distance.
Trying to take good photos for her social media comes from a wish to connect with people, too. For Koharu, a photo is a hobby of recording pretty desserts, and at the same time it's a self-introduction that shows other people what she's into.
Since it's hard to speak up first, she makes conversation material through photos and hopes that leads to friends. It's also her way of working out how to present herself.
✦ How Worry Turns Into Distance
Fear of negative evaluation, step by step
The more people worry about what others think of them, the easier it is to get distracted from the conversation by checking whether your own expression, tone or behavior seems awkward.
Psychology explains that 'fear of negative evaluation' is one of the major causes of social avoidance.
Koharu is no different. She worries about the other person's reaction before they've even said anything, so there's less room left for her to speak and smile naturally.
There's a fairly big psychological gap between the cold attitude she shows on the outside and the closeness she wants on the inside.
One Photo Takes the Pressure Off Talking
At the cafe, Sota helps Koharu out of an awkward spot and finds out she's been trying hard to take a photo of a dessert. Good with photos himself, he offers to show her how to shoot. Koharu accepts the help and tries again, changing the composition and angle.
Photos take the pressure off the conversation between them. Koharu doesn't have to bring up her feelings or anything personal right away, because they only need to look together at how to capture the dessert in front of them.
Focusing on the conversation itself makes the thought 'What if I look weird?' grow. But once there's a problem to solve together, she can shift her attention to the photo, right? That shared activity becomes a foothold for Koharu to start a relationship.
When we look for a partner, too, finding someone who shares our interests is good for exactly this reason. You don't have to rack your brain for topics or force the conversation along, because it just flows.
✦ Sota and Koharu: Who Does What
Teaching without judging
Rather than judging Koharu's clumsy photos, Sota shares the methods he knows and helps her shoot for herself. Koharu doesn't stop at listening to the explanation either. She changes the composition and angle and checks the result.
Since the other person sets a comfortable mood, Koharu gets to show what she can do within it and starts moving on to the next attempt.
Koharu's Invitation
Koharu is the one who first suggests going to a tapioca milk tea shop together with Sota. Her wish to learn photography is the pretext for the invitation, but it also carries a wish to get closer to him through that time.
Later, she invites him once more to go eat desserts together on the weekend.
Beyond the photo-taking itself, it's a more direct way of saying she wants to spend time with him, just the two of them.
✦ What a Refusal Means to Koharu
From a canceled weekend to a small step forward
But Sota turns down the weekend plan, and Koharu is disappointed. For someone who finds it hard to approach people first, a refusal isn't just a plan getting canceled.
It can make her replay whether the invitation felt like a burden and how she should bring it up next time.
Still, just as the first invitation led to the next one, Koharu's feelings toward the relationship keep growing. By turning her uncertain feelings into a small action like an invitation, she gradually learns how relationships work.
How an ISFJ 6w7 Builds Relationships: One Step at a Time
If we read Koharu as an ISFJ, the first thing that stands out is that she finds ways to get close to people through concrete experiences. She doesn't just vaguely think, 'I should make friends.'
She practices photography, learns how to shoot and creates something to talk about.
✦ Koharu's Type at a Glance
ISFJ with an Enneagram 6w7
Her way of sizing up a situation based on methods she can actually try, then learning step by step, connects to the ISFJ's introverted Sensing (Si).
In relationships too, she tries to close the distance by deciding on an activity to share and building up experiences rather than expressing abstract affection.
A Si that prepares concrete activities builds the frame for conversation, and inside it, an Fe that watches the other person's expression and reactions adjusts the temperature of the relationship.
Extraverted Feeling (Fe) shows in how sensitively Koharu watches other people's reactions and the mood of a relationship. She wants to make friends, and she cares about how she comes across.
When the other person responds comfortably, her expression softens and she keeps up the conversation pretty well. In unfamiliar situations, though, nerves keep her feelings from showing on her face.
Koharu's introversion shows in how she starts a relationship by sharing a common interest with one person, rather than spontaneously approaching lots of people.
✦ How the 6 and the 7 Wing Fit Together
Caution first, then fun
The Enneagram 6w7 explains why Koharu starts relationships so carefully. At the core of a 6 is a need to secure 'a relationship you can trust' and 'predictable stability'.
When you can't know how the other person will react, it's easy to hesitate to act even if your heart is ahead of you.
Koharu starts with an activity that has a clear purpose, like photography, and builds trust little by little by talking with the other person inside it.
She's the type who sets up conditions where both of them feel comfortable before moving on to the next step, instead of leaping in on vague attraction alone.
The 7 wing shows in how she tries to create enjoyable experiences within a relationship. Koharu doesn't stop at learning photography. She wants to widen their meetings into plans to enjoy tapioca milk tea and desserts together.
If the caution of a 6 leads her to a trustworthy starting point, the 7 wing makes her look forward to fun and new experiences in that relationship.
That's why Koharu carefully sets up reasons at first, but once her heart moves, she turns proactive and suggests the next meeting first.
Koharu used to be so conscious of other people's judgment. Yet she learned photography and offered the first plan, and that shows a strength: she handles her fear in a way that suits her and chooses her relationships.
How will things between Koharu and Sota develop from here?
If you're curious, I recommend watching this anime!
That's all for this post. See you next time.
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