Halogen · element 17
Chlorine
Cleans everything. Not gentle about it.
Only 1.7% of people are Chlorine. (estimated)
If you're Chlorine
You have standards and you enforce them. Sharp, direct, occasionally harsh, you are the reason things are clean, safe and running properly.
Chlorine keeps swimming pools safe and tap water drinkable, and it is half of every grain of salt.
How to get along with Chlorine
Do
- Meet their standard, or say plainly why you can't.
- Let them clean up a mess; it calms them.
- Give them the rules in advance.
Don't
- Don't mix them with ammonia-type people (chaotic, evasive); the fumes hurt everyone.
- Don't expect gentleness when a job needs doing.
When it goes wrong: They bleach whatever they're angry at. Take the colour hit, then fix the thing they were right about.
Atomic profile
Every element is placed on six personality dimensions derived from its chemistry. Your answers are placed on the same six, and the closest element wins. How the scoring works
- Reactivity
- 9
- Sociability
- 6
- Stability
- 6
- Energy
- 7
- Rarity
- 1
- Warmth
- 3
Chlorine in literature
- Inspector Javert — Les Misérables, Victor Hugo (1862)
- Lady Catherine de Bourgh — Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen (1813)
- Mrs. Rachel Lynde — Anne of Green Gables, L. M. Montgomery (1908)
Characters from public-domain works, chosen for the same traits. Company, not a verdict.
Closest personalities
The elements whose profiles sit nearest to Chlorine's. If you got Chlorine, one of these was probably your runner-up.