Anna’s MBTI and Enneagram placement as an ESFJ 7w6 in Once Upon a Time, played by Elizabeth Lail, highlights her warm relational focus, spirited optimism, and loyal determination. As someone driven by connection, joy, and support for others, Anna brings the community-centered enthusiasm of an ESFJ and the adventurous, people-pleasing energy of a 7w6, making her quest to protect loved ones both heartfelt and high-spirited.
ESFJ 7w6 Characters
Why is Princess Anna from Once Upon a Time an ESFJ? Continue reading for my argument using cognitive functions! The headers for each section are clickable, so you can easily access more information about the dominant function and the Enneagram type, or discover more characters who share the type.
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Extraverted Feeling
Anna is highly emotional, expressive, and enthusiastic about her feelings, her connection to her sister, and her responsibilities to the kingdom. As soon as she finds out about her parents’ ship being lost on a trip to Misthaven, she boards a ship to find out what they were doing on her sister’s behalf, hoping to help her. She adopts a persona and meets up with David, then encounters Rumple, and agrees to give a magician a potion in exchange for information. But Anna is too much of a humanitarian to do this, given that she suspects it may be poison, playing into Rumple’s plan to turn the magician into a mouse and steal his hat. Anna manages to steal Rumple’s dagger and command him to undo all his evil actions toward the magician, compels him never to act against her or her sister, and returns her to Arendelle. All of her actions are about or for other people, including her eventual confrontation of her aunt, revealing the truth about her mother’s feelings for Ingrid, and her desire to restore the people’s memories of the three sisters.
Introverted Sensing
Like the rest of her family, Anna is very focused on “family” and on keeping them together; it’s her sense of safety. She often relates back to her own experiences of growing up in the castle, reading every book on the shelf, and can even quote some stories from memory, even if she can’t recall all the details. She draws parallels between what is happening now and the stories she read as a child. Under the influence of the Shattered Sight, Anna becomes angry and bitter, reflecting on Elsa’s past transgressions and holding her accountable for them in unfair ways. When dealing with David, she trusts him because he’s a friend to Kristoff, which in her mind proves that he is reliable. Because the trolls have helped them before, Anna trusts that they can give them insight this time.
Extraverted Intuition
When Anna meets her aunt Ingrid, she senses she is up to something and cautions her sister against her. She also does not accept what Rumple says on blind truth, but tests him with her actions, both assuming he is doing something bad, and anticipating that he may retaliate against her and Elsa if she does not force him to promise he will never come after them. She fears what consequences there will be fore the kingdom if she cannot get back to her sister on time. But she also has a hopeful sense of idealism about the future, about her marriage to Kristoff, and about what their parents were searching for that could help her sister control her abilities better.
Introverted Thinking
Anna doesn’t question her own motives much, but she does try to figure out what her parents were up to, what it means, and how it can benefit them in the present moment. Anna just goes off on a whim, without thinking about the consequences of her decision or how it might endanger her or even that she may not get back home in time for the wedding. She becomes cold toward her sister when under the influence of magic, trapping her in an urn and blaming her for all their problems, rather than fairly weighing her actions and offering her the usual Fe-dom grace.
The Enneagram 7
Anna is all wild enthusiasm and optimism; she feels confident that her travels will give them something useful that can help her sister, and that she is the person to find it! Off she goes, without a fear for the future, to boldly talk to wizards, cross the seas, track down the truth, and bring it home to save the day. Often when things go wrong, Anna assumes they will turn out for the best and clings to her idealism. She is excited to go to a new place, to meet David, and feels that he needs to stand up to Bo Peep. She challenges the Dark One, and does not take him at face value, but instead looks for ways to exploit the situation to her own advantage. And when she returns to her sister as herself, she is bubbly and good-natured.
The 6 Wing
Not that she doesn’t show occasional moments of suspicion and fear, however. When trapped in a trunk filling up with water at the bottom of the ocean, she asks Kristoff to say his vows, assuming they are going to die. She distrusts the Dark One enough not to give the sorcerer’s apprentice the potion that would prevent him from turning into a mouse, and cautions Emma against trusting him, saying that he has his own purposes in mind, and they cannot anticipate what those might be. She is suspicious of her aunt, and for a moment, thinks her sister has betrayed her and intends to banish her from the kingdom. Anna feels happier when others are with her than when alone, since she relies on all of them.
The Bubbly Princess
Anna is written better than Elsa in terms of having agency and things to do; she marches off on an adventure and returns heroic and full of stories. She’s a likable girl who runs into trolls, evil sheep warlords, and even gets the upper hand on the Dark One. And she’s a decent example of an ESFJ 7w6—their optimism, self-confidence, idealism, and can-do attitude, which all boils down at the end of the day to “taking care of my loved ones.”
