ENTJ 3w4 Characters

Cora is rational and efficient; her young self is angry at her father for being a drunken wastrel rather than deliver the flour to the castle so they can survive. When a chance to become the queen comes along, Cora takes it, and barters with Rumple for a better life, one in which she holds all the cards, and can do everything for herself, including learn magic. She is pragmatic, which means she often sacrifices her feelings to find the best way to achieve what she wants, which includes setting up her daughter to marry Snow’s father, killing Snow’s mother by poisoning her (and giving Snow a chance to save her, knowing she was too pure to take it), and ignoring Regina’s need for love, to push her into accepting the throne. Cora saw her own heart as a problem, so she removed it for safekeeping and to keep her from making emotional decisions that would not benefit her or expand her influence. She is insightful and invested in long-term thinking, including planning out a situation for her daughter years in advance. When she meets Rumple, she instantly knows how to manipulate him into changing her deal, by promising to bear him a child and then changing her mind, thus not giving him anything while getting everything she wanted (a throne, power, and a child of her own). Cora adapts easily to wherever she finds herself, seeking power and becoming influential, but also impulsive and appreciative of fine things, such as her magical redecoration of the Red King’s palace. She seizes opportunities when they come to her, but is also at times too impulsive for her own good—her need to impress the king by boasting about how she could spin straw into gold got her stuck in the castle overnight, with a crown or the threat of death hanging over her head.

Enneagram: 3w4

Cora is very ambitious, but also has a fierce need to learn how to do things for herself; when Rumple shows up to barter her unborn child for spinning stray into gold to get her out of a mess, Cora demands that he show her how to do it instead, so she can be self-sufficient. She then asks him to show her how to remove a human heart, so she can “crush it” before the king’s eyes and make him suffer for humiliating her; then turns around and removes her own heart instead, because she felt her feelings were “stopping me” from doing what would achieve the most for her life (to become queen, raise a princess, and ensure that her daughter became a queen also, rather than run away and waste her life with the man she truly loved, Rumple). She is always doing things to get her closer to her goals, setting high standards for herself, and relentlessly pursuing her own ends, but she also shows 4 wing reactivity. Cora is defiant, and loses her temper with the princess; she tells her off for tripping her, and then is forced to her knees. Burning up with hatred, she wants to make all of them “pay” for what they did to her. She also seeks revenge against anyone who ever hurt her, while urging Regina not to let her own feelings cloud her judgment.