INFJ 9w1 Characters

Rahima shows high intuition right from the start, in correctly anticipating and interpreting some of Catherine’s behaviors. She assigns motives to the queen that are startlingly accurate, and also gives Catherine confidence that she can be trusted as a potential spy. But it’s not until the final episode, when Rahima lays out all she has intuitively understood about Catherine’s gradual plan to gain her trust, turn Rahima against her, ingratiate her with Mary Queen of Scots, and then manipulate her daughter-in-law into leaving for Scotland. When deciding whether to join up with Catherine and become one of her informants, Rahima shows she has strategized about her future and has clear goals as to what she wants (property, a title, and a good marriage) and when Catherine is willing to meet them, she goes along with it. She initially is kind, compassionate, and sweet, giving a listening ear to the queen but also commenting on the ethical/moral side of her decisions, and finding some of them reprehensible (allowing others to die to save her own life). But Rahima is also immoral. She wants to be seen as good, and puts on a face of goodness, but steals from the queen upon their first meeting (an orange) and later, helps her manipulate others. She absorbs the morals of the court around her (adapt to survive), rather than has any kind of internal resistance to it. She also spends a lot of time thinking about things and figuring out others motives, and can be impulsive on occasion, such as when she decides to get even with one of the kitchen maids who tried to get her into trouble.

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Rahima doesn’t initially want to cause any trouble or disruption, and just puts up with people’s abusive behavior toward her, until Catherine prompts her to stop taking the “high road” (repressing herself, with her 1 wing) and choose to “get even instead.” Then, Rahima easily adopts Catherine’s ruthless mindset, merging into her ideals and expressing them in her behavior—blowing up an oven in another girl’s face and shaming the guards in the corridor who sexually harassed her. She talks a lot initially about wanting to be moral and good, but by the end of the first season has traded in her ethics for high status and property, as one of Catherine’s devious little spies. Catherine initially calls her naïve and too trusting, in that Rahima doesn’t expect ill of anyone and is shocked when others are unkind to her.