#Elsa's ice palace figurine

[bigfrozenfan]

Unboxing Mastercraft MC-064 Elsa's Ice Palace

Marshmellow is attached with a magnet and only on the right side of the bridge. I would have preferred it on the left side, like in the movie, but it's okay.

On my shelf... The light is powered via USB. I still have to figure out where to put the cable.

[elsass]

What are your Elsa headcanons?

This is my time to shine thank you so much anon

It’s LONG AS FUCK because i just love elsa so much xoxo.

- First one is obvious: she’s a lesbian. period

- I don’t think there’s ever been a disney princess or character that shows so much mental illness... the way Elsa embodies symptoms of depression and anxiety hits home. I also think going to the forest has helped her overcome both, but i love how we can still see some sequels of them in the second film (like for example when anna and her find their parents ship, we can see how elsa goes back to her shell, both emotionally and physically). I like how disney managed to give continuity and an amazing character development whilst also maintaining a realistic conception of overcoming mental health problems 10/10 for that one

-Honeymaren ate her COOCHIE because she bottoms

- When spending time in the forest she opens up to people and her goofy personality starts to surface, partially thanks to Honeymaren and Ryder. She shows up to public activities often and she’s more social and participates a lot in social events both in her village and others when anna and the boys come visit they don’t recognise her at first

- I feel like she would be fascinated by northuldran culture and language and would try and learn as much of them as possible Honeymaren teaches her swear words in sámi without her knowing and she finds out only after a meeting with yelena. honeymaren is done for

- Shes very ticklish. Nobody except Anna knows about this but Honeymaren might have found out. who knows

- I feel like children love her. She enjoys playing with them, telling typical arendellian stories and legends (which they enjoy a lot because they haven’t heard them before) to them or making ice figurines that the children play with until they melt. Sometimes, she also makes little spectacles on holiday nights that can go from making it snow to creating living ice creatures that make both the children and adults of the village stare in awe but honeymaren is staring at her

- Her laugh. Is literally angelic choirs she’s made of sugar and stars please i love her so much i just want her to be happy forever

- Shes the only one in the whole village that finds the Nattura sibling’s puns genuinely funny

- Ryder and her quickly become friends and he helps her asking her sister out. She often tells him how much he reminds her of Kristoff, and she and Nokk often help him herd his reindeer

- Elsa loves doing stuff for the village people and everyone loves her how could they not

- She goes to Ahtohallan very frequently and spends entire afternoons watching memories of her and Anna as children or of her young parents playing around the enchanted forest.

- She has a strong connection with most animals and immediately bonds with them (she named honeymaren’s baby reindeer snowflake. it’s a secret shhh)

- No matter how much she tries to practise she can’t seem to get better at charades

- Anna and her meet very frequently and despite their ages they still have sleepovers from time to time the first time Elsa tells her about Honeymaren Anna jumps to the ceiling

- She rebuilt her ice palace so she could take Honeymaren to see it

- Despite living the forest, Elsa still worries about Arendelle and often asks Anna how Kristoff and her are handling it

- She totally helped Anna with that queenly etiquette and royal walking

- Anna sucked at it it’s fine

- Sometimes she makes Gale send her sister and Kristoff little presents the northuldra carve for them

- Shes gotten more fit ever since she came to the forest let me have this

[fericita-s]

For Years I’ve Roamed These Empty Halls

A story looking at Anna’s loneliness through the years, from babyhood to age fifteen. Inspired by this post where @upthenorthmountain pointed out Anna being put to bed first so Iduna had more time with Elsa. Thanks for the beta-read @the-spastic-fantastic​! As always this is stronger for having had your eyes on it and your brain in on the brainstorm to get it going.

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Anna smiled before babies were supposed to, and Iduna knew it was because she meant to.  She knew her daughter was looking at her, reacting to her, and didn't need Midwife Jora to explain about babies and gas.

Anna was inconvenienced by her swaddling, and was always breaking free, one arm popping out to drape over her head, her red hair sticking out in soft wisps.

At the age of one, Anna played with Elsa's Noah's Ark set and hid the animals around the castle.  She never found the lions or giraffes again and the lone elephant was eventually reunited with its partner when the Duke of Weselton sat on it during a state dinner, jumping up and yelping, his hair flapping in an unnatural way. 

Anna, at two years old, climbed out the window and onto the roof in the time it took her nanny to use the water closet, arms outstretched, feeling the breeze and wanting to climb even higher.  In the same year, she found a set of garden shears and gave all of her dolls haircuts and would have given Elsa one too if the shears hadn't frozen over.

Anna, at three, knew all the gardeners and cooks and servants in the castle.  She had a friendly wave or a sticky piece of chocolate or a sloppy kiss to give each one when they passed.  She thought Elsa's magic was the best toy and relished in directing her how to use it, a three year old queen, high on her power.  "Quick! Another fairy to save the trolls from the soldiers!" Elsa would oblige, making the figurines that she was so good at creating, now better able to control what she intended to do with her ice magic. Elsa and Anna at play were a blur of motion, Elsa happy to do what Anna directed, to do what Anna voiced with characters and stories that she listened to raptly. Elsa playing alone had been silent.  Elsa and Anna playing together were loud and funny and could turn entire ballrooms into skating rinks and ice palaces and snow forts.  

Anna at four directed their adventures outside of the castle as well. She told Elsa to freeze over the duck pond so the ducks could learn to skate. She climbed trees without any fear of falling because Elsa would create a hill made of snow to catch her if she fell. Anna sat on her father’s shoulders and held her arms out, trying to hug the breeze and calling it a friend. It gave Iduna a sensation of loss to see her daughter want to play with the wind, some inherent, inherited memory, and to know that the wind in Arendelle would never heed Anna’s call. Anna at four would scrawl invitations to her parents and sister by drawing a room in the castle and directing them to attend her parties.  She hosted tea parties and garden parties, and Agnarr and Iduna sat on pillows and wore the paper crowns Anna had made, Elsa adding garlands of ice flowers wherever Anna asked.

But Anna at five didn't know her sister had ice powers.  Anna at five didn't know why so many of the castle staff had left, and why her sister wouldn't play with her anymore.  She was glad to have more time with her mother.  They climbed trees and onto the roof, and explored the clocktower and the lighthouse.  They gardened and got dirty and mashed and mixed herbs, but a mother sometimes has to attend state dinners and write letters and be the queen to the whole kingdom.  A mother wasn’t the same as a sister. 

Anna at five was lonely, and the sister her parents hoped would be her dearest friend seemed to not care that she existed at all.

Anna at six named all of the suits of armor in the castle and carried on conversations with them, hoping that if she talked to them enough, they might talk back.

Anna at seven stayed up to watch the Northern Lights, thinking the sky looked like a friend, and not entirely sure why.

Anna at eight liked going into the kitchens to sneak treats, now easier with so few servants. She ate alone in a fort made of pillows.

Anna at nine named all of the ducks in the pond and taught them to follow her in a straight line and to quack on command.

Anna at ten learned how to ride a horse, and became a frequent visitor at the stables, where she brushed and curried and patted the horses, asking them where their favorite spots were to ride and graze.

Anna at eleven could ride her bike down the stairs, and only crashed the first six times she did it. Her mother and father would sometimes ride with her on the two-seater bike, but Elsa never did.

Anna at twelve tried to go an entire day without speaking once. She did it easily, and hated every minute.

Anna at thirteen began talking to the pictures in the portrait gallery, acting out the dramatic and romantic scenes in them, wishing her life would look like that one day. 

Anna at fourteen read everything she could and imagined the characters in her books were friends.  Her mother showed her a tree with a crook in the branches like a seat, and she would read up there for hours, always a little disappointed when she returned that no one had come looking for her.

Anna at fifteen mourned the loss of her parents alone, and thought she would never again know the love of family, even though family was just on the other side of a closed door.

[shadowheartwife]

Frozen 3: Melt (ACT 1: SCENE 10 + ACT 2: SCENE 11+12)

Scene 10

Elsa and Hans enter the council chamber. Hans has no handcuffs on. A) he has no weapons and B) Elsa can turn him into a pretty boy popsicle in .2 seconds. Olaf and Sven are in the room now because screw the rules, Anna is Queen and she wants them there. One of the council members is petting Sven.

Olaf rips off an arm and points it like a dagger at Hans.

“Unhand her, fiend!” Elsa gently holds the snowman back.

“The Southern Isles plan to attack at dawn, sailing from the south east. We don’t know how many ships, but they sent supplies and spies ahead of them. Some are already here.” Elsa takes her seat.

Kristoff begins to speak, but Elsa interjects. “No, Kristoff, Hans is not one of the spies.”

“How is he not? He got right into the palace! Now he’s giving you puppy dog eyes to get votes of sympathy! He’s playing you, Elsa!” Kristoff insists. Hans "puppy dog" eyes turn cold. Then he stands.

“You have no reason to trust me,” he begins. He turns to Anna, looks her right in the eyes. “You least of all. There isn’t time for me to wallow and ask for forgiveness, we need to gather an army. My brothers are fierce men.”

“There’s no time to summon an army,” general Mattias says. “It’s nearly sunset, we can’t mount a full offensive overnight!”

“I think I can make something work.” Elsa looks happy and mischievous. Bruni climbs onto her shoulder and winks with sass. Spread out across the table, like in a war room, Elsa creates little frozen Arendelle. She crafts figurines of snowgies, Marshmallow monsters, and walls of ice to position around Arendelle to protect the people. They all look at her, impressed.

“Elsa… I love you,” Anna says. Kristoff just nods in excitement.

“But now what do we do with him in the meantime?” Kristoff gestures to Hans.

“I want to fight my brothers alongside the people of Arendelle.”

“So you can stab us in the back? Repeatedly?” Kristoff sneers.

“He won’t,” Elsa interjects with confidence. “He’ll know better than us how his brothers fight. Hans, I want you to join Mattias and my guards in the courtyard. Share with them what you know. Kristoff, join him - no, don't complain. Anna, I want you to come with me. I don’t know how much strength it’s going to take to create an entire regimen of snow, so I want you by my side. It’ll make me stronger.” Anna holds her sister close, and looks at Hans with disdain, but not as harshly as before. “Let’s do this,” Anna declares.

Cue a montage of Hans and Mattias training with the palace guards and Elsa tirelessly creating snowgies and marshmallow monsters. She and Anna try to control them and show them what to do but they are easily distracted. Eventually they make it work.

Elsa sends Gale to sea, to push the winds against the oncoming ships, to slow them down as much as they can. Elsa freezes the fjord to slow them further, and to prevent them from docking. The soldiers will have to wade to shore.

ACT TWO:

SCENE 11

Our perspective is from ships approaching Arendelle. They’re trading a telescope back and forth, all looking a mixture of confused, shocked, and enraged.

We see through the telescope - we see that they’ve discovered a huge line of marshmallows and snowgies that they’ll have to fight through to get to the castle.

“What happened to our scouts?!” One asks.

Cut to the scouts in prison, looking the opposite of thrilled.

“Doesn’t matter! What matters is that we’re here now, this is our day!” Frederick declares. He hasn’t looked through the telescope yet.

“Well you… might need to take a peek at this, first.” Frederick grunts in annoyance and looks across the fjord to discover the snow army. We see Olaf with them this time, marching along the frontline like a general, back and forth, ensuring everyone is in position. He’s not scared because he’s been impaled before and obviously it doesn’t hurt. He’s ready for battle.

“It seems that the ice queen has returned,” he grunts. “A higher challenge, but we’ve never shied away from a fight before, boys.”

They comically fight their way through the snow army. A snowgie bites a soldier and he cries, “I got frostbite!” As soon as they think they’ve pushed through, there’s a sudden cloud of thick, black smoke, and a silhouette of a huge dragon against the castle wall (oh hi Bruni!) looking like Mushu when he met Mulan. A good chunk of the Southern Isles soldiers flee in fear.

Sven and Kristoff attack from the ramparts, dumping buckets of ice onto the soldiers trying to get beyond the walls. We see Frederick and Gregor, the second eldest, nod to each other, and Gregor runs off screen.

The guards fight off most of the soldiers, so that now only the brothers remain. But only 11 are seen. A shadow flits about above the courtyard, where Elsa and Anna stand. Kristoff rushes to join them.

The shadow begins to fall, about to land on Anna - we get a quick flash of a sword’s edge. Gregor is going in for the win.

Suddenly, Hans slides in and blocks the blade, saving Anna’s life. They fight with vigor until Hans gets injured and falls to the ground. Gregor steps back to catch his breath, all of the brothers laughing. They close in on the group.

Elsa summons all of her strength and manifests snow versions of the earth giants - she now has an army of the four elements at her disposal. A couple of the brothers look like they’re about to fight them, but Frederick puts out his arm as a signal to stand down. He comes to his senses and realizes that they can’t beat these abominable snowmen.

“It seems we are at an impasse,” Frederick says, gaze shifting from Anna, Elsa and Kristoff over to Hans. “Return our little brother to our custody and Arendelle is yours.”

“Arendelle has always been ours,” Anna says. Elsa slowly approaches Hans, who is still on the ground, writhing in pain. He clutches his arm to his chest, grimacing in pain, barely able to open his eyes.

Kristoff glances around. “Alright then. Take him back. Don’t return.”

“No, wait -” Elsa says, helping Hans to his feet. He has to lean on her for support.

“He just risked his life to save you, Anna.” She turns from her sister to Kristoff. “We nearly lost her again. He didn’t have to do that.”

“Throw me in the dungeon until the day I die if you must, just don’t send me back to my brothers, that is all I ask.” Hans can barely get the words out. He looks genuinely terrified.

Elsa goes over to Anna. “He came here to warn us -”

“- because he hates his brothers -” Anna interjects.

“ - either way, he saved us, and then you. Anna, he has never known kindness. Maybe we can melt away the ice his brothers put in his heart.”

Anna considers for a moment. Kristoff concedes by nodding in reluctance, deciding that it’s up to the sisters alone. Anna takes a deep breath and walks over to Hans.

“We’ll be keeping an eye on you. No access to weapons. A guard will attend you at all times until we know you can be trusted.”

“Thank you, Queen Anna. More than I can say.” He dips his head in respect.

“A guard, or myself. Believe me, Anna, I can freeze him on the spot,” Elsa jokes.

“That she can,” Hans confirms, a small almost-smile coming across his face.

SCENE 12

Guards approach as they recover from the fight, and Mattias and his men take Hans’ brothers directly back to the docks, sending them away. Meanwhile, we go back to Elsa and Anna, who are helping Hans onto a sofa (the one he left Anna to freeze on).

Elsa sits down next to him while a servant sets his arm and bandages him.

“I… Elsa, I should go talk to Kristoff for a moment,” Anna says. She hugs her sister, gives Hans a weary glance, and leaves the room. The servant follows soon after, leaving Elsa alone with Hans.

“Why didn’t you just send me back with them? You won. You can be rid of me now, I got what I wanted, they lost,” Hans looks to Elsa with exasperation. He is sweating from the fight, and from the pain. Elsa creates a small flurry to dust his forehead with chilly snowflakes. He inhales sharply at first, startled, then relaxes as Elsa’s eyes meet with his, full of concern and pity.

“Sometimes we think that we’re monsters and that it’s our destiny to be so. That we have to give in to what others around us say, to accept the cards we’ve been dealt. For a long time I was terrified of myself. I was a monster in my own eyes.”

Hans closes his eyes. “At least you never tried to kill anyone.”

“I came close. Remember when you found me in my palace? I nearly impaled Weselton’s guard and almost pushed another off the edge. It’s easy to get lost in the moment.” Elsa places her hand on his.

“We may have done monstrous things in the past, Hans, but we are not defined by that. We can’t forget them, we have to own up to our actions, but they do not get to determine who or what we truly are.” There is silence for a while. They look at each other then look away.

“You were just trying to protect yourself. I was trying to overthrow a kingdom,” Hans concedes.

Elsa wipes some of the sweat from his face with a cloth and says, “You were trying to protect yourself, too, from your brothers. That was the only way out that you could see.”

“I don’t deserve forgiveness…” Hans looks away from her, ashamed.

“No one does. That’s the beauty of it. It’s a gift freely given.”