#sisterly

[saanea]

How would the franchise have turned out if Elsa and Anna had a big age difference?

Sometimes I tend to imagine what the franchise would have been like if Elsa and Anna were more than 3 years apart, and I thought it would be interesting to share that here and also talk about sibling relationships based on age gaps.

Summary:

3 years apart

What if Anna was born in the year of Elsa's 8th birthday?

What if Anna was born in the year of Elsa's 18th birthday?

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3 years apart

In the canon of the franchise, our two sisters from Arendelle are approximately 3 years apart. We saw at least 5 periods of their lives in total in Frozen 1 and 2 : the childhood period when Elsa was approximately 8 and Anna was 5, the period when Elsa was approximately 11 and Anna was 8, the period of the death of the parents (Agnarr and Iduna) when Elsa was almost 18 and Anna was 15, and the coronation period when Elsa was crowned in the year of her 21st birthday and Anna was 18. In Frozen 2, Elsa was almost 24 and Anna was 21.

The night before last, I was googling out of curiosity about the consequences of large and small age differences in sibling relationships. A lot of people think that brothers and sisters who are close in age get on better than brothers and sisters with a big age difference, but according to a study I read with a graph it's the opposite, brothers and sisters with a big age difference get on better because there's no longer that feeling of rivalry. But I'd like to point out that every sibling relationship is different, for example in the Disney universe I find it a little illogical to compare the duo of Nani and Lilo with the duo of Elsa and Anna by saying that Nani and Lilo are more realistic, they're simply not the same thing. Elsa and Anna are both adults, while Nani is 19 years old, so although she's mature and responsible for her age, she's still young and naturally strong-temperament, so she has less patience than Elsa, who is a 24-year-old queen and naturally calm-temperament. Lilo is just a 6-year-old girl who also has her own strong-temperament character, so if I count the 13-year gap between Nani and Lilo, it's not the same as Elsa and Anna, who are only 3 years apart. What's more, they don't take place in the same era - Lilo and Stitch is closer to the present day, while Frozen is set in the 19th century. Elsa and Anna couldn't afford to use insults or foul language, and they've been isolated separately for 13 years, so I think arguing is the last thing they need.

What if Anna was born in the year of Elsa's 8th birthday?

If Anna had been born in the year of Elsa's 8th birthday, Frozen 1 and 2 would have been a little different. Elsa wouldn't be isolated out for accidentally hitting Anna with her ice powers, because Anna would just be a baby. Anna would have been 13 in Frozen 1 and 16 in Frozen 2, and I think that would have been interesting. As I said above, according to the study I found, when siblings are more than 6 years apart there's no longer that “feeling” of rivalry like “I've got this” “well I've got that”, it'll be more like the older one teaching the younger one lots of things and the younger one being in awe and wanting to do the same. But as I said, it depends on the family. For example, Elsa and Anna, who were 3 years apart, never really behaved as rivals, they were always accomplices, so I think that if they were 8 years apart, their sisterly relationship wouldn't really have changed, or maybe it would have been slightly less complicated because there wouldn't have been any isolation.

What if Anna was born in the year of Elsa's 18th birthday?

The story would have taken a completely different turn, Elsa would have spent most of her life as an only child, and would not have been isolated. Anna would have been born a few months before the death of her parents, which means she would not have really known them. Elsa would have taken care of her, with the help of her steward Gerda or a nanny, so that she could prepare to become queen. This would have given her two big responsibilities, and her sisterly relationship with Anna would have been a bit like mother and daughter, but I think they would have been accomplices all the same. 18 years apart is huge, in Frozen 1 Anna would have been 3 and in Frozen 2 she would have been 6, it's so sweet and something I would have loved to see. Elsa would have told her as much as possible about their parents, and Anna would have called her by her name because she would have known after a while that they were sisters.

My point of view:

Personally I love the original where Elsa and Anna are 3 years apart, if they'd had more age gaps it wouldn't have been the same, especially the scene at the end where Anna sacrifices herself for Elsa and Elsa is horrified and collapses on her sister's frozen body. It's one of the most beautiful scenes in this franchise, and the fact that they were isolated for all that time is horrible, but it adds something extra. But in another sense I can't help thinking that if they'd been 8 years apart, it might have been interesting and in some ways better, Elsa wouldn't have been isolated at 8 but I can imagine she would have been at 13 for accidentally hitting 5-year-old Anna with her powers. A few years later at the coronation, Anna wouldn't have tried to marry a man she'd just met because she was only 13, but we all know how stubborn she can be, so she would surely have found another way to upset and stress Elsa.

On the other hand, in Frozen 2, Elsa wouldn't have stayed in the Enchanted Forest because Anna would be 16 and too young to be queen. And as I said, with an 8-year age gap, Elsa and Anna's complicity wouldn't have been so different, and they would have had real conversations, especially in Frozen 2. Elsa would be 24, as in the original, but Anna would be 16 instead of 21. At 16, you start to understand and know more and more things, and it's also the classic age for Disney princesses, so they would have had no problem talking to each other as sisters.

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It's a subject I've been thinking about, and I found it interesting to talk about it and imagine how the franchise would have turned out.

[midnightmoonbeams]

Quinn was quite the contrarian teenager apparently.

From May 11th, 2023

[michaud-joshua-x1496]

[lettersfromanimalcrossing]

Guess what, Villager?

You ever see a photo of me when I was younger? Me and all my friends in pleather jackets with tons of spikes and studs—all black, except our hair, which was neon. Look, I didn't invent the style.

Cringing pretty bad, Mira

[boopjuice]

Okay, I have A Thought.

So I've seen around a few times that Danny's heart stops and freaks out people with superhearing, particularly Superman and his family. Que the freaking out because this child's heart has stopped and they haven't even seemed to notice.

But what if Danny keeping his heart beating takes effort? He has to focus on it at least a little all the time to seem more human. But if he's relaxed because he's, say, gaming over at Tucker's, he stops paying attention to if his heart is beating or not, and it stops. Sort of like how if you're walking around in a place you don't know in the middle of the night, you're tense and worried, but once you make it to a little area or a place you know better you stop being so nervous.

All that to say, having a beating heart is a stress response for halfas. And, like any other stress response, having it be constantly active can have long term negative effects. This was discovered by Frostbite shortly before Danny told his parents about being a halfa, and in fact influenced that decision. It turned out well, and Danny's heart began to stop more and more frequently while at home, to the point that it rarely ever beats at home now.

So que Phantom joining the League through some shenanigan or another, and together they're working to dismantle the Anti-Ecto Acts. The League knows he's powerful, but he's paranoid enough that he hasn't told them about the whole "half dead" thing. He's wandering around the Watchtower, chatting with Superman as they walk past a window that looks out into space. Danny's chatting about his weekend plans with Sam and Tuck, Superman's chatting about his upcoming visit to Ma and Pa's farm, and suddenly the kid's heart just stops.

And Superman freaks out. Because there is a child right next to him having a heart attack and seemingly not knowing.

He rushes Phantom to the medbay, only for his heart to be beating again? And the kid looks really freaked out and confused now. So he apologizes, explains what he heard, or rather didn't hear, and asks if it's an arrhythmia or something.

And now Danny, poor, socially awkward, barely a sophomore in high school Danny, gets to explain that sometimes, if he's really happy and content and feels safe, his heart stops and it is actually a good thing.

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[homosexualslug]

akilah being a younger sister. travis being an older brother. akilah fully trusting him to protect her from lottie. travis needing to protect her because he couldn't save javi from the other girls and was once a victim of lottie's himself. akilah only voting against ben once travis did. lottie making travis use drugs to dissociate from the grief of losing javi, while akilah tries to ground him and give him a goat that he can hold onto and protect instead. akilah being the only one besides nat who wanted to try to save javi. it got to me okay.

[goldinrod]

wonderlands x crossing! here's hoping brand new your world also has a fishing minigame

[colfy-wolfy]

Cyn would love playing roblox i think.

[bethanydelleman]

One of the underrated things about Pride & Prejudice, and Austen's works in general, is that generally sisters do not compete over men. At one point, Lydia basically says to Elizabeth, "Hey, Wickham is back on the market," but despite her calling him "dear Wickham," there's no indication of ownership. He's available again for any of them and last time he liked Elizabeth best. Zero jealousy detected. And no other sister tries for Bingley after the first night, he's Jane's after the first ball.

In Mansfield Park, a weak sisterly bond is nearly broken over a man and it's portrayed as wrong and even unnatural from start to finish. Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty, and Lydia would never! Persuasion shows us two sisters infatuated with the same man but it does not affect their love for each other in the slightest. Elinor doesn't even consider competing with Marianne to catch Colonel Brandon as Sir John suggests.

Sisterly love should come before romantic love. Full stop.

[choccy-milky]

⭐ HL x animal crossing ⭐

something for fun bc why not......i have free will their personality types?? maybe?? : seb = smug clora = peppy poppy = normal/sweet imelda = snooty ominis = lazy (or cranky tbh) leander = jock natty = sisterly

[midnightmoonbeams]

Quinn still has weird dreams... what's with that??

From May 16th, 2023

[michaud-joshua-x1496]

[lettersfromanimalcrossing]

So, Villager...

Things haven't been too rosy for me lately, but you don't see me moping over it. That's cause I'm thankful even for the bad times! You take all that stuff and use it for fertilizer, then see what blooms.

Wise ol' Plucky

[kevinthebull]

Elphaba and Glinda are not sisterly. They kiss in the books. They have far more chemistry then either of them with Fiyero. Even Ariana and Kristin have acknowledged this.

[rah-nee-yah]

guys stop fighting this isnt like you 😔😔