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Mar. 1st, 2016 01:01 amPlayer Information
Player name: Em
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Are you over 18: Yes
Characters in The Box Already: Annie Walker
Character Information
Character Name:☃ Queen Elsa of Arendelle ☃
Canon: Frozen
Canon Point: Post-movie
Is your character Dead, Undead or Alive: Alive
History: About your Queen
Personality: Elsa is, above all else, a study in contrasts.
At times, she is nervous and hesitant, fearful even, withdrawn and purposely isolated - a woman who uses every excuse she can think of to stay locked away from people; at other times, she shows her sense of humor, her playful side, her intense love for her family, and her willingness to sacrifice anything - up to and including her own life - for the people she cares about.
Her nervousness, hesitation and fear are brought on by an accident that occurred when she was very young; while playing with her younger sister, Anna, Elsa accidentally hit Anna's head with an errant beam of ice, which froze her head. Her parents were able to turn back the effects of Elsa's mistake with the help of trolls, but the advice they were given was flawed: to hide Elsa's magic from everyone in the castle and pretend it didn't exist at all, even from her best friend, her little sister.
Where before it had been something the sisters had engaged in playfully and often (even teasing the servants good-naturedly, according to an outtake of a song), Anna was now moved to another room for her safety to keep her away from Elsa's magic. Her parents clothed her hands in gloves and the phrase, "conceal it, don't feel it," became her motto.
Isolation became her new best friend, though the fear that she might unintentionally hurt another person was there, under the surface, at all times, until she got to the point where she wouldn't even accept affection from her parents.
It's interesting to note here that she'd had complete control over her magic before; the accident had only occurred because her sister had been moving too fast for her to keep up and Elsa had slipped on ice of her own making because she hadn't been looking and her aim was thrown off to create a soft pile of snow for her sister. It wasn't until after the "advice" her parents received and she was isolated that fear began to drive her magic into a place where she couldn't control it.
When her parents went on a trip and died, Elsa did not go to the funeral, cut off contact completely, for the next three years - until her 21st birthday and her coronation as Queen of Arendelle.
The gates to the city were opened for the first time since the sisters were young, but while Anna was ecstatic about it, Elsa felt nothing but worry, fear, and apprehension that someone might learn her secret and think the worst of her.
When the worst does finally happen after a confrontation with her sister over Anna's desire to marry a man that she just met (and Elsa shows her ability to be cool-headed, rational, and intelligent), Elsa declares the party over and demands the gates to the castle be shut. When her sister grabs at her gloves, the ensuing throw of her arm causes a shield of ice spikes to rise up and cause the party goers to panic.
Elsa runs.
In the mountains, free from the confines of needing to rule, needing to be the strong sister, needing to worry about what people think of her, Elsa becomes a different person completely. Her confidence rises and the control she's always had over her magic appears once more and she shows her old tricks - creating life (an old snowman she used to do with her sister and later, a very large snow monster named Marshmallow), little flurries, and finally a giant ice castle to live in.
When Anna comes for her and tells her that she inadvertently threw their country into a deep freeze, the panic comes back. She tells her sister that she can't fix it, she doesn't know how... and her self confidence takes a dive. When it happens, she loses the control she's been showing and accidentally hurts her sister again, this time in the heart.
An act of true love - not the stereotypical man/woman love - is the only way to fix her sister and rather than have Elsa fix Anna, Anna figures out that to thaw her own heart, she needs to help Elsa save herself from the despair that's overcome her as the man that Anna previous wanted to marry tries to execute Elsa - who is under the impression that her sister is dead.
While Elsa is crushed and has nothing else to live for - her family is everything to her and she would do anything for them - Annie makes the ultimate sacrifice for love and puts herself in front of the blade. It's then that Elsa realizes that it's love that will thaw a frozen heart - hers - and she uses that knowledge to thaw their country.
TL;DR :: After the beginning of the movie (and for a moment while threatened and under the impression that her sister is dead), Elsa has no control over her emotions and therefore, her powers. When her fear and uncertainty got the better of her, she accidentally froze an entire country.
But she's elegant and calm, cares strongly for people she knows, and at her canon point, is no longer afraid of her powers. She's always been concerned about her subjects, and at times, still can be a little distancing from others.
Items on your character at canon point: Just this.
Abilities, Strengths and Weaknesses:
❅ Control over ice/snow/frost
❅ Any part of her that touches water turns to ice
❅ Can create ice/snow/frost from nothing
❅ From that, she can create life (large & small)
❅ It's seen that she can create clothes (her second outfit, her sister's ice skating shoes; though it may be a transformation thing)
☑ Powerful
☑ Protective
☑ Magical
☑ Intelligent
☑ ICE. SNOW. FROST... the cold doesn't bother her anyway.
☒ Fear of being treated like a monster
☒ Fear of hurting someone
☒ Anything out of her comfort zone - and subsequently losing control again
☒ Hurting her sister or someone else hurting her sister.
☒ Chocolate
Samples
Network/Action Spam Sample:
[When the feed flickers on, there's a young, shockingly blonde woman on screen. Despite the thinness of her dress, her bare shoulders, and the fact that it's early July, she doesn't appear to be bothered. Instead, she looks perplexed.]
Weseltown? Perhaps the Southern Isles. Whoever you are, I won't stand for this. I need to get back to Arendelle, they're going to be missing their Queen soon enough. [The device in her hand starts to crack as it begins to freeze and she inhales deeply.] Please. Is Anna here, too?
Prose Log Sample:
Being alone was something that had always made Elsa's heart ache, even when she'd been theoretically 'free' inside her palace in the North Mountain, she'd still been bone-achingly alone. Despite her intense need to be alone in order to be free from the restraints that her parents had unwittingly put on her, she hadn't ever wanted to stay alone. If she had known before the incident that had put the deep freeze on Arendelle that she could be with her sister and control the power that ran through her, she would have chosen that option first.
Her sister had always been the most important person in the world to her and, after thawing Arendelle, Elsa was more than happy to do things that made her sister happy. After ignoring her for months at a time through their entire child hood, putting her through the dangers of Hans, of trekking through the mountain passes, of freezing her heart... it seemed more than reasonable to make small sacrifices within herself to make the world around her more open. It was why the gates stayed open more often than not, why Kristoff received his 'official' title, while Elsa herself tried to be more visible even though she was still coming to terms with allowing people to see her as her new, confident self.
"Anna," she called as she moved through the castle. "Today's the day. Our weekly skate with the town."
It was something that combined their childhood with their adult selves; taking their ballroom winters out into the center of town and allowing the townspeople to join in. It gave Elsa more visibility, though part of her worried that it was too soon, still. That after a week and a half of pure ice and snow all around them that her subjects wouldn't want any more cold. Her fears, thankfully, weren't at all valid and they'd been happy to see their Queen in her more natural state.
Now, of course, they were excited to see the snow fall, knowing it wouldn't be forever. And Elsa could be content knowing that she didn't have to be afraid, didn't have to live in fear, and she didn't have to be alone.
Player name: Em
Contact:
Are you over 18: Yes
Characters in The Box Already: Annie Walker
Character Information
Character Name:☃ Queen Elsa of Arendelle ☃
Canon: Frozen
Canon Point: Post-movie
Is your character Dead, Undead or Alive: Alive
History: About your Queen
Personality: Elsa is, above all else, a study in contrasts.
At times, she is nervous and hesitant, fearful even, withdrawn and purposely isolated - a woman who uses every excuse she can think of to stay locked away from people; at other times, she shows her sense of humor, her playful side, her intense love for her family, and her willingness to sacrifice anything - up to and including her own life - for the people she cares about.
Her nervousness, hesitation and fear are brought on by an accident that occurred when she was very young; while playing with her younger sister, Anna, Elsa accidentally hit Anna's head with an errant beam of ice, which froze her head. Her parents were able to turn back the effects of Elsa's mistake with the help of trolls, but the advice they were given was flawed: to hide Elsa's magic from everyone in the castle and pretend it didn't exist at all, even from her best friend, her little sister.
Where before it had been something the sisters had engaged in playfully and often (even teasing the servants good-naturedly, according to an outtake of a song), Anna was now moved to another room for her safety to keep her away from Elsa's magic. Her parents clothed her hands in gloves and the phrase, "conceal it, don't feel it," became her motto.
Isolation became her new best friend, though the fear that she might unintentionally hurt another person was there, under the surface, at all times, until she got to the point where she wouldn't even accept affection from her parents.
It's interesting to note here that she'd had complete control over her magic before; the accident had only occurred because her sister had been moving too fast for her to keep up and Elsa had slipped on ice of her own making because she hadn't been looking and her aim was thrown off to create a soft pile of snow for her sister. It wasn't until after the "advice" her parents received and she was isolated that fear began to drive her magic into a place where she couldn't control it.
When her parents went on a trip and died, Elsa did not go to the funeral, cut off contact completely, for the next three years - until her 21st birthday and her coronation as Queen of Arendelle.
The gates to the city were opened for the first time since the sisters were young, but while Anna was ecstatic about it, Elsa felt nothing but worry, fear, and apprehension that someone might learn her secret and think the worst of her.
When the worst does finally happen after a confrontation with her sister over Anna's desire to marry a man that she just met (and Elsa shows her ability to be cool-headed, rational, and intelligent), Elsa declares the party over and demands the gates to the castle be shut. When her sister grabs at her gloves, the ensuing throw of her arm causes a shield of ice spikes to rise up and cause the party goers to panic.
Elsa runs.
In the mountains, free from the confines of needing to rule, needing to be the strong sister, needing to worry about what people think of her, Elsa becomes a different person completely. Her confidence rises and the control she's always had over her magic appears once more and she shows her old tricks - creating life (an old snowman she used to do with her sister and later, a very large snow monster named Marshmallow), little flurries, and finally a giant ice castle to live in.
When Anna comes for her and tells her that she inadvertently threw their country into a deep freeze, the panic comes back. She tells her sister that she can't fix it, she doesn't know how... and her self confidence takes a dive. When it happens, she loses the control she's been showing and accidentally hurts her sister again, this time in the heart.
An act of true love - not the stereotypical man/woman love - is the only way to fix her sister and rather than have Elsa fix Anna, Anna figures out that to thaw her own heart, she needs to help Elsa save herself from the despair that's overcome her as the man that Anna previous wanted to marry tries to execute Elsa - who is under the impression that her sister is dead.
While Elsa is crushed and has nothing else to live for - her family is everything to her and she would do anything for them - Annie makes the ultimate sacrifice for love and puts herself in front of the blade. It's then that Elsa realizes that it's love that will thaw a frozen heart - hers - and she uses that knowledge to thaw their country.
TL;DR :: After the beginning of the movie (and for a moment while threatened and under the impression that her sister is dead), Elsa has no control over her emotions and therefore, her powers. When her fear and uncertainty got the better of her, she accidentally froze an entire country.
But she's elegant and calm, cares strongly for people she knows, and at her canon point, is no longer afraid of her powers. She's always been concerned about her subjects, and at times, still can be a little distancing from others.
Items on your character at canon point: Just this.
Abilities, Strengths and Weaknesses:
❅ Control over ice/snow/frost
❅ Any part of her that touches water turns to ice
❅ Can create ice/snow/frost from nothing
❅ From that, she can create life (large & small)
❅ It's seen that she can create clothes (her second outfit, her sister's ice skating shoes; though it may be a transformation thing)
☑ Powerful
☑ Protective
☑ Magical
☑ Intelligent
☑ ICE. SNOW. FROST... the cold doesn't bother her anyway.
☒ Fear of being treated like a monster
☒ Fear of hurting someone
☒ Anything out of her comfort zone - and subsequently losing control again
☒ Hurting her sister or someone else hurting her sister.
☒ Chocolate
Samples
Network/Action Spam Sample:
[When the feed flickers on, there's a young, shockingly blonde woman on screen. Despite the thinness of her dress, her bare shoulders, and the fact that it's early July, she doesn't appear to be bothered. Instead, she looks perplexed.]
Weseltown? Perhaps the Southern Isles. Whoever you are, I won't stand for this. I need to get back to Arendelle, they're going to be missing their Queen soon enough. [The device in her hand starts to crack as it begins to freeze and she inhales deeply.] Please. Is Anna here, too?
Prose Log Sample:
Being alone was something that had always made Elsa's heart ache, even when she'd been theoretically 'free' inside her palace in the North Mountain, she'd still been bone-achingly alone. Despite her intense need to be alone in order to be free from the restraints that her parents had unwittingly put on her, she hadn't ever wanted to stay alone. If she had known before the incident that had put the deep freeze on Arendelle that she could be with her sister and control the power that ran through her, she would have chosen that option first.
Her sister had always been the most important person in the world to her and, after thawing Arendelle, Elsa was more than happy to do things that made her sister happy. After ignoring her for months at a time through their entire child hood, putting her through the dangers of Hans, of trekking through the mountain passes, of freezing her heart... it seemed more than reasonable to make small sacrifices within herself to make the world around her more open. It was why the gates stayed open more often than not, why Kristoff received his 'official' title, while Elsa herself tried to be more visible even though she was still coming to terms with allowing people to see her as her new, confident self.
"Anna," she called as she moved through the castle. "Today's the day. Our weekly skate with the town."
It was something that combined their childhood with their adult selves; taking their ballroom winters out into the center of town and allowing the townspeople to join in. It gave Elsa more visibility, though part of her worried that it was too soon, still. That after a week and a half of pure ice and snow all around them that her subjects wouldn't want any more cold. Her fears, thankfully, weren't at all valid and they'd been happy to see their Queen in her more natural state.
Now, of course, they were excited to see the snow fall, knowing it wouldn't be forever. And Elsa could be content knowing that she didn't have to be afraid, didn't have to live in fear, and she didn't have to be alone.
