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anna | frozen | reserved
Contact Info: aim: a moment alive, plurk: optimismnice
Other Characters Played: n/a
Preferred Apartment: Anywhere with Elsa and Kristoff. Elsa preferred over Kristoff, if necessary, because chicks before dicks, yo.
Character Name: Anna (Princess Anna of Arendelle if we’re being fancy)
Canon: Frozen
Canon Point: Post-movie.
Background/History: Link! Link again!
Previous Game History: n/a
Personality:
Anna isn’t the stereotypical Disney princess. Sure, she shares plenty of traits with princesses past: she is a lot sheltered and a little naive; she’s cheerful and outgoing, a relentless, cock-eyed optimist; she shamelessly wishes to be swept off her feet. But her dreams of romance never overshadow the relationship she has with her sister, Elsa; their relationship is the most central and integral to the story, and it ends up influencing and showcasing many of Anna’s personality traits.
Elsa is, ultimately, the reason why Anna ends up so sheltered; because their parents decide to shut Elsa away to keep her powers hidden, Anna is forced to grow up with little more than herself and the portraits in the gallery for company, and paintings don’t exactly talk back. As a result, Anna is restlessly lonely at the beginning of the movie, so much so that she gets a whole song about it, and she wants nothing more to make connections with people: her sister, a man, anyone and everyone. This is why she is so thirsty for romance, and why her vision of it--and the outside world in general--is so idealized; she doesn’t have a lot of experience with it, after all. She’s more than ready for the gates to open, so that she can meet new people and experience new things; she’s curious and eager, an attitude that never really leaves her even when she’s finally outside the gates.
This severe lack of human interaction also makes her near-guileless; she wears her heart on her sleeve, whether she’s happy or not, and doesn’t have much of a brain-to-mouth filter. She’s very forthcoming about her relationship (or, at that point, lack thereof) with her sister to a guy she literally just met earlier that day, in spite of the fact that the admission is painful. She doesn’t make any edits with Kristoff either, giving him all the details on the circumstances of her sister’s whole winter-in-July act even though she can’t even remember his name right. This openness both helps and hurts her; while she’s quick to make friends, it also makes her very susceptible to people trying to hurt her: specifically, Hans’ sudden but inevitable betrayal. He draws her in easily, playing on her loneliness and naivete to get her to agree to marry him in less than a day.
She also isn’t the most composed when it comes to dealing with people, and tends to default to an extreme kind of talkativeness in most of her conversations; she rambles a lot or blurts out whatever comes to mind first, regardless of whether it’s appropriate or not. This leads to a few awkward situations, including her first meetings with both Hans and Kristoff. The scene outside her sister’s castle, when she’s shaking off Kristoff’s help in scaling a sheer cliff, also showcases how incredibly silly and overdramatic she can be, which stems from how excitable she is; she decides to throw a snowball at a snowmonster just because she thought he was being rude, after all. It ends up backfiring, since said snowmonster turned around and chased them off a cliff.
The cliff scene also demonstrates the confidence she has in herself, which, in this case, is completely unwarranted; survival skills aren’t her strong suit, or any sort of suit of hers at all, really. Her confidence isn’t boundless, however; when she makes a mistake, she apologizes, like when she accidentally smacks Kristoff in the face with a bag of carrots--awkwardly, but it’s still an apology. A moment later, she issues commands just as awkwardly, and it’s obvious she’s not used to taking charge, even though she already knows what she wants and (mostly) how to get it.
This determination is what sets her apart from many other Disney princesses; she is very impetuous, and doesn’t hesitate at all to go after her sister when she runs away, to enlist Kristoff’s help when she needs a guide up to the North Mountain, or to save her sister when Hans raises his sword against her. This is both a virtue and a flaw, since it’s makes her extremely proactive and courageous when necessary, but it also makes her very impulsive--she goes out into Elsa’s winter storm in a ball gown, for instance, which naturally comes back to bite her in the butt later.
Most importantly, her determination to save her sister proves how incredibly loyal she is to the people she loves, and how single-minded she is about helping those people. Her relationship with Elsa is a complicated one, but Anna has such faith in her sister that, in spite of the fact that they hadn’t spoken in years, she never stops believing that Elsa is powerful and wonderful and good. Even when Kristoff tries to convince her to leave Elsa’s ice castle, Anna simply refuses to give up; Elsa is the one who has to kick her out, and even after that rejection, Anna still doesn’t hesitate to sacrifice her life to save her sister’s.
Abilities/Powers: The power to grossly misjudge princes of the Southern Isles. Other than that, she’s completely ordinary. In the best way, of course.
Items/Weapons: Her clothes… I can’t think of anything else so I guess that’s it.
Sample Entry: Link.
Sample Entry Two:
That was definitely not what she’d had in mind for the day that the gates were open. She was prepared to meet a ton of people, dance a lot, maybe run into a handsome man who swept her off her feet--well, alright, so she had done that, but it turned out he’d only swept her off her feet so that he could leave her to die of a frozen heart. Not that Anna was holding a grudge or anything.
She was kind of holding a grudge.
But in spite of the fact that nothing went exactly to plan--including her 24-hour engagement--Anna couldn’t find it in herself to regret much of any of it. Sure, she’d learned the hard way that she still had a lot of learn about love--and sure, Elsa kind of froze over their entire kingdom for a day or two there, then ran herself away in a self-imposed exile, then struck Anna in the heart (on accident, as Anna insisted on reminding everyone), and then Hans almost killed the both of them--but everything worked out in the end.
For the better. The gates would never be closed again. Anna could finally talk to her sister, whenever and wherever she wanted, without a pesky door to separate them--and Anna found she took great relish in opening up whatever door Elsa was behind, just for the novelty of it. It was like they were children again, and all those years of separation in close quarters could finally be put behind them.
They still had a lot to figure out, though. Anna got the full story of their childhood out of Elsa, including all of Anna’s modified memories and the story behind the white streak in her hair, and Anna peppered Elsa with questions as quickly as she could think of them--“So we used to skate in the ballroom? And you’d make it snow?” she asked, then: “You know, I always used to think that would be a perfect place to skate, though I never knew why--oh, can you still do it? Was I as bad at skating back then as I am now?”
Then she laughed and said excitedly, “Ooh ooh, do you think we could fit Sven inside so he can skate too?”
But there was one part that Anna enjoyed the most. After a long day of sock sliding in the hallway and banister riding on the great staircases, she could run up to her sister’s bedroom--or study--it was still amazing to Anna that Elsa could be found almost anywhere now, instead of just her room--and fling open the door and say, “Hey Elsa, do you wanna build a snowman?”
Re: anna | frozen | reserved
Your application is in the queue and will be processed on 20th December.
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