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[Beginner] Disney's Frozen - Anna
PLAYER
NAME: Kari
CHARACTER
NAME(S): Anna [of Arendelle]
AGE: Never officially confirmed, that I can find, but the general consensus is that she's 18 and Elsa is 21, so far as I know.
CANON: Disney's Frozen
BACKGROUND HISTORY:
[Actually a pretty decent wiki]
In the Norwegian(ish) kingdom of Arendelle, the king and queen were blessed with two beautiful daughters. Elsa was born first, the heir-apparent, and then along came Anna three years later. The sisters were as close as sisters ever were, playing together often, with Anna egging her sister on to show off her amazing powers. For you see, Elsa had been born with a powerful magic inside her, and could create snow and ice from thin air. Of course, to the young girls, this was little more than an excuse to build snowmen indoors and have wintry fun in the middle of summer. No one really understood Elsa's powers or how they worked, Elsa least of all, and ultimately that ignorance was the catalyst for the events that would threaten Arendelle many years down the road.
One early morning at Anna's behest, Elsa indulged her sister with magic, catching her in powdery snowdrifts as she leapt from one to the next. But Anna moved too quickly for Elsa to keep up and, desperate to catch her sister, Elsa turned too fast and slipped on her own ice, pitching to the floor, a blast of her magic striking Anna in the head, where a streak of platinum white came to frost her copper hair. Crying for her parents' help, fearing she'd killed her dear little sister, Elsa met the horrified surprise of the king and queen with grief and contrition. Anna's body was ice cold, and the king knew that there was only one thing they would be able to do to save her.
One of the apparent secrets of Arendelle was the alliance between its royal family and the mystical trolls that lived in a valley far to the northeast of the kingdom. When the king and queen brought Anna to them, the trolls immediately knew who they were, and the elder troll was able to remove the shards of ice magic from Anna's body. It was decided that Elsa's powers were too dangerous, and thus the trolls removed Anna's memories if it as well, and the king and queen locked Arendelle up tight to conceal their daughter's magic from prying eyes. Elsa was given gloves so she wouldn't accidentally freeze the things she touched, and instructed to hide her abilities and conceal all her emotions, because that's a totally healthy way to deal with anything.
As the years passed, Anna watched her sister close in on herself. Actually, she wasn't even allowed to watch; all she ever saw was Elsa's closed door, and she was left to wonder what had happened and why the sister she had once been so close with now wanted nothing to do with her. What had she done wrong? Things were only made worse when the king and queen's ship capsized in a storm, leaving the sisters orphans. With Elsa still locked away in her chambers, too afraid to risk someone finding out about her powers in her emotionally compromised state, Anna was left to bury their mother and father alone.
Not too long later, Elsa came of age, and was to be crowned the rightful queen of Arendelle. While this event filled Elsa with dread, Anna had been dreaming about it for months--years even! After all, a coronation was a big, public event, and that meant the castle gates would have to be opened! There would be a feast, and a party, and people, and Anna was desperate for people. She had spent most of her life trapped inside the walls of her own home, looking at closed doors and the backsides of shuttered windows, and for the fiiiiirst tiiiiime iiiiin foreeeeeeveeeeeer, she was going to get the chance to meet people and dance with people and--people! As soon as the doors and windows and gates were open, Anna rushed outside, and was rather promptly crashed into by a man on a horse. The man was Prince Hans of the Southern Isles, and Anna was instantly charmed by his good looks and gentle demeanor, and as she rushed off to the coronation ceremony, she found herself hoping she would run into him again.
She did, thought less literally the second time. After a brief and somewhat awkward reunion with her sister, Anna started to believe that maybe things would really start getting better now. The gates were open, the castle was full of people, Elsa had actually acknowledged her, and a handsome prince was taking interest! After a jaunty musical number, Hans asked for Anna's hand in marriage and, absolutely taken with his charisma, she accepted. They hurried back to the ballroom to ask for Elsa's blessing.
Thankfully, despite being an introverted shut-in, Elsa had a bit more common sense than her sister, and insisted that Anna couldn't marry a man she'd just met. This of course prompted Anna to get upset, because obviously it was true love and Elsa was just being mean, but Elsa would brook no arguments, and when Anna pressed the subject, Elsa became agitated and said that the party was over and everyone needed to leave. Angry, hurt, and exasperated with Elsa's behavior, Anna attempted to confront her sister, demanding to know what she had ever done to make Elsa shut her out this way. She tried to stop Elsa from running back to hide in her room again, reaching for her sister's hand and instead accidentally pulling her glove off. Frightened by the loss of her glove, the only thing that kept her touch from hurting others, and upset by Anna's accusations, Elsa lost her temper and sent a spiral of icy spikes arcing up from the floor, causing the party guests to retreat with alarm, gasping about sorcery. Anna watched in horror as her sister dashed outside, stumbling and catching herself on the fountains in the courtyard, only to freeze them too, sending the crowd recoiling in horror. Cornered, Elsa ran for the fjords, her footsteps freezing the water as she fled. The ice spread, freezing the entire fjord and blanketing all of Arendelle in winter.
Scared for her sister and feeling guilty and responsible for causing the outburst, Anna took it upon herself to go after Elsa. She was convinced she could talk sense into her and get her to unfreeze the kingdom, and though Hans was wary, she assured him Elsa would never harm her. Leaving Hans in charge in her stead, Anna rode off toward the mountains, not certain where Elsa had gone but determined to find her. A few unfortunate shenanigans later, Anna found herself at a little shop and sauna tucked away in the woods, where she met Kristoff, a young man who sold ice for a living and was none too pleased by the sudden summer snowstorm. Anna bought him the supplies he needed to get up the mountain in exchange for allowing her to go along with him, terms he reluctantly agreed to. After being chased by wolves and losing Kristoff's sleigh to a gorge, they continued the journey on foot.
And that's when shit got a little weird. Talking snowman weird. As they continued up the mountain, they came to a beautiful glen of frozen trees... and that's where they met Olaf. Somehow Elsa's magic is capable of creating life??? It's never really explained, but somehow or another, the goofy looking little snowman she used to build with Anna in the castle before the accident became alive and sentient and had delusional dreams of experiencing summer. Though they were extremely skeeved at first, Anna and Kristoff came to accept Olaf and allowed him to join their party, especially since he seemed to know his way around the mountain. When they finally made it to Elsa's castle of ice, Kristoff was nearly moved to tears by the perfection of it. Anna bravely went to find Elsa, and though Elsa was happy to see her sister, she urged her to go back home, insisting that it was safer for everyone if she just kept to herself. When Anna explained that Elsa's magic had plunged Arendelle into an eternal winter, however, Elsa was a bit dumbfounded. The confusion quickly turned to exasperation and desperation as Anna insisted that Elsa could "just unfreeze it!", and Elsa lost her temper, accidentally creating an icy shockwave that knocked Anna to her knees. Kristoff came to Anna's aid, but Elsa threw the whole lot out, sending them off with another snowman--a big angry one this time.
After escaping from Marshmallow, Kristoff noted that Anna's hair was starting to turn all white, and they realized Elsa's magic had actually done something to her. He decided to take her to see his family, knowing they could help her. His family turned out to be the trolls who had saved her life when she was a child, though she didn't remember them. One cheesy musical number later, the elder troll gave Anna the grave news that Elsa's magic had lodged a shard of ice in her heart, and unlike last time, there was nothing he could do about it. The only thing that could save her was an act of true love. Figuring that meant true love's kiss, Kristoff rushed Anna back to Arendelle so she and Hans could make out and save her life.
It was a real pity Hans was actually a duplicitous usurping asshole who never loved Anna and had only been trying to marry her to make a grab for the crown. OOPS. Dousing the fire, Hans left Anna to freeze, going to tell the other lords that Princess Anna was dead, and that Queen Elsa was to be put to death for committing such a treasonous act. He had taken Elsa from her tower of ice and locked her in the dungeons, but she had frozen her way out of it, destroying her chains and setting off a chain reaction that was slowly causing the castle itself to turn to ice. Olaf somehow managed to get into the castle and picked the lock on the door to the room Anna had been left in (with his carrot nose. Somehow), restarting the fire and assuring her that it was Kristoff who loved her. Realizing a kiss from Kristoff was her only chance of surviving now, Anna and Olaf escaped the freezing castle and braved the raging winter storm that had engulfed the fjord, a reflection of the turmoil in Elsa's heart.
Hans found Elsa in the chaos, and told her that Anna was dead--that she had killed her own sister. Broken with grief, Elsa fell to her knees, the howling wind ceasing all around them. As she staggered across the ice, her skin freezing before her very eyes, Anna spotted Kristoff rushing toward her. Then she saw Elsa, about to be struck down by Hans. Though she knew it would likely cost her her life, Anna couldn't let Hans kill her sister. Moving as quickly as her icy limbs would take her, she stepped between Hans' sword and Elsa's grieving form, lifting a hand as if to stop the blade, only to turn to solid ice as she did so.
The blade fell and, upon striking Anna's frozen body, shattered, sending Hans staggering back with shock. When Elsa saw what had happened, she realized she had been tricked, but only just. Hans had told her Anna had died at her hand, he had simply told her too soon. She draped herself over her sister and wept.
In a shocking twist that would have made M. Night Shyamalan scream, it turned out that sacrificing herself to save her sister was just the sort of act of true love that could thaw a frozen heart. As the ice melted away, Elsa and Anna embraced one another, and Elsa was finally able to stop the eternal winter by realizing that love was all she had needed all along.
And then Anna punched Hans in the face and dated Kristoff and Olaf got to experience summer and Elsa was the most awesome queen in the world and there was ice skating and they all lived happily ever after. But Anna's coming to Penrose after punching Hans in the face so she doesn't know about the ice skating.
PERSONALITY:
Anna is in most ways the polar opposite of her sister, pun mostly not intended. Where Elsa is stern, quiet, and repressed, Anna is gregarious, garrulous, and extroverted. Where Elsa keeps her emotions tamped down and tucked away, Anna wears her moods all over her sleeves and has little to no brain to mouth filter. The irony to this is, the sisters are not so unalike, they simply treat the same condition in very different ways. Whereas Elsa clutches her fear and loneliness close to her and puts forth a stoic and almost stony demeanor, Anna tries to hide her solitude and sadness beneath a layer of bubbly, boisterous dismissal. Elsa believes that she can control her darker emotions by locking them away. Anna subscribes to the idea that they'll disappear if she just ignores them.
For a long time, it works. Anna spends a lonely childhood keeping herself company, playing alone, and making friends with the paintings in the great empty rooms of the castle. Of course her mother and father haven't got time to play with a child, kings and queens have many important duties to attend to, after all, so Anna learns to entertain herself. Ever optimistic, she never gives up the hope that one day her sister will come back to her. She does eventually stop knocking on Elsa's door, though, and maybe that's as close as she ever got to giving up.
When their parents die, however, Anna seems to go through a bit of a shift. Suddenly slapped with the knowledge that sometimes people don't come back, no matter how badly you want them to, she tries once more to get Elsa to emerge from her room. After burying their parents alone, Anna seems to come to terms with the fact that maybe she's just never going to get her family back at all.
That isn't to say she falls into depression or even looks glum. Anna is absurdly resilient, and when coronation day rolls around she's as eager as ever. Having spent most of her life alone, Anna is practically desperate for human contact, and latches onto anyone who pays attention to her. Quirky and a little awkward (okay a lot awkward), Anna certainly isn't your poster child princess, but she's never had to be. The deleted song More Than Just The Spare gives us a much deeper insight into Anna's mindset: she's always been the second sister, and the crown was never going to be hers and she knew it. Elsa was the graceful, talented, beautiful one, and Anna was constantly lost in her shadow. Her boisterous nature and graceless extroversion are likely rooted in cries for attention that were never answered, and just became a way of life for her. If she was odd enough, she would stand out. If she was loud enough, people would listen. She has a habit of nattering and effervescing, and tends to gesticulate when she talks, and her sense of humor toes the line of irreverent sometimes.
Most of Anna's little eccentricities and shortcomings are on account of spending most of her life by herself. She's naïve and sheltered, having never been permitted to leave the castle after the age of four. She always thinks the best of everyone because she's never had the experience of being hurt or taken advantage of, which makes Hans' slight all the more painful for her. He was the first person other than her family and the small servant staff that she'd ever had the opportunity to get to know, and he had been planning to hurt her all along, and that left her shocked, dismayed, and disoriented. Surely not everyone was like that, right? Hers is an odd sort of selfishness. She wants everything: love, happiness, and to be seen for who and what she is... but she doesn't think she's good enough to actually expect these things.
What Anna lacks in cynicism and ofttimes common sense, she more than makes up for in courage. She never once fears her sister, even after the dangerous scope of her powers is revealed, and she doesn't hesitate to take a horse to pursue her, despite having never left the castle. There is an interesting dichotomy to Anna in this: she doesn't think much of herself, often referring to herself as 'just me', as though she could never shine beside her sister, but she doesn't let her lack of faith in herself stop her from doing what she knows is right. She is tenacious and fearless, though the latter may be a bit out of ignorance.
Ultimately, Anna is a bit of a paradox. She has a great love for others, her sister especially, but never thinks too highly of herself. She is endlessly kind and generous with people, but is quick to anger at injustice or unkindness, as shown when she took great offense to being thrown out of Elsa's castle by Marshmallow. She wasn't angry because they had been asked to leave, she was angry because Marshmallow had so rudely thrown them out. Literally. She wants to be what others expect of her, wants to please people and be a good princess, but she winds up floundering and feeling as though she doesn't know how. Elsa is a bundle of uncertainties tied up in a nice neat bow, where Anna is a snarled tangle of insecurity hidden beneath a thin veneer of learned, forced exuberance and a lifetime of never reaching the bar. However, despite her flaws and sheltered upbringing, Anna remains pure-hearted and loving, and her great turning point is when she is faced with the two things she has wanted most her whole life: true love, and her sister. In choosing to save her sister's life instead of her own, Anna saved herself, her sister, and her kingdom, proving that at the end of the day, it's the hard choices that define who we truly are.
CHARACTER RELATIONSHIPS:
Elsa: Her elder sister, whom she loves with all her heart, even if Elsa's been kind of a butt lately, gosh. They were very close when they were little, but after the accident Elsa withdrew, leaving Anna to wonder if she'd done something wrong. Her love for her sister never faltered, though, and Anna was still prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice to keep her safe. She admires Elsa greatly.
The King and Queen of Arendelle: While we don't see much of them, it's clear that Anna loves her parents dearly. When they leave for the trip that would take their lives, she embraces them with abandon, and her grief is palpable at their funeral.
Hans [Ofthesouthernisles]: A big jerkface who took Anna's pure love and stomped all over it. When they first met, she was absolutely smitten with him, making his betrayal all the more painful. It is worth mentioning that despite this betrayal, Anna does not seem to be any less open or friendly with others, indicating that she sees Hans as the anomaly, rather than becoming jaded for his actions.
Kristoff (and Sven): Initially a means to an end, Anna happened across Kristoff at Oaken's trading post, where he had stopped in to buy carrots for his reindeer and a rope to climb up the north mountain. She found him a bit cynical and a little too serious, but came to care about him as their adventure continued. It wasn't until Olaf prompted her that she realized Kristoff actually loved her, and unlike Hans, he loved her for who she was, not the crown she could put on his head.
Olaf: From slightly creepy talking snowman to devoted and dear friend, Olaf is himself a little like Anna in that he dreams big and doesn't let things like common sense or physics get in the way. When Anna has all but lost hope that she or her sister can be saved, it's Olaf who teaches her what true love really is.
The Trolls: Though she doesn't remember when they saved her life as a child, Anna is instantly intrigued and endeared by the trolls. Until they start trying to marry her and Kristoff. Of course, if she had known Hans was such a jerkface she probably would have minded at least 75% less. The trolls are Kristoff's adoptive family, at that, so it would serve to reason that she comes to appreciate them as such as well.
STRENGTH OF HEART MOMENT SUMMARY: Since bringing her into the game as an ice sculpture would severely impede her ability to, you know, actually do anything, Anna will be pulled in shortly thereafter, when she punches Hans in the face. While saving her sister's life is certainly her crowning moment, it's very nicely rounded off by giving back a little of the pain Hans inflicted on her with his betrayal.
POWERS
SAMPLE - THE AWAKENING:
Oh gosh it was dark. Really dark. Really really dark. What had happened? The last things she recalled was socking Hans in the face but good--actually her hand was still a bit sore! Hey, faces were pretty hard, okay? But that wasn't important; where was she? Had she passed out or something, fallen asleep and now it was nighttime? No, that couldn't be right, it was far too dark for that. Even on the longest of winter nights, when the sun had showed itself for barely a quarter of the day, it was never pitch black like this. Lifting her hand in front of her face, Anna realized she was on her back. Oh. Well, that was embarrassing. She could see her hand, though; why was everything else so dark?
Sitting up, Anna glanced at the ground around her, but she couldn't see anything. It was too dark to even see the ground? Something wasn't right here. Getting to her feet, Anna gasped sharply then when the endless black all around her seemed to shift and warp, breaking away with the sound of a million wingbeats. Shielding her face with her hands, she let out a soft cry as the ground broke away to reveal bright colors, bold lines... it looked like a stained glass window! ... Weren't windows vertical, though? How could she be standing one one? That would require defying gravity and being like... sideways, and she was pretty sure she couldn't do that.
She took a step back and tried to get a better idea of the picture in the glass. Gold, green, blue... it was the crocus crest of Arendelle, wasn't it? But it was unlike any of the banners she'd seen around the castle, and last she had checked, there were no room-sized stained glass windows in any of the towers, or even in the chapel. Spinning away from the crocus in the center were two spirals, one of copper and one of white. Along the curve of the copper twist were flowers, gold and red and surrounded by spring greens. Conversely, alongside the white spiral were delicate six-pointed stars--no, snowflakes. They were snowflakes against a whorl of blues and purples.
"Is this... supposed to represent me and Elsa...?" she wondered aloud.
'Well, how long are you just gonna stand there and gawp?'
She whirled when Kristoff's voice echoed all around her, her skirts snapping around her ankles and her braids twisting over her shoulders.
"Kristoff?" she called, but there was no answer. There wasn't even an echo. "Kristoff, this isn't funny!" she said. "Come out right now, how did you even set up a prank like this?"
Really, she didn't even know what she saw in him!
'Relax, your highness, it's not a prank.'
Anna huffed softly, then watched in awe as three pedestals rose from the glass floor beneath her feet. Each of them appeared to be made of ice, smooth and crystal clear, and she furrowed her brow as she walked toward them.
"What are these?" she asked the disembodied voice of prank Kristoff. Maybe she was just dreaming. She'd certainly had weirder dreams than this. Once she'd had a dream she had been turned into a sloth and had spent the entire day hanging from the rafters in her bedroom, when really all she'd wanted was to look out the window! It had taken all day to get to the window, and she had woken up more tired than when she'd gone to bed! ... Oh, right, ice pedestals. "Kristoff?"
'They're ice, of course. And aren't they just beautiful?'
Anna rolled her eyes. "Gonna cry about these, too?" she teased, and the disembodied voice made an indignant noise. "So what's this all about, anyway?" She must have been dreaming.
'It's about where you're going from here.'
"And where's that?" she asked, approaching the pedestal in the center to examine it. She gasped sharply when a pillar of light filtered down from above, illuminating the ice brightly.
'That's up to you', the voice said, and Anna frowned. Well, what was that supposed to mean? She reached out and waved her hand in the beam of light, then made a soft oh! sound when an object shimmered into view beneath her hand. 'What do you think? Who do you want to be?'
"Be?" She squinted as the object solidified, and her lips parted. Within the pillar of light was a sword, shining and silver and oh so sharp. "Kristoff I can't be a sword."
'No, but do you want to be someone who wields one? To protect or to cut down, do you want to carry that sword?' Kristoff's voice asked. 'Do you want to be a warrior, Anna?'
She worried at her lower lip a moment, pulling her hand back. Hans had wielded a sword. Did that make him a warrior, though?
"I-I don't know," she said, having mostly given up trying to figure out where Kristoff was. "Do I have to decide right now? Can I at least see what my other options are?"
A second pillar of light flickered and flashed and lit up the pillar to her left. Turning toward it, Anna hesitated, then reached out to touch the light. A shadow formed beneath her hand and she recoiled to watch the second object materialize. It was a single, beautiful, intricate snowflake.
'How about magic, then?' Kristoff asked as she made the connection in her head. Right, snowflake, magic, like her sister's. 'To freeze or thaw, to hurt or heal, do you want to command magic?' There was beat of silence, and then he concluded, 'Do you want to be a mage, Anna?'
"Thank you for not saying 'witch' or something mean like what everyone was calling Elsa," she said sincerely. Kristoff had gotten over his initial indignation with Elsa for freezing her heart fairly quickly, but even if Elsa had control of her powers now, the idea of wielding magic made Anna a little nervous. "I'm not sure," she said. "My sister is a mage, but... I'm not like Elsa." Elsa was regal and commanding and stern and disciplined. Anna was none of those things. Would she even be able to control magic if she tried? "What's the last one?" she asked, turning to the final pillar on her right.
The pillar erupted in light, and this time she didn't hesitate to sweep her hand through it, watching as a shadow formed and took shape. Her expression warped with puzzlement when the object turned out to be...
"Kristoff, this is... me," she said, glancing up and around like maybe she could see his voice. Indeed, there was a miniature version of herself spinning slowly above the pillar... her hand lifted and her entire figure pale blue and made of ice. She shook her head. "I don't understand."
'A shield, Anna,' Kristoff said. 'To shelter the weak or protect the small. Do you want to be a gua--'
"Yes," Anna said quickly, reaching out with both hands and closing them around the little figure. "Yes, yes, that's who I want to be. My sister would have died otherwise, Hans... Hans would have killed her and taken our kingdom away. How many people would he have hurt?"
The pillar of ice cracked and the light went dark, and Anna opened her hands to find the little figure had disappeared. ... Was that the wrong choice?
"Kristoff?"
'So you're a guardian, then?' he asked, and she nodded, taking a step back from the broken pillar. She wasn't sure how good a guardian she could be--after all, she wasn't a knight or anything. Girls couldn't even be knights, could they? Maybe she would have to talk to Elsa about that. Girls could be just as strong as boys, right?
She straightened her spine and lifted her chin. "Yes," she said firmly. "That... that's who I want to be."
'And who don't you want to be?'
"Wait, what?" She glanced at the other two pillars. "If I'm one thing doesn't that mean I'm not the others?"
'Which one are you gonna give up, though?' Kristoff asked. 'You don't get something for nothing.'
She wrinkled her nose. "But I was already a guardian before," she said.
'Yeah, and you almost died. You don't wanna give up your life, do you?'
"Of course not!" she said, and then looked at the other two pillars.
So, in order to be a guardian, she had to not be a mage, or not be a warrior. Well, could she even pick up a sword? Maybe she should give that up. She had seen what Hans had been prepared to do with that sword he carried, and she didn't ever want to be like that. At the same time, though, she had seen the power in Elsa's magic, and she wasn't even sure she could handle something like that. Elsa had hurt people without trying to, and that was a lot scarier than using a sword to hurt someone on purpose. Anna would never have hurt anyone on purpose, but... neither would her sister. And yet Elsa had succeeded in hurting her anyway.
She licked her lips and approached the pillar with the snowflake, reaching out and then hesitating.
"The mage," she said, letting her hand linger just outside the pillar of light. "I don't want to be the mage. I can choose whether or not to pick up a sword, but Elsa's power scared her so much that she was too afraid to control it. She's so much stronger than I am, and people still got hurt because she couldn't control it. I can't be like my sister," she said, "and I don't ever want to hurt anyone because of something I can't control."
'That's your choice, then?' Kristoff asked, and Anna looked up again, still searching for the source of his voice.
"Y... es?" she ventured. "Wait. I... No, yes."
'No or yes, Anna?' She could practically hear him rolling his eyes.
"Yes," she said, squaring her shoulders and swiping her hand through the snowflake. "I want to be a guardian, not a mage."
The other two pillars cracked in half, like someone had chopped them down the middle, and the lights went out.
'At least you took your time to think about this decision,' Kristoff snickered, and Anna sulked grandiosely. Hey, she had learned her lesson with Hans, okay? No more marrying people she'd just met. Just for this, she was going to make Kristoff wait an extra month if he proposed.
There was a sudden shattering sound then, and Anna gasped as the floor beneath the pillars began to break away. Oh! Oh no! Oh, wait she would take it back! She wouldn't make Kristoff wait!
"Wait, was that the wrong choice?" she cried, backpedaling furiously as the stained glass floor splintered away beneath her feet. "K-Kristoff, wait, what am I--?!"
The rest of her question was cut off sharply as the floor gave way and sent her tumbling back into the black nothingness, and Anna told herself that Kristoff was next on her list of people to punch in the face.
SPECIAL ABILITIES:
"I'm completely ordinary!"
She said it herself, folks; Anna is 100% standard-grade human being. She doesn't possess any magic like her sister, but I'd still say she has a bit of Badass Normal in her. Despite marketing herself as a bit of a klutz, Anna does appear to have excellent balance, as demonstrated by riding her bike standing up with no hands and doing various jumps and flips throughout the empty castle as a child. She slides down the length of a spiral staircase banister, as well, and seems to have no trouble standing on some swinging scaffolding without really holding on. It seems to be the only time she's particularly clumsy is when she's... not watching where she's going. See: T-boning Hans on his horse. She's also surprisingly strong for as slender as she is: she can swing a lute with enough force to knock a wolf off a sled, and though she needs a little help from Sven, she manages to pull Kristoff up over the ledge of a cliff with a rope. Anna is also apparently capable of throwing an axe with extreme accuracy, as that's what was attached to the rope Kristoff was holding onto as he started to fall over the ledge; she threw it within inches of his face. Without hitting him in the face.
Other than that, her only superpowers are extreme stubbornness and generosity.
As a Warden, having discarded magic, Anna will... basically stay the same. She'll dig the armor, but she's going to be very wary about even attempting the low-level magic she would be able to wield due to universe mechanics.
INVENTORY:
Just her li'l old self and the clothes on her back: a winter dress and boots, and a fuchsia cape.
NOTES/ASPIRATIONS
pass!
It's been a while since I played an overly social character, and I really fell in love with Anna right away. I was really taken with her never say die attitude and I thought Saudade would be a really good setting for her to find something she could be really good at. She's spent her whole life living in the shadow of her big sister, and I think it would be really good for her to be in a place where she had the freedom to be whoever and whatever she wanted. She can't be queen of Arendelle, but maybe she can find something to be in Penrose. Also she just wants to be friends with everybody, and this will give her the opportunity to do just that.
Also I want Gin or Aizen or both to just dupe the hell out of her so she can be like OH GOSHDANGIT ANYWAY NOT AGAIN.
NAME: Kari
CHARACTER
NAME(S): Anna [of Arendelle]
AGE: Never officially confirmed, that I can find, but the general consensus is that she's 18 and Elsa is 21, so far as I know.
CANON: Disney's Frozen
BACKGROUND HISTORY:
[Actually a pretty decent wiki]
In the Norwegian(ish) kingdom of Arendelle, the king and queen were blessed with two beautiful daughters. Elsa was born first, the heir-apparent, and then along came Anna three years later. The sisters were as close as sisters ever were, playing together often, with Anna egging her sister on to show off her amazing powers. For you see, Elsa had been born with a powerful magic inside her, and could create snow and ice from thin air. Of course, to the young girls, this was little more than an excuse to build snowmen indoors and have wintry fun in the middle of summer. No one really understood Elsa's powers or how they worked, Elsa least of all, and ultimately that ignorance was the catalyst for the events that would threaten Arendelle many years down the road.
One early morning at Anna's behest, Elsa indulged her sister with magic, catching her in powdery snowdrifts as she leapt from one to the next. But Anna moved too quickly for Elsa to keep up and, desperate to catch her sister, Elsa turned too fast and slipped on her own ice, pitching to the floor, a blast of her magic striking Anna in the head, where a streak of platinum white came to frost her copper hair. Crying for her parents' help, fearing she'd killed her dear little sister, Elsa met the horrified surprise of the king and queen with grief and contrition. Anna's body was ice cold, and the king knew that there was only one thing they would be able to do to save her.
One of the apparent secrets of Arendelle was the alliance between its royal family and the mystical trolls that lived in a valley far to the northeast of the kingdom. When the king and queen brought Anna to them, the trolls immediately knew who they were, and the elder troll was able to remove the shards of ice magic from Anna's body. It was decided that Elsa's powers were too dangerous, and thus the trolls removed Anna's memories if it as well, and the king and queen locked Arendelle up tight to conceal their daughter's magic from prying eyes. Elsa was given gloves so she wouldn't accidentally freeze the things she touched, and instructed to hide her abilities and conceal all her emotions, because that's a totally healthy way to deal with anything.
As the years passed, Anna watched her sister close in on herself. Actually, she wasn't even allowed to watch; all she ever saw was Elsa's closed door, and she was left to wonder what had happened and why the sister she had once been so close with now wanted nothing to do with her. What had she done wrong? Things were only made worse when the king and queen's ship capsized in a storm, leaving the sisters orphans. With Elsa still locked away in her chambers, too afraid to risk someone finding out about her powers in her emotionally compromised state, Anna was left to bury their mother and father alone.
Not too long later, Elsa came of age, and was to be crowned the rightful queen of Arendelle. While this event filled Elsa with dread, Anna had been dreaming about it for months--years even! After all, a coronation was a big, public event, and that meant the castle gates would have to be opened! There would be a feast, and a party, and people, and Anna was desperate for people. She had spent most of her life trapped inside the walls of her own home, looking at closed doors and the backsides of shuttered windows, and for the fiiiiirst tiiiiime iiiiin foreeeeeeveeeeeer, she was going to get the chance to meet people and dance with people and--people! As soon as the doors and windows and gates were open, Anna rushed outside, and was rather promptly crashed into by a man on a horse. The man was Prince Hans of the Southern Isles, and Anna was instantly charmed by his good looks and gentle demeanor, and as she rushed off to the coronation ceremony, she found herself hoping she would run into him again.
She did, thought less literally the second time. After a brief and somewhat awkward reunion with her sister, Anna started to believe that maybe things would really start getting better now. The gates were open, the castle was full of people, Elsa had actually acknowledged her, and a handsome prince was taking interest! After a jaunty musical number, Hans asked for Anna's hand in marriage and, absolutely taken with his charisma, she accepted. They hurried back to the ballroom to ask for Elsa's blessing.
Thankfully, despite being an introverted shut-in, Elsa had a bit more common sense than her sister, and insisted that Anna couldn't marry a man she'd just met. This of course prompted Anna to get upset, because obviously it was true love and Elsa was just being mean, but Elsa would brook no arguments, and when Anna pressed the subject, Elsa became agitated and said that the party was over and everyone needed to leave. Angry, hurt, and exasperated with Elsa's behavior, Anna attempted to confront her sister, demanding to know what she had ever done to make Elsa shut her out this way. She tried to stop Elsa from running back to hide in her room again, reaching for her sister's hand and instead accidentally pulling her glove off. Frightened by the loss of her glove, the only thing that kept her touch from hurting others, and upset by Anna's accusations, Elsa lost her temper and sent a spiral of icy spikes arcing up from the floor, causing the party guests to retreat with alarm, gasping about sorcery. Anna watched in horror as her sister dashed outside, stumbling and catching herself on the fountains in the courtyard, only to freeze them too, sending the crowd recoiling in horror. Cornered, Elsa ran for the fjords, her footsteps freezing the water as she fled. The ice spread, freezing the entire fjord and blanketing all of Arendelle in winter.
Scared for her sister and feeling guilty and responsible for causing the outburst, Anna took it upon herself to go after Elsa. She was convinced she could talk sense into her and get her to unfreeze the kingdom, and though Hans was wary, she assured him Elsa would never harm her. Leaving Hans in charge in her stead, Anna rode off toward the mountains, not certain where Elsa had gone but determined to find her. A few unfortunate shenanigans later, Anna found herself at a little shop and sauna tucked away in the woods, where she met Kristoff, a young man who sold ice for a living and was none too pleased by the sudden summer snowstorm. Anna bought him the supplies he needed to get up the mountain in exchange for allowing her to go along with him, terms he reluctantly agreed to. After being chased by wolves and losing Kristoff's sleigh to a gorge, they continued the journey on foot.
And that's when shit got a little weird. Talking snowman weird. As they continued up the mountain, they came to a beautiful glen of frozen trees... and that's where they met Olaf. Somehow Elsa's magic is capable of creating life??? It's never really explained, but somehow or another, the goofy looking little snowman she used to build with Anna in the castle before the accident became alive and sentient and had delusional dreams of experiencing summer. Though they were extremely skeeved at first, Anna and Kristoff came to accept Olaf and allowed him to join their party, especially since he seemed to know his way around the mountain. When they finally made it to Elsa's castle of ice, Kristoff was nearly moved to tears by the perfection of it. Anna bravely went to find Elsa, and though Elsa was happy to see her sister, she urged her to go back home, insisting that it was safer for everyone if she just kept to herself. When Anna explained that Elsa's magic had plunged Arendelle into an eternal winter, however, Elsa was a bit dumbfounded. The confusion quickly turned to exasperation and desperation as Anna insisted that Elsa could "just unfreeze it!", and Elsa lost her temper, accidentally creating an icy shockwave that knocked Anna to her knees. Kristoff came to Anna's aid, but Elsa threw the whole lot out, sending them off with another snowman--a big angry one this time.
After escaping from Marshmallow, Kristoff noted that Anna's hair was starting to turn all white, and they realized Elsa's magic had actually done something to her. He decided to take her to see his family, knowing they could help her. His family turned out to be the trolls who had saved her life when she was a child, though she didn't remember them. One cheesy musical number later, the elder troll gave Anna the grave news that Elsa's magic had lodged a shard of ice in her heart, and unlike last time, there was nothing he could do about it. The only thing that could save her was an act of true love. Figuring that meant true love's kiss, Kristoff rushed Anna back to Arendelle so she and Hans could make out and save her life.
It was a real pity Hans was actually a duplicitous usurping asshole who never loved Anna and had only been trying to marry her to make a grab for the crown. OOPS. Dousing the fire, Hans left Anna to freeze, going to tell the other lords that Princess Anna was dead, and that Queen Elsa was to be put to death for committing such a treasonous act. He had taken Elsa from her tower of ice and locked her in the dungeons, but she had frozen her way out of it, destroying her chains and setting off a chain reaction that was slowly causing the castle itself to turn to ice. Olaf somehow managed to get into the castle and picked the lock on the door to the room Anna had been left in (with his carrot nose. Somehow), restarting the fire and assuring her that it was Kristoff who loved her. Realizing a kiss from Kristoff was her only chance of surviving now, Anna and Olaf escaped the freezing castle and braved the raging winter storm that had engulfed the fjord, a reflection of the turmoil in Elsa's heart.
Hans found Elsa in the chaos, and told her that Anna was dead--that she had killed her own sister. Broken with grief, Elsa fell to her knees, the howling wind ceasing all around them. As she staggered across the ice, her skin freezing before her very eyes, Anna spotted Kristoff rushing toward her. Then she saw Elsa, about to be struck down by Hans. Though she knew it would likely cost her her life, Anna couldn't let Hans kill her sister. Moving as quickly as her icy limbs would take her, she stepped between Hans' sword and Elsa's grieving form, lifting a hand as if to stop the blade, only to turn to solid ice as she did so.
The blade fell and, upon striking Anna's frozen body, shattered, sending Hans staggering back with shock. When Elsa saw what had happened, she realized she had been tricked, but only just. Hans had told her Anna had died at her hand, he had simply told her too soon. She draped herself over her sister and wept.
In a shocking twist that would have made M. Night Shyamalan scream, it turned out that sacrificing herself to save her sister was just the sort of act of true love that could thaw a frozen heart. As the ice melted away, Elsa and Anna embraced one another, and Elsa was finally able to stop the eternal winter by realizing that love was all she had needed all along.
And then Anna punched Hans in the face and dated Kristoff and Olaf got to experience summer and Elsa was the most awesome queen in the world and there was ice skating and they all lived happily ever after. But Anna's coming to Penrose after punching Hans in the face so she doesn't know about the ice skating.
PERSONALITY:
Anna is in most ways the polar opposite of her sister, pun mostly not intended. Where Elsa is stern, quiet, and repressed, Anna is gregarious, garrulous, and extroverted. Where Elsa keeps her emotions tamped down and tucked away, Anna wears her moods all over her sleeves and has little to no brain to mouth filter. The irony to this is, the sisters are not so unalike, they simply treat the same condition in very different ways. Whereas Elsa clutches her fear and loneliness close to her and puts forth a stoic and almost stony demeanor, Anna tries to hide her solitude and sadness beneath a layer of bubbly, boisterous dismissal. Elsa believes that she can control her darker emotions by locking them away. Anna subscribes to the idea that they'll disappear if she just ignores them.
For a long time, it works. Anna spends a lonely childhood keeping herself company, playing alone, and making friends with the paintings in the great empty rooms of the castle. Of course her mother and father haven't got time to play with a child, kings and queens have many important duties to attend to, after all, so Anna learns to entertain herself. Ever optimistic, she never gives up the hope that one day her sister will come back to her. She does eventually stop knocking on Elsa's door, though, and maybe that's as close as she ever got to giving up.
When their parents die, however, Anna seems to go through a bit of a shift. Suddenly slapped with the knowledge that sometimes people don't come back, no matter how badly you want them to, she tries once more to get Elsa to emerge from her room. After burying their parents alone, Anna seems to come to terms with the fact that maybe she's just never going to get her family back at all.
That isn't to say she falls into depression or even looks glum. Anna is absurdly resilient, and when coronation day rolls around she's as eager as ever. Having spent most of her life alone, Anna is practically desperate for human contact, and latches onto anyone who pays attention to her. Quirky and a little awkward (okay a lot awkward), Anna certainly isn't your poster child princess, but she's never had to be. The deleted song More Than Just The Spare gives us a much deeper insight into Anna's mindset: she's always been the second sister, and the crown was never going to be hers and she knew it. Elsa was the graceful, talented, beautiful one, and Anna was constantly lost in her shadow. Her boisterous nature and graceless extroversion are likely rooted in cries for attention that were never answered, and just became a way of life for her. If she was odd enough, she would stand out. If she was loud enough, people would listen. She has a habit of nattering and effervescing, and tends to gesticulate when she talks, and her sense of humor toes the line of irreverent sometimes.
Most of Anna's little eccentricities and shortcomings are on account of spending most of her life by herself. She's naïve and sheltered, having never been permitted to leave the castle after the age of four. She always thinks the best of everyone because she's never had the experience of being hurt or taken advantage of, which makes Hans' slight all the more painful for her. He was the first person other than her family and the small servant staff that she'd ever had the opportunity to get to know, and he had been planning to hurt her all along, and that left her shocked, dismayed, and disoriented. Surely not everyone was like that, right? Hers is an odd sort of selfishness. She wants everything: love, happiness, and to be seen for who and what she is... but she doesn't think she's good enough to actually expect these things.
What Anna lacks in cynicism and ofttimes common sense, she more than makes up for in courage. She never once fears her sister, even after the dangerous scope of her powers is revealed, and she doesn't hesitate to take a horse to pursue her, despite having never left the castle. There is an interesting dichotomy to Anna in this: she doesn't think much of herself, often referring to herself as 'just me', as though she could never shine beside her sister, but she doesn't let her lack of faith in herself stop her from doing what she knows is right. She is tenacious and fearless, though the latter may be a bit out of ignorance.
Ultimately, Anna is a bit of a paradox. She has a great love for others, her sister especially, but never thinks too highly of herself. She is endlessly kind and generous with people, but is quick to anger at injustice or unkindness, as shown when she took great offense to being thrown out of Elsa's castle by Marshmallow. She wasn't angry because they had been asked to leave, she was angry because Marshmallow had so rudely thrown them out. Literally. She wants to be what others expect of her, wants to please people and be a good princess, but she winds up floundering and feeling as though she doesn't know how. Elsa is a bundle of uncertainties tied up in a nice neat bow, where Anna is a snarled tangle of insecurity hidden beneath a thin veneer of learned, forced exuberance and a lifetime of never reaching the bar. However, despite her flaws and sheltered upbringing, Anna remains pure-hearted and loving, and her great turning point is when she is faced with the two things she has wanted most her whole life: true love, and her sister. In choosing to save her sister's life instead of her own, Anna saved herself, her sister, and her kingdom, proving that at the end of the day, it's the hard choices that define who we truly are.
CHARACTER RELATIONSHIPS:
Elsa: Her elder sister, whom she loves with all her heart, even if Elsa's been kind of a butt lately, gosh. They were very close when they were little, but after the accident Elsa withdrew, leaving Anna to wonder if she'd done something wrong. Her love for her sister never faltered, though, and Anna was still prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice to keep her safe. She admires Elsa greatly.
The King and Queen of Arendelle: While we don't see much of them, it's clear that Anna loves her parents dearly. When they leave for the trip that would take their lives, she embraces them with abandon, and her grief is palpable at their funeral.
Hans [Ofthesouthernisles]: A big jerkface who took Anna's pure love and stomped all over it. When they first met, she was absolutely smitten with him, making his betrayal all the more painful. It is worth mentioning that despite this betrayal, Anna does not seem to be any less open or friendly with others, indicating that she sees Hans as the anomaly, rather than becoming jaded for his actions.
Kristoff (and Sven): Initially a means to an end, Anna happened across Kristoff at Oaken's trading post, where he had stopped in to buy carrots for his reindeer and a rope to climb up the north mountain. She found him a bit cynical and a little too serious, but came to care about him as their adventure continued. It wasn't until Olaf prompted her that she realized Kristoff actually loved her, and unlike Hans, he loved her for who she was, not the crown she could put on his head.
Olaf: From slightly creepy talking snowman to devoted and dear friend, Olaf is himself a little like Anna in that he dreams big and doesn't let things like common sense or physics get in the way. When Anna has all but lost hope that she or her sister can be saved, it's Olaf who teaches her what true love really is.
The Trolls: Though she doesn't remember when they saved her life as a child, Anna is instantly intrigued and endeared by the trolls. Until they start trying to marry her and Kristoff. Of course, if she had known Hans was such a jerkface she probably would have minded at least 75% less. The trolls are Kristoff's adoptive family, at that, so it would serve to reason that she comes to appreciate them as such as well.
STRENGTH OF HEART MOMENT SUMMARY: Since bringing her into the game as an ice sculpture would severely impede her ability to, you know, actually do anything, Anna will be pulled in shortly thereafter, when she punches Hans in the face. While saving her sister's life is certainly her crowning moment, it's very nicely rounded off by giving back a little of the pain Hans inflicted on her with his betrayal.
POWERS
SAMPLE - THE AWAKENING:
Oh gosh it was dark. Really dark. Really really dark. What had happened? The last things she recalled was socking Hans in the face but good--actually her hand was still a bit sore! Hey, faces were pretty hard, okay? But that wasn't important; where was she? Had she passed out or something, fallen asleep and now it was nighttime? No, that couldn't be right, it was far too dark for that. Even on the longest of winter nights, when the sun had showed itself for barely a quarter of the day, it was never pitch black like this. Lifting her hand in front of her face, Anna realized she was on her back. Oh. Well, that was embarrassing. She could see her hand, though; why was everything else so dark?
Sitting up, Anna glanced at the ground around her, but she couldn't see anything. It was too dark to even see the ground? Something wasn't right here. Getting to her feet, Anna gasped sharply then when the endless black all around her seemed to shift and warp, breaking away with the sound of a million wingbeats. Shielding her face with her hands, she let out a soft cry as the ground broke away to reveal bright colors, bold lines... it looked like a stained glass window! ... Weren't windows vertical, though? How could she be standing one one? That would require defying gravity and being like... sideways, and she was pretty sure she couldn't do that.
She took a step back and tried to get a better idea of the picture in the glass. Gold, green, blue... it was the crocus crest of Arendelle, wasn't it? But it was unlike any of the banners she'd seen around the castle, and last she had checked, there were no room-sized stained glass windows in any of the towers, or even in the chapel. Spinning away from the crocus in the center were two spirals, one of copper and one of white. Along the curve of the copper twist were flowers, gold and red and surrounded by spring greens. Conversely, alongside the white spiral were delicate six-pointed stars--no, snowflakes. They were snowflakes against a whorl of blues and purples.
"Is this... supposed to represent me and Elsa...?" she wondered aloud.
'Well, how long are you just gonna stand there and gawp?'
She whirled when Kristoff's voice echoed all around her, her skirts snapping around her ankles and her braids twisting over her shoulders.
"Kristoff?" she called, but there was no answer. There wasn't even an echo. "Kristoff, this isn't funny!" she said. "Come out right now, how did you even set up a prank like this?"
Really, she didn't even know what she saw in him!
'Relax, your highness, it's not a prank.'
Anna huffed softly, then watched in awe as three pedestals rose from the glass floor beneath her feet. Each of them appeared to be made of ice, smooth and crystal clear, and she furrowed her brow as she walked toward them.
"What are these?" she asked the disembodied voice of prank Kristoff. Maybe she was just dreaming. She'd certainly had weirder dreams than this. Once she'd had a dream she had been turned into a sloth and had spent the entire day hanging from the rafters in her bedroom, when really all she'd wanted was to look out the window! It had taken all day to get to the window, and she had woken up more tired than when she'd gone to bed! ... Oh, right, ice pedestals. "Kristoff?"
'They're ice, of course. And aren't they just beautiful?'
Anna rolled her eyes. "Gonna cry about these, too?" she teased, and the disembodied voice made an indignant noise. "So what's this all about, anyway?" She must have been dreaming.
'It's about where you're going from here.'
"And where's that?" she asked, approaching the pedestal in the center to examine it. She gasped sharply when a pillar of light filtered down from above, illuminating the ice brightly.
'That's up to you', the voice said, and Anna frowned. Well, what was that supposed to mean? She reached out and waved her hand in the beam of light, then made a soft oh! sound when an object shimmered into view beneath her hand. 'What do you think? Who do you want to be?'
"Be?" She squinted as the object solidified, and her lips parted. Within the pillar of light was a sword, shining and silver and oh so sharp. "Kristoff I can't be a sword."
'No, but do you want to be someone who wields one? To protect or to cut down, do you want to carry that sword?' Kristoff's voice asked. 'Do you want to be a warrior, Anna?'
She worried at her lower lip a moment, pulling her hand back. Hans had wielded a sword. Did that make him a warrior, though?
"I-I don't know," she said, having mostly given up trying to figure out where Kristoff was. "Do I have to decide right now? Can I at least see what my other options are?"
A second pillar of light flickered and flashed and lit up the pillar to her left. Turning toward it, Anna hesitated, then reached out to touch the light. A shadow formed beneath her hand and she recoiled to watch the second object materialize. It was a single, beautiful, intricate snowflake.
'How about magic, then?' Kristoff asked as she made the connection in her head. Right, snowflake, magic, like her sister's. 'To freeze or thaw, to hurt or heal, do you want to command magic?' There was beat of silence, and then he concluded, 'Do you want to be a mage, Anna?'
"Thank you for not saying 'witch' or something mean like what everyone was calling Elsa," she said sincerely. Kristoff had gotten over his initial indignation with Elsa for freezing her heart fairly quickly, but even if Elsa had control of her powers now, the idea of wielding magic made Anna a little nervous. "I'm not sure," she said. "My sister is a mage, but... I'm not like Elsa." Elsa was regal and commanding and stern and disciplined. Anna was none of those things. Would she even be able to control magic if she tried? "What's the last one?" she asked, turning to the final pillar on her right.
The pillar erupted in light, and this time she didn't hesitate to sweep her hand through it, watching as a shadow formed and took shape. Her expression warped with puzzlement when the object turned out to be...
"Kristoff, this is... me," she said, glancing up and around like maybe she could see his voice. Indeed, there was a miniature version of herself spinning slowly above the pillar... her hand lifted and her entire figure pale blue and made of ice. She shook her head. "I don't understand."
'A shield, Anna,' Kristoff said. 'To shelter the weak or protect the small. Do you want to be a gua--'
"Yes," Anna said quickly, reaching out with both hands and closing them around the little figure. "Yes, yes, that's who I want to be. My sister would have died otherwise, Hans... Hans would have killed her and taken our kingdom away. How many people would he have hurt?"
The pillar of ice cracked and the light went dark, and Anna opened her hands to find the little figure had disappeared. ... Was that the wrong choice?
"Kristoff?"
'So you're a guardian, then?' he asked, and she nodded, taking a step back from the broken pillar. She wasn't sure how good a guardian she could be--after all, she wasn't a knight or anything. Girls couldn't even be knights, could they? Maybe she would have to talk to Elsa about that. Girls could be just as strong as boys, right?
She straightened her spine and lifted her chin. "Yes," she said firmly. "That... that's who I want to be."
'And who don't you want to be?'
"Wait, what?" She glanced at the other two pillars. "If I'm one thing doesn't that mean I'm not the others?"
'Which one are you gonna give up, though?' Kristoff asked. 'You don't get something for nothing.'
She wrinkled her nose. "But I was already a guardian before," she said.
'Yeah, and you almost died. You don't wanna give up your life, do you?'
"Of course not!" she said, and then looked at the other two pillars.
So, in order to be a guardian, she had to not be a mage, or not be a warrior. Well, could she even pick up a sword? Maybe she should give that up. She had seen what Hans had been prepared to do with that sword he carried, and she didn't ever want to be like that. At the same time, though, she had seen the power in Elsa's magic, and she wasn't even sure she could handle something like that. Elsa had hurt people without trying to, and that was a lot scarier than using a sword to hurt someone on purpose. Anna would never have hurt anyone on purpose, but... neither would her sister. And yet Elsa had succeeded in hurting her anyway.
She licked her lips and approached the pillar with the snowflake, reaching out and then hesitating.
"The mage," she said, letting her hand linger just outside the pillar of light. "I don't want to be the mage. I can choose whether or not to pick up a sword, but Elsa's power scared her so much that she was too afraid to control it. She's so much stronger than I am, and people still got hurt because she couldn't control it. I can't be like my sister," she said, "and I don't ever want to hurt anyone because of something I can't control."
'That's your choice, then?' Kristoff asked, and Anna looked up again, still searching for the source of his voice.
"Y... es?" she ventured. "Wait. I... No, yes."
'No or yes, Anna?' She could practically hear him rolling his eyes.
"Yes," she said, squaring her shoulders and swiping her hand through the snowflake. "I want to be a guardian, not a mage."
The other two pillars cracked in half, like someone had chopped them down the middle, and the lights went out.
'At least you took your time to think about this decision,' Kristoff snickered, and Anna sulked grandiosely. Hey, she had learned her lesson with Hans, okay? No more marrying people she'd just met. Just for this, she was going to make Kristoff wait an extra month if he proposed.
There was a sudden shattering sound then, and Anna gasped as the floor beneath the pillars began to break away. Oh! Oh no! Oh, wait she would take it back! She wouldn't make Kristoff wait!
"Wait, was that the wrong choice?" she cried, backpedaling furiously as the stained glass floor splintered away beneath her feet. "K-Kristoff, wait, what am I--?!"
The rest of her question was cut off sharply as the floor gave way and sent her tumbling back into the black nothingness, and Anna told herself that Kristoff was next on her list of people to punch in the face.
SPECIAL ABILITIES:
"I'm completely ordinary!"
She said it herself, folks; Anna is 100% standard-grade human being. She doesn't possess any magic like her sister, but I'd still say she has a bit of Badass Normal in her. Despite marketing herself as a bit of a klutz, Anna does appear to have excellent balance, as demonstrated by riding her bike standing up with no hands and doing various jumps and flips throughout the empty castle as a child. She slides down the length of a spiral staircase banister, as well, and seems to have no trouble standing on some swinging scaffolding without really holding on. It seems to be the only time she's particularly clumsy is when she's... not watching where she's going. See: T-boning Hans on his horse. She's also surprisingly strong for as slender as she is: she can swing a lute with enough force to knock a wolf off a sled, and though she needs a little help from Sven, she manages to pull Kristoff up over the ledge of a cliff with a rope. Anna is also apparently capable of throwing an axe with extreme accuracy, as that's what was attached to the rope Kristoff was holding onto as he started to fall over the ledge; she threw it within inches of his face. Without hitting him in the face.
Other than that, her only superpowers are extreme stubbornness and generosity.
As a Warden, having discarded magic, Anna will... basically stay the same. She'll dig the armor, but she's going to be very wary about even attempting the low-level magic she would be able to wield due to universe mechanics.
INVENTORY:
Just her li'l old self and the clothes on her back: a winter dress and boots, and a fuchsia cape.
NOTES/ASPIRATIONS
pass!
It's been a while since I played an overly social character, and I really fell in love with Anna right away. I was really taken with her never say die attitude and I thought Saudade would be a really good setting for her to find something she could be really good at. She's spent her whole life living in the shadow of her big sister, and I think it would be really good for her to be in a place where she had the freedom to be whoever and whatever she wanted. She can't be queen of Arendelle, but maybe she can find something to be in Penrose. Also she just wants to be friends with everybody, and this will give her the opportunity to do just that.
Also I want Gin or Aizen or both to just dupe the hell out of her so she can be like OH GOSHDANGIT ANYWAY NOT AGAIN.