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◎ Character's Name: Elsa
◎ Character's Canon: Frozen
◎ Character's Age: 21
◎ Canon Point: After being locked up back in Arendelle
◎ Background/History: wiki link
◎ Is the character a hacker and/or do they have a sixth-sense? No, not at all.
◎ Personality:
At first glance, Elsa appears to be everything a young queen would be expected to. She's poised and elegant, calm and rational and regal. She takes her duties very serious and holds herself with a very proper bearing. This is all in sharp contrast to her much more exuberant and outgoing sister. Elsa seems self-contained and gentle-natured, kind, but very serious. But all this is a very carefully held-together charade. Inside, Elsa is anxious and nervous, frightened and exceptionally lonely.
She has, after all, lived the majority of her life in fear and isolation, trapped by her powers and the worry that she could accidentally hurt someone else -- especially someone she cares about. After an accident where her younger sister was injured by her magic, Elsa's parents basically sequestered their entire family behind the castle walls, shutting the gates and keeping the world away. Elsa went to a further extreme, almost always keeping herself closed behind the door to her bedroom. It's quite a change from the happy young girl she had been.
When she is very young, Elsa embraces her power. She's playful and cheerful and very close to her little sister. She and Anna play, and Elsa uses her magic with a sense of wonder -- until the accident. After that everything changes. The incident leaves Elsa traumatized and terrified of the power within her, and she begins to suppress it and hide away from the world. Because her powers are linked to her emotions, this starts a vicious cycle. The fear builds and Elsa withdraws more and more. She doesn't want to be alone, that much seems pretty clear. The anxiety and panic of her powers being found out or doing harm to someone overwhelms her. Even at her parents' funeral, she cannot attend and has to hide herself in her room because her magic has gotten out of control with her grief. Elsa can't comfort Anna or accept the comfort that her sister offers. She's a prisoner of her fear and her power.
Because of this, her relationship with her family is very strange. Though Anna is shown to be physically affectionate with her parents, Elsa addresses them politely. When they're leaving, she bows instead of hugging them, even if she's the far more anxious one about their leaving on their trip. She respects their decisions and their instruction. They're the only ones who know her secret, and when they're gone, she's entirely alone with the weight of it.
Her relationship with Anna is even more complex. They were inseparable, and the distance put between them once Elsa starts to hide away herself and her powers is clearly hard on both sisters. Elsa adores Anna, and much of what she does, she does because she never wants to put her little sister in danger again. She wants the best for her sister, but along the way she inadvertently hurts her by keeping her at arm's length. Anna has no knowledge or even memory of Elsa's magic, so she's confused as to why her older sister has become so cold. Elsa has been told it's safer if Anna doesn't remember, doesn't know, and so that's what she makes sure happens. Elsa disappears into isolation -- the carefree, playful young girl becoming a withdrawn, lonely young woman.
But despite this isolation, when Elsa does have the opportunity to experience something different, there seems to be a longing in her. She talks to Anna at the coronation -- which surprises her sister significantly -- and teases with her, laughing and conversing like a small spark of their former closeness. She even admits that she wishes the castle could be full of life and people all the time too. But her fear wins out; she realizes it can't, and she shuts everything away. Fear and loneliness win again.
Eventually, when her powers escape and are discovered, Elsa flees to the mountain. For the first time since she shut herself away she feels free. She expresses her frustration about having to spend her life holding back everything -- her powers, her emotions, herself. She's tried everything she can to be good for so long, and in the end it wasn't enough. In that moment, the sense of freedom she feels, the lack of worry of hurting anyone or being discovered has her releasing all the meticulous control. Without the fear in her, her powers flow naturally and she shows a bright, creative side, more confidence and self-assurance. Even though she's alone and a refugee from her own kingdom, she seems to come into her own. This is a glimpse at who Elsa is when she isn't trying desperately to hold herself and her abilities back, isn't terrified of what she might do.
Unfortunately, even this is short-lived. When Anna arrives, Elsa realizes it was too good to be true. She can't be free, and her fear overwhelms her once more. She continues trying to isolate herself, forcibly removing Anna and the others from her presence -- for their own safety. She blames herself for everything, berating herself that she should have known better. She'd rather stay away from Arendelle than be a continued danger to it. There's a sacrificing nature to Elsa, but because it's ruled by fear, it mostly just succeeds in hurting herself and others around her. Rather than working through her problems, she hides from them and tries to suppress everything that she's frightened of.
Though it's often overshadowed by her control issues and fear, Elsa is a kind person, generous and willing to put other's needs ahead of her own. She goes through with her duty to be crowned queen even if she's terrified of it. She wants to do what her parents would want her to, to be the "good girl" they had always instructed her that she had to be. The night she nearly killed Anna haunts her, the memory never far from her, a secret that weighs upon her very heavily. She wants what is best for her sister. Elsa is also rational, outright telling Anna that she cannot marry a man that she just met when her sister is entirely swept up in what she believes to be true love. Elsa puts her foot down.
At the canon point where she is coming from, Elsa is fully swept up in her emotions, her lack of control and fear.
Eventually in her canon, she learns to let go of that fear and open herself up to the love and companionship that she's denied herself. She rediscovers her relationship with her sister and a softer, playful side of Elsa reemerges. It's never really gone, it's just been overshadowed for so long by the loneliness and anxiety that she lives under.
◎ Powers/Abilities:
Elsa was born with the ability to control ice and snow and cold. She doesn't have the best time controlling her powers just yet, and when her emotions run high they often get away from her. She is capable of creating snowstorms (indoors and outdoors), building structures of ice and snow, building snowmen with consciousness of their own, dressing herself in an ice-dress and using her powers in projectile like attacks. Additionally, it appears that her powers give her greater immunity to the cold, since hanging out in an ice palace with an ice-dress doesn't seem to bother her in the least. Her magic can also lash out and strike people, implanting ice deep inside them -- as in their heads or their hearts, which is apparently quite deadly.
When her emotions run exceptionally high she can affect the weather on a large scale. Though most of her magic is done through her hands, it's obvious at times that it can emanate from anywhere on her person -- such as beneath her feet or even around her (like when she was curled up in her room mourning her parents' deaths.)
A full write up on her powers can also be found here on the Wiki explanation of her powers
◎ Weapons & Other Special Inventory:
Nothing but the clothes on her back.
Samples
◎ First-Person Sample:
◎ Third-Person Sample:
◎ Is your character retaining any previous game memories?
Nope!
◎ Character's Name: Elsa
◎ Character's Canon: Frozen
◎ Character's Age: 21
◎ Canon Point: After being locked up back in Arendelle
◎ Background/History: wiki link
◎ Is the character a hacker and/or do they have a sixth-sense? No, not at all.
◎ Personality:
At first glance, Elsa appears to be everything a young queen would be expected to. She's poised and elegant, calm and rational and regal. She takes her duties very serious and holds herself with a very proper bearing. This is all in sharp contrast to her much more exuberant and outgoing sister. Elsa seems self-contained and gentle-natured, kind, but very serious. But all this is a very carefully held-together charade. Inside, Elsa is anxious and nervous, frightened and exceptionally lonely.
She has, after all, lived the majority of her life in fear and isolation, trapped by her powers and the worry that she could accidentally hurt someone else -- especially someone she cares about. After an accident where her younger sister was injured by her magic, Elsa's parents basically sequestered their entire family behind the castle walls, shutting the gates and keeping the world away. Elsa went to a further extreme, almost always keeping herself closed behind the door to her bedroom. It's quite a change from the happy young girl she had been.
When she is very young, Elsa embraces her power. She's playful and cheerful and very close to her little sister. She and Anna play, and Elsa uses her magic with a sense of wonder -- until the accident. After that everything changes. The incident leaves Elsa traumatized and terrified of the power within her, and she begins to suppress it and hide away from the world. Because her powers are linked to her emotions, this starts a vicious cycle. The fear builds and Elsa withdraws more and more. She doesn't want to be alone, that much seems pretty clear. The anxiety and panic of her powers being found out or doing harm to someone overwhelms her. Even at her parents' funeral, she cannot attend and has to hide herself in her room because her magic has gotten out of control with her grief. Elsa can't comfort Anna or accept the comfort that her sister offers. She's a prisoner of her fear and her power.
Because of this, her relationship with her family is very strange. Though Anna is shown to be physically affectionate with her parents, Elsa addresses them politely. When they're leaving, she bows instead of hugging them, even if she's the far more anxious one about their leaving on their trip. She respects their decisions and their instruction. They're the only ones who know her secret, and when they're gone, she's entirely alone with the weight of it.
Her relationship with Anna is even more complex. They were inseparable, and the distance put between them once Elsa starts to hide away herself and her powers is clearly hard on both sisters. Elsa adores Anna, and much of what she does, she does because she never wants to put her little sister in danger again. She wants the best for her sister, but along the way she inadvertently hurts her by keeping her at arm's length. Anna has no knowledge or even memory of Elsa's magic, so she's confused as to why her older sister has become so cold. Elsa has been told it's safer if Anna doesn't remember, doesn't know, and so that's what she makes sure happens. Elsa disappears into isolation -- the carefree, playful young girl becoming a withdrawn, lonely young woman.
But despite this isolation, when Elsa does have the opportunity to experience something different, there seems to be a longing in her. She talks to Anna at the coronation -- which surprises her sister significantly -- and teases with her, laughing and conversing like a small spark of their former closeness. She even admits that she wishes the castle could be full of life and people all the time too. But her fear wins out; she realizes it can't, and she shuts everything away. Fear and loneliness win again.
Eventually, when her powers escape and are discovered, Elsa flees to the mountain. For the first time since she shut herself away she feels free. She expresses her frustration about having to spend her life holding back everything -- her powers, her emotions, herself. She's tried everything she can to be good for so long, and in the end it wasn't enough. In that moment, the sense of freedom she feels, the lack of worry of hurting anyone or being discovered has her releasing all the meticulous control. Without the fear in her, her powers flow naturally and she shows a bright, creative side, more confidence and self-assurance. Even though she's alone and a refugee from her own kingdom, she seems to come into her own. This is a glimpse at who Elsa is when she isn't trying desperately to hold herself and her abilities back, isn't terrified of what she might do.
Unfortunately, even this is short-lived. When Anna arrives, Elsa realizes it was too good to be true. She can't be free, and her fear overwhelms her once more. She continues trying to isolate herself, forcibly removing Anna and the others from her presence -- for their own safety. She blames herself for everything, berating herself that she should have known better. She'd rather stay away from Arendelle than be a continued danger to it. There's a sacrificing nature to Elsa, but because it's ruled by fear, it mostly just succeeds in hurting herself and others around her. Rather than working through her problems, she hides from them and tries to suppress everything that she's frightened of.
Though it's often overshadowed by her control issues and fear, Elsa is a kind person, generous and willing to put other's needs ahead of her own. She goes through with her duty to be crowned queen even if she's terrified of it. She wants to do what her parents would want her to, to be the "good girl" they had always instructed her that she had to be. The night she nearly killed Anna haunts her, the memory never far from her, a secret that weighs upon her very heavily. She wants what is best for her sister. Elsa is also rational, outright telling Anna that she cannot marry a man that she just met when her sister is entirely swept up in what she believes to be true love. Elsa puts her foot down.
At the canon point where she is coming from, Elsa is fully swept up in her emotions, her lack of control and fear.
Eventually in her canon, she learns to let go of that fear and open herself up to the love and companionship that she's denied herself. She rediscovers her relationship with her sister and a softer, playful side of Elsa reemerges. It's never really gone, it's just been overshadowed for so long by the loneliness and anxiety that she lives under.
◎ Powers/Abilities:
Elsa was born with the ability to control ice and snow and cold. She doesn't have the best time controlling her powers just yet, and when her emotions run high they often get away from her. She is capable of creating snowstorms (indoors and outdoors), building structures of ice and snow, building snowmen with consciousness of their own, dressing herself in an ice-dress and using her powers in projectile like attacks. Additionally, it appears that her powers give her greater immunity to the cold, since hanging out in an ice palace with an ice-dress doesn't seem to bother her in the least. Her magic can also lash out and strike people, implanting ice deep inside them -- as in their heads or their hearts, which is apparently quite deadly.
When her emotions run exceptionally high she can affect the weather on a large scale. Though most of her magic is done through her hands, it's obvious at times that it can emanate from anywhere on her person -- such as beneath her feet or even around her (like when she was curled up in her room mourning her parents' deaths.)
A full write up on her powers can also be found here on the Wiki explanation of her powers
◎ Weapons & Other Special Inventory:
Nothing but the clothes on her back.
Samples
◎ First-Person Sample:
◎ Third-Person Sample:
◎ Is your character retaining any previous game memories?
Nope!
