Frozen: Coronation

Frozen: Coronation

Elsa locked the office door behind her and leaned on it as she took off her gloves. It was almost time for her coronation, but she needed a break to pull herself together.

She sat at her mother’s desk and put her head down searching for some quiet inside her but there was nothing but a raging storm of magic.

She was about to be queen, but she felt like such a fake. Was she a a good girl, a queen or a monster?

They were finally opening the castle doors after having been closed for years. Closed to keep her in. There were lots of excuses for doing that, but she knew the real reasons. They were scared, they were afraid she would lose control. So was she. She wished she could just let it go.

Elsa sat back and put her fists on the desk, slowly she opened them, palm up. The magic proved her a liar. Swirls of magic snow flowed up from her palms rising several inches now. She was so tired from everything, and the magic got harder to control when she was tired.

Now, even Mother was gone and there was no one to turn to, not that Mother had really been there, she had been busy being queen.

The gloves helped contain the magic, but they sealed her off from people too. Everyone accepted that she wore gloves, without explanation or with lies. She hated the lies, so much of her life seemed tied up in lies. Sometimes she wished she could just unleash her power and be herself, but she wasn’t sure who she was. Was she a good girl or was she a monster?

She made three snowballs and began to juggle them. It was a mindless action now, something that relaxed her, allowed her not to think, but just be.

She wished she could confide with her sister, or anyone really. She had hurt her sister and she felt so guilty about that, she didn’t want to hurt anyone, but she could barely restrain the magic some days. Elsa felt like a monster sometimes. So she stayed away from her sister, to protect her, to protect everyone, she hid all the time.

She started as there was a knock on the door.

“Your Highness, the coronation is about to begin,” called the maid through the locked door.

“Yes, yes, of course. One moment,” called Elsa back as she launched the snowballs into the fireplace to make them go away.

She sat at the desk, held her snow covered hands out and closed her eyes. Soon she was breathing heavily, but when she opened her eyes her palms were no longer emitting snow and ice.

She pulled on the pale blue gloves and walked to the door.

“I’m ready now.”

The end because the movie should go into more of this.

Author’s Note: There is not a lot to go on to explore Elsa as a character. She has the power to control snow and ice. She is a princess that becomes queen, but something happens and she looses control of the magic and locks her kingdom in winter. From the Teaser trailer we see she must have created Olaf but he seems like an accident. The clip shows us Marshmallow who is fearsome but I get the feeling his orders are to keep people away from her for their own safety, and Elsa makes a beautiful snowflake and a blizzard to try and drive her sister away. The Japanese trailer shows us Elsa running away but having a grand time using her magic. There is a page from a storybook that tells us that Elsa hurt Anna by accident while they were playing. Finally there is the clip of the song “Let It Go” Idina Menzel sang at D23, that is a very scary song to me. That gives me the feeling that Elsa has been fighting the magic in her for a long time, and then it gets away from her and she embraces the magical monster that she believes she is. She isn’t the bad guy, but she has serious problems and only her sister Anna has any chance of reaching her.