Your Name: Ned Contact Method: PM Are you over 18? Yes Other characters: None
Character's Name: Elsa of Arendelle
Character's Canon: Frozen (Disney)
Profile for your character: (I will be using the end of the movie Frozen for her canon point) Elsa, Queen of Arendelle, is the eldest daughter of Agnarr and Iduna, the former rulers of the small and isolated nation. She is an intensely private woman, having been cursed with incredible magical power over cold, snow and ice since her youngest years. Magic was viewed more as a curse than as a blessing, especially when her magical power hurt her younger sister Anna, forcing the family to seek out the help of local trolls to heal her. Anna lost her memory of that incident and Elsa's parents raised and trained their eldest to shield her emotions and conceal her magical powers. She lived an isolated life until her coronation upon their death, yearning for the comfort of her family's love but terrified of hurting them all.
Shortly after her coronation, during a party with dignitaries of state and the leaders of the community, an announcement by her sister of an intention to court Prince Hans of the Southern Isles and coming into contact with her sister without her gloves on caused her to lose emotional control. She displayed her magic and fled into the night, motivated out of fear of their response and compassion for her people, as she believed she was a monster because of her magic and someone that they needed to be protected from. In the far reaches of the kingdom, she crafts for herself a castle of ice where she can be free to use her magical power without endangering her.
The side-effect of her exercise of her powers is a seeming eternal winter descending upon her beloved Arendelle. Anna comes to her to plead with her to put an end to the winter, only to be inadvertently wounded by Elsa's magic. In the aftermath of Prince Hans' ultimate betrayal, her sister sacrificed herself to save Elsa's life, causing the queen to embrace her emotions and the love she felt for her only living relative. It gave her the control necessary to free Anna from the icy transformation that had taken her, along with releasing Arendelle from the grips of winter. Afterwards, Elsa continued to rule the kingdom beside her sister and slowly learned to control her magical power more effectively, in part by accepting her emotions and magic as something natural, not evil.
Elsa is still a very prim and proper woman. She prefers to wear gloves and clothes that cover almost all of her skin, eschewing physical contact with others whenever possible. Though, having come to terms with her magical power and no longer seeing herself as evil, she does not smile often (Though when she does, it is a warm and welcoming smile) and tends to be quiet and withdrawn with her emotions. Inside, she has a turbulent roil of them from having pent them up as long and as much as she has, and she still struggles to an extent with self-loathing as is seen in future installments of the franchise beyond her canon point. She is a deeply compassionate woman who loves her people and wants to protect others, notably from herself but also from anything that would cause them harm. She privately loves her power and the freedom that it gives her, but does not like the idea of it causing others too much trouble.
A woman of great principle, her first thoughts are for the needs of others. She could easily exhaust herself by putting people under her charge before herself, particularly when it comes to her sister Anna. She has a strong motherly instinct, and is very protective of those that she has taken into her care. This can make her be prone to being a little over-protective and even smothering at times, especially with Anna or someone else with whom she becomes closer. She can be playful at times, though she tends to only show this side of herself with the young or her closer friends.
Writing Sample: Elsa pulled her glove on and sighed while she looked across the throne at the person who addressed her. Of course, she was going to need to make appearances now that she had taken the throne, and there were going to be supplicants. She should have been used to this sort of thing by now, really, after her time serving as the Queen Regnant of her homeland. Still, it took a bit of getting used to.
Composing herself, she put on a small smile and nodded from where she sat on the throne. Amongst strangers, as long as she had her gloves on she felt safer somehow, distant, where she needed to be until she could trust herself with them. “Please, rise,” she said in a polite, formal tone, motioning for the supplicant to get to their feet. “Now, tell me how the throne of winter may be of service.”
Why do you believe your character is an appropriate fit for this game? Besides the obvious connection of Elsa to Winter, snow, frost, ice and the cold, it is an opportunity for her to feel constructive in the use of her power. While the idea of being a goddess worshiped by others would disturb her, the feeling of being actively useful in helping to maintain an aspect of reality, and knowing that her powers are serving as a necessary good, rather than an uncontrolled force tied to her emotions, would be a deeply inspiring experience for her. With a bit of familiarity with court politics, she could navigate the interplay of the various gods, most likely without engaging in an aggressive stance towards others, and trying to settle into a stable relationship with her fellow seasonal gods.
She would almost certainly want to return to Arendelle, but not without first making sure that the power of winter was intact once again, the seasons back in their normal flow. She would probably not even be willing to try to find a way home until she had found and named a successor (likely among her demigods if she finds them.).
What would you like to do with your character in this game? I don't have specific plans, other than that she would likely seek out the temple of winter very quickly in the hopes of both managing the season and helping to return them to normal (inadvertantly not realizing that there is no spring at the same time currently), along with hoping that sitting upon the throne would help her maintain control better without her sister Anna around.
If accepted and nobody selects the God of Spring position prior to the end of spring this year, I might suggest an 'ongoing winter' player plot for this spring, as Winter returns but there is no spring to take over, waiting for Summer to thaw the last of the snow and frost.
Elsa | Frozen | Not Reserved
Contact Method: PM
Are you over 18? Yes
Other characters: None
Character's Name: Elsa of Arendelle
Character's Canon: Frozen (Disney)
Profile for your character: (I will be using the end of the movie Frozen for her canon point)
Elsa, Queen of Arendelle, is the eldest daughter of Agnarr and Iduna, the former rulers of the small and isolated nation. She is an intensely private woman, having been cursed with incredible magical power over cold, snow and ice since her youngest years. Magic was viewed more as a curse than as a blessing, especially when her magical power hurt her younger sister Anna, forcing the family to seek out the help of local trolls to heal her. Anna lost her memory of that incident and Elsa's parents raised and trained their eldest to shield her emotions and conceal her magical powers. She lived an isolated life until her coronation upon their death, yearning for the comfort of her family's love but terrified of hurting them all.
Shortly after her coronation, during a party with dignitaries of state and the leaders of the community, an announcement by her sister of an intention to court Prince Hans of the Southern Isles and coming into contact with her sister without her gloves on caused her to lose emotional control. She displayed her magic and fled into the night, motivated out of fear of their response and compassion for her people, as she believed she was a monster because of her magic and someone that they needed to be protected from. In the far reaches of the kingdom, she crafts for herself a castle of ice where she can be free to use her magical power without endangering her.
The side-effect of her exercise of her powers is a seeming eternal winter descending upon her beloved Arendelle. Anna comes to her to plead with her to put an end to the winter, only to be inadvertently wounded by Elsa's magic. In the aftermath of Prince Hans' ultimate betrayal, her sister sacrificed herself to save Elsa's life, causing the queen to embrace her emotions and the love she felt for her only living relative. It gave her the control necessary to free Anna from the icy transformation that had taken her, along with releasing Arendelle from the grips of winter. Afterwards, Elsa continued to rule the kingdom beside her sister and slowly learned to control her magical power more effectively, in part by accepting her emotions and magic as something natural, not evil.
Elsa is still a very prim and proper woman. She prefers to wear gloves and clothes that cover almost all of her skin, eschewing physical contact with others whenever possible. Though, having come to terms with her magical power and no longer seeing herself as evil, she does not smile often (Though when she does, it is a warm and welcoming smile) and tends to be quiet and withdrawn with her emotions. Inside, she has a turbulent roil of them from having pent them up as long and as much as she has, and she still struggles to an extent with self-loathing as is seen in future installments of the franchise beyond her canon point. She is a deeply compassionate woman who loves her people and wants to protect others, notably from herself but also from anything that would cause them harm. She privately loves her power and the freedom that it gives her, but does not like the idea of it causing others too much trouble.
A woman of great principle, her first thoughts are for the needs of others. She could easily exhaust herself by putting people under her charge before herself, particularly when it comes to her sister Anna. She has a strong motherly instinct, and is very protective of those that she has taken into her care. This can make her be prone to being a little over-protective and even smothering at times, especially with Anna or someone else with whom she becomes closer. She can be playful at times, though she tends to only show this side of herself with the young or her closer friends.
Writing Sample:
Elsa pulled her glove on and sighed while she looked across the throne at the person who addressed her. Of course, she was going to need to make appearances now that she had taken the throne, and there were going to be supplicants. She should have been used to this sort of thing by now, really, after her time serving as the Queen Regnant of her homeland. Still, it took a bit of getting used to.
Composing herself, she put on a small smile and nodded from where she sat on the throne. Amongst strangers, as long as she had her gloves on she felt safer somehow, distant, where she needed to be until she could trust herself with them. “Please, rise,” she said in a polite, formal tone, motioning for the supplicant to get to their feet. “Now, tell me how the throne of winter may be of service.”
Why do you believe your character is an appropriate fit for this game?
Besides the obvious connection of Elsa to Winter, snow, frost, ice and the cold, it is an opportunity for her to feel constructive in the use of her power. While the idea of being a goddess worshiped by others would disturb her, the feeling of being actively useful in helping to maintain an aspect of reality, and knowing that her powers are serving as a necessary good, rather than an uncontrolled force tied to her emotions, would be a deeply inspiring experience for her. With a bit of familiarity with court politics, she could navigate the interplay of the various gods, most likely without engaging in an aggressive stance towards others, and trying to settle into a stable relationship with her fellow seasonal gods.
She would almost certainly want to return to Arendelle, but not without first making sure that the power of winter was intact once again, the seasons back in their normal flow. She would probably not even be willing to try to find a way home until she had found and named a successor (likely among her demigods if she finds them.).
What would you like to do with your character in this game?
I don't have specific plans, other than that she would likely seek out the temple of winter very quickly in the hopes of both managing the season and helping to return them to normal (inadvertantly not realizing that there is no spring at the same time currently), along with hoping that sitting upon the throne would help her maintain control better without her sister Anna around.
If accepted and nobody selects the God of Spring position prior to the end of spring this year, I might suggest an 'ongoing winter' player plot for this spring, as Winter returns but there is no spring to take over, waiting for Summer to thaw the last of the snow and frost.
Do you understand the rules?
Yes.