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trustexercise) wrote2014-03-09 06:59 pm
trustexercise) wrote2014-03-09 06:59 pm
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Character Name: Anna of Arendelle
Canon: Frozen
Canon-Point: Post-film.
Age: 18
History: “I know how to stop this winter.”
Personality: Anna is a lively and active young woman, though unfortunately, all that boundless energy was kept behind closed doors until very recently. Due to her sister's powers and her parents' desire to keep them hidden away from the rest of the kingdom, Anna included, the castle gates have been closed since her early childhood, and as a result, Anna's interactions with people beyond her family and the serving staff have been severely limited. Always an inventive and resourceful girl, she found ways to entertain herself over the years despite not being able to go out and make friends beyond the palace walls, using the castle itself as her own personal playground, running and jumping and sliding through empty halls and conversing with the paintings now and then to make up for not having any company, a way to ease the frustration of being shut out by her sister for reasons she'd never been able to decipher. Persistent, she has made countless attempts over the years to reconnect with Elsa and try to understand why her sister had chosen to withdrawn from her, but never being met with success, finding only more doors shut in her face and leaving her to her own devices. Once their parents passed away, Anna was left with no one but the staff for company, and despite her insistence that she and Elsa were each all the other had to lean on, she was more or less on her own, with countless empty rooms to while away the hours in.
Loneliness has been the one constant in her life, and much of her behavior can be traced back to it in some way. She is both eager and ambitious, intent on making the most of what time she has to counter-balance how much she feels she's been forced to waste, as seen near the beginning of the film when the gates first open. Knowing that this one day is likely her only chance to change her life, she leaves the castle determined to live that day to the fullest, admitting that while it's probably silly for her to dream that she might find romance or change her life in any significant way, for once in her life she has a chance to try. While all those years might be enough to make anyone bitter and resentful, Anna has managed to remain upbeat and free-spirited, warm and playful and incredibly excitable, easily carried away by just about anything that catches her interest, up to and including incredibly premature offers of marriage. While she's not unintelligent, common sense often eludes her in lieu of her excitement, as shown by her inability to understand why both Elsa and Kristoff felt that she couldn't marry a man she just met, despite her insistence on it being "true love."
She is a hopeless romantic in that she has some very fairy-tale inspired preconceptions about love and what it means to be loved, and her eagerness to find someone who loved her that could rescue her from her loneliness was enough to make Hans label her as being desperate, making her a perfect target for him in his ploy to seize the kingdom of Arendelle for himself. Hans himself and his short-lived relationship with Anna are both perfect examples of her naiveté and her willingness to trust people whether they've earned it or not, believing that in the course of one evening, Hans had proven himself worthy of both her affection as well as the responsibility of looking after Arendelle in her absence, neither of which turned out to be true. She is willing to look for the best in people, and while in this case it lead her to trust someone who was not, in fact, trustworthy, it's not always such a terrible thing. She had faith that Kristoff would do the right thing and help her find a way to reach her sister and end the winter that had swept across the kingdom, despite his insistence that he didn't help people or do favors, and most importantly, she always believed that Elsa was innocent and that the display of magic that had buried Arendelle beneath a blanket of ice and snow had been an accident, even when others accused her of sorcery or tried to paint her as some kind of villain.
Her loyalty to her sister is unparalleled, as mentioned above. Despite the fact that they had been forced to grow distant over the years thanks to Elsa's seclusion, she never once accepted that her sister was the monster some people wanted to believe she was. Right from the jump, she took responsibilities for her own actions, insisting that she was the one who had provoked Elsa's so-called attack during the ball and that it had been an accident, that Elsa had only been scared, and that since this had been her own doing, she would be the one to fix it. Determined to resolve things between the two of them, she set out to meet with her sister on the north mountain without a second thought, confident that she would be able to convince Elsa to undo what had been done, positive that her sister would come home with her and they could return to the way things were, never one thinking that Elsa had meant anyone any harm at all. Even after Elsa accidentally struck her heart with ice, Anna was unable to stay angry -- she doubted, for a moment, that she would ever regain the sister she loved so much, but even as she began to freeze to death from the inside out, she stumbled her way towards Elsa in the middle of a snowstorm and threw herself in front of Hans' blade, prepared to sacrifice herself in order to save her sister's life. Loyal, loving, and selfless, Anna will always put her sister first, no matter how hard Elsa works to push her away, because Elsa is truly the only family she has left.
Anna is talkative but often clumsy, with social skills that could use quite a bit of polish, thanks to all the time they've spent rusting, but despite being prone to stumbling her way through a faux pas here and well, she's a kind-hearted girl who means well in almost everything she does. Physically, she's rather clumsy and has her share of accidents, though the scale tends to vary, anywhere from crashing into a suit of armor to upsetting a banquet table. She considers herself to be ordinary, often referring to herself as "just me" or comparing herself to Elsa, who she considers to be her superior in just about every way, though she tends to be affectionate about it rather than resentful, if a little self-deprecating. She doesn't think of herself as anyone special, but instead looks for what's special in the people around her, whether it's her sister or an ice peddler or a talking snowman. Playful and quirky, she's an athletic girl who isn't afraid to roll her sleeves up and get her hands dirty -- or punch a prince in the face, if it's called for.It was.
By the film's end, we can see that Anna has grown beyond some of the girlish whims she displayed early on -- though still active and excitable, she realizes that the first man is not always the right one, and that a perfect fairy-tale romance is not necessarily the answer to her loneliness, nor is it all it's cracked up to be. More importantly, she has reconnected with her sister and come to learn that familial love is unconditional; sacrificing herself for Elsa was the act of true love it took to thaw her own frozen heart, and together they decide to leave the castle gates open from then on, no longer secluding themselves from the rest of Arendelle and letting the rift between the both of them mend for good.
Abilities/Powers: Unlike her sister, Anna has no special gifts and thus considers herself to be ordinary. However, while she has no magic or powers, she does have a few skills that come in useful now and then. She is both athletic as well as a skilled horseback rider, and given how much time she’s spent behind the castle’s locked gates, she’s reasonably well-read. Though she doesn’t have too many stand-out abilities, she does have a hell of a lot of determination and the will to take on just about anything whether she’s actually able to or not. See: trying to climb a mountain without climbing gear. She’s also pretty dangerous with a lute in her hands.
Items: Just the clothes on her back: her summer dress from the end of the film, as well as her boots. The boots in question have blades made of ice attached to them for ice-skating, thanks to Elsa, but those should melt or break in short order considering Anna has left the rink her sister created in the courtyard.
Samples
[1] Anna & Elsa (Action Spam)
[2] Anna & Elsa (Prose)
[3] Anna & Kristoff (Action Spam)
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Character Information
Character Name: Anna of Arendelle
Canon: Frozen
Canon-Point: Post-film.
Age: 18
History: “I know how to stop this winter.”
Personality: Anna is a lively and active young woman, though unfortunately, all that boundless energy was kept behind closed doors until very recently. Due to her sister's powers and her parents' desire to keep them hidden away from the rest of the kingdom, Anna included, the castle gates have been closed since her early childhood, and as a result, Anna's interactions with people beyond her family and the serving staff have been severely limited. Always an inventive and resourceful girl, she found ways to entertain herself over the years despite not being able to go out and make friends beyond the palace walls, using the castle itself as her own personal playground, running and jumping and sliding through empty halls and conversing with the paintings now and then to make up for not having any company, a way to ease the frustration of being shut out by her sister for reasons she'd never been able to decipher. Persistent, she has made countless attempts over the years to reconnect with Elsa and try to understand why her sister had chosen to withdrawn from her, but never being met with success, finding only more doors shut in her face and leaving her to her own devices. Once their parents passed away, Anna was left with no one but the staff for company, and despite her insistence that she and Elsa were each all the other had to lean on, she was more or less on her own, with countless empty rooms to while away the hours in.
Loneliness has been the one constant in her life, and much of her behavior can be traced back to it in some way. She is both eager and ambitious, intent on making the most of what time she has to counter-balance how much she feels she's been forced to waste, as seen near the beginning of the film when the gates first open. Knowing that this one day is likely her only chance to change her life, she leaves the castle determined to live that day to the fullest, admitting that while it's probably silly for her to dream that she might find romance or change her life in any significant way, for once in her life she has a chance to try. While all those years might be enough to make anyone bitter and resentful, Anna has managed to remain upbeat and free-spirited, warm and playful and incredibly excitable, easily carried away by just about anything that catches her interest, up to and including incredibly premature offers of marriage. While she's not unintelligent, common sense often eludes her in lieu of her excitement, as shown by her inability to understand why both Elsa and Kristoff felt that she couldn't marry a man she just met, despite her insistence on it being "true love."
She is a hopeless romantic in that she has some very fairy-tale inspired preconceptions about love and what it means to be loved, and her eagerness to find someone who loved her that could rescue her from her loneliness was enough to make Hans label her as being desperate, making her a perfect target for him in his ploy to seize the kingdom of Arendelle for himself. Hans himself and his short-lived relationship with Anna are both perfect examples of her naiveté and her willingness to trust people whether they've earned it or not, believing that in the course of one evening, Hans had proven himself worthy of both her affection as well as the responsibility of looking after Arendelle in her absence, neither of which turned out to be true. She is willing to look for the best in people, and while in this case it lead her to trust someone who was not, in fact, trustworthy, it's not always such a terrible thing. She had faith that Kristoff would do the right thing and help her find a way to reach her sister and end the winter that had swept across the kingdom, despite his insistence that he didn't help people or do favors, and most importantly, she always believed that Elsa was innocent and that the display of magic that had buried Arendelle beneath a blanket of ice and snow had been an accident, even when others accused her of sorcery or tried to paint her as some kind of villain.
Her loyalty to her sister is unparalleled, as mentioned above. Despite the fact that they had been forced to grow distant over the years thanks to Elsa's seclusion, she never once accepted that her sister was the monster some people wanted to believe she was. Right from the jump, she took responsibilities for her own actions, insisting that she was the one who had provoked Elsa's so-called attack during the ball and that it had been an accident, that Elsa had only been scared, and that since this had been her own doing, she would be the one to fix it. Determined to resolve things between the two of them, she set out to meet with her sister on the north mountain without a second thought, confident that she would be able to convince Elsa to undo what had been done, positive that her sister would come home with her and they could return to the way things were, never one thinking that Elsa had meant anyone any harm at all. Even after Elsa accidentally struck her heart with ice, Anna was unable to stay angry -- she doubted, for a moment, that she would ever regain the sister she loved so much, but even as she began to freeze to death from the inside out, she stumbled her way towards Elsa in the middle of a snowstorm and threw herself in front of Hans' blade, prepared to sacrifice herself in order to save her sister's life. Loyal, loving, and selfless, Anna will always put her sister first, no matter how hard Elsa works to push her away, because Elsa is truly the only family she has left.
Anna is talkative but often clumsy, with social skills that could use quite a bit of polish, thanks to all the time they've spent rusting, but despite being prone to stumbling her way through a faux pas here and well, she's a kind-hearted girl who means well in almost everything she does. Physically, she's rather clumsy and has her share of accidents, though the scale tends to vary, anywhere from crashing into a suit of armor to upsetting a banquet table. She considers herself to be ordinary, often referring to herself as "just me" or comparing herself to Elsa, who she considers to be her superior in just about every way, though she tends to be affectionate about it rather than resentful, if a little self-deprecating. She doesn't think of herself as anyone special, but instead looks for what's special in the people around her, whether it's her sister or an ice peddler or a talking snowman. Playful and quirky, she's an athletic girl who isn't afraid to roll her sleeves up and get her hands dirty -- or punch a prince in the face, if it's called for.
By the film's end, we can see that Anna has grown beyond some of the girlish whims she displayed early on -- though still active and excitable, she realizes that the first man is not always the right one, and that a perfect fairy-tale romance is not necessarily the answer to her loneliness, nor is it all it's cracked up to be. More importantly, she has reconnected with her sister and come to learn that familial love is unconditional; sacrificing herself for Elsa was the act of true love it took to thaw her own frozen heart, and together they decide to leave the castle gates open from then on, no longer secluding themselves from the rest of Arendelle and letting the rift between the both of them mend for good.
Abilities/Powers: Unlike her sister, Anna has no special gifts and thus considers herself to be ordinary. However, while she has no magic or powers, she does have a few skills that come in useful now and then. She is both athletic as well as a skilled horseback rider, and given how much time she’s spent behind the castle’s locked gates, she’s reasonably well-read. Though she doesn’t have too many stand-out abilities, she does have a hell of a lot of determination and the will to take on just about anything whether she’s actually able to or not. See: trying to climb a mountain without climbing gear. She’s also pretty dangerous with a lute in her hands.
Items: Just the clothes on her back: her summer dress from the end of the film, as well as her boots. The boots in question have blades made of ice attached to them for ice-skating, thanks to Elsa, but those should melt or break in short order considering Anna has left the rink her sister created in the courtyard.
Samples
[1] Anna & Elsa (Action Spam)
[2] Anna & Elsa (Prose)
[3] Anna & Kristoff (Action Spam)