Application for thewake

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Personal Information
Name: Cybra
Age: 31
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Current Character(s): Six, Luna, Death the Kid, Azmuth

Character Information
Character Name: Elsa
Fandom: Frozen


Character History:
Elsa was born not just a princess of Arendelle but as someone with a rather intriguing power. She could create ice and snow with magic, a gift that was more often seen as a curse. As she grew, so did her powers. In her younger years, she used them primarily for play with her younger sister Anna despite warnings from their parents.

That all changed one night when she and Anna snuck into the ballroom to play when Elsa was eight and her sister five. At first, everything was fine. Elsa conjured piles of snow for them to build snowmen along with freezing the floor so they could skate. However, things got out of hand when during a game of jumping from snow pile to snow pile, Anna started going too fast for Elsa to keep up with. As Elsa struggled to summon new piles of soft snow for Anna to land on, she slipped on her own ice. The icy blast of magic missed her intended target, instead striking Anna squarely in the forehead, knocking her unconscious and turning a lock of her hair white.

Panicked, Elsa called for their mother and father who took them to see the trolls in the mountain. Their leader, Pabbie, was able to remove the ice but had to also take away Anna's memories of Elsa's magic, altering them into normal winter scenes so that the fun of them was left in tact. He then warned Elsa that while her powers were beautiful, they were very dangerous and that fear would be her enemy. He demonstrated this by showing an illusion of Elsa being attacked by an angry mob.

For the safety of their daughters, the king and queen shut the palace gates and reduced the staff. The castle was completely closed down to outsiders, and Elsa's things were moved to a room separate from Anna's so that Elsa wouldn't hurt anyone by accident while she tried to gain control. This led to Elsa staying shut up in her room as she fought her powers, forcing herself to ignore her sister's cajoling to come out and play. Predictably, this caused a rift between the two sisters, Anna believing that Elsa had come to despise her when, in reality, Elsa was just trying to protect her.

This continued for years, Elsa's powers growing ever-stronger despite her and her parents' attempts to get them under control. During this time, she was given a pair of gloves so that her touch wouldn't freeze anything (though whether this was because of her belief that it would work or not is up for debate) but she refused to allow her own parents to hug her for fear that she'd freeze them by accident. The instructions her father gave her during this time would echo through her mind and help set the pattern of her behavior for years to come: "Don't let them in; don't let them see. Be the good girl you have to be. Conceal, don't feel. Don't let them know."

Ten years after the accident with Anna, the king and queen left for an intended two-week trip. However, the ship they rode on sank in a storm, leaving their two princesses parentless. Elsa didn't attend their funeral, staying shut up in her room as her powers raged out of control in her grief, freezing over the entire bedroom.

Though she took over ruling the kingdom, Elsa wouldn't be crowned queen until three years later when she came of age. For her coronation, she agreed to open the gates for a party, inviting representatives of their allies as well to meet her. However, it was to be only for a single day, not daring to leave the gates open for longer out of fear of her powers being discovered. She was nearly discovered during the official ceremony when her bare-handed touch started frosting over the scepter and orb.

At the party, she spent a little time with Anna, even managing to have a little fun in the festivities by deflecting the Duke of Weselton's offer to dance to her sister. She even managed to spend a little time with Anna but had to tell her sister that it wouldn't be a regular occurrence in the future to Anna's disappointment. She spent the rest of the evening at the party, talking with her guests, while Anna spent that time talking with Prince Hans of the Southern Isles. When Anna returned with the prince, Elsa was confused and a bit overwhelmed by Anna and Hans asking her to bless their engagement...after they'd only known each other a few hours. Elsa, however, refused on the grounds that it couldn't be true love as Anna claimed.

Rejecting the pair's pleas, Elsa ordered the party was over and the gates would be shut. She was getting upset due to arguing with her sister, and she didn't want to lose control. However, Anna wouldn't let her leave, grabbing one of her gloves and pulling it off. Elsa continued to try and go but Anna refused to be shut out, claiming that she couldn't keep living as they had all those years and not everyone wanted to be alone like Elsa. As Elsa turned to tell her sister that enough was enough, her powers sprang forth, creating a row of icy spikes to block the partygoers and Anna from getting any closer to the newly-crowned queen.

Panicking, Elsa fled, heading into the crowded courtyard in an attempt to escape. However, her concerned subjects cornered her by unintentionally herding her back against one of the fountains. As her bare hand touched it, the fountain froze, the flowing water turning to ice. She also froze the stairs leading into the party by accident, causing the Duke of Weselton to slip and fall even as he declared her to be a monster. Her subjects backed away in fear, giving her space to run away from them even as Anna called for her to wait.

She hesitated for a moment when reaching the banks of the fjord, the large expanse of water blocking further escape. However, her powers came to her aid, freezing the water as she stepped on it and allowing her to run across the fjord to the mountains. Unknown to her, the ice spread to freeze over all of Arendelle, plunging it into an eternal winter.

She only stopped running when she reached the isolated top of the North Mountain where she decided she would stay. Though she'd given up being around those she cared for, she quickly realized she'd gained something else in return: freedom. Without the fear of hurting others accidentally with her powers, she was free to explore and experiment with them. For the first time in a long time, she could be herself, a fact she reveled in. Without her constant fear holding her back, she started to play with her abilities, even managing the control that had eluded her for so long. She built herself an entire palace made of ice along with conjuring a new dress to wear as she literally let her hair down and vowed to let her fears go.

As she was settling into her new life, Nautilus called her to Wake.

While she was in Nautilus, she started learning to accept her powers though she never did figure out how to unfreeze things during her time there. She made quite a few friends and even had Loki himself as her teacher. Loki helped her learn not to panic when her powers started being fussy but how to "go with the flow" along with actually training her both in using her ice powers in conjunction with knives in a combat situation.

During a trip home due to homesickness, she fell Asleep for about a year, forgetting all about Nautilus.

Back at home, Anna had come to her ice castle and revealed to her that she'd accidentally triggered an eternal winter. Her sister begged her to come back and unfreeze everything, but Elsa panicked due to not knowing the secret of how to do so. She tried pushing her sister away as her powers swelled due to her fear and horror at what she'd done. In the end, she accidentally unleashed a blast of ice that struck her sister's heart. Seeing Kristoff rush to Anna's side, Elsa summoned a massive snow monster to kick her sister and her new friends out along with guarding the ice palace.

However, having them ejected didn't fix things. She still fretted over what she'd done to Arendelle and what she'd likely just done to Anna. She paced the floors of her castle, reminding herself to "control it" and "don't feel", but the proverbial genie was out of the bottle and the ice around her was reacting to her emotions despite her best efforts.

To make matters worse, Prince Hans arrived with guards to bring her back to Arendelle. While most of the guards were preoccupied with the snow monster, two of them--the Duke of Weselton's men--slipped past the monster to attack Elsa herself, believing that if she were dead, the eternal winter would stop. They attacked her, and Elsa desperately fought back, shielding herself with ice along with attempting to blast her opponents with ice magic. She pinned one guard to the wall with an icicle at his throat. Another she began to push out of the castle and off the balcony which would've likely killed him had Hans not arrived and begged her "not to be the monster they think you are". At his plea, Elsa ceased her attack.

Unfortunately, the guard she'd pinned still had the use of his crossbow arm, and he tried to take a shot at the queen. Hans intervened, pushing the crossbow upwards just as the guard fired it. The bolt hit the ice chandelier above Elsa, and she ran to avoid it crashing down on her head. While she succeeded in not being crushed, she was knocked down and unconscious as debris went flying.

When she woke up, she was locked in the dungeon of Arendelle's castle, her hands locked in heavy irons and bound to the floor with equally-heavy chains. Through the window she saw what the blizzard had done to her kingdom, but before she could do much else than stare in horror, Hans arrived to beg her to lift the curse. However, she had to tell him as she had Anna that she couldn't. He then left her there in the dungeon.

However, Elsa knew that the longer she stayed in Arendelle, the worse her emotions would make the weather. In fact, they were already intensifying the power of the ice storm. Her powers surged and she managed to break free as the storm transformed into a full whiteout. She then started making her way across the frozen fjord on foot as the wind buffeted her about.

During this trek, she came across Hans, telling him to take care of Anna. Hans then told her that Anna was dead, and Elsa immediately blamed herself. After all, she'd frozen her sister's heart. She collapsed to her knees in grief with her back to Hans, the blizzard stilling with snowflakes hanging in mid-air. However she turned around as she heard Hans's sword break, seeing Anna standing there with her hand turned upwards likely to block the blade. Only what could've been a happy reunion was obliterated by the fact that Anna had been completely transformed into an ice statue.

Anguished, Elsa clutched at her sister and sobbed. Miraculously, Anna began to thaw, once again healthy and whole. Elsa hugged her little sister tightly which Anna reciprocated. It was during this that Olaf repeated Pabbie's statement that only an act of true love could thaw a frozen heart. It was then that Elsa realized what it was that she was doing wrong with her powers all this time. Rather than trying to fiercely control her emotions and by extension her powers, she allowed her love to guide her magic in thawing out Arendelle. She also produced a little snow flurry to hover around Olaf so that he didn't melt in the restored summer heat. As Hans tried to come up with some way to salvage the situation, Anna punched her former fiancee in the face and knocked him clean off the boat they were standing on.

Elsa resumed her role as queen of Arendelle, welcomed back by her people. As punishment for Hans, she sent him back to the Southern Isles locked in his ship's brig to face his brothers. She also cut off Weselton as one of Arendelle's trading partners and sent the Duke and his men back home as well. She then went on to reward Kristoff and Sven for helping Anna by not only replacing their sled with a significant upgrade but by making Kristoff Arendelle's Official Ice Master and Deliverer.

For what remained of the festival honoring her coronation, Elsa opened up the gates to the castle, pledging to her sister that they'd never be closed again. She also created beautiful ice sculptures from the fountains and a summertime ice rink for her people to enjoy. She also used her ice to accentuate the castle, giving it her own personal touch. Most importantly of all, however, she made her sister a pair of (literal) ice skates and helping Anna learn to use them.

With this happy scene in mind, Elsa heard Nautilus's Call once again and decided to return to see her friends, having no idea that she'd been gone for so long.

Character Personality:
As royalty raised to rule in her own right rather than as a consort, Elsa often acts calm and poised. Though young, she understands the need for diplomacy even if it means doing something she'd rather not such as having a very public coronation where one misstep could mean revealing her powers and possibly injuring someone by accident. When in her "queen mode", she tends to be very reserved to keep people from getting too close. She does, however, have flashes of mischief such as when she subtly tricked Anna into dancing with the Duke of Weselton in her stead.

Underneath the regal demeanor, however, is a young woman who's lived in fear for most of her life. As much as she wanted to open the door and let Anna in, the memory of striking her sister with her powers held her back. However, as permanent control eluded her, she grew more afraid of harming others because of it, doubting her ability to keep the storm inside her under control. Justified fear but still fear that was her master for a decade rather than the other way around.

However, this has started to change. When she cast off the shackles of her fear as she threw away her crown, Elsa felt more liberated and confident in her abilities. Now that she's learned the key to making her powers do what she wants and without the constant worrying of someone else suffering from her losing control, she's begun to experiment and play again like when she was a child. Allowing her powers and, in essence, herself to run free has lifted her spirits significantly, allowing for her more fun-loving side to shine through.

Regardless of whatever mode she's in, Elsa remains caring towards her family and her subjects in the best ways she knows how. After all, she's willing to isolate herself for the protection of others despite how such actions might appear to those same people. When she learned that she had plunged Arendelle into an eternal winter, she was honestly horrified and distressed at what she'd unleashed on the people she'd tried to save from herself.

Powers and Abilities:
Elsa is the Snow Queen of Arendelle. Ever since she was born, she had the ability to conjure ice and snow using only magic. She can also directly channel this power through her hands and feet to create things such as a snow flurry with a wave of her hand or freeze the ground beneath her with a stamp of her foot. Though for much of her life she wore gloves, covering her hands doesn't actually stop her powers since after being captured and returned to Arendelle, she is able to break free of the manacles covering her hands using her ice powers. However, it's possible that her strong enough belief in it was why she was able to keep from freezing everything she touched when she was wearing gloves.

She can create living snowmen to do her bidding (or, in Olaf's case, to wander around as is his want) though this also causes her to create mini snowmen (aka "snowgies") when she sneezes if she catches a cold. She also was able to create an entire castle made of ice and change her own wardrobe without seeming to get even slightly fatigued. Ice sculptures are easy for her to grow as decorations as well.

In combat, she can create shields with her ice such as blocking an arrow bolt shot at her. She also can move her ice creations to push around her opponents, controlling how they approach her. Offensively, she's made a barrier with icicles for spikes to pin an opponent to a wall. Since she can conjure and hurl snowballs with ease, it's possible that she might be able to do similar things with icicles.

Of course, such awesome power comes with a very strong weakness.

Elsa's magic seems to be largely psychosomatic, very likely the result of years trying to suppress her powers rather than embrace them and allow them to become an extension of herself. When she's happy, her powers are playful and whimsical. When angered, they take forms more suited to combat. In cases like these, she has the greatest amount of control. However, in situations where she is sad or afraid, her magic will follow its own will, even warping the creations she'd made herself when she'd been in control. Such is the case when she tried to escape back to the North Mountain after being captured, her fear generating a great blizzard and that same blizzard freezing when she seemed to have killed her own sister.

Elsa used to believe that while she had the power to freeze things, unfreezing them was impossible for her. However, she has now learned just how much her emotions play into her powers: She does have the ability to thaw ice and snow just as much as generate it as long as she uses her powers with love in her heart.

Samples
Network:
[Elsa is practically dancing with excitement as she passes through the Gate. Her fingers of her free hand are twitching, and it's obvious that she used her Bending (or her powers) to conjure up the mirror she usually uses to communicate over the Network.

I'm back, everyone. I just wanted to go home and see my sister for a while. [She gives an apologetic smile.] I know I probably should've said something ahead of time, but I was feeling homesick. I hope I wasn't gone too long.

[Locked to Loki]

During my trip home, I found out how to control my powers, but I know I still need practice. Do you think you could still help me?

Third Person:
She'd been gone for an entire year without realizing it. That had shocked her but not nearly as much as the rest of the news.

Anna was in Nautilus.

For a full minute, she'd stared, stunned, at the sight of her little sister. Her heart had shot into her throat, and she nearly choked. But for once it wasn't a bad feeling: She was so happy it was like her heart was trying to reach her sister before the rest of her could move.

Anna was in Nautilus, and Elsa didn't have to be afraid of hurting her.

Despite having been gone for a year, she found that picking up Bending again after you'd already learned it once was like riding a bike: You never really forgot. And she'd certainly had yet to forget that week she'd spent as a swan. With barely a thought, arms became wings as the rest of her shrank and stretched in a flurry of ice and snow. The swan form was different from last time though: Ice crystals glittered around her neck and atop her head like a diamond necklace and crown along with dusting her wings.

Take off was also relatively easy as she remembered how to fly. She beat her wings, flurries of snow coming off of them, as she took to the air and soared above Nautilus. From above, she could see that a lot of things had changed since she'd last been here, and she did want to take a closer look and ask what exactly had been going on. However, she wanted to reach her sister as quickly as possible; everything else could wait.

After all, they'd been apart for too long. Her Unwakened self was about to spend as much time as possible with her sister, and Elsa wanted to do the same.

Arriving at the spot Anna said she'd be waiting, Elsa swooped low and landed a tad less gracefully than if she'd been landing on the water, snow flurrying around her as she reverted to her normal form. She was now face-to-face with Anna, a few feet separating them.

Then, despite her haste in getting there, she stopped.

She wanted to run up to and hug Anna, but she was struck by sudden awkwardness. She'd basically just gotten her sister back from the dead, but Anna had been here alone for months.

She settled on a compromise, taking a hopeful step closer to her sister. She smiled, a brighter smile than the reserved one she used to give Anna back when they'd cross paths after the gates had first been closed. "I'm back."