TW for suicide mention.
Okay so I'm planning on writing a fic where the ending of Frozen turns out differently. Anna's act of true love was too late to save her and she froze permanently and basically died. As a result of this, Elsa snaps and goes Evil Ice Queen. The fic will be pretty dark and effed up and I'm so excited.
Here are some headcanons I came up with for this fic. Most are copy/pasted from a notepad document where I have them all saved.
First, Elsa's ice magic is basically controlled by her emotions, right? And you know how much stress and fear and self loathing she has?
She's tried to kill herself several times, telling herself that everyone would be safe if she was gone and that Anna would make a better queen.
But her powers wouldn't let her die. Remember how she protected herself from an arrow without even thinking about it? She flinched and closed her eyes and when she opened them there was a wall of ice in front of her and the arrow was stuck in it, right?
If she tried to throw herself off a height, enough snow would appear under her to cushion her fall.
If she tried to drown herself then the water would freeze into a sort of "bowl" under her so none would get in her mouth or nose and she could climb out safely.
If she tried to hang herself, an ice pedestal would rise under her and prevent her from falling and being choked or having her neck broken by the rope, or the rope would just freeze and break.
If she tried to cut or stab herself, the blade would freeze and shatter before it could break her skin.
If she tried to poison herself, the poison would freeze and stick in her mouth, preventing her from swallowing.
And if she tried to kill herself with her own ice it always failed. She can't get hypothermia or freeze to death, so that's out. Any icicle she tried to stab or impale herself with would refuse to go any further when she got it close. Once she created a pit of ice spikes and threw herself into it. The spikes burst into soft snow before she hit them and she didn't get a single scratch.
This happened because in spite of her fear of hurting others and her self hate and belief that she was a monster and that everyone would be safer without her, she was afraid to die. Her fear of dying caused her powers to defend her from herself.
In the fic, she may or may not attempt to freeze her own heart in an attempt to numb the pain of losing Anna. But since she's immune to the cold, while it might make her colder as a person, she won't die or turn into solid ice. It may physically preserve her though, so she won't really age and her body will be preserved for a very long time and even when it does finally start to deteriorate and age, the dying cells are replaced by snow and ice so eventually her human body will be gone and her soul will reside in a body made of ice until someone figures out how to destroy her. The most effective way would probably be to stab her in the heart with a weapon that has fire magic. But until someone is able to get near enough to kill her, she'll continue as a destructive force, keeping her kingdom essentially cursed as a frozen wasteland where nothing can thrive and everything is dying. If her heart could be thawed or if she could be killed, the curse would be broken and the kingdom would thaw. But until then, she'll remain alone in a cold, dark castle, in a cold, dark land that she cursed to reflect the state of her heart and mind. It's cold, dark, cloudy, maybe snowing most of the time. But when she goes into a rage or has a breakdown, blizzards and storms come and can be deadly.
She's driven out any and all reminders of Anna, the childhood memories they had, and reminders of the happy life they could have had. Olaf and Kristoff and Sven are gone(either exiled or having left willingly, but they are still alive, just no longer in Arandelle), all the dolls and toys they played with as children are gone, even the paintings that Anna used to talk to in her loneliness are gone. It's all dark, hollow, empty, and gloomy. Icicles hang in every doorway and fall on idiots who enter without permission.
She kind of reminds me of Walpurgisnacht, the huge witch from Puella Magi Madoka Magica. The witch's nature was helplessness and she had no choice but to spin aimlessly in circles, going from place to place destroying everything and wishing someone would destroy her so she could stop, but being unable to stop because nobody was able to destroy her and every time someone failed to destroy her she only grew more powerful and her hatred and despair multiplied. That's what's happening to Elsa in my AU thing. She wants to stop cursing the land and destroying everything with her powers but she can't because her despair and hatred are too strong and she believes even if someone could stop her, nobody would want to because that would be the same thing as saving her, and she thinks she's so undeserving of salvation that saving her would be spitting in the face of everyone she hurt. This is another reason she'd be unable to commit suicide and it would be very difficult for someone else to kill her. She feels dying is too kind a fate for her.
Elsa taking "Revenge is a dish best served cold" literally.
People attempting to assassinate Elsa, only to have every attempt fail because her ice magic protects her too well and kills them.
Elsa pulling a Hulk on them and saying with a bitter laugh that they can't kill her, she knows, she's tried, but no matter what she does or what anyone else does, her magic won't let her die.
Elsa displaying her wrath for the assassination attempts by bringing down a winter so cold and dark it could be considered a plague.
Some brave idiot pulling a Katniss and saying "If we freeze to death, you freeze to death with us!" Only for Elsa to laugh and remind them that the cold never bothered her anyway as she freezes them from the inside by creating ice in their organs or bloodstream, then walk away after they fall lifelessly to the ground.
Elsa being a terrifying queen driven by anger and hatred and made more dangerous by her incredible magical ability as well as being very mentally unstable.
People calling her the Ice Witch instead of the Snow Queen and Elsa embracing that title.
Elsa being dark and brutal and having an insatiable hunger for revenge that she feels she can't curb until she destroys everything, including herself.
ICE GORE, TORTURE, AND KILLING
PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR
GRIEF
ANGER
DEATH
Also a few quotes I plan on using in the fic.
"I've lost the only thing I had, the only thing I was afraid of losing. There's no point in fearing anything anymore."
"I'm not afraid anymore. I was afraid before, afraid of hurting An- hurting her again. But now she's gone, and she took my fear with her."
"There's no fear.. No pain... No sadness..."
"You can't hurt me anymore. You can't take anything else away from me. I've already lost everything."
"Would Anna have wanted this?!"
"Anna is dead, and if you dare say her name again, you will be too."
"Feel my pain, Arandelle! You deserve it just as much as I do! My heart will never know warmth again, and neither will this land! The sun will never shine here or give life to anything here again!"
And my favorite
"No, Hans... My sister is dead because of you. She trusted you and loved you, and you betrayed her, broke her heart, put out the fire that could have kept her alive until she could be saved and abandoned her. You let her die a death that was probably agonizingly painful. Do you know what it's like to freeze to death? Maybe I should let you find out. But it won't be half as quick for you as it was for Anna."
Let me know what you think! If you have any cool ideas (pun so intended), feel free to share them! I'm so excited to write this!