Frozen draft finished

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Right, the first draft of my "Frozen" story is finished, with the provisional title "The Opportunist" -- unless I can think of a better one -- and the summary "Hans could resist everything except temptation". I can't very well tag it as a Hans/Anna 'pairing', though to be honest it's nearer to that than anything else, in a twisted way...

I need to go back and do some edits for consistency; I think I got a bit mixed up between trying to maintain the coldly dismissive tone of the original and simplifying it to Hans basically telling the truth. This version of Hans is not really telling the truth to anyone, least of all himself, I think.

I'm slightly disturbed to discover via DeviantArt that there is apparently a flourishing school of fans busy pairing Hans off with Elsa, presumably in the same enterprising spirit of mopping up the spares as those who assume that Raoul is destined to couple up to Meg once the Phantom has appropriated his former fianceé ;-p

Comments

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I'd head-canon her as justifiably traumatised, myself!

(Homosexuality doesn't -- normally -- kill anyone who comes near you, and Elsa's fear is based on very real experience; she doesn't want to hurt other people every time she forgets herself or gets upset. So you could equally well position it as a coming of age story in which she reaches adulthood when she gains conscious control over her powers rather than being at the mercy of every passing emotion, like a toddler :p)

It's entirely understandable that Elsa is afraid of intimacy with anyone, whether on a romantic level or not. Once she has control of her powers and can use them for good, then I think that particular barrier will probably fade away -- we've already seen her allowing herself to get closer to Anna, which is a 'safe' pre-existing relationship.