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Have a new theme up! Itβs pretty basic, I might work on it some more later, but I wanted to get something out thatβs more minimalistic and bright!Β
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Have a new theme up! Itβs pretty basic, I might work on it some more later, but I wanted to get something out thatβs more minimalistic and bright!Β
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@applesforanna / au sc.
πππ πππππ πππππππ ππππ πππΒ wall with a great crash. The maids and footmen had finally started opening up other areas of the castle, and the figurehead queen had wandered in while they worked on some other room.Β
The room was untouched, by the violence of that night or passing years. Objects sat where they had before, coated in dust and cobwebs, but still in one piece. It was like they were mocking her, waiting for phantoms who were long dead. She had picked up the plate, brushing away the dirt, and suddenly needed it away from her. A two halves of her were at war: the one who dreaded the change of anything in the place that had once been home, and the one who wanted nothing more than to never gaze upon the objects of her past again.
A scream seemed to rip from her as she threw another plate and a figurine of porcelain. Falling to her knees, Elsa sat amongst the mess for a moment before the hairs on the back of her neck stood up. Someone was there with her.Β
βDid Gerda send you?β she asked, looking to the newest maid on the staff.Β Β
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Anna flinched about three times. The first two, brought about by smashed china and porcelain, flinches that hurried her feet to those doors ajar. The third was brought about from the queen's lips, for the scene before the maid was mesmerizing in its agony, and had captured Anna into stillness.
But here was her queen, brought to her knees before her, and it was surely shameful to be gawking like that.
"No, I was---" She started, then paused. Took a breath, took her skirts, and stepped in. "---I was just helping out with the wing's cleaning, but---"
She was careful with it, made sure there weren't any shards nearby, but sat she did, kneeled beside Elsa. Spoke gently, quietly. "---Well, it looks like we weren't the only ones."
She looked about the room a little more, politely keeping her gaze away from the royal for the moment, eyes darting about at the decor in the room, both the intact and the damaged, the cobwebs and the unlit hearth. The smell was familiar---it reminded her of the older library in the abbey, the corners that were less maintained, the shed by the horse stalls, and something unnamed, something older.
That last part had kept her a little out of sorts all day. Maybe it was just the dust.
"So!" she said with a breath, wringing the rag in her hands, a silent decision made. She turned to Elsa and gave her a grin. "What's next here? Should we break some more plates?"
Goodness knows one of the higher maids would have been appalled to hear those words from her lips, but they weren't here! If the Queen needed some catharsis, then Anna might as well aid her.
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you are deep pink #FF1493
Your dominant hues are red and magenta. You love doing your own thing and going on your own adventures, but there are close friends you know you just can't leave behind. You can influence others on days when you're patient, but most times you just want to go out, have fun, and do your own thing. Your saturation level is high - you get into life and have a strong personality. Everyone you meet will either love you or hate you - either way, your goal is to get them to change the world with you. You are very hard working and don't have much patience for people without your initiative. Your outlook on life is very bright. You are sunny and optimistic about life and others find it very encouraging, but remember to tone it down if you sense irritation.
tagged by: @dalvveβ tagging: anyone!!
Be prepared. Just when you think you found your way, life will throw you onto a new path.
FROZEN 2 (2019) dir. Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee
βIβve got her! Hang on!β
The Art Of Frozen 2 (2019)
" Please dont think terribly of us Anna, we wanted to tell you. We were going to let you back in. As soon as we came back. We were going to open the gates."
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Β Β Β Β Β Her mother spoke to her quietly, and Anna held her hand, the clearing in that fog-cleared forest held by an audience of only two.
Β Β Β Β Β That grasp grew tighter at those words, heart fluttering, eyes looking down at their clasped palms rather than at the older woman sat before her. To hear those words, that confession and wish, to hear them truly come from her motherβs tongue, it brought up emotions Anna hadnβt the words for. But it wasnβt the first time she had felt such a thing.
Β Β Β Β Β ββI know,β she finally replied, looking back up at her mother, eyes soft and smile tender-hearted, βElsaβ¦ she showed me. A memory, from Ahtohallan, from a conversation between you and Pappa, before you two went andββ Her breath hitched. ββbefore--before you left.β
Β Β Β Β Β After Elsaβs gift, after Anna had witnessed that memory once lost to time, turmoiled thoughts swirled in her head in the nights, kept her awake. They were going to let her in, but why had it taken so long? Why only then? And why did the sea have to take them before they could? The knowledge had been at first sweet and then bitter, like a plum turned inside out.
Β Β Β Β Β But her mother had returned to her, and all those questions had evaporated from her mind. It had been a lost, lonely childhood, but her parents had done their best with what they had, and Anna was just glad to have one of them back.
Β Β Β Β Β βI forgave both of you years ago,β she said, and surely that was also true, a teary smile upon her face, arms coming βround her mother for a tight squeeze. βItβs in the past now.β
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πππ ππππ πππ πππππππ ππ rubbing calming circles into the little thingβs back, trying to alleviate some of the tension in her young shoulders. Sometimes an answer would come, giving a reason for the upset, and sometimes it wouldnβt. Or, perhaps, Anna just hadnβt the words to express the reason. She was only a tiny thing of four, after all.Β
βOh, dear,β she said, voice quiet and sympathetic.Β βWell now, thatβs no good. Do you know whatβs keeping you from sleeping?β
No wonder she was weepy if she wasnβt getting the sleep she needed. Elsa certainly knew how much tiredness could affect ones mood, having experienced it often enough herself. Sitting back slightly, she had Anna more laying on her than sitting up herself, hoping that might calm her a little.Β
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Β Β Β Β Β "Yeah," mumbled the cranky little princess, burrowed in her sister's arms. How could this little girl know of what those arms around her held? Know of her own future? An entire kingdom, a passed down legacy and oath? Not truly, not more than a toddler could. And so she had no qualms in interrupting Elsa's rare respite of an evening.
Β Β Β Β Β Elsa's question got a whine from frustrated lips, a red head shaking and no doubt crinkling fabric. the young princess clung, latched herself onto Elsa because that was better than the bed and the room and the sky that was bright from the moon. "I dunno'," she mumbled, looked up at her sister with her face all scrunched up, then back down. "I dunno, Mamma."
Β Β Β Β Β The queen sat back, and Anna squirmed a little more, settling in.
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πππ πππ πππππππ πππππππ πππ clambering and climbing, pulling the blankets back for the little girl and then tucking them back around, her arms hugging her sister to her. Her body was warm against her skin, her solid weight somehow calming her.Β
βAt least the birds remembered to wake up,β Elsa murmured back, pressing a tender kiss to Annaβs forehead.Β βYou know, I didnβt hear them. Perhaps I will tomorrow. Do you know what you want for breakfast?β
That lack of judgement in the child somehow made things both easier and harder. Easier in that there was no resentment between them for what the elder saw as her weakness. There was no one for Anna to rely on but her, and yet she had lazed around in bed long past the time things needed to be done. And yet harder because she always feared the day that innocent acceptance would end. When would she grow old enough to see Elsa for what she was?Β
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Β Β Β Β Β "Uhm--uhm---you heard me! Maybe---maybe I can be the birds for you!" Anna declared, whispering quickly being forgotten, tucked in tight in her older sister's arms, squirming as she received that kiss, squirming until everything felt just right. The question of breakfast was fast forgotten in the young one's wild thoughts, her mind tinkering around the idea of birds and their wings and little beaks. "Do I need wings? Birds can hop too! Hop, hop, on the ground! Why do they do that?"
Β Β Β Β Β Reciprocity. It was as natural as the daylight through the window. Days where Anna would bounce out of her bed and scurry over to Elsa's----days where Elsa would take a snoring child into her arms and bounce her awake. Anna didn't question either routine, took it for what it was, glad to have arms to climb into either way.
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As the silence settled about the woods that surrounded them, the heavy, rasping breaths of the blonde woman became evident. Each puff of air was strained and raspy, heavy in their sputtering expulsion as pain accompanied each one. Yet, Elsa remained standing. An act of defiance at the pain that coursed through her, the pulsing aches that encouraged her to falter. And for a moment, it seemed she might have won that battle, too.
But, trembling legs finally gave out beneath her, the beaten and bruised woman crumpling onto the ground. Knees fell onto the earth with a muffled THUMP, her stiff stance slumped and head lolled forward, chin resting against her chest. Elsa couldnβt remember the last time she had felt so drained, so disoriented. Focus struggled to find purchase, to find a sense of reality to keep her grounded and present.
Kneeling on the ground, the wild woman remained there for a minute, then two; perhaps even three, before she seemed to catch her breath. Her senses were dulled and unfocused, but that didnβt stop her from slowly looking over to the tree she knew the red-haired woman hid behind. Faltering sight struggled to find even a hint of the otherβs presence; a flash of red hair, a glimpse of tanned, freckled skin. Yet, she could find none.
What could she do now? Call to her? Would she even understand her? Elsa wasnβt sure. So long had it been since she had uttered her little sisterβs name. As long as it had been since sheβd even laid eyes upon the younger girl. But, surely she had to tryβ¦right?
ββ¦A-Ahβ Ahβnn,β came the blondeβs struggling attempt. Mouth and tongue struggling to form the sounds that were needed to call out her sisterβs name.
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Β Β Β Β Β Β Anna sat stock still behind that trunk, chest heaving and knuckles white in the way they grasped at the grass underneath her. She could hear her own heartbeat in her ears, feel the rush of adrenaline tear at her lungs, course through her limbs.Β
Β Β Β Β Β Time passed a bit before Anna realised the battle had ended, that silence had once again fallen in the forest. She blinked after a while, realising the gasps she was hearing wasn't just her own.
Β Β Β Β Β And then, curious sounds. Were they words, or just moans of pain?Β It almost sounded like... But surely that was just a coincidence?Β The muscle in her leg twitched, shaking from the exhaustion, and the disshevelled princess drew herself from her stiff position, looked out from her hiding spot.
Β Β Β Β Β One look at the kneeled blonde was all it took for her to scramble out. "Oh no, oh no, oh no--" Β Hands hovered, not knowing what to do, knees dropping down beside her, tongue ready to ramble. "Oh God---Who are you, what---why---God, oh God---you're hurt---"Β
Kenneth Beauchamp in Punch magazine, May 16, 1928
βDo you think the forest will wake again?β