Hey! I love this fic as it is a beautiful interpretation of the Mirror!Hans theory. Would you mind terribly if I use the idea of Hans curse in one of my fics? (I’ll just be using the circumstances aka his inability to express himself bc of a curse) but if you don’t want me to it’s fine. If I do of course with your permission I’ll credit you.

Hello, I love your fic! I’ve read a lot of theories about Hans as a mirror/ the mirror in the Snow Queen / having the mirror inside him but this takes it to an incredible level! I love it and your writing style is beautifully elegant, thank you for this wonderful fic

Why do you describe a child that is nothing but curious and nice as annoying and an asshat? Also Kristoff and Anna being ableistic c*nts the whole story is fine too apparently. I love your story so far, its just these details that grind my gears. I appreciate Anna hating Hans and being suspicious, but after having it CONFIRMED by everyone that he really is cursed she should at least try to pull her head out of her ass and stop being heartless.

I don't think "in lieu" means what you think it means. In fact, as I read your story, there were a number of words you used which I felt this way about.

I loved that last line of elsa's to anna, about being treated a monster. it rings true and Elsa has every right to say it

What a fascinating and awesome story! The plot was unique and clever - the curse of mirroring other people's feelings. Ansa was a villainess whom I loved and hated at the same time. She was caught in the curse as a child and never broke free and did terrible things. I liked how Elsa was seeing herself in Hans' imprisonment and did everything in her power to help him, even jeopardizing her relationship with Anna. Thanks for sharing this wonderful story with us!

That...was...AWESOME! Thankyou!

This was such a wonderful story! Honestly I loved every minute of reading it and was so sad to come to the end. But what a wonderful ending! Wonderful job all the way around!

This looks to interesting and promising to let it go. Keep it up!

Liliana Dragonshard

Great story.

This was a compelling story, and I didn't come for the pairing. It was recommended to me because it's Elsa-centric, and you did a great job of showing her character and inner life.

I'm really keen on Ansa, though. Her backstory was dark like a Grimm's fairy tale, or one of the non-European stories about good people who are cursed to become demons/monsters. If you write original stand-alone fiction, I would love to read Ansa's full story, all the way through her madness/villainy. In fact, I'm sitting here after reading this story all in one day, feeling bad that Ansa was an innocent who was changed into a monster through no (apparent) fault of her own, and that she doesn't really get a final moment of release/return to humanity. There's her one "I'm sorry," but here Hans got an entire 75,000 words of redemption plus several chapters after being free of the curse.

I'm probably in a minority on that. Nothing new, for me.

You just did such an interesting OC. I also liked how you turned the Woman Who Could Do Magic from SQ into a Hansel-and-Gretel style witch. Eeek! But I thought it was her, at the SI castle when Elsa and Anna show up and meet the old grey-haired maid. I thought that maybe Nona had tracked Ansa down and killed everyone, and that Ansa wasn't as much of a villain as we were meant to think at that point.

Again, great story. It was a pleasure to spend my afternoon reading.

This was beautifully written, thank you for this story! Just a question though, does this mean that Hans is in essence, a snowman? Does his heart beat? Can he still age?

Best wishes,
WS

This has been a very meaty alternative on Frozen's characters! The idea was brilliant (I had similar feelings about a shard from "The Devil's Mirror" affecting Hans' heart in an AU version of Frozen to kind of better sync it with The Snow Queen) and it stands on its own.

I'd vouch that this could be a possibility as well if it weren't for a few canon depictions and author notes by the writers. Hans faces his own reflection near the end of Frozen (thus becoming "his true self") and does not mirror Anna's emotions when he begins to tell her his scheme. Jennifier Lee has labeled him a sociopath by nature, the "chameleon" purposely mimicing those around him in order to further his goals whilst preying on a victim (Anna), and all of his movements fit her description perfectly. What he acts like is indeed his true self. For that, I take this as an astounding variation that's much better than that and rock with it as its own juicy universe.

The characters are written *very* naturally, right down to the body language; Kristoff is probably at the highest level of IC I've seen anywhere. I am ambivalent about Anna, but there's nothing that sticks out sorely for me at all. The only characterization that seems to fall weak is Elsa's - or rather, her portrayal in the romance.

I don't get the vibe that she would talk openly about her reclusive personality traits and isolated trials with a stranger at coronation. It's not simply because mentioning those "faults" caused such a stir in her heart in the film, although it did seem a point that she hide said faults (shut-in habits) and step into the illusion of being the "perfect" queen people thought her to be without letting anyone intuit a single "ripple" in her calm pools. However, it is her personality as a whole that makes it hard for me to believe she would divulge what she did to Hans after a few minutes of conversation; they'd need to go through something first. Rather than being pleasantly proper in a way that still keeps one distant (as this is all properity does to me), she's affable in a way that she possibly would not even be with Anna after a good amount of development.

It's not to say that I buy she's a "closed message," but elusive and obscure while still retaining that rehearsed smile, most certainly. "You needn't be so formal, really" - sounds most appropriate for Anna. Formality is indeed Elsa's ground, and would be advocated; it would be informal to say that another party needn't be formal when it is the mandatory statesmanship she was taught to assert. She expects foreign parties to be formal towards the title she carries. Anna intuited that and imitated accordingly.

I also am not sure if I felt a chemistry between Elsa and Hans as they were written.

But all in all, this is definitely one of my favorite film portrayals in this section, so please don't take those comments as a jab against any creative ventures you've written (or a tote that I write any of the Frozen characters well, because I don't. At all. I can't step into them and execute them, but I can step into what *other* people do with them and really enjoy myself), because nothing I mentioned stopped me from loving your thought form from top to bottom. It's great inspiration, including everyone's characterizations.

And I'm sleepy so this might be incoherent. ;w;

AWWWW I loved every second of this fic! Marvelously written C:

I remember reading about this! How in the original story of the Snow Queen, she had a magic mirror that she could use to watch the heroes of the story on their journey. In a way, Hans was the mirror in Frozen! So love that you've made a story out of that concept!