Cosmere Characters as Songs from the Frozen Soundtrack
"It's winter," said my brain. "You should do something winter-themed, like matching up Cosmere characters to songs from the Frozen soundtrack even though everyone in the notes will yet at you for getting 'Let It Go' stuck in their head."
I mean, what is "unchained" but another way of saying that Moash wants to let it go?
2. "For The First time In Forever": Shallan
This is song about a girl who is finally able to leave her oppressive home which mostly contains bad memories and oh her parents are dead too. So basically Shallan in Way of Kings, although Anna is a bit more excited and optimistic than Shallan was. There is a secondary melody from Elsa about how anxious she is that she's going to mess up and kill everyone. That's also sung by Shallan.
3. "Love Is An Open Door": Wax and Lessie
This is a about being in love with someone who just gets you--although in this case the dude is totally lying out of his ass and is secretly the villain. So it's kinda gender-reversed with Wax and Lessie, who really connected immediately...which was partly because Lessie had been sent to Wax to spy on him and later she became a serial killer, so.
A singularly creepy song where a bunch of trolls try to convince a woman who is already engaged to marry their kid instead. And no offense to Wayne, but remember when he kept trying to break up Steris and Wax so that Wax and Marasi could get together instead? Yeah. And no, that didn't work whereas the song does ultimately work but that's okay. I think the song should not have worked. It was so creepy.
5. "Reindeer(s) Are Better Than People": Parlin
Poor Parlin. I always have to look up his name. But this song feels very right for this hunter from Warbreaker, whose wiki entry literally says "prefers forests and animals to cities and people." That's what the song is about!
A song sung by the snowman Olaf about how excited he is for summer. So basically a song about someone who wants something real bad not knowing that it would doom him. I'm imagining Vivenna singing about how excited she is to stop the war, along with an upbeat montage of her doing things that are totally making the war worse.
7. "Do You Want To Build A Snowman?": Nightblood
This is a song about looking for connection, about wanting to make friends. Also, "Do You Want To Kill Some Evil?" is the same number of syllables. Coincidence? I think not!
