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🥇 What scene were you most excited to write? Did it end up being the one you enjoyed writing the most?
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ooooh well okay so UNFORTUNATELY (ish), several endings to Rational Creatures were planned and changed over the course of that insane year and a half in which I was possessed by some sort of writing demon who I wish would return to me. One ending had Anna sailing off to do her cool tour of everywhere, which she desperately wanted to do in Forest of Shadows and never got to for shadowdreamwolf reasons (long story), leaving Hans to run the place as regent in her absence as Elsa gave her a good wind for her sails etc etc. I liked it. I strongly considered keeping it. Unfortunately (?) I didn't think it fit with the sense of responsibility that is I think canon to Anna and underlined in Rational Creatures, nor with Hans' development into a guy happy to play second fiddle so long as the first fiddle is Anna.
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I did. So much research for this fic. By which I mean read joyfully through two frozen novels and suffered through a few others, plus plumbing the depths of @nanasalt 's expertise on the subject (did you know one of the musical hansii took to instagram to confirm that Hans' pants have ten buttons? I mean you do if you read the author's notes for a particular chapter, but I didn't until I was like hey bookening I know and understand that underwear as we understand it was less of a thing but I like underwear what are my options please discuss and Kat was like well. I don't have underwear for you. But I do have a very particular insta story). Anyway I have so much Frozen trivia. I know so much about the mancusi and calonita heresies. I treasure the sacred texts of Benko and Rudnick. I side-eye the questionably workable short story collection. Etc etc.
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I really could have ignored A Frozen Heart by Elizabeth Rudnick. It is this book that rewired my brain chemistry (this does have to be taken with a grain of salt: I read it while covering someone's overnight shift, unhealthily caffeinated and equally unhealthily sleep-deprived). Rudnick gave us the canon that Hans has like. The Most Abusive Family On The Planet, up to and including throwing glass at Hans' head and expecting him as a young teen to go torture a guy about singing a less than flattering song about the family. It's also where we learn that his plan was specifically to seduce Elsa to Get Away From All That, bonus ruling a country (but mostly to Get Away From All That). AND THEN. He steps off the ship with "his favorite horse" (me: oh? horsegirl?) and hears someone laugh so happily and beautifully that he is compelled to turn and look and promptly just loses his everloving mind over this pretty girl smiling at people in the market. And then he learns she is the heir to the throne after her sister. So really not even five minutes after arriving in Arendelle and prior to even clapping eyes on Elsa he goes, I'm Gonna Pivot.
There is approximately zero ways to read A Frozen Heart and not reach the conclusion that Hans is utterly gone on Anna. It's almost as hard to reach the conclusion that Anna is not in a very real way gone on Hans. Like maybe it's not True Love, but these crazy kids ARE into each other. That doesn't mean they have to end up together, and it doesn't mean they're good for each other, and it doesn't mean we automatically ignore that Hans left Anna to die On Purpose. But it sure is fascinating to operate from that angle.
I also chose to roll with... heck I can't remember which version of the stage musical. ONE OF EM. It really looks like Elsa is sitting there going welp. Honestly. Go ahead and stab me. And if Hans is operating on the assumption (and on literally no sleep in three days, that is also a thing) that this lady is calling down an eternal winter, killed the girl he genuinely likes (he just left her to die okay what could he do about that)(my guy. my dude.)(anyway) and is just like well I guess I fuck off into the mountains!
Well. I'm just saying, as Sigrid did: we might all be considering drastic action at that point! And I don't even think Elsa would be mad about it.
Further, of course, acknowledging Forest of Shadows, where we learn that Anna remembers not only dying and being dead but is also aware that her memories have been fucked with. I feel like not enough people acknowledge that not only have Anna's memories been fucked with, but that she knows that now! That's got to throw a whole lot of questions about everything into the mix, plus like. Your sister did accidentally almost and actually kill you twice. Anna and Elsa's parents did the unlikely and parentified their youngest. It's WILD.
And of course Dangerous Secrets. I could have ignored that. I probably should have ignored that. I couldn't ignore that, it was too perfect to compare and contrast Anna and her relationships with her parents' hovering in the background. Can you believe Iduna and Agnarr are portrayed in the novel as the cutest awkward true love couple. CAN YOU BELIEVE. I did not make up a single solitary thing about it. I just acknowledged the horror, and in fact did not bring in some of the horror of Anna's pov in that book. My god.
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Jane Austen associating the word "rational" with women over six books:
Do not consider me now as an elegant female, intending to plague you, but as a rational creature, speaking the truth from her heart. - Elizabeth Bennet, Pride & Prejudice
“But I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures. We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.” - Mrs. Croft, Persuasion
She dearly loved her father, but he was no companion for her. He could not meet her in conversation, rational or playful. - Emma Woodhouse, Emma
“Oh! never, never, never! he never will succeed with me.” And she spoke with a warmth which quite astonished Edmund, and which she blushed at the recollection of herself, when she saw his look, and heard him reply, “Never! Fanny!—so very determined and positive! This is not like yourself, your rational self.” Fanny Price, Mansfield Park (we know that this is very much her rational self, also after a marriage proposal)
Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition. -Elinor Dashwood, Sense & Sensibility
You talked of expected horrors in London—and instead of instantly conceiving, as any rational creature would have done, that such words could relate only to a circulating library, - Henry Tilney, teasing his sister, Northanger Abbey
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Rational Creatures is an official selection of The Jane Austen International Film Festival!
We are honored to be a part of a festival named after Austen. Thanks to our cast, crew, and crowdfunding supporters for helping us get here. See you in Bath! ☕️