(Alternate Timeline)

Disclaimer: This story takes place in an alternate timeline of Frozen, where Elsa and Anna’s father survived the voyage at sea and ruled Arendelle during the eternal winter.

In my version of the story, Elsa knew about Hans long before anyone else did. Not completely, but enough. She noticed how his kindness felt rehearsed, how his voice changed when power was involved, and how he spoke to soldiers and advisors when he thought no one important was listening 🐍. She saw manipulation hiding behind charm. But she stayed silent—because she was already feared, already misunderstood, and accusing a prince without proof could drag Arendelle into war ⚔️.

This time, the climax doesn’t happen in the mountains.

It happens in the middle of the city.

Arendelle is frozen solid ❄️🏙️. Ice covers the streets, towers rise like jagged monuments, and terrified citizens watch from windows and doorways. There is no secrecy. No isolation. Everything happens in front of everyone.

Hans doesn’t hesitate.

In front of the people, he kills Anna.

There is no pause. No miracle. No magic saving her at the last second.

Anna falls to the frozen ground and doesn’t move again 💔🕊️.

That moment destroys Elsa.

She drops beside her sister, holding her, crying openly. Not screaming. Not panicking. Just raw, uncontrollable grief 😭❄️. For the first time in her life, Elsa stops suppressing her emotions. And as she does, something changes.

The ice cracks. The snow softens. The eternal winter begins to melt 🌨️➡️💧.

Not because of power. Not because of control. But because of loss ❤️‍🔥.

Hans steps forward again, raising his weapon, convinced he has already won 😈.

He never gets the chance.

An ice spike erupts and pierces straight through his heart, killing him instantly ❄️💥. Elsa doesn’t even look when it happens. Her magic moves before her thoughts do—fast, cold, automatic.

Hans’s soldiers freeze in shock.

And then the truth is revealed.

They were never there to help Arendelle. They were the first wave of an invasion 🚢⚔️.

Far away, in another kingdom, Hans’s father watches his son die from his palace 🏰. His face hardens. He gives the order.

War.

Ships appear on the horizon. Soldiers flood the city. Arendelle becomes a battlefield.

Elsa stands at the center of it all.

And this time—she doesn’t hold back.

Her grief turns into rage 🔥❄️. Ice becomes sharper, faster, deadlier. Soldiers fall one by one, and sometimes entire groups are wiped out in a single sweeping motion 🧊🗡️. Armor shatters. The ground freezes and breaks beneath them. The air itself becomes a weapon.

She isn’t fighting to protect anymore.

She’s fighting because she has nothing left to lose.

As the battle nears its end, one last knight—wounded and dying—fires an arrow 🏹.

It strikes Elsa’s father.

He falls slowly, collapsing before her eyes 👑💔.

Elsa sees it happen.

Something inside her goes completely silent.

She raises her hand and hurls a massive ice spike that obliterates the knight and his horse in a single instant 💥❄️. No hesitation. No mercy. Just an ending.

The battle stops.

Silence fills Arendelle.

Elsa stands among the ruins, having lost two family members in one single day—her sister and her father 💔💔. The kingdom is saved, but at a cost that can never be undone.

Kristoff approaches her carefully and tries to comfort her 🤍. He speaks of peace. Of rebuilding. Of choosing a different path.

Elsa listens.

Then she looks ahead, her expression calm, empty, and unshaken, and says just one word:

“Revenge.” 🧊👑

Post-Credit Scene 🌑❄️

Elsa now stands as Queen of Arendelle. Her crown shines like frozen steel. Before her lies the frozen sea, filled with hundreds of ships, their hulls strengthened with ice 🚢❄️.

She stands at the front of the largest one, her cape flowing like a storm.

She is no longer sailing to defend her kingdom.

She is sailing toward Hans’s homeland.

The war didn’t end in Arendelle.

It only just began ⚔️❄️🔥.

It has been two years since the events of my Frozen rewrite. Both Elsa/Hans and Anna/Kristoff are happy together. Hans has even moved to Arendale and is known as Elsa’s boyfriend. But one day a wedding invitation arrives for their cousin Princess Rapunzel of Corona and her fiancée Eugene.

Both Anna and Elsa are like “Wait, we have a cousin” because they didn’t realize they have family outside of Arendale because of those years they had been in isolation and because Rapunzel had spent the first eighteen years of her life locked in a tower. Before going to Corona, Elsa is warned by Pabbie to be careful because she is something called the Moon Queen. Basically Rapunzel’s mom is the younger sister of Elsa and Anna’s dad. The Arendale group arrives in Corona where Elsa and Anna instantly get along with Rapunzel who do to events in her TV series has her long golden hair back. You can also include her friends from the TV series Cassandra and Varian.

Cassandra finds out that her mother, Mother Gothel could come back to life and they have to stop it. Elsa, Anna, Hans, and Kristoff agree to help especially since they know of how Rapunzel was traumatized by her. You can have the Stabbington brothers act as a minor antagonist with Hans admitting that those are some of his older brothers since I like that theory.

ok here’s some 2020 stuff abt my frozen rewrite :)

in the rewrite,

Elsa is inspired greatly by “Bad Elsa” early designs by Claire Keane, Broadway Musical Elsa, and her personality is a lot like the “Life’s Too Short” demo Elsa >:) She’s anxious, and doesn’t really know how to connect to others, especially those she loves.

Anna is an optimist against all odds, and wants to be a positive influence on everyone’s life by being kind to everyone. It’s not great for her. She also thinks that true love can only be shared between people who are alike.

Hans is like a puppy. He’s not a twist villain, he just really connects with Anna and loves her, but like her, he has the unconscious belief that true love can only be shared between people who are alike. He’s generally harmless, and just wants to help. Not great when people around him take advantage of this.

Kristoff is our true leftist king more of a pessimist when it comes to everything, but in comparison to Anna, it makes him a realist. He knows a lot about love, even if he’s never had any interest in a romantic relationship himself. He clashes a lot with Anna, but still has a good friendship with her. He also replaces Olaf in the post-Hans kiss scene.

Bulda replaces the trolls! She is knowledgeable in magic and all things prophecies.

Of course I thought of that while reading the end. But still, I don't think anon will write that story. Who knows though.

I honestly don't know what to think. It just doesn't feel at all like a Frozen movie or a Disney movie to me.

As for Hans. He is different but that's not an improvement from the way I see it. I'm glad and relieved he wasn't painted as a villain though, thank you to the writer.

Hans walked towards what was left of the giant and – amongst the wreckage – he saw the Heart of Winter disintegrated before his eyes: The Winter Giant was finally destroyed for good. Moments later, Elsa emerged from the wreckage and tried to look for Anna. After a while, she found Anna lying unconscious on the ground. While Anna was not injured by the collapsing giant, she succumbed to the freezing curse, as her body was cold and pale. Even though she was voiceless again, Elsa tried to wake Anna up by calling her name and nudged her body. Each time, however, Anna remained motionless. Elsa became devastated: She thought she had lost Anna forever.

Elsa cuddled Anna's body very tightly and began breaking down in tears. While crying, she let out one last cry of Anna's name. This cry, unlike the previous ones, was audible and echoed in the North Mountain. A snowflake-shaped glow then appeared between Elsa's neck and chest: Elsa had regained her voice. The ice covering parts of Anna's body began to disperse and her body gradually became warmer. Moments later, Anna woke up and let out a weak smile at Elsa: She was alive again. The tears that Elsa shed were now tears of joy and she cuddled Anna firmly once more. Both Kristoff and Hans were visibly touched by the scene.

Hans also noticed that the shattered Heart of Winter transformed into a snowy butterfly. The butterfly landed on Hans' hand. Hans looked surprised but he knew this butterfly was not a remnant of the Winter Giant. After noticing its similarity with Elsa's new glowing snowflake pattern, Hans was confident that the butterfly was Elsa's own creation. He then handed the butterfly to Elsa and told her that not only she destroyed the Winter Giant from within and fulfilled the prophecy, she now has full control over its magic. Both Elsa and Anna were delighted upon hearing Hans' words. With Anna's encouragement, Elsa guided the butterfly to thaw the snow everywhere. Spring had returned at last.

Back in Arendelle, Hans told the people of Arendelle how Elsa, with the help of Anna, defeated the once invincible Winter Giant through the power of family love, and they should be proud to have Elsa as their ruler. He also asked the people to perceive Elsa's magic as a reward for overcoming the seemingly impossible, given her inherent disability and the difficult circumstance she was deliberately placed in by a supernatural power. The people were touched by Hans' tale and cheered for their queen.

A day later, Anna brought Kristoff to the palace and presented him his reward for helping her in her journey to save Elsa: A new sledge to replace one that was destroyed during their first journey to the North Mountain. Meanwhile, at the throne room, Elsa thanked Hans for helping to defeat the Winter Giant, but Hans insisted that it was she who did most of the fighting. When he had finished speaking, Anna and Kristoff approached him. He greeted the princess politely, only to be slapped in the face by her, to the surprise of Elsa and Kristoff. Anna than told him that the slap was for lying to her. Hans calmly apologized and admitted he made up a few things about himself except one: he still loved Arendelle and wished to visit it again if given the chance. He then told both sisters that his work in Arendelle was done and must now travel to other places to keep protecting humanity from evil supernatural forces.

Minutes later, Elsa and Anna bid farewell to the departing foreign guests, including Hans. Later that night, Elsa showed off her ice magic to the amazement of her people and later skated happily together with Anna in the palace's grand hall, which was temporarily converted to an ice-skating rink.

THE END

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Well, that's the end of the story!

This is actually my first serious attempt to write a plot, so I apologize if it's neither as concise as a synopsis nor as detailed as a typical story you would find in a book.

I hope you all find it enjoyable and that it is has succeeded in resolving most of the major plot issues found in the existing version. All of you are also welcomed to take the story apart and improve it.

Thanks again to @disneysfrozenguy for letting me share my proposed rewrite with you all. Rewriting the story of Frozen had made me realized that it's often easier to point out problems of a story than to offer feasible solutions to fix it.

I would like to conclude this post with a quote by the late Martin Charnin, who was the lyricist of the musical Annie:

"As a composer and a lyricist, you are often asked which comes first, the music or the lyrics? The answer is the book. And the reason that the book comes first is that you cannot successfully write a song unless you have a scene to go there in front of it to make it all make sense.”

I think you have a different vision for almost every character, actually.