That scene in frozen where she’s in the activated memory cave and she sees her grandfather, and she’s so exited because she never got to know him? Stop a second. Analyse that scene with your queer glasses on.
Oh look! A relative I’ve been taught to respect all my life!i can finally see them and how they acted! Awesome
“ magic makes people feel too powerful. Too entitled. It makes them think they can defy the will of a king.”
This is Elsas worst nightmare, or has been for the longest time. She fears most of all that her family/loved ones, the people she cares about would abandon her or shun her for the power she holds. A power she did not choose, a power she also loves and feels good leaning into. When her grandfather, in this scene, does exactly that, look how she reacts! Look at her expressions
She shakes her head, she’s mortified, disillusioned. How could her own family shun and devalue this part of her? Where is the love? The compassion? her grandfather, in his fear of the northuldra people and their magic, the same people Elsa derives from! The same magic she wields! He saw them as lesser. As pests.
Elsa is confronted with the same feelings so many queer people face when their family doesn’t accept them. It took me a while to fully find the subtext in this scene but once I saw it there I could never look at this scene the same. It’s unmistakable.
