#sisterly

brotherly! ⸻ a term for presenting brotherly/in a brother-like way!

sibling-like! ⸻ a term for presenting in a sibling-like way!

sisterly! ⸻ a term for presenting sisterly/in a sister-like way!

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Sometimes I tend to imagine what the franchise would have been like if Elsa and Anna were more than 3 years apart, and I thought it would be interesting to share that here and also talk about sibling relationships based on age gaps.

Summary:

3 years apart

What if Anna was born in the year of Elsa's 8th birthday?

What if Anna was born in the year of Elsa's 18th birthday?

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3 years apart

In the canon of the franchise, our two sisters from Arendelle are approximately 3 years apart. We saw at least 5 periods of their lives in total in Frozen 1 and 2 : the childhood period when Elsa was approximately 8 and Anna was 5, the period when Elsa was approximately 11 and Anna was 8, the period of the death of the parents (Agnarr and Iduna) when Elsa was almost 18 and Anna was 15, and the coronation period when Elsa was crowned in the year of her 21st birthday and Anna was 18. In Frozen 2, Elsa was almost 24 and Anna was 21.

The night before last, I was googling out of curiosity about the consequences of large and small age differences in sibling relationships. A lot of people think that brothers and sisters who are close in age get on better than brothers and sisters with a big age difference, but according to a study I read with a graph it's the opposite, brothers and sisters with a big age difference get on better because there's no longer that feeling of rivalry. But I'd like to point out that every sibling relationship is different, for example in the Disney universe I find it a little illogical to compare the duo of Nani and Lilo with the duo of Elsa and Anna by saying that Nani and Lilo are more realistic, they're simply not the same thing. Elsa and Anna are both adults, while Nani is 19 years old, so although she's mature and responsible for her age, she's still young and naturally strong-temperament, so she has less patience than Elsa, who is a 24-year-old queen and naturally calm-temperament. Lilo is just a 6-year-old girl who also has her own strong-temperament character, so if I count the 13-year gap between Nani and Lilo, it's not the same as Elsa and Anna, who are only 3 years apart. What's more, they don't take place in the same era - Lilo and Stitch is closer to the present day, while Frozen is set in the 19th century. Elsa and Anna couldn't afford to use insults or foul language, and they've been isolated separately for 13 years, so I think arguing is the last thing they need.

What if Anna was born in the year of Elsa's 8th birthday?

If Anna had been born in the year of Elsa's 8th birthday, Frozen 1 and 2 would have been a little different. Elsa wouldn't be isolated out for accidentally hitting Anna with her ice powers, because Anna would just be a baby. Anna would have been 13 in Frozen 1 and 16 in Frozen 2, and I think that would have been interesting. As I said above, according to the study I found, when siblings are more than 6 years apart there's no longer that “feeling” of rivalry like “I've got this” “well I've got that”, it'll be more like the older one teaching the younger one lots of things and the younger one being in awe and wanting to do the same. But as I said, it depends on the family. For example, Elsa and Anna, who were 3 years apart, never really behaved as rivals, they were always accomplices, so I think that if they were 8 years apart, their sisterly relationship wouldn't really have changed, or maybe it would have been slightly less complicated because there wouldn't have been any isolation.

What if Anna was born in the year of Elsa's 18th birthday?

The story would have taken a completely different turn, Elsa would have spent most of her life as an only child, and would not have been isolated. Anna would have been born a few months before the death of her parents, which means she would not have really known them. Elsa would have taken care of her, with the help of her steward Gerda or a nanny, so that she could prepare to become queen. This would have given her two big responsibilities, and her sisterly relationship with Anna would have been a bit like mother and daughter, but I think they would have been accomplices all the same. 18 years apart is huge, in Frozen 1 Anna would have been 3 and in Frozen 2 she would have been 6, it's so sweet and something I would have loved to see. Elsa would have told her as much as possible about their parents, and Anna would have called her by her name because she would have known after a while that they were sisters.

My point of view:

Personally I love the original where Elsa and Anna are 3 years apart, if they'd had more age gaps it wouldn't have been the same, especially the scene at the end where Anna sacrifices herself for Elsa and Elsa is horrified and collapses on her sister's frozen body. It's one of the most beautiful scenes in this franchise, and the fact that they were isolated for all that time is horrible, but it adds something extra. But in another sense I can't help thinking that if they'd been 8 years apart, it might have been interesting and in some ways better, Elsa wouldn't have been isolated at 8 but I can imagine she would have been at 13 for accidentally hitting 5-year-old Anna with her powers. A few years later at the coronation, Anna wouldn't have tried to marry a man she'd just met because she was only 13, but we all know how stubborn she can be, so she would surely have found another way to upset and stress Elsa.

On the other hand, in Frozen 2, Elsa wouldn't have stayed in the Enchanted Forest because Anna would be 16 and too young to be queen. And as I said, with an 8-year age gap, Elsa and Anna's complicity wouldn't have been so different, and they would have had real conversations, especially in Frozen 2. Elsa would be 24, as in the original, but Anna would be 16 instead of 21. At 16, you start to understand and know more and more things, and it's also the classic age for Disney princesses, so they would have had no problem talking to each other as sisters.

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