History Fanfic / FrozenWight

* WholesomeCrossdresser: Marshmallow wants to wear womens' clothing. Olaf has promised to keep it a secret.

* TroubledBackstoryFlashback: Part 2 has one running concurrent with the main plot, mostly to reiterate that Elsa and Anna had bad childhoods (expanding on things that "Do You Want to a Build a Snowman?" may have only hinted at), and relapsing into that situation would be undesirable. [[spoiler:And to show the creation of Mary.]]

* ThouShaltNotKill: Like in the movie, Elsa is tempted to kill her enemies.
** [[spoiler:She does (seemingly) kill the wight once she's trapped him in ice, but this is implied to be due to Mary's influence on her. Later on, when Elsa's in her right mind with the wight once again at her mercy, she spares him.]]

*** Then it turns out the peddler is actually the curator of a local art gallery, and brother to the deceased court painter that had been hired to do Elsa's and Anna's new portraits, only to be killed by the wight. [[FoeYayShipping And he's made paintings depicting Elsa getting it on with Hans]].

** [[spoiler: Various instances of ChekhovsGun have rendered this anything but completely different.]]

* RightBehindMe: Anna invokes this trope after laughing about how an "Official Ice Master" isn't really a thing, in front of Kristoff.

** There are serious repercussions to Elsa's "eternal winter", such as dead crops and livestock.
** FantasticRacism is a thing, with Elsa dealing with Adrian, an ice harvester who blames her for the death of his daughter (actually the work of the wight). Adrian is also able to incite a mob of similar prejudiced people KKK-style to lead a rebellion.

** After Elsa transforms the castle into a second ice palace early in the story to cover up the rebellion damage, the castle stays that way for most of the story. However, in the last chapter, Elsa mentions to Anna that she's going to undo most of the ice-related changes as it's hard to constantly maintain the ice, especially the new ice tower (since the story takes place after ''Olaf's Frozen Adventure'' but before ''Frozen Fever'', this also explains why the castle is back to its normal appearance by the latter story).

* PrecisionFStrike: ''Anna'', of all people. Towards [[spoiler: Elsa, following their first ever big argument.]]

* NotWhatItLooksLike: Kristoff has to reassure Elsa that his first encounter with Anna as a child and his encounter with her as an adult were just coincidences and not some conspiracy with the trolls.

* ObliviousToLove: Elsa gets more and more this way the more obvious Fritz's feelings become.
** [[spoiler:Eventually his feelings become a little [[SelectiveObliviousness TOO obvious]]...]]

-->"So does everyone just call that guy 'the Admiral?' Doesn't he have, like, an actual name?"

** [[spoiler:[[{{Reconstruction}} ...until we learn she was actually killed by Daniel, and not a single person actually died from either of Elsa's eternal winters.]]]]
** Also nicely justified when [[spoiler:the second eternal winter happens, as the citizens of Arendelle are better prepared this time.]]

** In chapter 3, a runaway pig somehow gets into the castle thanks to a careless Olaf. It's a nod to a deleted scene called "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbfX42STecU Halt, you swine!]]" where Anna befriended a village boy named Anders (whose name supplies the name for Elsa's chief of staff in this work) and his pig got away, and Anna had to chase him down, causing destruction in her wake.
* NarrativeProfanityFilter: Done all the time, with the exception of the b-word during a dramatic moment (and in reference to said moment afterwards).

** When Fritz is preparing to meet Elsa for the first time, Elsa's nickname as "The Snow Queen" gives him "the mental image of a much older lady, possibly [[PrettyInMink draped in animal furs]] or covered in spiky icicles with maybe a polar bear-driven sleigh. And knowing his luck, she was probably one of those crazy malefic sorceresses [[WeHaveReserves who went through minions like a glutton through meals]], and the instant Fritz made the slightest mistake, she would scream, 'you FOOL! [[YouHaveFailedMe You have FAILED ME!]]' and then freeze him to death." Fritz seemed to expect that Elsa would be more like the original titular character of ''The Snow Queen'', typically depicted as an older woman roughly in her late 40s/early 50s. "Draped in animal furs" is also a reference to [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tvt_early_elsa_1142.jpg early concept art]] from earlier drafts of the movie where Elsa was a straight-up villain and wore a coat made of living ermines.

* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: The wight has been targeting random citizens matching Anna's physical description.

* KnightOfCerebus: All the antagonists are this. [[spoiler:Except Brandr, who's actually quite goofy.]]

* AnIcePerson: In this fic, people born with ice powers are known as "cryomancers." [[spoiler:Part 3 opens with the introduction of one named Daniel in a similar situation to Elsa's, being locked in his room for years, as well as the body of another female cryomancer, Mother Winter, apparently killed by Brandr the Cryomancer-Slayer thousands of years ago. Mother Winter also apparently gathered together a large "family" of cryomancers, who were all killed by Brandr.]]
** There's also Elsa herself, obviously, and [[spoiler:Mary briefly steals her magic.]]

* HonestJohnsDealership: Brock the Mystical claims he can restore Anna's memories. Anna, despite her past experiences with being too trusting of strangers, decides to take him for his word against Elsa's warnings. He only succeeds in burning down the forest, and the fire rampages until Elsa is able to get over her pyrophobia long enough to extinguish the flames.

* DrowningMySorrows:
** Fritz gets drunk at one point while depressed about the fact that "Elsa was really, really hot and he would never, ever have her."
** Anna does this in the form of late night snacking after the rebellion, with Gerda watching over her. Elsa initially disapproves, but when Anna spills out the truth about how terrified she was being held hostage by Adrian, Elsa decides to join in.

-->"No, I'm being crazy. Of course Kristoff loves me! He was the one who wanted to kiss in the first place!"\\

* TheFairFolk: Brandr and the changelings.

* ForegoneConclusion: [[spoiler: The king and queen decide to let up on "conceal, don't feel" and tell Anna the truth... right after they get back from their two-week voyage.]]

** [[spoiler:When the rebellion happens, Elsa is quick to entrap them. Her disloyal Admiral then tries to lure her into the courtyard to be ambushed by archers, whom she thwarts by making an ice-chainmail suit and ice shields, making her an ice variant of Joan of Arc.]]

* {{Expy}}: Anders for [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Alfred]], Samson for [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Gaston]], and Olympus for [[WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}} Maximus]]. Brandr, while pretending to be a human private eye, tries to act like he's some sort of SherlockHolmes, even smoking a pipe and acting like Olympus is his [[TheWatson Dr. Watson]].

* DeadpanSnarker: Anders. Since he's been [[OldRetainer in the household for decades]], Elsa lets him get away with it.
** To a lesser extent, Anna, Elsa and Kristoff engage in this.

* DirtyOldMan: One of the elderly advisors makes a lot of sexist remarks about Elsa. At the end of the story, Elsa has him fired and replaced with Anders.
** This advisor later tells Fritz he feels the exact same way as him about Elsa.

* ChekhovsGun: The wight rants to a squirrel after Adrian drowns that he got the sword from the catacombs of Brandr the Cryomancer-Slayer. [[spoiler:The faerie turns out to be Brandr.]]

* TheCameo: [[spoiler: [[WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}} Rapunzel, Eugene, Maximus]] and [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Lefou]] in Chapter 80.]]
** And earlier, in chapter 48, there are some silhouettes that sound suspiciously similar to [[WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}} Chernabog]], [[WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty Maleficent]], and [[Franchise/KingdomHearts the Heartless]]. [[spoiler:And later on, Chernabog is specifically referenced by name.]]
*** A later draft of the story also adds in a silhouette of [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls Bill Cypher]].

* ContinuityNod: References are made not only to events in the movie, but also to all the ''Frozen'' sequel children's books published at the time of writing.
** ''Phantoms of Arendelle'' gets a nod when Brandr (disguised as a private eye) brings up the wight, which Anna likens to the shadow boar. Later, Kristoff finds the tunnels behind the mirror where Elsa and Anna get trapped during ''Phantoms''.
** Olaf's stint as "Official Substitute Ice-Master" from ''Olaf and Sven On Thin Ice'' is mentioned in the final chapter.
** Some of the events of ''Memory and Magic'' are retold in chapter 5, including Brock the Mystical's botched attempt to restore Anna's memories.

* ButtMonkey: A good chunk of the story is an increasingly elaborate series of bad things happening to Fritz, up to and including [[spoiler:turning into an ice statue]].
** Part 4 has a RunningGag of cutting away to Hans being increasingly miserable in prison.

* BigBadEnsemble: At first the wight is set up to be the ManBehindTheMan to Adrian, but [[spoiler:both of them are eventually killed]] and a bigger threat comes in the form of [[spoiler:Mary, an evil snowwoman, and then Brandr the Cryomancer-Slayer. And then the wight comes back and Mary comes back and Brandr comes back.]]
** However, as the title was changed to "Frozen Wight," [[AntagonistTitle the wight seems to be treated as the most important antagonist]], if only because the whole plot is instigated by his past actions.

* AscendedMeme:
** The famous "Adele Dazeem" gaffe by John Travolta at the Oscars is used as the name of one of the criminals Brandr claims to have put away.
** "Evilsa", the name fandom has used to describe Elsa from early versions of the movie scripts before she was revised into her current protagonist form, is used by Anna to describe Elsa after she gets brainwashed by the wight.