| “ | ♫Let it go! Let it go! There is no more "you and I"! Let it go! Let it go! It seems fair, an eye for an eye! Point the blame when I was betrayed! Let the storm rage on! The cold never bothered me anyway... You came all the way up here because you need help. Never cared about my health, my heart, just yourself. So you made me break, emotionally manipulate... "Elsa, please, open up the gate!" (Anna: Elsa, please...). But you knew that I was scared, I wasn't ready. Still you pushed 'cause you were lonely, you were petty. Mercy's what you need, but mercy's not what I received! (Anna: Elsa, please...!) I am a storm, I do as I please! I am snow, I am ice, I am power! Don't you see? I was born to devour! You don't ask for heat from a glacier; don't ask for warmth, cold's my nature! (Anna: Elsa, please!) When the snow is falling, I'll watch them freeze! If they won't willingly bend the knee, they can spend the rest of time frozen solid, turned to ice!♫ | „ |
| ~ Elsa confronting Anna. |
Elsa is a character from the "Disney Princesses but they're Villains" series of songs by British musical artist Lydia the Bard. She is a villainous adaptation of the character from the 2013 animated Disney film Frozen, serving as the main protagonist of her arc of the series.
She was voiced by Lydia the Bard.
Biography[]
This version of Elsa's story begins similarly to how it did in the Disney version: Elsa was born as a princess to the kingdom of Arendelle. From a young age, Elsa had cryokenetic abilities, a byproduct of her mother's Northuldra heritage. She and her younger sister Anna spent a lot of time together as children until an accident caused Elsa to hurt Anna with her ice. Anna was taken to magical trolls, who helped her but instructed the king and queen to keep Elsa' ice powers a secret from Anna from that point on. They agreed, but also kept the two sisters apart for the rest of their childhoods, with Elsa becoming cold towards Anna and constantly refusing her attempts to go and play.
When the two were adults, the king and queen died while at sea, leading to Elsa being coronated as the new queen. Anna and Elsa briefly reconnected, but when Anna met a handsome prince named Hans at the coronation and asked for Elsa's blessing to be wed, Elsa refused due to how short of time the two had known each other. In a fit of anger, Anna accidentally makes Elsa defend herself with her ice magic, leading to her accidentally freezing the kingdom and fleeing.
While in isolation, Elsa grew to accept herself, and decide that she was better off living alone away from everyone else. Additionally, she became bitter and rage-filled towards the people of her kingdom, hating them for their supposed mistreatment and ostracizing of her. She decides to allow the snowstorm enveloping her kingdom to rage longer and even more powerful, freezing any that dare to leave their homes, and looking on with vengeful and sadistic glee as many people freeze to death. She also creates ice monsters that attack any they see.
Anna treks out of the kingdom and makes it to Elsa's castle of ice on a mountaintop, begging Elsa to end the deadly storm. However, Elsa has been growing more vengeful and wrathful, and refuses to stop. Anna tries to reach out to her humanity and remind them of the good times they had, but Elsa instead blames Anna for pushing her and making her constantly uncomfortable with herself. She accuses Anna of only coming for her own benefit, and lashes out at her. She shoots ice magic into Anna's heart, freezing it. Even while freezing from the inside, Anna still tries to reach out to Elsa, who simply finishes freezing her to death.
Long after the deaths of Arendelle and Anna, Elsa slowly began to lose herself again, this time to loneliness and despair. She begins to understand the consequences of her actions, and understand that she went to extreme lengths in her rage and anger. She begins feeling guilty, though a voice deep within keeps telling her to continue freezing everything. She is reluctant, but with Anna gone, there is no one to stay her hand, and she comes to accept that she will eventually give in and continue freezing the world.
Personality[]
Elsa is bitter and wrathful from how she was seemingly cast out by her people, especially towards Anna for pushing her towards steps she was not ready to make, making her uncomfortable towards herself. She blames Anna for her situation, and goes to extreme measures for revenge, sadistically taking lives and lashing out at Anna.
However, after everything is done, Elsa begins reflecting on the consequences of her actions and begins to feel remorse, eventually falling into despair and guilt. However, despite fighting her urges to destroy, she knows she will eventually give into them and become a monster again.
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Trivia[]
- Lydia the Bard stated that the 2025 video was intended more as a revisiting/reboot of the "villainous Elsa" idea than a continuation of the 2022 video, wanting to do more than a minor key cover with a short narrative assigned to it, and therefore it could be concluded that the 2022 video and the 2025 video share different continuities. However, she did clarify that "they’re not super connected, but you could say [the 2025 video] is a loose prequel, and that after the dust settles and Elsa experiences the consequences of her actions, she sings that previous cover."
- The story of this version of Elsa does not take place in the same continuity as Lydia the Bard's story of villainous Anna.
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