This Arendelle AU of yours gets more interesting every chapter. Anna is a telepath? I love it. No wonder she's so susceptible to the voices in her head (and everything else that's going on). Of course, she probably has trouble turning it off, so maybe not so cool.

Trying to blackmail this pair is not going to end well, dude. Not sure why you'd try threatening someone who could turn you into an ice sculpture just by literally lifting a finger.

Telepathy is probably somewhere between annoying and horrifying most of the time, but it sure comes in handy when uncovering balance-of-power-destabilizing schemes. Or assasination plots. Just day-to-day royal stuff.

I did not expect things to go in that direction, but damn, I'm glad they did. I loved watching Anna go through the entire thing, from figuring out what Alvarez is up to with wanting sulfur, to dealing with the blackmail, to realizing what was going on and calmly taking care of it. I do like a badass Anna. A badass Anna with flaws and weaknesses is even better.

There's just no difference between Joanna and Anna any more, is there? I'm really glad she's handling all this better than when she was younger, but I worry that she might forget who she actually is if this keeps up.

Aw, Dad! Way to redeem yourself! And he never destroyed any of it; he actually kept it safe all this time. Thank you so much for not being a total dick after all, Dad.

The way you set up the intersection of Joanna and Elisa's lives is wonderful, and it gets even better after going back and re-reading the begining. Jo was so gobsmacked when she first saw Christian. That one guy *looked* like Matthais, but Chris *is* Kristoff. And the best thing, aside from the obvious, is that now she has someone else to talk to about everything. She's not the only one any more. This is definitely going to be good for her sanity.

I *knew* Christian knew something. Apparently he knew everything. How has he managed to go all this time without spilling to Elisa? Actually, how long has he known? Was it in chapter 2 after she has the vision in the hospital and he says "you can tell me everything", or was he at least starting to get some of it then? Or has he always known?

Either way, he's having entirely too much fun with Jo and she's going to have to make him pay for that. That said, their conversation was beautiful. My heart was breaking for Chris, so obviously in love with Jo/Anna and knowing it'll never happen. And then he has to look at Jo floating in the air. Poor guy. I hope you're going take good care of him later.

I'll stop now. These things keep getting longer every chapter, which is not a good sign if we're only halfway through.

Please update soon, I’m loving this story. It’s so amazing, I’m so excited to see where elisa and joanna’s relationship will go. Especially with the age gap

Too many OCs.

Oh - I forgot to add. Thank you so much to reviewer shealwaysdies for your kind words! That was sweet. I'm blushing over here.

No idea why FFN disables text selection, but there are various plugins (like Absolute Enable Right Click & Copy) that will fix that for you.

Oh look - I'm running behind again!

My, things are getting interesting now. Anna is hearing voices and the line in Joanna's head between reality and the other world is getting blurrier by the day. At least she's handling it much better than when she was young.

It must be so frustrating for Jo, being in love with (or at least desperately obsessed with, but what's the difference, really?) someone who not only doesn't exist, Jo can't even remember her name.

Apparently Anna's having trouble handling her feelings, though. How do you deal with being in love with your sister, and even having those feelings - not exactly returned, but at least being mututal - and neither of you being able to do anything about it? I'm surprised she hasn't started a war yet, just as an outlet.

Very good point about the sort of moral relativism where nobles can get away with any sins and crimes they want, but two perfectly good people can't have their happiness just because of an accident of birth. So hypocritical. I mean, it's not as if they were really raised together as sisters. Anna was what - eight - when they were separated?

I'm a little confused by the timeline here, because later in the chapter Anna clearly doesn't know what she's feeling for her sister ("She's only reading a book with the cutest look on her face. It was nothing interesting." Perfect). I suppose either events are out of order here, or there are things you haven't told us yet.

I'm so glad Joanna has made peace with everything and embraced her Kingdom, even if that doesn't end well. Seriously, Dad, what the hell? She's actually dealing with it all in a healthy way this time. Okay, maybe not perfectly healthy, since there doesn't seem to be much difference between Joanna and Anna any more. But that's no reason to take everything she loves away and put her back on nastier meds than before.

Ugh. I hate her father now. Good work, Dad. You broke your daughter. I hope you're happy.

Now I want new chapters even more, so they can fix this shit.

Dad's not being very nice! Another great chapter. Can't really find anything but good about the way you put it together. Bringing in Elsa's illusion at the end was awesome. Thanks once again!
Jay

The mix of flashback tied in with the current day is done so very well here. This chapter brings me to tears (happy ones) by the end.
Jay

I'm really loving the Jo POV! It's so sadddddd and also really touching. Like a nice balance of Angst and Fluff. I love her relationship with her dad. It was hard to see them clash about Jo's visions. I like how you can tell a whole story in one sentence. Like when you say the painting of Elsa was a little worse for wear. You make me see this entire tragic exchange between Jo and her father in what was actually feels like a light and simple sentence. Very cool. Next time I review I might just copy and paste everything that "only-looking" said. That user gets it.

God damn, how dare you drag my emotions around like that! Here my heart has been breaking for Elisa and everything she's been suffering through all her life, and now you give us Joanna who's had it even worse. At least Elisa has had her share of warm and fluffy visions along with the horrifying "I'm a monster" ones.

But poor Joanna. Her visions are just as bad, just as real, but with *just not enough* information. How do you go your whole life knowing that someone who is a part of you is missing but you don't know who, or even why they're so important? Elisa had the advantage of not being able to remember details outside of her visions, though, which is something of a blessing. Jo has to put up with it all the time.

At least she seems to have handled it all better than Elisa. Having a father who knows about what's going on and at least some amount of therapy certainly helps. She's not passing out randomly in public, and she even manages to get a handle on it all eventually. The thing about being super-smart like Jo is that you know and understand things way beyond what your 5-year-old emotions are capable of dealing with. That often ends... badly. I'm very glad our girl escaped that, and manages to be a mostly functional adult.

It sounds like things are set up for Joanna to make her appearance in Elisa's life. I'm really lookng forward to seeing how you give us that. I just hope Jo doesn't have to play with Christian's heart too badly. Of course, he seems to be somewhat in on it, so who knows how it'll go.

Okay, apparently my very first intuition was right, and Hanna *is* the Hans and Jo is the Anna. Joanna, of course. Nice. It should have been obvious in the first paragraph, where Hanna is friends with Gaston, for god's sake. Yes, I'm slow.

Poor Elisa is just about at her wits' end here. The visions are coming more often, and more intensely, now. It's heartbreaking how this is tearing her apart, mentally and physically. I keep being afraid she's going to completely lose it and wind up in a coma for a year.

Good lord but Hanna is a cold bitch. Very on-brand. I guess all she really wanted to do was get into Elisa's pants. At least this incident seems to have given Elisa some clarity about her situation and what, and who, she actually wants and needs.

And now the penny finally drops, all at once, too. All the pieces seem to have come together and Elisa has made the Joanna/Anna connection in the waking world. And holy hell, Jo knows what's going on. "You loved me, too", indeed. I wonder what *her* visions are like.

Now I'm curious how Joanna happened to hook up with Christian. Was it just coincidence, or was this the fates moving the game pieces around? Does it have anything to do with Chris being all vague and oracular on the plane to Arendelle? How much *does* he know, anyway?

What do you mean, I have to wait to find out what's going on?

Awesome! I loved the way you dealt with Jo and Elisa in the beginning and how you br ok ught them together at the end of this chapter. It was beautiful and yet left the reader with so many unanswered things to look forward to. The Hanna bit was a good filler though something tells me that's not the last we see of her. And I'm waiting to see how Christian plays out in this as we all know how the story goes and I am very interested in finding out what deal Elsa made long ago, its effects back then, and can she break free and finally be with Anna now. But that is for future chapters! Thank you so very much, this story has definitely got me excited.
Jay

*sobbing*
This one came out really just lovely. I like that as you read along you get a better feeling for the transitions for visions. There are like three lines in this that I just thought were really poignant. But I apparently I can't copy and paste to point them out...?
Obviously "You loved me, too" I got the feeling that Jo was the one in the last chapter, but that line makes the reveal so good.

"Elsa felt the need to touch her, and when the thought struck her dead in her tracks with guilt, she changed her mind, only wishing to hold her." I think this really captures my favourite part of the ElsAnna world. That shame, and then of course, right after you say that it was too late. She already thought it. That's just the best.

Nice one!

Wow, this story got darker in a hurry, didn't it? Poor Elsa - she's not handling all this very well, and who would expect her to? Her visions and the real world are starting to overlap, and I worry for her sanity.

And now she's getting hammered by jealousy and apparently she doesn't quite understand why just yet. It sems like she has some good hints, though, although she can't really remember them outside of her visions.

There's a lot of AU business going on here, what with the Elsanna and Anna's personality and whatever their parents did, and with Darkness messing with Elisa's head and being all creepily ambiguous. It sounds they all have a much more complicated history than the movies gave them (I haven't seen FII, but I doubt it went in this direction).

I really want to see where this goes, now, and how this all gets unpacked and explained. There's a really interesting and twisted backstory here and I'm not ashamed to say I love it.

I guess I was wrong before, and Jo is the Anna and Hanna is the Hans, but in the non-evil way? Or am I making way too much out of all this? It wouldn't be the first time.

Thank you for the reformat. The first chapter makes much more sense now. FFN has an endless list of quirky things it does without telling you, like deleting anything vaguely resembling a URL, or long strings of one character, or multiple exclamation points. Some of that may have improved since I last posted anything, though (*considers two-year "hiatus"* *hangs head in guilt and shame*).

Ok wow. I can’t even unpack how chilling that was. There is so many layers to this and I am going to reread the whole thing again to try and pick up on more. Your writing feels really powerful.
I love how you are telling so much story already! I might be a bit confused like another reviewer said but I think that that is more stylistic in the writing than a flaw. I kinda like that I’m not sure where I am when exactly as I go along and I don’t mind going through it again because I really do like the writing.

Wow what a first impression! Really well written and really intriguing. You suckered me in with some Bette and now you’re stuck with me. Following!