#god frost is such a girlfailure i love her unconditionally

[thetantiger]

I'm gonna copy-paste a giant analysis of Frost's character and her relationships throughout her life that I put in my discord server with my friends because I like it lol

Btw the song this analysis is about/referring to is All You Wanna Do from the SIX musical by Aimie Atkinson

Copy-pasted analysis under the cut

Okay so I actually wanted to talk about this song a bit because I think it is a remarkably fitting Frost song and here's why. I'm going to be explaining this by talking about individual sects of lyrics

Okay so the song is six minutes long and very lyric heavy so I'm just going to be referring to different parts of the song as Guys 1, 2, 3 and 4, 'cause the song goes through 4 different guys and how shitty each relationship was one after the other, and who these guys are when it comes to Frost in particular

GUY 1: It's complicated. So there's a portion of Frost's backstory that I only came up with recently and haven't been able to really weave into any plans, but it's like a vent piece for how my own mom is. Frost's parents are actually alive, and she was told they were dead when she was raised in Acherus in order to make her feel hopeless about any sort of life outside of service to Arthas. Frost's dad left a long time ago but her mother sexualized her as a teenager ("And ever since I was a child, I'd make the boys go wild") and encouraged her to pursue men inappropriately older than her as a form of fake empowerment ("He was 23, and I was 13 going on 30"). Frost was groomed to be hypersexual by her mom, in summary. And that leads us to..

GUY 2: Tucker, of course Frost (or Fauna at the time) didn't just waltz into Goldshire out of nowhere. Frost's mom (who I'm thinking to name Doelina) pressured her to pursue sex work and that led Frost straight to Tucker, because if you're being pressured into that shit (and groomed to pursue it from a young age) you don't exactly get the opportunity to double-check if where you're going is safe. Anyway, about Tucker: "Serious, stern and slow / Gets what he wants, and he won't take no" I think that's a perfect descriptor of when Tucker is actually in his element. When he's not he's shown as floundering and foolish and unserious because I try to capture that he's not some over the top, big brain megavillain, deep down (like other people like him) he's actually just a fucking idiot and a control freak. When he is in his element though (being, controlling the people around and under him) he has an iron grip on things "Spilled ink all over the parchment, my wrist was so tired / Still I came back the next day as he required" Tucker sucks at reciprocation, but he's great at manipulation! "And I know this is it / He just cares so much, this one's legit / We have a real connection / I'm sure this time is different" ...OOF.

GUY 3: Arthas (hear me out) NOT IN A SEXUAL SENSE, obviously. Frost didn't fuck Arthas motherfucking Menethil. As a matter of fact this section and the last section, at least in my own head for the purpose of how this connects to Frost, pivots from sex pretty hard and more focuses on a general sense of being used; which, if you're a Death Knight under Arthas Menethil, is a pretty unshakeable feeling! "Tall, large, Henry the Eighth / Supreme Head of the Church of England / Globally revered" "Gave me duties in court and he swears it's true / That without me, he doesn't know what he'd do" ("ah yes i love my death knights. yeah you're my favorite little pogchamp soldiers. send you to die wdym what are you talking about hahahaha") "This is the place for me / I'm finally where I'm meant to be" Frost was manipulated into believing death and pestilence and mass murder and all that was her only purpose, as most Death Knights were. Frost also has been suffering from amnesia as a result of brainrot and doesn't remember her past before Goldshire except in vague, foggy slices, but she still carries the subconscious effect of trauma and felt a general out of place feeling except in Acherus for the longest time. "With Henry, it isn't easy / His temper's short, and his mates are sleazy / Except for this one courtier"

GUY 4: Maxwell! "He's a really nice guy, just so sincere" Again, pivoting from the sex aspect of the song pretty hard, because that wasn't the problem in Frost and Max's relationship (I mean, you could make the argument that Frost values sex in a relationship greatly while Max gestures vaguely doesn't, but you'd be overestimating how much of a breaking point this was in comparison to other issues). I'd also like to explicitly state that I don't label Max and Frost's relationship as abuse in any form, or in any direction, but it was certainly toxic on both of their ends. "So sweet, makes sure that I'm okay / And we hang out loads when the King's away / This guy finally" If you were there to see the early days of Frostwell this stings. Frost and Max actually did have good chemistry, and did connect well and had a lot of fun together, and were as close and as much of a team as any of the modern ships currently are. It lured Frost into a.. sense of security. "And there's nothing more to it" And then that's the exact problem. There was nothing more to it. It was "let's hang out for 5 minutes and then I end up half-dead at your doorstep 6 weeks later." This is exactly WHEN it happens for Frost. When she loses faith. She expected this grand, cosmic epiphany.. and never got it. Eventually Frostwell just.. fell out. Flaked off into pieces one by one over a timeline of little things. And GOD that's tragic, but they simply grew to be separate people. "I thought this time was different / Why did I think he'd be different? / But it's never, ever different" Ow. "When will enough be enough?" ("When will enough [time away from me] be enough?) "Don't care if you don't please me"

And then the song ends, but Frost's romance arcs doesn't so let me talk about Fracques a bit. Frost set herself up for disappointment again in EVERY aspect. Frost realized she had feelings for Jacques when.. well, when they had sex, and she cheated on Maxwell. It felt like a break free moment of some sort of dullness that's hung over Frost her whole life, but in retrospect Frost realizes this was just built-up spite towards Maxwell for them growing apart, which she's worked on since then. She recognizes that she wasn't just magically blessed with amnesia and forgot she was engaged to Max at the time, but that she was perfectly aware of what she was doing and went with it anyway. And she did it because it felt like a punch back to a life that'd beaten her this whole time, but again, Frost realizes that landed right on Maxwell who, even if they'd grown distant and had arguments and this and that, was not at fault for like 85% of that pent up frustration and didn't deserve to be that target. BUT BACK TO JACQUES Again Frost put herself into what could've easily been an extremely dangerous situation. Imagine if Jacques had like,, any other characteristics. Take Tucker's personality and put it into Jacques's body for like a second. This could've easily been AWFUL for Frost because she convinced herself Jacques was some sort of magical key to freedom. If Jacques was manipulative, or abusive, or what have you, isolating Frost could've been ridiculously easy. She relied on him for her own self worth and sexual gratification. But then that didn't happen. Frost's repeated toxic relationships kind of built up this giant expectation of who would finally be "THE ONE." Movie-star romantic scenes of proposing in front of fireworks surrounded by roses with an orchestra in the back and all that jazz. Again, she expected some cosmic (gettit) epiphany. And then that didn't happen either. Jacques was.. sweet. And.. normal. And.. remarkably easy to talk to.

It wasn't some giant moment that solved everything, but rather a consistent, warm feeling over a longer timeline. And she felt.. happy about that? That threw her for a LOOP for a while. Frost's life has been so dramatic that she expected something to "fix" her, or for something that finally went right for her to be equally dramatic and then it wasn't. And she LIKED THAT. HUH??? She straight up didn't understand but over time she came to appreciate uneventfulness. A breath after a life of holding it. And then she struggled with feeling like she didn't deserve to have that breath. After all, she's been told all her life she was a bad person. First just general slutshaming, then abuse from Tucker specifically, and then her warcrimes as a Death Knight under Arthas, and then cheating on Max (which actually weighs on her the most, fun fact [sub-explanation is she still HELLA cares about Max and considers him a close-friend and personally believes she is responsible for some trust issues he has which may or may not be true but ANYWAY THIS IS ABOUT FRACQUES]). She's not "fit" to be somebody's other half. She's not "fit" to be married, to be someone's wife. And then Jacques wifed her up anyway. So now Frost is just kind of in this.. limbo at the moment, slowly accepting that.. maybe she's not as terrible as she thinks she is.

Anyway mega analysis of Frost over