What we have *actually* learned from the Hans segments of A Frozen Heart

chaosroid:

disneysfrozenguy:

ladracul:

thehelsalife:

Because I saw one post that was very biased against him, and rather inaccurate

• Hans considers the family castle a prison, and his father the jailer
• He’s afraid to go to his own mother’s birthday celebration for five minutes, because even a short amount of time with his entire family always ends in disaster, and stands outside the door for twenty minutes preparing himself
  
• The only people in his family who care about him are his mother and his brother Lars
• He’s always daydreaming about what it would be like to be an only child, and those daydreams always involve his father loving him, and telling him that he’ll be a wonderful king, and that he’s proud of him
  
• His brothers throw things at him when he daydreams. At least once, they threw glass
• He’s learned that fighting back is useless, and just mumbles quiet apologies and “I’m fine”s when he’s bullied. His father yells at him for it
  
• He basically self-harms, or at least as close as you can get to it in a children’s book, because, and I quote, he “[found] the pain oddly pleasant. Physical pain he could handle.”
• He goes down to the docks for peace and quiet whenever he’s upset
  
• He considers himself worthless and less than a spare - a throwaway
• He tries to make jokes about how low he is in the royal line and laugh it off, but there’s always a hint of sadness in his voice that only Lars notices
• He tells Lars, and I quote: “You know Father isn’t planning on marrying me off. I am just waiting for the moment he orders me to take a vow of silence and join the Brotherhood of the Isles, where I will live the rest of my days in the same silence I have lived them here.”
• Keep in mind that he’s seventeen.
• When he learns that the king and queen of Arendelle passed away, all he thinks about is that it’s a tragedy for the people of Arendelle, and nothing more. It’s Lars who brings up the possibility of marrying Elsa
  
• Even then, he’s not like “bwahaha I’m going to take over the kingdom!” All he thinks is: “What do I have to lose? If I don’t try, I’ll be stuck here, anyway. At least this way, I might have a chance to change my path.” (Again, exact quote from the book)
• He’s literally a depressed seventeen-year-old who wants to escape an abusive household
• And people are claiming that it makes him a douche
• Yes, he’s awful in the movie, but this book gives zero reasons to hate him any more than you already do
  

Actually, I agree with all this except I think the desire for regicide is NOT his own. If you read the original story of “The Snow Queen”, it’s the trolls’ magic that affects the main male character and makes him see the worst in everything. Now who wants to bet when they were singing “get the fiancee out of the way” they did something to him to get Anna to reject him and go for their patsy Kristoff?

Now Disney claimed they had an expert in Nordic folklore working with them. And there’s two things trolls do that mess with humans: manipulate them into doing their bidding and kidnap children. So why does it sound so right that Hans may have been manipulated by their magic and Kristoff was as well as he witnessed Anna being saved from a near-death experience and sings a song about distrusting people? Orphan my butt, he saw the whole thing and was kept as a pawn.

There is a theory out there which backs this up-

https://justadadwithquestions.wordpress.com/2014/07/07/what-if-it-was-all-the-trolls-fault-a-theory

OMG!!!!! This is awesome, @ladracul!!!!!

I’ve been chatting with a friend about how we are almost convinced that Frozen 2 will deal with abusive families.

We expect the sequel will give Hans a chance while we and the heroes learn more about the terrible “home” Hans comes from.

And now with your theory on the trolls, Kristoff can have his relevant spotlight too!!! It would make perfect sense that the trolls saw Kristoff watching the whole thing with the royal family and they didn’t want witnesses; so they kept Kristoff!!! D: Although he is indeed an orphan. Jennifer Lee stated that.

I never liked the trolls, ever. I have my own opinion on them. But the theories about them fans come up with are fascinating! And yours takes the prize!!!!

Kristoff was technially kidnapped as a child. They never claimed him as their child, they just “took him in” as kristoff himself stated. THATS ILLRGAL!!