The Creation and Appearances of the Snowgies Headcanon

In Frozen Fever, we see that every time Elsa sneezes, she creates these little snowmen called Snowgies. Now I have a hunch that fans and other viewers wondered why Elsa never got sick and/or sneezed up these little snowmen until the short film. But my good friend foreverfrozensolid and I discussed some good, potential reasons about the Snowgies.

Like she said in her signature song, Elsa said that “the cold never bothered me anyway,” but this is a different matter. You don’t always need to get cold in order to catch the common cold. Maybe she caught a cold, virus, or some kind of illness from someone else. I think it never happened until then because Elsa, like Anna, has been isolated for much of her life. She would have never been exposed to viruses or germs because she hardly to never interacted with people before. In our world, we usually catch colds from other people, but Elsa was hardly around people for much of her life. This is especially because she never left the castle and only left her room a few times, as we see before her parents leave for the last time.

Therefore, when she was growing up, she had never been around sick people; thus she could not get anything herself.

Then after the events of the movie, Elsa probably spends more time outside of the castle, since she no longer keeps the gates closed, and around people almost every day, so she eventually caught a cold from being around someone who was previously sick. Simultaneously, due to her lack of getting sick while growing up, it probably boosted Elsa’s immune system to very healthy, which ultimately made her less susceptible to catching colds as well.

Now it’s more of a challenge to offer an explanation on why Elsa never sneezed and released the Snowgies until now, because you can sneeze even when you’re not sick, so she probably has sneezed before even when she was well. Maybe the Snowgies only appear if she’s sneezing while sick. It could also be an inside joke, because she has a “cold,” so she sneezes out these little snowmen. According to foreverfrozensolid, maybe it’s not just sneezing that releases them, but also Elsa’s intense desire to make everything perfect for Anna. When she creates Olaf and Marshmallow, Elsa is feeling very intense emotions. So maybe the Snowgies are created in the same way, and the sneeze is just the trigger. That does make sense to me, because Olaf represents her once happy childhood, while Marshmallow represented her desire to be left alone. The Snowgies are very playful and mischievous, making them represent the mischievous, playful side that has been dormant in Elsa for so long. This may as well tie in with the fact that Elsa wants to be playful and somewhat mischievous in making the day a great one for Anna.

Another question that is unanswered about the Snowgies is why they did not melt in the hot weather. Frozen Fever takes place almost a year after the movie, since Anna was born on the summer solstice (which is usually June 20th or 21st). Yet Olaf needs his little cloud above his head to keep him from melting, while the Snowgies, which are so much smaller than Olaf, never seem to be in no danger of melting under the sun, even without their own individual flurries. But I think the reason why they don’t melt is because it connects to the joke of them being created when Elsa is sick. She has a cold, and the Snowgies are the products of her cold, so as long as she is sick with her cold, they don’t melt. Of course, it’s not known whether or not they would stick around once Elsa gets better. But at the end of the short, they are brought to live with Marshmallow in the ice palace. Since it appears to be colder up in the mountains, that could explain why the palace and Marshmallow are still there. The Snowgies are brought there since there are so many of them, and then by staying in the place, that will permanently keep them from melting, if there was a chance that they would melt when Elsa gets well again.

So there you have it with all of my explanations on the Snowgies, with why Elsa sneezes them and why they never appeared before.