Anonymous asked: What's a scene from any of your favorite fanfics that really tugged at your heartstrings?

Oh, boy…so many to choose from…

I’d have to say…this one early-ish scene in A Formal Arrangement was the one that’s really and truly left the biggest mark on me. I was still hesitant in shipping them back then, and it was the part right before the scene where Elsa was getting Anna’s father to agree to put back the clause about heirs.

She’d begged her parents to not make Anna her betrothed, even if the thought of marrying Anna made her breathless. She would have swallowed her love and pride and married whichever man they chose. It was her duty. She would have borne a child and continued the line, regardless of how miserable she’d have been. But if her wife was Anna… No. She would not dishonor Anna. She’d rather die than shame her. Elsa swallowed the hard lump that had formed in her throat, her vision blurring. There was a clause in their marriage contract, a very specific clause that Elsa had inserted and made sure King Frederick agreed to. The clause gave her consent as sole representative of House Arendelle to legitimize any children produced by a union between Anna and a male consort. Any child of Anna’s would automatically be afforded the same status and protection as though it were Elsa’s own. The child would inherit her name. Anna would suffer no punishment, no repercussions, no loss of her royal titles, esteem, status, privilege. She would remain Elsa’s wife, free to do as she pleased. She had, in essence, given Anna permission to break her heart.

…And that part. That part in bold, right there, was the final push I needed to officially call myself an Elsanna shipper. From that point on, it was just reading Elsanna fics as much as I could and growing more and more comfortable with shipping them. :)