So waaaaaaay back in the very earliest days of writing Echoes, I happened to stumble across the above artwork on Tumblr, and the idea wedged itself firmly into my head.

I had not read Born or Cursed, and after seeing these images, I actually made a point to avoid it. I wasn’t sure whether or not I would even end up incorporating the idea into Falling Snow. But I loved the basic concept and the imagery, and in case I did decide to run with it, I didn’t want to risk plagiarizing anything from TwiddledSpire’s story.

Over the following months, the notion of the original Snow Queen being the source of Elsa’s magic became one of two major competing theories (among those who felt the need to explain it at all). So in the end, after watching it sort of become adopted by the fandom at large, I didn’t feel too guilty about adopting it myself – with my own personal spin, of course.



Obviously, this small seed ended up sprouting and entwining itself all throughout Echoes and Memories, and it is now driving Reclaim as well. So in the interest of continuing to give due credit to my inspirations, and to make it perfectly clear that I’m not above borrowing good ideas from wherever I can find them, I wanted to share this artwork with my followers.

Also, since the link to the original Disney concept art appears to be defunct now, I’m including those images here for comparison.

My regular readers may have noticed that concept art is another one of my favorite sources of inspiration. I’ll have more to say about that in future posts. 😊

