one of the things I love most about Kristanna is that they jump right into that old married couple dynamic despite it not being instant true love. sometimes people just CLICK and their personalities compliment each other so well (I mean, its testament to that that even in a lot of Elsanna fics, Kristoff is written to be Anna’s best friend. People aren’t blind, even if they choose to reinterpret canon)

bc its not romantic love right away and thats so IMPORTANT a) in general and b) for Anna to learn. sometimes romantic love is the kind of thing that sneaks up on you until you don’t even realize you’re in it. its the kind of thing plenty of us have experienced in our own lives ourselves or when we watch two people in our friend groups be super close and have this very comfortable dynamic and four years later they start dating each other.

the fact that Kristanna is such a slow burn is so great and can spurn dozens of oblivious idiots in-like-and-then-love fics.

bc Anna is the classic clueless girl who hangs out with her best friend who happens to be a guy (she got stuck missing her bus and was all frustrated but the same thing happened to Kristoff, and that’s how the met and they’ve been fast friends ever since) and she has no idea he’s in love with her until someone points it out to her and she’s like “Wait, what? No way, its KRISTOFF.”

And then Kristoff is the blind idiot who after a year realizes he’s in love with his best friend and he’s SO ANGRY about it and just tries to ignore it completely both for his sake and also for Anna bc they’re friends and "this is not about me, OKAY?!“

and it takes Anna a while to not feel akwakard or uncomfortable around him after she knows even though he’s totally normal and doesn’t act any differently than he has before, but Anna’s all jumpy and weird and he’s confused when he tries to help but shrugs and is like "Whatever dude, it’s Anna, it’ll pass and she’ll go back to normal eventually” bc that’s what usually happens. except she doesn’t and she’s bothered by how weird things are between them but then she starts to realize its bc “Oh wait, I might kinda like him, too.”*

bc the point is they get to know each other as people first. Kristoff gets there before Anna does, and she understands “Kristoff loves…me?” a lot sooner than she understands “I….love Kristoff?” and Anna is so STUPID and THICK about her own feelings when it comes to this until her revelation and its such a great trope*

And true to form for a girl who runs before she walks and leaps before she looks, Anna’s heart does the same thing. She loves before she realizes it, because “being in love” somehow crept up on her without her knowing (bc love is something that comes to her so easily anyway). like a pot you don’t realize is hot enough but suddenly boils over from a level simmer.