Gerda

Gerda is the main protagonist of Wizart Animation animated film franchise The Snow Queen, which was based on Hans Christian Andersen' fairy tale.
Gerda goes on a perilous journey to save her friend Kai who has been abducted by the Snow Queen. Shards of glass from an evil demon's broken mirror cause Kai to lose his memory and go with the Snow Queen. Gerda must travel the ends of the earth while she encounters a prince, a girl thief, and elderly women who help her rescue Kai from the Snow Queen's realm in the far north. Gerda facing the Snow Queen, in turn, tries to end Gerda's life Gerda meets the Queen's demons who fight with Gerda.
==Biography ==
=== The Snow Queen ===
Everything changes when, due to the mischief of the pet weasel Luta, Gerda meets Kai. Not recognizing him as her long-lost brother, she quickly takes interest in him. When she returns to thank him for his help, she overhears Kai's conversation with the troll Orm (Disguised as a dark ferret) and learned that he was her brother. After the North Wind had only taken Kai to the Snow Queen, Gerda ordered Orm to bring her to the Snow Queen, throughout the time they’re together Orm starts to take a liking on the kindness of the young girl and in the end stoods up for her against the Snow Queen and helps her saving her brother, followed by defeating the Snow Queen.
===The Snow Queen 2: The Snow King===
After the events of the first film, Gerda, along with Kai and Alfida, lived for some time in an unnamed city together, until Orm sent them a letter in which he sincerely tried to convince his friends that he was doing well. Fortunately, the girl immediately realized that something was not clear, and went to help him. When she arrived there, she heard Orm's lies that he had defeated the Snow Queen by himself. Gerda has a dispute with the troll and leaves him alone, later on in the movie she wants to check on him again and finds out he left the kingdom along with former work friends of him to save Princess Maribel to be able to marry her in order to obtain a better life for himself and his grandma and in sadness by Orm’s downhill-going life rejects her help and follows along with the search troop for the princess to look for the palace of the Snow Queen. Gerda is frozen along with her friends in the palast by the Snow King and his minions, but in the end Orm is the one to be able to defeat the villain and unfreeze everyone, apologizes and confesses all his mistakes earning the forgiveness of Gerda, which assured to make him into a “Diamond”
=== The Snow Queen 3: Fire and Ice==
Years have passed since the events of the previous films. Gerda and Kai are considered national heroes and regularly move from town to town to tell various schools about their deeds in exchange for money. Gerda always hopes unlike Kai, that they will have more luck in the future as their earnings seem to get lower by each time. Kai decided on their last visit to give up that life and do something else. Gerda follows Kai’s idea and their carriage breaks down and their rider ran off pursuing the horse, who escaped.
Together the siblings discussed about alternatives, upon one suggestion about becoming pirates, Kai remembered he could ask their old friend Alfida for help. With fire sticks he made a signal to catch her attention, who rode on her ski-preparated ship towards their direction to lift them up. The trio agreed on passing by their old friend Orm. 
Orm welcomed his friends and invited them for dinner. The siblings met Orm’s cousins he had to babysit and later at night they were visited by a strange boy around Gerda’s age. The duo had no idea, who the boy was, but Orm seemed to know him and allowed him to stay, then introduced him to the guests. Gerda seemed infatuated with the Spaniard. Gerda got to know the boy was called Rollan and came into the troll kingdom to study legends. He mentions how coincidentily Gerda and Kai’s names are based on the ones from a legend and Kai signaled Gerda to prevent to reveal their identity. Gerda questions Rollan about the legend and he tells the full, untruth story in a dramatically way, making everyone look dumbfounded at the boy with the exception of Alfida, who just laughed about it. It turns out Rollan’s version wasn’t true and he heard the story from Orm, who was about to leave the room in order to prevent Gerda to scold him. 
Rollan is embarassed by the issue, then realizes the two siblings are the ones from the legend. Gerda confesses it, which Kai enrages Kai, because they voted to give up their past. The siblings have a huge argument and both leave the room, annoyed with each other.
Kai decides to run away on Alfida’s ship, which she takes and offers to chat with him about it, expecting it to just be a short-term issue. 
Gerda is sitting on the outside and is visited by the Spaniard, who told her things would be fine and he shouldn’t act the way he did towards the one person, who saved his life. Gerda confesses as both grow older taking care of Kai and herself is harder, because they’re both just kids and don’t have their parents. Rollan comments, he started to study legends hoping he would find his mother someday as well and believes to have found the solution. Gerda believes it to be one of Orm’s stories and Rollan shows her the map with the artifact of the wishing stone. He asked everybody and got no info. Gerda knew about the caves on the map and stated it to be forbidden for people to enter. Knowing, that the wishing stone could bring her parents back, she insisted that they should go.
Together, Rollan and Gerda go across the troll kingdom to get into the cave and during a scene-montage the duo grow closer and manage to get into the secret tomb. They encounter deep down in the tomb the wishing stone and place their hands reculantly over it. Gerda made her wish to get her parents back and Rollan murmured a Latin sentence, then the wishing stone got active to release the spirits of the Snow Queen and the Fire King into the world and enter into the bodies of both teenagers. Gerda woke up first, upon the incident and noticed, that she was different and came to look for Rollan, who also looked way different. They discover, that they have supernatural powers based on an opposing element. Gerda wants to change back and asks Rollan to follow her back to the wishing stone, but they’re blocked from doing anything. A freezing Gerda puffed into her arms, then noticed, that she created a small Snow-Queen-like spirit named Snowflake, which immediately got fond of her new “holder” Rollan was amazed by her power and did the same creating one as well, then watched his spirit remember a burnt piece of coal. The spirit broke in pieces, getting divided into two and admire the snow-spirit. The main charcoal was pushed against the blue spirit, then he offered her his hand to dance. Rollan and Gerda admired the couple dancing, then questioned each other, what they should do now. The second charcoal out of happiness from seeing his friend dance, began to jump around and suddenly multiply embarrassing Rollan, who had no idea, what was going on and Gerda began to step away as they approached her and began to climb her cloak. She panicked and released a huge ice wave, causing everything around her to get freezed. Rollan, who was almost frozen by the blonde got out of the ice wall and was encountered by Gerda, who had now a plan for their solution.
After getting out of the tomb, they discover their powers have put their world in a disaster and was slowly sinking in chaos. On the way by the theater they overhear a shaman talking to the troll king about, what was going on and that they had to look for the persons, who got into the forbidden tomb to cause the disaster. On their first escape they, accidentally land on the stage of the theater and in a quick thought Gerda sold Rollan to the audience as a professional pyrotechnic user. Rollan, who had stage fright tried to use two fire balls sets to perform something and ends up hurting himself. Gerda, who watched that tried to motivate him to go back, but he refused and threw the objects on the ground. The audience laughed at him, then Rollan got triggered as a troll in the audience said “Rollan, the loser” and he returned back to use his power. He managed to do it well, but ended up setting the curtains on fire and Gerda jumped in to extinguish it with her powers. The audience was shocked and the shaman, who was on top of the VIP balcony with the troll king, then warned him about the duo being the culprits. Gerda pulls Rollan out of the theater and are pursued by the soldiers across the village. During the race, both Gerda and Rollan use their powers to gain advantage and end up stuck in an alley. Gerda froze the entrance, then saw one of the soldiers trying to climb the wall up with help of his weapons. Rollan had an idea, then invited Gerda to sit on his shoulders and tried to jet-pack themselves out of there. After landing on another side of the town, Gerda recognizes the rasta troll, who was leaving the town and asks him to court her out. Rollan previously suggested Gerda to let him do the talk, cause he was good at charming people, but ended up being embarrassed upon seeing the two knew each other already. 
Later Gerda and co. were located near the snowy mountains and due to the natural disasters caused by the awakening of the wishiing stone, an avalanche broke out, leading the trio to race downhill encountering Orm and his friends, who had escaped from another side as well. Upon bringing themselves in safety, Gerda questions Orm about the wishing stone, who had no idea about it and upon her descriptions realizes they are in trouble and their troll friends ran away leaving Orm back with the humans. Orm has a dispute with Rollan and blames, that his childish ticks led them to this trouble, making the Spaniard angry and blame the troll for having rubbed under his nose legends based on lies. Gerda bends down in pain, followed by her lines on the cloak blinking intermittently, worrying Orm and Rollan. Rollan received the same issue seconds afterward and commented, that this was all related to their curse, which would have the spirits taken over their body for good, if they wouldn’t retrieve the powers back in the next 24 hours. Gerda asked Rollan for the sheet of the wishing stone, which Rollan commented he wasn’t aware of its locations, but went into exact details of percentage of what exactly could have happened to it and Gerda continued to explain, what she was talking about, while Rollan stood there with a fake smile, notably nervous about something. 
Orm reveals to Gerda, that they have a library surprising her. In there, there was a chance, that they could find in the magic sector the book from where the wishing stone is from. To get a faster way into the kingdom again, Gerda uses her powers to create a huge, ice-made locomotive and all travel in there together to get to the library inside the troll kingdom. 
Upon reaching the library, they get into the magical section, which is only reachable by a special rollercoaster-like elevator. Upon reaching the section, Orm explains the teens, that the location they’re in is similar to a world wide web and that they could use it as explained on a book left by the entrance. Upon following it’s instructions nothing happened, then Gerda felt another pain go through her body, while Rollan experienced the same, but he started an argument with Orm. During the argument, both threatened each other with violence and Rollan threw a fireball to throw it at Orm, which he missed and hit a torch, which magically enlightened the other torches around the room powering up the globe on the middle of the room to show, that they could now scroll through the “magical troll internet”. They found the legend of the wishing stone and heard the resume of it, figuring out that solving their issue wasn’t actually that hard. Before they planned to leave, they were surrounded by the shaman and his monks, who didn’t allow them to go anywhere. Rollan stands in front of his friends, offering protection, but is tricked by the shaman with pepper power to cause Rollan to be unable to see for a while. Rollan is packed by two trolls and the shaman prepares to use a dagger to cut Rollan, but is stopped by a loud voice, which happened to be from the troll king Arrog, who had arrived with a couple of soldiers. King Arrog explains, he wants to follow a different direction and believes Gerda can save them as he trusts her. The shaman and his clan leave the friends and Arrog tells Gerda he is sure, that she will be able to save the world and glares at Rollan, from being unfamiliar with his existence. Rollan approached the king to take Gerda’s hand smiling gently at her, which she mirrored and make the king understand he wasn’t a bad influence. Before the duo left, Arrog warned Gerda, that if they fail, he would have to give the order to put them down. Gerda nodded sadly and left along with the Spaniard to race on the locomotive back to the tomb, while the sun was slowly setting down. 
As they reached the tomb, the room was filled with lava and Gerda used her ice powers to freeze the place, so both could go across it. Gerda drops back and is caught by Rollan, then she reveals to him, she feels like she’s turning into the Snow Queen already. Rollan comments to not worry about it and walks her over the frozen surface.
Later they reach by the stone and look at each other, preparing to do their thing. Both placed their hands above the stone and Gerda said the spell, while Rollan slowly removed his hand from the stone just as the wishing stone got active and recalled back the spirits. Gerda fell down on the ground, then observed the spirit of the Snow Queen leave her and glare down at the blonde, before returning into the wishing stone. Gerda was happy and looked at Rollan, who had been thrown at the ground due the impact of the magic and Gerda got in panic, seeing that it didn’t work on him. Rollan got up looking in panic as well, then walked towards her repeating Gerda’s phrase in a different built and bowed down at her, revealing his true intentions. Gerda has no idea, what’s going on and Rollan, who stuck in the influence of the Fire King, reveals he initially just wanted to get to to the wishing stone to get magic powers and using his mother’s name was just a way to gain her trust. Gerda still can’t believe Rollan was capable of something like that and tries to convince Rollan, the curse will destroy him. Rollan mentions, that Gerda could have stopped him, if she still had kept her powers, but she only had “love” in mind. Hurt by Rollan’s words, she called him a fool and he warned her, that it wasn’t his fault, that Gerda preferred to listen to a random stranger, rather than her own brother. Gerda understood, that the boy was right and tried to get Rollan to fight against the Fire King inside his mind, but this ended up with having Rollan injure her with a short flame contact. Rollan left the heartbroken Gerda back and used the fire to destroy the tower, where the two were located to lock Gerda. Gerda tried to climb up to look for a way out, only to see the room she was in was being flooded with lava, lead by Rollan and she had tears flow down her face from seeing the boy, she thought had feelings for her had stabbed her in the back.
Kai on the outside is looking along with Alfida for Gerda and hear from Orm, that she got into the cave with Rollan to retrieve their powers. They trio saw, that Rollan returned all by himself and threatened the kingdom, then upon the night star appearing on the sky Rollan’s transformation was complete and he was consumed by the Fire King for good and transformed into the said villain. In the meanwhile as the soldiers began to fight the creature, Kai encountered the Snowflake, that was born under Gerda’s powers and signaled his friends to follow her into the tomb, where he encountered her. Kai made it to get to her side and both apologized for their issues. Alfida used one of her bombs to put down a statue with a ship to be able to bring them to her side again.
The Quartet got to the outside to assist the king and his soldiers to fight the Fire King. By the end, Gerda is split from her friends and witnessed the Fire King about to kill her, but before he does it he saw Gerda have one last look at her friends to only see Alfida pull an unconscious Kai into a broke ruin. The Fire King moved away to threat the hidden teens, having joy in tormenting Gerda’s feelings, who was worried about the fate of her friends. Gerda found the locomotive stuck on another part of the town, then had an idea and made her way towards the locomotive. 
Gerda rode the locomotive towards the giant creature and pushes him across the area towards the frozen lake and falls with the creature into the lake causing its surface to break. All villagers and friends approach the area, where Gerda disappeared with the locomotive and mourned her death. Luckily, Gerda had made it out somehow and climbed the cliff up from the side to join her friends, who didn’t notice her presence. Gerda listened to Kai speak how much she meant to him and Gerda playfully spoke with him along and stopped at the moment, Kai threatened to jump in there to look for her and upon looking back, he hugged her happily. Gerda promised Kai, the two now could be whoever he wanted them to be as long as both could stick together. 
On the next day, all troll said goodbye to their human friends and Alfida was surprised by the amount of coins King Arrog gifted the siblings for their heroic deeds. Gerda still was sad, that she didn’t have her parents with her and looked at her reflection on a wishing stone replica. The wishing stone opened up to reveal the little spirit Snowflake, who offered the kids to follow her. The siblings were curious and followed the spirit’s way. By the end of the long trip, the spirit reveals to them a mysterious mountain, where they finally found their parents, who were frozen for a long time and thanks to Snowflake, they gained their lives back and were now reunited with their kids after a long time. Gerda’s wish in the end did seem to have gotten accomplished.
===The Snow Queen 4: Mirrorlands===
After the reunion of the family, Gerda settled in the capital of the Kingdom ruled by King Harald, and opened a shop of magic mirrors there. Gerda is glad about the reunion of her family, but feels sad, that she’s the only one in the family to not have a magical gift.
When the ruler, King Harald, decides to get rid of all the wizards by sending them to the Mirrorlands, Gerda's family falls into that trap. Trying to save them, the girl ends up behind bars. The ghost of the Snow Queen is summoned from the Mirrorlands by the Lapp Woman to help Gerda out. With her help, Gerda travels to the Troll Kingdom to find the key that opens a magical portal to the Mirrorlands.
After the king has drained the magical lake Gao, the heroes find a living Rollan at its bottom. The guy confesses everyone that he does not remember anything about what happened the last time at their reencounter by the wishing stone. At first, Gerda does not believe him and refuses to forgive him, but after he saves her life in the castle of King Harald, ready to sacrifice his own, the girl cannot control her remaining feelings towards the Spaniard and forgives him.
===The Snow Queen and the Princess (Alternatively known as the Snow Queen 5)===
-The Snow Queen and the Princess is the upcoming fifth installment of the Snow Queen franchise, where Gerda and her friends depart on an adventure to save the world from getting invaded by ice spirits. Currently the movie has been released in Turkish, Russian and Korean dubs. It is unknown, when exactly the movie will be released internationally due to the war, that happening. 
- Currently it is known from the trailer, that Gerda works with her friends together against the ice spirits and mentors as well the young girl Ila, whose the daughter of the Snow Queen. 
==Personality==
Gerda is a brave and willing to overcome any obstacles in order to save Kai. She has also a more strong-willed and firm character as well as being less naive due to the conditions of her previous life and maturity upon to the fourth movie. Gerda is kind and always ready to help her friends as she's purposeful and always achieves her goals. She values the trust and love of her friends and loved ones and is ready to sacrifice herself for them. Gerda sometimes acts recklessly, and is very reluctant to admit her mistakes. However, she believes that she must always do the right thing. 
==Trivia== 
*Besides the original version of the Snow Queen, there are many other media to the Snow Queen avaiable.
*Most of the adaptions Gerda and Kai are good friends. Wizart Animation's adaption of it has them as siblings instead.
*In Disney's adaption Gerda doesn't exist, but Princess Anna does whose inspired by Gerda.
*In the second, third and forth films Gerda has freckles.
*In the adaption of Wizart Animation's Snow Queen, Gerda's parents are magicians.
*In the adaption of Wizart Animation's Snow Queen, Gerda has a love interest named Rollan.
==Gallery==
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File:Gerda in The Snow Queen and the Princess.png|Gerda in Snow Queen 5
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