Winter Denna

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Biographical Information 	Biographical Information
Full Name 	Winter Elspeth Denna Storm
Nicknames 	Queen of Ice, Queen of Snow, Snow Queen, Ice Queen, Frosty
Homeland 	Gedrefed, Realm of the Dark Elves
Born 	1237 AD
Died 	N/A
Occupation 	Princess of Tindobel (Star City)
Coat of Arms at Birth (1237 - 1255) 	
Motto 	Mercy. We Give None
Personal Coat of Arms (1255 onwards)	
Motto 	Let It Go
Physical Description 	Physical Description
Race 	Elendili
Gender 	Female
Height 	5ft 7in (1.69 m)
Hair color 	Bright Blonde
Eye color 	Ice Blue
Distinguishing Features 	Her powers over ice and snow.
Languages Spoken 	English, Greek, Elvish, French.
Family 	Family
Parents 	
*Siri Denna - Mother †
* Flynn Storm - Father (unknown to anyone)
* Seifa Theirin Storm - Adoptive Mother †
* Percival Storm - Adoptive Father
Spouse(s) 	
*None
Children 	
*None
Other Family Members 	
*The Storms - Her adoptive family
* Cara Denna - Maternal Aunt
"The cold never bothered me anyway."
From "Beware the Calm: Histories of the Royal House of Elysium" by Samson Arigiros
From the outside, Winter looks poised, regal and reserved - drawing on the teachings of the royal family she has grown up with - but in reality, she is like a river, poised and calm on top, with a raging current beneath the surface, thanks to her magical abilities - the power to create ice and snow. It's a beautiful ability, but also extremely dangerous. 
==Personality and Traits==
As an adopted member of the Royal Storm household, Winter often acts calm, reserved and regal, and unlike her mother and aunt, who are both a 'bit of a character', Winter is much more experienced in grace and poise. But beneath this elegant appearance, she is also quite complex - in truth, Winter is troubled with her abilities, a trait that stems from an incident as a child. Because of this, she has lived in fear for a great amount of her life, too nervous to let her powers overdevelop, despite Princess Eira's insistence that she 'let it go' and be herself - don't hold back and conceal it.
Winter believed it was better to hide her powers, however, and as a result, chose to keep things to herself rather than communicate. No-one other than Eira ever actually knew of her powers, and that was the way she wanted it to stay. However, whenever fearful or pressured, her emotions cause her magic to be released in the forms of deadly ice and storms.
From said pressure, Winter is sensitive towards other people and their well-being, as she always felt she had to be far away from people as much as possible in order to keep them safe. She also sees herself only as a force of destruction. This implies that Winter is self-denigrating towards herself in an extreme case, as she constantly blames herself to be the sole cause for most of her life's misfortunes despite others stating she is not, to the point that she labels herself as a living storm - not because of her name, but because of her nature - and distances herself from everything in general.
Despite her fear, Winter does truly care about her adoptive family quite selflessly, but due to the influence of her magic, she does not like to confront things she has caused, for she has always believed she can only create harm, not heal it.
However, after her exile, she revealed a liberated side to her personality. Without stress or fear of hurting others, she became strong and unafraid, yet with an air of elegance still surrounding her. Armed with a sense of freedom, she is confident in her abilities, letting them roam free with grace and beauty, all the while no longer worried or daunted by her restraints. It is also apparent that she had tried her best to suppress her abilities for her family's sake in order not to hurt others and to be a good example to others who looked to the Royal Family - and by extension her and her sister - as role models. Finally, however, she realised that she was done being the perfect 'princess' that others had wanted out of her. Now she was free to be herself.
During her exile, she proved herself to be a daring young woman willing to remain far from what she was destined to be, and rejected her own fate as a Royal of the Storm household for the choice of her own freedom.
Before her exile, Winter could be quite fun loving and mischievous, even sneakily tricking the Duke of Weselton into dancing with Clara on one occasion, showing more of her mischievous and playful side, though this side was rarely seen as her fears about her powers constantly played on her mind, and she was always worried about losing control of them by not paying attention, or having too much fun. This often caused others to wrongly assume that she was severe and stern - too serious for her own good, and didn't know 'how' to have fun. Clara knew this was not the case, but she never understood why Winter did not allow herself to let her hair down and have a good time, either. She still loved Winter, regardless, and would often stand up for the younger girl whenever others unfairly treated her, or upset her.
This is why Winter's strongest part of herself is her love for her sister - and in truth, her only friend - a trait that gives her the ultimate motivation to save Clara when she needs her sister the most. Although she feels responsible for the chaos she has caused, the bond she shares with Clara is stronger than she knows, as the feeling itself is her reminder that she is not truly alone when there is someone else who cares for her as well.
With love, Winter finds a stronger control over her abilities in order to save those she cares about, and from this, she confronts her fear, and learns how to use her powers for good instead of imbalance. In doing so, she gains the will to control it.
And as she finally conquers her fear, Winter's personality becomes warm and playful once again.
==Appearance==
Winter is a strikingly beautiful young woman with a tall, slender figure, platinum blonde hair, ice blue eyes, and pale skin with a light dusting of freckles. She has the face of her mother, albeit with a slightly different shade of blonde to her hair.
In her 'pre-Snow Queen' state, she often wore teal or black dresses with bronze lacing and magenta capes, and her hair was often kept back in elaborate twists, buns or braids. Ever since an accident with her powers when she was five, she also wore white gloves to contain her powers, but would sometimes swap them for longer gloves that went with her choice of outfit.
In her Snow Queen state during and after her exile, Winter's appearance changed dramatically as she finally embraced her powers for the first time in her life. She wears her hair in a left side braid woven with snowflake incrustation, a crystal-blue, off-the-shoulder dress made out of ice with a crystallized bodice, powder blue sleeves and ice shoes, and at the back of her bodice is a long, transparent cape of sheer ice draped down from her sleeves and decorated with big snowflakes. 
The dress is made purely from ice and snow, but does not melt, even in warm climates, because constant contact with Winter's skin helps to keep the magic going.
Because of her powers, Winter's skin is always icy cold to touch (a trait that earned her the name Winter in the first place), though she herself never feels the cold. However, she does have an aversion to heat, prompting her to stay away from the dragons in particular, and when standing in a room with a fire, she will place herself as far from the fire as possible. When she visits hotter climates, such as Greece, she will either carry a parasol to protect her from the sun, or she will ensure she remains in shade at all times.
==Skills and Abilities==
Winter becomes known as the Snow Queen during her early adult years, because whilst she was able to keep her powers secret as a child, as she has grown, so has her magic. As such, she can no longer hide what she can do, and eventually stops trying.
She has complete and total control over the element of ice and snow and with her abilities (that she was apparently born with, despite her mother having no magical abilities of her own, what-so-ever), Winter can conjure up and shape various things from snow flurries to blizzards. Most of her powers are unleashed via her hands, and controlled by her emotions. If she's happy and at peace, her powers would be under her complete control, but if she's stressed or fearful, she will lose control and cause great harm to those around her.
Some of her powers include being able to turn the Grand Palace of Elysium's ball room into a winter wonderland, complete with frosted chandeliers, an ice rink across the floor and banks of snow all around the room.
She is also able to create ice structures such as her ice castle in Laaksonen, deadly blizzards that can spread for miles, and more. She can also move ice structures at will and whilst it is mostly her hands that conjure the structures, her entire being can in fact conjure ice and snow, such as when she stepped onto a river, immediately freezing it the moment her foot touched the liquid. 
During her exile she is finally free to explore the true extent to her powers as she frees herself from the fear and stress she once held, allowing her abilities to run wild. She creates her huge ice castle, a stairway for an entrance as well as her ice gown, and even discovers that her powers protect her from the effects of cold. 
However, in times when Winter is truly frightened, her powers might act on their own in order to protect her, such as reacting to an arrow show in her direction by forming a wall of ice in front of her to block the incoming arrow. It's possible her ice powers may have a will of their own to some extent, where they respond to whatever she feels. She does not necessarily have to command her powers, but merely think or will them to do something, and they will respond. It also appears that her powers depend on which emotion she feels; if she is in sorrow, all the snow particles in the air stand still as if time has stopped, while anger creates a similar effect to fear but with an offensive direction instead of chaotic versatility.
The only way thought to conceal her powers was by wearing gloves on her hands, which appeared to negate her icy touch on other objects. However, this is nothing but a psychological mindset that helped to keep her anxiety and any icy outbursts under control all her life. Because it was her mother, one of the few people she trusted, that claimed that wearing them would stop her abilities, Winter believed it to be true, so by wearing gloves she thought truly stopped her powers, as a result of said belief, they did. Covering her hands does not actually stop her power, but rather, sheer force of will and belief.
 It is shown that if she casts her magic on a living being, the victim will not only freeze to death, but slowly transform into an ice statue, and the process only hastens if they are in cold conditions. While the curse can be removed if the magic affects the mind, the heart is the most vulnerable and if this is the case, the victim can only be cured by an act of true love. While Winter had thought she could not undo the frosty effects she creates, it is eventually revealed that she is capable of removing such curses through her love for others, as it is the warmest feeling of all.
==History==
===Not A Good Start===
Winter's start to life was not exactly a great one. She was born in the dungeons of Gedrefed after her mother, Sirianna, was imprisoned by Malekith Darkassan and sentenced to death. The impending execution was temporarily pushed back, however, after it was revealed that Siri was pregnant. Malekith decided that if her child were a boy, he would keep him and raise him as his own. He had no use for a girl, but until the child was born, he would not know. So he allowed Siri to remain alive, with the intention of taking the child and then killing her afterwards. What was a few more months of waiting, after all? There were plenty of other prisoners he could kill in the meantime to satisfy his needs.
Because of the terrible conditions that she was kept in, however, Siri fell terribly ill shortly after giving birth when she was only eight months gone - the premature labour brought on by the stress of her imprisonment. She was therefore too weak to stop the guards from taking her newborn daughter from her, and the next evening, died in the arms of Flynn Storm as he attempted to rescue her.
Whilst Flynn carried her body back to Elysium where Seifa was waiting anxiously for news with her own young daughter, Cara and Gwaine – who had been sent out by Torani to ensure their son couldn't handle things – went in search of Siri's stolen daughter. They followed the trail of the serving girl who had tried to save Winter's life, and the bootprints of the men who had chased her in order to ensure the child's death, as per Malekith's orders.
The serving girl was found murdered beneath a willow tree, and baby Winter was discovered nearby - left to die of exposure by a frozen lake. Somehow, by some small miracle, she'd survived, and later she would come to speculate that it was her ability to withstand the cold that had in fact saved her life.
Percival and Seifa adopted her as their own daughter, and named her Winter, and her unusual aversion to heat caused Eira to joke that she must be a frost baby.
Despite the fact Percival and Seifa raised her as their daughter, however, they never hid from her the fact that they were not her parents. She grew up knowing of her mother - thanks to the stories Seifa and the rest of the Storms often told - though nobody ever knew who her father was. The fact that Siri had even had a child with anyone was a shock in itself - even to Seifa, who had known her better than anyone.
Still, Winter looked up to Percival and Seifa as her surrogate parents, and viewed Clara as her older sister, whom she loved dearly. The two of them loved to get up to all sorts of mischief together, particularly in the snow when Winter was truly at home. She knew that the best way to get Clara to play was to tempt her with the line "Do you wanna build a snowman?" because even when it was the middle of summer, the two of them would go down to the beach and make sandmen instead - technically not a snowman, but they liked to pretend he was.
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