[route_29 IC Inbox/Voicemail]

[defyingfrigidity]

["I'm terribly sorry, but Elsa isn't here right now! Feel free to leave a message, and I'll do my best to respond in a timely manner."]

Comments

[paishodown]

I know. You don't need to apologize.

[ Asami's had her fair share of insight into Elsa's past. ]

Sometimes you just... need to hear it from someone.

[defyingfrigidity]

... I wish I'd had someone like you with me when I was growing up. Or I wish I'd been able to just talk to Anna back then like I talk to you now.

Maybe I would've turned out different. Better.

[It was always you need to do this Elsa and you need to control it no matter how you're feeling Elsa. There weren't really any gentle reassurances when it came to her trying to figure out her powers - and her feelings, as well, with how close the two were intertwined.]

[paishodown]

Well, it can be better now.

The first step is just seeing everything for what it is. Seeing past all the... built up muck and false thoughts that have been built up for so long.

[defyingfrigidity]

... It'll take a while. A long time, probably. Over a decade's worth of all that built up negativity...

I'm not saying that I don't want to try. I just... don't think things will change all that quickly.

[paishodown]

Of course.

[ Asami sighs. ]

I wish you could talk to Korra again... She has some idea of what it's all like, actually. Better than I do, anyway.

[defyingfrigidity]

I... had a bit of a talk with her, actually. During one of those incidents when my powers returned, she told me about her life growing up. Some things were different, but...

The way she talked, it seems like she and I had quited a bit in common. And as strange as it sounds... that gives me a bit of hope.

[Korra is so strong, so confident in herself and her abilities, and so kind... she's pretty much everything Elsa wants to be. So if she could turn out that way... could Elsa?]

[paishodown]

She's been through way more than most people can handle.

[ And somehow come out on the other side even more radiant. ]

I'm glad you at least got to talk while she was here.