Lady in White
and its sequel Lady in White: Legacy, by Lugubrious DBB, are Frozen fics that look at the aftermath of Frozen II. The first fic is a one-shot where a now-immortal Elsa comes to visit an elderly Anna on her deathbed, and the sequel ‘jumps’ to the present day as Samantha ‘Anna’ Reinhert attempts to investigate the mythology of Arendelle, only to find herself meeting the ‘Lady in White’ that lives in the North Forest.
Lady in White contain examples of:
- All Your Base Are Belong to Us: In retaliation for breaking Elsa out of her facility, Remington has Kristoff's hut destroyed and his assets frozen as soon as Anna has been drugged and interrogated to tell her such information.
- Antagonistic Offspring: A distant example; Roberta Remington, the head of the organisation that captured Elsa, is the great-great-granddaughter of Leif, Elsa’s great-nephew.
- Arbitrary Skepticism: Invoked; Remington counters Anna rejecting the implication that she has memories of Elsa's sister by arguing that she's willing to accept the fact of Elsa's existence, so reincarnation shouldn't be a total stretch.
- Berserk Button: It may have been centuries since Anna died, but threatening anything that reminds Elsa of her sister is still a bad move, as a potential mugger learns to his cost.
- Big Damn Heroes: Just as Remington is about to take Elsa's rescue party off for interrogation, Ryder shoots down a wall with a grenade launcher and allows them to get in his truck to make an escape.
- Cold-Blooded Torture: Discussed but never used; Remington observes torture doesn't actually work because there's no guarantee that it will produce useful information.
- Cranky Landlord: At one point Elsa has to pay off Anna's landlord in order to get into her flat.
- Dark and Troubled Past:
- Elsa reveals that she witnessed the deaths of most of her family during the French Revolution, and isolated herself even further from humanity after learning about the destruction of Hiroshima.
- Anna recalls at least one foster home where her foster father would hit his wife when he was drunk; when he was sent to prison after Anna had been with them for a couple of years, the man admitted that he probably would have killed his wife eventually (although he never did anything to Anna herself).
- Kristoff’s mother died of an unspecified illness when he was very young, and he has always felt guilty for not having the courage to see her when she was in hospital.
- Dressing as the Enemy: In order to rescue Elsa, Anna, Kristoff and Isaacson have to pose as soldiers in order to infiltrate a military base.
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Invoked when Elsa recalls how her nephew was killed by the new government of Arendelle, even after he agreed to the transition to a democracy, because certain parties couldn’t imagine that the former king wouldn’t try and stage some kind of coup later.
- Eye Scream: At one point Anna fights off an attacking wolf pack by jamming a lit flare into the eye of one of the wolves.
- Failed a Spot Check: After Anna's capture, Elsa evades her allies because she claimed she was going to get water in the forest, even though they're currently next to a burning cabin and it would take little effort for Elsa to just melt some ice over that to get water.
- Freudian Excuse: Remington claims that she lost her old naivete and optimism when her brother died in 9/11, driving her to become more ruthless so that such a thing could never happen again.
- Generation Xerox: Kristoff appears to be an exact double of the ‘original’ Kristoff, and is all but explicitly confirmed to be his great-plus grandson.
- Genius Ditz: Anna Reinhert might be a clumsy student who oversleeps, unintentionally misses appointments, and has a very mismatched sense of fashion, but she earned a scholarship to Arendelle despite being a foster child, and her work on Arendelle’s mythology was enough to impress her professor to the extent that he hired her as her research assistant despite her just being a first-year student.
- Godzilla Threshold: The facility holding Elsa captive is pushed to this when Anna and her allies appear to rescue her; realising that the team must have had an inside man, they instigate a manual reboot of the system to reset the passwords so that the insider can't help Elsa's rescuers get out.
- Honor Before Reason: Even when she hasn’t known Elsa very long (at least in this lifetime), Anna is willing to even risk arrest by the United States government to keep her safe.
- Humans Are Bastards: Elsa doesn’t explicitly think of humanity as evil, but after sensing the devastation caused by the destruction of Hiroshima she is uncomfortable at the thought of what they are capable of.
- I Need a Freaking Drink: Following Anna's capture and the destruction of Kristoff's flat, most of the earlier rescue team decide they need a drink rather than worrying about their next move.
- Inferiority Superiority Complex: Suggested with Anna’s lecturer, Professor Andersen, who immediately assumes Anna is mocking him when she reveals that her dissertation is based on a research paper he wrote that basically ruined his own academic career, until he looks over her work, realises how good it is and confirms that she genuinely believes in what she’s written.
- Mind Probe: Remington subjects Anna to one after she's captured to learn more about Anna's connection to Elsa.
- Oh, Crap!: On both sides in Chapter 26; after Elsa's rescuers escape the compound, they only realise that they lost Anna when they stop, and Anna herself is left behind to face a particularly twisted interrogator.
- Parental Abandonment: Anna was abandoned as an infant and spent her childhood basically bouncing around foster homes.
- Past-Life Memories: Anna starts to experience memory flashes of the 'original' Anna after she meets Elsa, such as recalling her and Kristoff being chased by wolves while trying to rescue Elsa from the compound.
- Reincarnation Friendship: It is all but explicitly stated that Samantha ‘Anna’ Reinhert is actually the reincarnation of Elsa’s long-dead sister.
- Riddle for the Ages: Elsa never learned who was responsible for the death of her nephew Tyrell, as she felt that it wouldn’t do any good to give herself the chance to seek revenge.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Basically invoked when Remington justifies her decision to use the Chair on Anna to analyse her memories in defiance of various established medical protocols, such as doing it at a very high level without a supervising nurse.
- Secretly Wealthy: Due to investments made by his ancestor, the modern Kristoff is so wealthy he can afford an Omega watch (which Anna notes costs as much as a full session at a major university), yet he lives in a run-down shack near the woods.
- She's Back: Anna's capture and a brief talk with what may be the spirit of the original Anna inspire Elsa to use her full powers to mount a rescue attempt on the military facility holding her captive.
- Spot the Impostor: Professor Andersen tries to pose as 'General Wilmington' during the mission to rescue Elsa, but Remington realises he's an impostor as she knows there is no such general and she has a recording of Andersen's voice from an earlier call.
- Squishy Wizard: Suggested for Elsa; there is no sign that her immortality means anything more than that she doesn't age or get ill, creating the possibility that she can be hurt or killed, particularly when she is kept contained with a constant stream of sedative drugs.
- Victoria's Secret Compartment: During the mission to rescue Elsa, Anna sneaks her phone past the security checkpoint by hiding it in her bra.
- Who Wants to Live Forever?: Elsa has accepted her responsibility as the fifth spirit, but still resents how she has to watch all around her grow old and die while she stays the same.
- Worthy Opponent: Defied; Remington explicitly states that she has no respect for the idea that this Ragtag Band of Misfits managed to break into her facility despite their public appearances as a group of relative rejects.
