[Elsa hasn't really been avoiding Anna, technically in fact she has been doing pretty much the opposite, except that Elsa has been hiding the whole time. She has been pretty much stalking Anna since her arrival, taking advantage of knowing the ship better than her sister to hide and keep an eye on her and her interactions with the others, not close enough to be noticed or really hear what they talked about but enough to peek and see if things were going fine or not.
Part of her would be perfectly fine with keeping things that way. But it wouldn't be different from hiding behind a closed door and... It wasn't what she wanted. She is a pirate now, not a queen, she doesn't have any "duty" to uphold, she can do whatever she wants and be whoever she wants. And she wants to be free and to be with Anna. From what she heard on the journals it didn't seem that Anna hated her that much as Elsa had thought, but then again, maybe Anna was just reserving that for Elsa herself. She certainly deserved it.
Eventually, Anna ends alone and Elsa realizes that she really needs to step up her game and do... Something. She can't just avoid Anna the whole time, can she? No, she doesn't want to do that. But she has no idea of what to say or how to approach the other. Words, what are they? All the preparation and studies to be a queen and deal with politics served for nothing because there wasn't such a thing as a guide of "How to talk with the sister that has all the reasons in the world to hate you after you ruined her life for years". It is like Coronation Day all over again, except that she's sure that just "Hi" won't cut it this time as an icebreaker. Who is she trying to fool anyway, she can't do this, she creates ice, she doesn't break it! If she could do that none of the last thirteen years would have happened. She can't really go and act as if nothing had happened, as if the last time they talked wasn't a big argument, right? It would be wonderful if she could but... That's not right.
Actually, what if despite being okay with being on the same ship as Elsa, Anna doesn't really want to have anything to do with Elsa directly?
As Elsa hides behind a corner and tries to think of something to approach Anna and instead starts to fall into anxiety because maybe she shouldn't have said it was okay, maybe she should have gone with the idea of seeing is Ace would take Anna, maybe she should just run away... Small snowflakes start to fall around her, slowly expanding until they start to fall over Anna.]
After Anna has fun with everyone else
Part of her would be perfectly fine with keeping things that way. But it wouldn't be different from hiding behind a closed door and... It wasn't what she wanted. She is a pirate now, not a queen, she doesn't have any "duty" to uphold, she can do whatever she wants and be whoever she wants. And she wants to be free and to be with Anna. From what she heard on the journals it didn't seem that Anna hated her that much as Elsa had thought, but then again, maybe Anna was just reserving that for Elsa herself. She certainly deserved it.
Eventually, Anna ends alone and Elsa realizes that she really needs to step up her game and do... Something. She can't just avoid Anna the whole time, can she? No, she doesn't want to do that. But she has no idea of what to say or how to approach the other. Words, what are they? All the preparation and studies to be a queen and deal with politics served for nothing because there wasn't such a thing as a guide of "How to talk with the sister that has all the reasons in the world to hate you after you ruined her life for years". It is like Coronation Day all over again, except that she's sure that just "Hi" won't cut it this time as an icebreaker. Who is she trying to fool anyway, she can't do this, she creates ice, she doesn't break it! If she could do that none of the last thirteen years would have happened. She can't really go and act as if nothing had happened, as if the last time they talked wasn't a big argument, right? It would be wonderful if she could but... That's not right.
Actually, what if despite being okay with being on the same ship as Elsa, Anna doesn't really want to have anything to do with Elsa directly?
As Elsa hides behind a corner and tries to think of something to approach Anna and instead starts to fall into anxiety because maybe she shouldn't have said it was okay, maybe she should have gone with the idea of seeing is Ace would take Anna, maybe she should just run away... Small snowflakes start to fall around her, slowly expanding until they start to fall over Anna.]