Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-24386552-20141110024916/@comment-25701646-20141118003726

Dan Fox wrote: Okay, I will give her that... But it was that she chose not to deal with this head on the first time, that really makes me mad. Because of her decision to erase the memories of Helga and Ingrid from everyone, she basically caused Elsa's suffering and frankly her own too. By not dealing with this the easier way, she basically made everything even more complicated than it could have been. Plus Grand Pabbie warned her that the stuff she tries to hide would confront her eventually. Of course it led to further suffering. But the point is I don't think she was psychologically capable of dealing with it at the time. She also thought she had paid the price. She did things in the heat of the moment and those things had terrible consequences, but Gerda was in too much shock to think about every possible solution. Fight, flight, or freeze mode took over and she had little to no choice ovr her actions.