As far as SQ goes, I’m one of the people who doesn’t believe that it has the basis to be a canon romantic relationship. I do agree that in the real world, sexuality can be a fluid thing, and for some people that absolutely means they’re bi. I don’t deny that sexuality is open to all sorts of different definitions, and over a person’s lifetime, that can evolve, and people can be gay, straight, bi, transgender, whatever, and there are people who maybe wouldn’t classify themselves as one thing rather than another, they’re just somewhere along the sectrum. And all of that is 100% fine. Honestly, as long as a person is happy in who they are and is having healthy relationships that don’t involve any kind of abuse, people can be with whoever they please because being happy and finding love is really all that matters at the end of the day.
But if any show were to tell a story of two women who have only ever been with men, (and I feel like this far into the show, if either of them had been with women before, it would have at least been hinted at by now if it was an aspect of their personality they were planning to explore more at some point in future, as opposed to them being repeatedly portrayed as being with men), both realising at the same point in their lives that they were actually bi and wanted to be together, that’s a story that would demand a level of writing that I wouldn’t trust this particular show with. There’s only one writer on staff that I’d be prepared to say could handle such a thing, but this show is, on the whole, a collaborative effort by many writers, so there’s no way that Jane could be given exclusive control over writing everything to do with that relationship. This show so often brushes over the personal, emotional moments, unless they’re necessary to advance the big, twisty PLOT, and a storyline like this, with two people redefining their sexualities and coming to terms with the emotional stakes involved, just wouldn’t be done justice on this show. And because it’d be a halfhearted job, it wouldn’t come across as being believable for a huge chunk of the fanbase. And then we’re back to how people who are already against same sex relationships would have a foothold to nit pick and diss the storyline, which wouldn’t be productive.
As far as SleepingWarrior goes, I’ve never seen it as being reciprocal from Aurora’s standpoint because they’d already established who her true love was. I wouldn’t have believed her being interested in another guy any more than I’d have believed her being interrested in Mulan. I never once thought that Mulan had a thing for Philip, or vice versa. I wasn’t necessarily convinced that Mulan was head over heels for Aurora, but I could see where the SW shippers got the idea, and they hadn’t established any other true love for Mulan, so I wasn’t surprised in the least when it turned out she DID love Aurora, and I was baffled that people thought that Philip was the one she’d been about to confess her love for. I do think it was a cop out if that’s the extent of their same sex relationship storyline for the whole show, but I like to think they’ll do something else and have an actual, open, reciprocated, TL, same sex relationship at some point. I dunno how Jamie’s other show has been doing and if it’s gonna hang around, but I’m sure I read an interview where she said she’d be thrilled to come back and play Mulan again if it were possible. They’ve established now that she’s not straight, so it’d be easy for them to bring her back and give her a girlfriend and a TL story line and just have it be a natural progression of her already existing story line.
If they had the intent and the actor availability to use Glinda and Mulan again in the future in a significant way, and if they did want to tap into apparent Wicked subtext, perhaps THEY would make a good couple. They could explain Mulan’s absence in 3B as her having been off on a mission that was beyond the reach of the Curse. So one day she comes back, finds the Merry Men gone, and on her way to or from the Dark Castle (which was one of their hangouts so she’s looking for them there) she stumbles on Glinda’s door. Mulan’s pure of heart, so she can walk through. She vows to find a way to free Glinda from her banishment, and it ends up being their TLK that breaks that curse, but that can’t happen unless and until Mulan has the guts to take another chance, despite what happened with Aurora, (a callback to her comment to Neal about having faith in love and not letting your fear override that). That’s a fairy tale romance right there, (you could even possibly say it was a metaphor for coming out of the closet, considering Glinda’s been trapped behind a door for so long), and Glinda and Mulan with their strengths combined would have legit power couple potential. (And now I’m sitting here wishing they’d bring both characters back, but I’m relatively confident they don’t actually have immediate future plans for either of them.)