because we honestly don’t know if Merida will stay into the 2nd half of the Season.
See, that’s why I think it will be Merida. They want to silence the critics who are calling them out on not doing non-heterosexual love stories, but they don’t want to actually explore it with any real depth. Having one half of the new shiny ship go live on Forgotten Character Island makes sense. They can have Mulan say, “oh Merida is off doing such and such” (being Queen of her newly healed, no longer warring kingdom, as a for instance)
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