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Coz no one else seems to have googled it yet: Yaoguai…
Yaoguai is a Chinese term that generally means “demon”. Yaoguai are mostly malevolent animal spirits or fallen celestial beings that have acquired magical powers through the practice of Taoism. The evil ones are usually referred to as guài (literally, “freak”) or mó (literally, “demon”) in Chinese. Their greatest goal is achieving immortality and thus deification. In Journey to the West, the demons seek this mostly by the abduction and consumption of a holy man (in this case, Xuanzang).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaoguai
@PriceofMagic wrote:
As for Belle and Mulan teaming up, it must take place between Belle leaving the dark castle and being captured by Regina. Perhaps after Belle’s scene in Dreamy.
Yeah it’d have to be. Belle’s always wanted adventure, and after having her heart broken by Rumple she probably figured she had nothing to lose, so she may as well run off after a dangerous beast. What interests me about this is where exactly it’ll happen. Mulan and the Yaoguai are both Chinese, so was there a Chinatown area of FTL, or did they both come from some other land through a portal, (one of the hat doors looked kinda Asian, from memory)?
Also, how do these events lead into Belle being captured by Regina? Wonder if we’ll see that in this ep too?
Also, this gives Mulan a history with a SB resident, (other than Snow and Emma), and I wonder if they’re setting that up because they plan for Mulan to end up in SB eventually and it’ll be easier to fit her in if she and Belle remember each other?
@MagicKingdomღ wrote:
And poor Smee. He’s going to be Mr. Gold’s new guinea pig isn’t he? GOOD! He deserves it for kidnapping Belle.
Smee would be a logical candidate just because we know Rumple already had him prisoner. What ep were the pics of Smee and Hook from though? Coz that suggests that he escapes Rumple’s basement at some point.