Something’s off with Mulan

[Killian Jones]

@Josephine wrote:

I wrote this on another thread, but a few days ago, I saw on tumblr that someone wrote they went to a convention and Tony Amendola, Geppetto, was there. He was talking on the show and made the comment that Mulan was a villian. I don’t know if this is true or not, but it was interesting.

At the very least I think it’s something to keep in mind

[Phee]

@beautyistruth wrote:

I completely agree with the boring paladin of good criticism! Mulan is one of my favorite princesses and she is so dull on this show. Flat one-liners, no sense of interiority, a few sage remarks. Bleh. Her character had better start becoming more dymanic, or I will be sad.

Someone suggested recently that perhaps she and Lancelot were a potential couple, (assuming he’s alive and will be coming back). The more I think about that possibility, the more I hope it ends up happening, coz having a lil bit of Lance in her life would loosen her up a bit. He’s got similar qualities to her, both of them being noble warriors and whatnot, but he’s also got some wild abandon romantic passion stuff going on, (not just any guy says, “to hell with it” and risks it all to have an affair with his king’s wife), which would benefit Mulan if she was opened up to it.

Going back to the idea of Cora potentially controlling Mulan against her will, (which I could deal with much better than if she was consciously being villainous), if that was the case, that’d be something she and Lancelot could come together and bond over, considering Cora stole his identity.

Mulan feels very isolated from the other characters at the moment. Even though she and Aurora have had the same amount of air time, Aurora has an emotional attachment to Phillip, a history with Maleficent, and has interacted with Snow on an emotional level by lashing out at her. Mulan hasn’t connected with anyone like that yet. The only character we’ve seen who she has any emotional history with is Lancelot, given that I’m sure they were friends before Cora took him over. So if she’s gonna start connecting emotionally with people in the future, I’d think he’d be where she’d start. For her sake, I’m really hoping he’s still alive.

[frumpybutsupersmart]

It would be great to have Mulan show affection for someone, but she only just lost the man she loved to a wraith, and her commanding officer to an evil witch, so maybe he coping mechanism is to emotionally close off altogether (this at least explains why she seems so cold all the time). The only time we see her before Philip and Lancelot’s deaths is when Philip is risking life and limb for another woman, which probably made her at least a little bitter.

I don’t believe that Mulan is a villain – betrayal is definitely not her style. Deception, maybe, what with joining the army as a guy and everything, but betraying the remnants of her land to Cora is not something she would choose to do, no matter what Cora offered her. She’s far too much about duty and honour and sacrifice to betray good people.

If she is a villain, it would be because Cora is forcibly controlling her, but even that could be a stretch – if Cora has her heart, it doesn’t mean she can’t rebel. Graham rebelled against Regina in order to free Charming and reunite him with Snow.

If Mulan is working with Cora, it’s not of her own free will.

[Killian Jones]

New evidence why does Mulan have the most powerful sword in all the realms? Maybe enchanted by Cora?

[Phee]

I didn’t really taker her statement as fact, because it’s the exact type of answer I’d expect from any proud warrior. “It’s my sword, and I’m a badass. Therefore, my sword is the most badass sword in my whole realm. And my realm is the most badass of all the realms. Therefore, my sword is the most badass sword in all the realms.”

But it’d be cool if it really was a sword of particular renown, because that’s a story they can tell in a future ep.

Mulan’s actions in “Tallahassee” actually cemented for me that she’s trustworthy. She didn’t have to follow Emma’s orders exactly. The others didn’t know that she’d said to wait for 10 hours, so she could have waited for less time before going to chop it down and still said it was what Emma told her to do.

And I still maintain that Cora really needs that compass, so no one working for her would have even considered chopping the beanstalk down while the compass was still up there.

[frumpybutsupersmart]

@Phee wrote:

“It’s my sword, and I’m a badass. Therefore, my sword is the most badass sword in my whole realm. And my realm is the most badass of all the realms. Therefore, my sword is the most badass sword in all the realms.”

This is the best logic I’ve heard all day 😆

Just a random thought, but Camelot exists in the show, doesn’t it? So is anyone else thinking it might be Excalibur? Maybe Arthur died and Lancelot took it, then when Lancelot died, Mulan took it?
I don’t know, this only just hit me, so I haven’t really thought it through yet.

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