Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-26385535-20160127061149/@comment-32390199-20160411230735

CoolDudeAl wrote: DarKingdomHearts wrote: CoolDudeAl wrote: DarKingdomHearts wrote: I still have the most perfect flashback episode in mind for Mulan which could tie in with finding her love... at times like these I really wish I could pitch them to the writers. I don't say it much, but for once I think my idea is absolutely brilliant xD You can't just leave us hanging like that. What's the idea? WARNING this will go very off-topic:

In her flashback Mulan would still be under the service of the Empire. One day she gets summoned to the Emperor who seems to be on his deathbed. He explains to her that he released his Nightingale and replaced it with a mechanical one which eventually broke down, but without the singing of the bird his heart has drastically weakened. He sends out Mulan to find the Nightingale and bring her back to him. Mulan does as she is told an finds the Nightingale (with a light glow around it) somewhere in the Empire. She brings it back to the Emperor and heals his heart again.

Those are the main lines of the flashback. I think it is best that she goes on the quest alone, or maybe they can introduce Mushu (who in my headcanon is the father of Lily but whatevs). The Nightingale is considered a magical creature with the voice to heal a heart (whether it is broken or just weak) and will come into play in the present day plot. Perhaps she uses the Nightingale to fix her own broken heart or something.

It will also give The Empire some more worldbuilding as we haven't had that. That's interesting. I believe the nightingale part refers to another Chinese story, right? And in the interest of saying something on topic: I wish we got a Mulan flashback like that for this episode, but it seems it will just be for the time inbetween 509 and 515. There is always next season though, I guess. It annoys me that Mulan has been a somewhat big recurring character, and yet hasn't gotten a proper backstory episode yet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nightingale_(fairy_tale)