Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-24138799-20131111105215/@comment-4975807-20131112183600

DarKingdomHearts wrote: Pocahontas=Tiger Lily in the show. She is the daughter of Powhatan and is an indian in the show, and not a Native American so people won't get offended. [name] is just walking when he accidentally trespasses the holy Indian grounds and without trial has to be executed. Lily however thinks that's unfair and stops her father by jumping for [name]. Lily pleads not to kill him, as it is unfair and Powhatan releases him. When [name] tells what he is doing her, Lily looks up to him and wants to help him.

Only way to make Pocahontas happen in my opinion. [name] could be either Charming in present day, or Bealfire in past day. I choose Charming because he is an adult so Lily has someone to look up to and follow the Pocahontas story, but in these 3 episodes?

Bealfire could happen as he is searching a way for to get off the island and Lily helps him by telling him of catching Shadows with light. Only then they would be around the same age and it would look less like the Pocahontas story. How is Pocohontas not Native American? Referring to someone as American Indian is just another way to describe the indigenous ancestry he or she comes from, isn't it?

Seeing confirmation that John Smith's claims about how Pocohontas saved his life are full of dubiousity, I can sense why the event itself could be his own fabrication. If that is true, historically, I would feel it would give a continously wrong impression of the relationship (or non relationship) between Pocohontas and John Smith. Then again, I realize something else. I mean, just to think about it in Mulan's case. Even though she's not a real person, the Disney movie certainly has given her a famed depiction of her fictional life. So, in that sense, I would also say Disney's Mulan movie also helped shape people's perception of her even though historically, she was likely not a real person. In this aspect, the Mulan and Pocohontas movies have similiarity in that they both have creative adaptions of characters.