Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-26225812-20150625072936/@comment-1916997-20170119052641

GothicNarcissus wrote: I'm totally buying that Mal & Briar Rose headcanon.

Side note, I think if we're getting more LGBT characters, it will possibly be on some Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale. Say what you will about the writers, but they really did their homework on Ruby Slippers (I mean, with picking up Red and Dorothy based on their respective tale meaning and impact on the LGBT community; the rushed execution is another matter). There is a certain consent among scholars about HCA having been a strongly closeted homosexual and that pouring into his fairy tales, so that would be a good choice. Or, since we're getting more into classic literature, Wilde's production could give tons of stuff to work with. Well, they have already done The Little Mermaid (two takes on it actually) and The Snow Queen. Which leaves two stories he wrote where I could see them putting in a gay male (I'm assuming that would be what they would do next, although an argument can be made that we need another queer female to pair Mulan with). Anyway, the two stories are The Emperor's New Clothes and The Princess and The Pea. If I was deciding, in The Emperor's New Clothes, the emperor would be gay (and possibly also be based on Kuzco from The Emperor's New Groove, who didn't have any romantic pairing in that movie), it just seems like an easy fit. As for The Princess and The Pea, you simply change the story to The Prince and The Pea, the gender of the Prince looking for a bride and Princess who feels the pea, don't matter at all to the story, as the iconic part is that the character felt a pea through 20 matresses, and because Disney has never adapted it, people don't have a strong attachment to the nameless Princess. That's my take anyway, although I'm not holding my breath for a gay male on this show, unless they prove they can show Red and Dorothy for more than one episode.