Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-25375217-20150711180920/@comment-5106672-20150714023237

I'll skip my disappointment for the OUAT ≠ Disney part as requested, but I'll just linger to say that, given what A&E did to Frozen, chances are that if Merida sticks long enough for them to develop the character they'll probably do a better job than Pixar did on the half-baked Brave.

With this said, I don't have much expectations of her other than product placement, but I have a couple of things that, based on the Pixar character, I hope not to see.


 * Her being Rumple's mother. It would be out of character for her to refuse all those suitors only to end up with such a petty man as Malcom. Thankfully it was confirmed not to be the case.


 * Her getting romantically involved with Mulan. Her refusal to commit because she wants to focus on herself and her own freedom is pretty much anything there is about her character. Having her refuse the suitors because she's secretly a lesbian would take away whatever little complexity she had.