Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-4877635-20130614170253/@comment-5106672-20131004025801

XxBadWolfxX wrote: How so? I had a book of fairy tales. Oh well. Perhaps its not true to the originals.

But I reckon that both old fairy tales and Disney crap still had Beauty to Beast and Mulan to Li Shang. That's because today's children value-teaching tales were yesterday's cautionary tales. So, fat chance we were ever going to be told that some random king found a sleeping beauty lying on a bed, raped her in her sleep, she got pregnant, mysteriously gave birth to twins while still asleep and one of them, while searching for he breast, sucked the speck of wood out of her finger so she woke up. We need true love's kiss, they needed to make young girls responsible about what happens when they have menarche (picking her finger on the spinning wheel) and do not ponder the consequences of letting men in (sleep as escape from responsibility until she becomes a mother, which forces her to become an adult).

Farytale characters are archetypes and what happens to them are metaphores. OUAT turns them into actual people with a history and a real character, so in a way they become totally different things. So, as long as it is consistent with the show and not just thrown in, why not twisting them into having a gay protagonist (and, as I said, in some tales you don't even have to twist so much, see the the Little Mermaid)? I mean, if you want to stick to the originals, how come that a prince who just wants to take the corpse of a (seemingly) dead woman to his castle without even thinking it possible for her to wake up (it happened as an accident in the original Snow White) is any less disturbing than a gay character?

Besides, I am not an expert of Mulan, but I recall she just retired to live a quiet life back home after the 12 years she served in the army, with no mention of Li Shang whatsoever – anyone correct me if I am mistaken.