Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-24018644-20150915144835/@comment-1916997-20150916204346

Eskaver wrote: It is important for everyone to find love--ho does that help find her role in 5a towards the story shown?

I'm sure Mulan finding a lover will undo all the statistics. I know of the stats and I know the potential benefits, however there wouldn't be major losses if Mulan wasn't ever seen again on this show and I doubt it would effect world stats.

Mulan being gay is the writer's decision. Making the writer give Mulan a happy ending or rather stressing that the writer does this action is adding pressure to their decisions. I'm sure it was always their plan to have Mulan go on this journey and find her happiness. But only focusing on her and her love interest is disrespecting a great character. It's like with other characters like Belle that have the problem of looking like she's only there to be the love interest. Belle has much more to achieve than to find a love interest. Her main motivation was to explore the world and to be the hero she always wanted to be. There she can find happiness as well.

My main point is that there is more to Mulan than being THE LGBTQ character. She has much she could offer to the story, like I don't know, a knight of the round table, or a descendant of one. There's much more we need to learn about Mulan and her backstory. Just giving Mulan a love interest and shipping them out of the show is just trashing a good and potentially interesting character.

Having a LGBTQ character and then almost demanding that they need to find love is as awkward as demanding a single person, let's say Ruby, to have a love interest again and be sent off. It's bad for the character to be treated like that. The writers might have a more interesting twist, but regardless of all of that.......What does that deal with how she fits in to season 5a?

She can find love all she wants but how will she play a role in season 5a's story? Finding love is not an answer to that because that doesn't effect the main story at all.

Predictions? We know Mulan is gay, but I'm sure there's more to her than that! What does she want? From what journey is she returning from? How will she aid the Storybrooke crew in their quest to save Emma and defeat the Darkness?

Edit: True you didn't say that, but what I'm aiming for is direct the discussion to how she will be used. I know she's gay, but what else? Her return should mean more than "future Love interest". I'm sure it will be. They said they are planning to have her in multiple episodes in 5A and 5B, so I'm predicting an episode with her backstory (like the traditional backstory we've only had her mention so far), and helping in the present day plot (we know she quests alot and therefore knows alot about lots of things) as well as shipping her with someone. She is a great character, as well as being great for the show's diversity, being both asian and homosexual, and hopefully the show is able to use her well this season.