Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-26385535-20160127061149/@comment-26159109-20160215104438

Pokemama1 wrote: After looking at a few of this wikia's forum topics, I see it's basically set in stone that Mulan is a lesbian just from the various interviews, in addition to her visit to Aurora in the Bear King episode. I'm kinda disappointed because of the tomboy=lesbian thing, but meh.

I edited my post above, though, because my thinking that Mulan was straight was because of a vague recollection of an event in an earlier season:

I thought I recalled an old season broadcast when Mulan and Phillip finally acknowledged in a very oblique way that they had developed "feelings" for each other while they travelled together, but that acknowledgment came too late because by that time they'd found Aurora.

I don't want to have to watch every episode from back then to find it, but I assumed that's where *everyone* got the perception that Mulan had crushed on Phillip. But after all these forum discussions, soneone would have unearthed that old episode by now, so I'm probably just crazy. Oh, well. From what I recall Aurora confronted Mulan about Phillip, I don't remember something else. You might refer to the official podcast of the show with A&E, I didn't listen to them, but I can definitely see that they might have planned for Mulan to have feelings for Phillip, and then changed it to Aurora in season 3. We already know that a lot of things they planned were changed between season 2 and season 3 when they had that camp like: Rumple's father, Emma and Neal, etc... Mulan and Phillip might have been one of those things.