Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-24018644-20150915144835/@comment-1916997-20150916144946

Eskaver wrote: Happy endings is not defined by romance! Mulan's happy ending doesn't mean it's with Aurora.

Example, Regina thought her happy ending was with Daniel, then with Snow's misery, then with Henry's love, then with Robin, but it was with feeling at home in the world.

So, Mulan doesn't need a man....or a woman to define her happiness. That's not that offensive, but that's sort of is to say that a woman's happiness is defined by romantic love.

Mulan not finding love sholdn't really matter. Mulan isn't a main character or secondary. She's a borderline background character. Neal ended with death. Does it mean that abused and abandoned children won't find happiness? Marian died and was disgraced. Does that mean POC can't find happiness?

I don't think many remebered Mulan to be outrage if she never had returned. You guys are missing the point. Of course we don't need love to be the end all be all of everyone's happiness. At the same time, that is a very common theme in fairytales. Plus, it's a little different when the character was shown to be upset that someone wasn't in love with her. Is the message you think the show should send be "If you love someone and they don't love you back, forget it, you missed your one chance, now go be celibate for the rest of your life". Also, Mulan is definitly a secondary character, she was with Emma and Snow (two of the most main characters) for a whole arc! Neal/Bae is not the only abandoned child on the show, we have Emma, Henry, Lily, and debatebly August. Similarly, Marian is not the only POC on the show, we have Sidney, Lancelot, Tamara, Rapunzel, and Ursula (and Mulan as well). On the other hand Mulan is the only LGBTQA character, if they get up to the point where we have 3+ confirmed non-cisgender or non-hererosexual characters, then that's fine, Mulan can stay single, but since she is the only one, yes, by her not finding someone, the show is basically saying that LGBTQA characters can't find happiness, or worse than that, saying they don't exist at all.