Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1894786-20151102014307/@comment-1916997-20151107070106

Anubis16 wrote: I want to say a few things, so did the events of Brave happen on Once like in Frozen. I adore this show, but it's supposed to be about LITERARY characters not DISNEY characters. I love Disney and Merida is awesome, but Brave wasn't even based off a story. At least Frozen was based off of The Snow Queen. If they wanted Merida on the show I wish they had changed her story a little or made her a fairy tale character like Goldilocks (Brave does involve bears after all) or even the unamed princess from The Princess and the Pea. If not an actual character they should tie her in with some Celtic story. I also feel like Rumple should have been the one to give her the magic cake (but I guess Rumple couldn't had made every single deal in the Enchanted Forest.) I love her character and everything and the whole thing with her brothers being captured and the clans thinking she's unfit to rule is interesting, but I remember when they said she was Rumple's mother, was she orginally supposed to but instead they just made her Merida? Yes, the events of Brave take place about 10 years before what we are seeing with Merida. The part about her being Rumple's mother was just a red herring, so people wouldn't figure out it was for Merida.