Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-32390199-20151011080013

This was an idea that I've been thinking about for some time and I just needed to let other people know. There is a fairy tale called The Nightingale which I think many will know. I imagined the Emperor in the story to be the Emperor of Mulan's Empire.

The Nightingale is a mystical creature which has the ability to cure hearts with its voice. It emits a golden glow and when it sings those music symbols come out. Anyhow the Emperor's wife died shortly after Mulan saved China and he became a widow. And then we kinda follow the tale that he finds the Nightingale who then sings for him but replaces it by a music box that mimics the same noise. He then gets heart failure when the music box breaks and Mulan is send on a quest to find the Nightingale to cure him. Mulan succeeds and the Nightingale cures the Emperor's heart with its song. The Nightingale says that he will be near when he is needed.

The Nightingale will then also have importance in the present day plot of course. I imagined that then either Mulan would seek out for it to cure her broken heart. However I think it is a little bit out of character for Mulan to do that. So maybe she just helps find the Nightingale because one of the main characters has heart failures, and that person probably is Rumple. Maybe Belle and Mulan kinda do this adventure again (fleshing out their friendship more) and maybe let others join in as well to fix Rumple's heart.

Weird theory, will never happen, but I thought it was kinda clever. 