Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-25375217-20150711180920/@comment-25758988-20150724023232

See that is why I think once will do their little twists with the character like they did with Mulan. Everyone assumed Mulan would be straight due to the fact that Disney's Mulan married a man, simples. But it was a really nice suprise when we discover she is into Aurora.

Merida is a pretty unique character because we only see a small portion of her life through her movie. As this is the only version of the character. So the writers can do what they want with her as long as it matches what little we see of it through Brave. Yes the characters from Frozen were also unique in the fact these were the only version of the characters but unlike Brave we see almost all the characters lives play out and we see they have their stories completed by the films end. The writers had to keep these characters as close to the film version as these were more defined characters where as with Merida there is more potential for change, IMO that is.