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The matchmaker so they can tell the NRC boys how terrible they'd be as some poor person's life partner/j

I mean, it depends? Canonically speaking, events where new characters appear tend to be Halloween stories that feature the Iconic Bad Guy of the film (so that would be Shan Yu) or a hometown event with a character that is deeply related to the SSR. I guess that might be Lilia in this case, since he’s connected with the Land of Crimson Long, but we don’t know for sure. It could literally be anyone from Mulan at that point, since a lot of the characters are associated with war or supporting the war effort.

If I had to base my reply solely based on what I want (while completely disregarding Twst’s trends)… I love the three stooges that are Mulan’s army buddies, but they mainly serve as comic relief so I don’t think I’d get much out of seeing them twisted. I do think they’d fit in with NRC’s vibes though, especially if we’re talking the pre-meeting-Mulan versions of them that were full of themselves and constantly roughhousing. I thought about Chi-Fu (the Emperor’s scribe and advisor) too, but again he’s comic relief and might be too similar to Kifaji.

Commission for me by Romuo Barros. I asked for Mulan/Ping and Shang sitting together in a forest, just peacefully enjoying each other’s company, and words can’t describe how much I love how it turned out.

Growing up, I had a bit of a complicated relationship with these characters. I loved them and I really loved Mulan, but as a kid, I was teased a lot by white classmates for being the Asian girl who liked the only Asian Disney movie, and as a Korean-American, I kind of resented that Mulan helped perpetuate the belief that China was the only relevant Asian country. And as I got older, I really resented how non-Asian people constantly made jokes about Shang’s sexuality, fetishized him for his good looks, and had endless tiring debates over whether or not he was gay/bisexual.

It got so bad that for a while, I pretended I didn’t love Mulan and Shang as much as I did because I was so disillusioned with how people, especially white Americans, talked about them: how people often used Mulan as a way to dump on the other Disney Princesses, how people talked so weirdly about Shang and acted like his sexuality was the end-all and be-all of his character, how people tried to invalidate their romantic relationship in the original film and acted like the awful direct-to-DVD sequel was what made them a “real” couple, and so on. And Disney’s mischaracterizing Disney Princess marketing of Mulan and the mess of a live-action remake really didn’t help.

It took a long time for me to realize just how much I love these two dorks. I know most people see Mulan and Shang as just the token Asian Disney Princess couple, but they mean so much more to me than that. I think their love story sends a very beautiful message about how love transcends gender and sexuality, and I think it’s a shame so many people don’t see that and all they care about is dumb, unfunny jokes about how Shang “likes femboys”.

Inktober day 24: rowdy

Featuring a movie that I am pretty sure I can fully lip-sync to this day due to how often I watched it as a kid (the German version)

Those two gave me so much trouble while sculpting (how to make noodle?), baking (how to keep pliant noodle from falling over?), having them stand around (how to keep humans from breaking noodle? I had to glue him back together multiple times), and also to take at least kinda good pictures of (just how?).

Mushu is about the height of my pinky and Cri-Kee about the size of the nail btw.

I still really really like them tough!

[ID from alt text: A photo of a polymer clay sculpture of Mushu, the dragon from Mulan (1998), standing upright. Cri-Kee, the cricket, is sitting on a dip in Mushu's tail. The focus is on Mushu's face, making Cri-Kee blurry. End ID]

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