On the DVD they mention that originally Mulan had an arranged marriage waiting for her but the guy ended up being pretty nice so they didn't want Mulan to break his heart.
Prompt: Mulan's arranged husband is a nice and pleasant guy who wants to have the happy marriage his parents never seemed to have. But when Mulan returns as the hero of China he's worried he'll have to let her go so she'll be happy with Shang.
Re: Fill - Part 2contrary_izybelFebruary 12 2012, 17:17:57 UTC
Within those hours he learned a lot about Mulan. He discovered that once one got past her initial shyness (which he began to suspect was a mere affectation in an effort to convince people like the matchmaker that she was demure) Mulan could dominate a conversation about as easily as he did when he rambled nervously, and in fact she was much better at talking: He found just about everything she said funny, insightful, or surprising and never got bored with her ideas. He somehow talked her into telling him what happened when she visited the matchmaker and spent the entire story simultaneously cringing and holding back hysterical laughter, especially around the bit with the cricket in the tea. In return he was forced to tell her what his own brief meeting with the matchmaker was like, and he did his best to make his tale-a story of not-so-subtle glances at his missing leg and repeated questions about just what he would bring to the household if not the capacity for labor or a decent inheritance-sound more entertaining than pathetic. The
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Re: Fill - Part 3contrary_izybelFebruary 12 2012, 17:19:48 UTC
In the days following their betrothal Mulan confessed to him that she felt a little strange about the whole matter, but she never quite seemed unhappy about it and she did at least enjoy Chao’s company. Chao, meanwhile, kept finding new things to like about his bride-to-be every time he saw her: Her hair, her handwriting, the way he’d sometimes catch her finishing up her chores by way of making Little Brother herd chickens or some equally zany scheme… He knew some people whispered about how the matchmaker had put them together almost as a joke, as a petty punishment for Mulan’s behavior at her appointment. He knew some joked around about it, wondering aloud which one of them had it worse. He expected most of the snideness; he wasn’t stupid, he could see this stuff coming. But he didn’t care. He felt like the luckiest man in the village, possibly in China
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Re: Fill - Part 4contrary_izybelFebruary 12 2012, 17:21:15 UTC
Chao resolved to do his best to act casual as he tried to glean from his brother what the training Mulan would even now be undergoing was like, and started as innocently as he could:
“So how did you break your arm?” They were lying awake at night again, whispering under the noise of their parents grumbling at each other in another room. The family had eaten dinner in sullen silence, barely even acknowledging that a member had been gone for a week, but now that they were alone Chao needed to hear from his brother.
“Trying to climb that damn pole,” his brother grumbled, “That arrow was this close
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Re: Fill - The Final Part - Thanks for Reading!contrary_izybelFebruary 12 2012, 17:22:39 UTC
China won the war, eventually, and the entire village celebrated, if rather solemnly as most of their conscripted sons and brothers and fathers had yet to return. Some began to think Chao needed to “get over” his betrothed’s alleged illness, to just be thankful that at least she lived, as did his brother and his parents, that he should be happy he didn’t have a soldier to worry over as most families did. He did his best to pretend they were right.
Re: Fill - The Final Part - Thanks for Reading!contrary_izybelFebruary 12 2012, 21:00:22 UTC
WHY WOULD YOU WRITE THAT!? IT'S SO BEAUTIFUL AND I'M SO SAD AND I WANT CHAO TO LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER AND I'M GOING TO CRY FOREVER!
This is absolutely amazing and the way you wrote Chao was just so...perfect. So likable and noble and the way he felt about Mulan was just beautiful and you're amazing and I'm seriously crying.
Thank you sooooo much for this fantastic fill. Now excuse me while I bawl into my pillow.
Prompt: Mulan's arranged husband is a nice and pleasant guy who wants to have the happy marriage his parents never seemed to have. But when Mulan returns as the hero of China he's worried he'll have to let her go so she'll be happy with Shang.
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“So how did you break your arm?” They were lying awake at night again, whispering under the noise of their parents grumbling at each other in another room. The family had eaten dinner in sullen silence, barely even acknowledging that a member had been gone for a week, but now that they were alone Chao needed to hear from his brother.
“Trying to climb that damn pole,” his brother grumbled, “That arrow was this close ( ... )
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This is absolutely amazing and the way you wrote Chao was just so...perfect. So likable and noble and the way he felt about Mulan was just beautiful and you're amazing and I'm seriously crying.
Thank you sooooo much for this fantastic fill. Now excuse me while I bawl into my pillow.
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I demand you give Chao a happy ending.
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As for giving him a happy ending, I suppose if I get any good ideas I might write a brighter epilogue later, but it would probably take a while.
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