Fa Mulan

### Fate

Restores her family's honor by becoming the savior of China. (in The Eds and Kung Fu Panda: Battle for China.)

**Fa Mulan** is the titular protagonist of Disney's 1998 animated feature film of the same name. She is the strong-willed and tenacious daughter of a war veteran, who strives to uphold her family's honor. When her father is called back into battle to defend China from Shan Yu, Mulan opts to protect him by taking his place under the guise of a man who is a soldier named **Ping**. She is a recurring character in *Ed, Edd n Eddy: The Ultimate Ed-Chronicles*.

## Background

### Appearance

Mulan is a young tomboy of Chinese origin. She is a natural beauty, with dark brown eyes and straight, black hair that used to be long and waist-length. Later in the film when she leaves to join the army in disguise, she cuts her hair with her father's sword into shoulder-length and ties it up in a bun. This helps her blend into the army so that the other soldiers don't know that she's really a woman. In the second film, her hair was grown. Not to its original waist-length, but it's noticeably longer a few inches longer towards her back. In promotional works, her hair is always shown as its original length, down to the waist.

During the two films, Mulan wore a range of outfits, from beautiful Hanfus (Chinese dresses) to her soldier's getup, though her most notable outfits come from the original film; in which her promotional dress comes from, which is a simple Hanfu, which consisted of either a creamy green-yellow dress, with blue overshirt, which has green sleeves and a red band around her waist. She also sports a Kung fu-styled soldier's outfit, as well as her pink matchmaker's Hanfu and her father's armor.

Except when she goes to the matchmaker, Mulan does not wear any makeup or anything to beautify her appearance. Mulan is naturally beautiful nonetheless.

She wears a light blue tank top, short blue shorts, and is barefoot when she sleeps. She wears a dress consisting of a green long-sleeved shirt with olive brims and both yellow skirt and inside shirt with a low cut neckline, blue wrap, red waistband, and black ballet flats, but also has been seen barefoot as well. To impress the matchmaker, she had her face painted in white, red lips, black hair tied in a loose bun with a red hair ribbon, narrow crimson and pale pink Chinese skirt, pink jacket with long, flowing sleeves, aqua and plum collar, blue wrap with a red ribbon to fasten it, light purple scarf, same color shoes, jade bead necklace, gold dangling earrings, and a special lotus flower hair pick. When she was disguised as "Ping," she has black hair tied in a bun with a teal ribbon to look like a man (when she cuts her long, beautiful hair with her father's sword into a shoulder-length), and dark green soldier armor. In the Martial Arts sequence, she had a cream suit. In the Shan Yu battle, she wore a teal dress consisting of a poet-sleeved blouse, a long olive vest with a crimson collar, a crimson belt, light pink sash, and same color shoes.

### Personality

Unlike the previous Disney Princesses who were feminine, sweet, caring, classy, clever, kind, and gentle, 16-year-old Mulan is tomboyish and is more courageous, strong and self-reliant. And while most Chinese women at the time were expected to be graceful, quiet, and shy, Mulan was independent and outspoken. However, Mulan can be a bit clumsy, like when she tries to impress a matchmaker. She is tough, smart, intelligent, selfless, and determined, especially when it comes to joining the army in her father's place to save his life and her family, showing Captain Li Shang how brave a warrior she is, and defending China and the Emperor from Shan Yu and the invading Huns.

## Role in the Ed-Chronicles

### Beginnings Saga

#### *The Eds and Kung Fu Panda: Battle for China*

Mulan appears as one of the five main protagonists (along with Ed, Edd, Eddy and Po) in The Eds and Kung Fu Panda: Battle for China.

#### *Ed, Edd n Eddy's Frozen Adventure*

Fa Mulan returns in Ed, Edd n Eddy's Frozen Adventure. In Chapter Two, Fa Mulan, along with the Autobots, North Wind, Prince Phillip, the Good Fairies, Li Shang, Yao, Ling, Chien Po, Po, Phineas, Ferb, The Furious Five, Maggie, Simba, Nala, Timon, Lann, Reynn, Pumbaa and Colossus, arrive to help Terra and his company because the Eds and friends helped them and now they're here to repay the favor.