FA MULAN

FA MULAN

Alias: Susie
Other Characters?: I’m quite the character.
Movie: The Great Epic of Mushu Mulan
Group: Hero

Here I Go: "I think I realized I wasn’t like the other girls when I went out to the market with my mother. They were all concerned with playing with dolls and finding a husband. I was busy retelling war stories to my toys at home and climbing on anything when I could. When I got older I did my best to fit in. I did my best to interact with the other girls. They were still talking about husbands, husbands, husbands, and I knew that it was really the only thing I could possibly do for my family. There was nothing for women to do but get married. So I supposed I’d be the best wife I could possibly be!

For a while, I stopped going outside as much and read poetry, cooked more, did my best at weaving, tried a bit more embroidery, was forced more into cleaning, and I even learned how to pour the tea correctly. Who knew that there was a wrong way to pour tea! I never took to domestic work quite well, I let my mind wander occasionally and she would take short cuts occasionally. I wasn't very good at weaving or embroidery and my dragons tended to look more like drunken snakes, I was very good at cooking, part of me even enjoyed some of the poetry I was forced to read. Though it seemed like there should have been more to life.

Everything changed when I was publicly humiliated by the matchmaker and told I would never; "Bring honor to her family". Things only got worse that day when my father was enlisted into the army to fight against the Huns once more, I had been so outraged so upset when the decision! My father was old and injured from a previous battle! Again, I shamed her family and even worse it was in front of my neighbors! The tension was in the house that night, and that had been the night when I made the decision.

My father couldn't fight, if he did he would die! What was death worth if everyone knew he was older and injured? Where would the honor be leaving his family alone? What sort of honor was that? The Fa's had no son there was no one else to send except for me.

I found his sword and cut my hair. I stole his armor and went to my horse to run off in the night and join the army. The army was where I truly belonged and where I found myself. I could go on about how I buried most of the Hun army. I could talk about how my disguise as a man lasted for weeks and I wasn't discovered. I could talk about how I with the help of my friends I took down Shan Yu but I won't. I might tell you later. You see what I did in the war isn’t what is important to me. What happened afterwards is what matters.

I left home a dishonorable runaway and came home a hero who saved China. Despite that I had been so afraid when I came back home. My mother and grandmother cried and hugged me. They told me father was in the garden and as I walked through the gate and saw him sitting there I could hear the blood beat in my ears and my heart beat through my chest. I offered him my gifts. My most precious possessions as I waited for him to say something to something. He tossed them aside. My father didn't care about the crest of the sword, he had his daughter back and that was all that mattered to him. He hugged me and I hugged him back. I could look in the mirror and be proud of who I was. That was all that mattered.”