Name: Fa Mulan/Ping
Nickname(optional):Age: 17
Gender: Female
Species: Human
Position: Good
Power(s): *
Mushu Fire: Mulan has Mushu breathe fire at nearby enemies.
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Flametongue: Mulan charges into the air surrounded by Mushu's fire.
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Fire Boost: Boosts the power of Fire attacks.
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Limit ability: Red Rocket.
Weapon(s): Father's Chinese Sword
Picture(optional): 
Appearance:Mulan is a Chinese female that is about 5'5" with short, straight cut black hair that ends at the base of her neck. Like most Chinese people, her eyes are a nice almond shape and the pupils are dark in color. Like many Asians, Mulan's face and nose are what a lot of people seem to describe as 'flat'.
Her clothing style of choice seems to be reminiscent of that of the attire worn by Imperial soldiers when in training. Her top garment is like a robe, though it's cut at the thighs and is trimmed in a dark green color. The cuffs of this garment are also green in color, though they go from her wrist to about the center of her forearm. Mulan also wears dark brown, baggy 'kung-fu' pants that tightens around below her knee. knee high, white socks are worn over the pants to help both garments stay in place, and on her feet, black Chinese shoes.
Personality:Mulan is generally determined and strong-hearted for her friends and family, especially after her training in the army. Unlike most young women in her time, Mulan shows (and fails to obediently conceal) many talents and qualities, such as horse-riding, being very clumsy, and most notably, being outspoken. She also has extraordinary ingenuity which enables her to solve nearly any difficulty quickly and efficiently.
Mulan loves and respects her family, but struggles with the culture's traditions and how they conflict with her own views; she doesn't think that she can be a perfect daughter for her family. When she returns home as a great hero, she finally feels that she has brought her family honor and knows that she'll see 'someone worthwhile' in her reflection.
Original World: The Land of Dragons
Current Residing World: The Land of Dragons
History/Background:At the beginning, Mulan is sent to the town matchmaker to find her a husband, which ends in humiliating failure after she accidentally sets the matchmaker on fire. Shortly after, the Chinese emperor's counselor, Chi Fu, arrives in her village to announce that the deadly Huns, led by Shan Yu, have invaded China, and that one man in every family must serve in the war. Despite her protests, her father, a famed war veteran named Fa Zhou, says that he will go (in spite of his old age and crippled body) and lashes out that Mulan must know her place. Knowing that she will risk her life and family's honor, Mulan decides to go in his place posing as a man, cutting her long hair with a sword and stealing her father's armor and horse Khan.
In a bamboo grove near the training camp where her father was assigned to, Mulan meets Mushu, a tiny dragon that claims he was sent by her ancestors to guide her so that she won't be caught and receive a death penalty. Along with Mushu's cricket companion Cri-kee (who came to help Mulan after his own carelessness made her fail the aforementioned matchmaker meeting), Mulan boldly steps into the camp. However, she quickly establishes a heated one-sided dislike by the other soldiers after a series of mistakes (conducted by both Mulan and Mushu) that lead to a scolding from their commanding officer, Captain Li Shang.
Under the alias of "Fa Ping," the supposedly never-mentioned son of Fa Zhou, Mulan starts her training. At first, along with the other troops, she fails miserably at the first assignment: retrieving an arrow from the top of a wooden pole using heavy weights. During her early days in training, she turns out to be the worst of all the troops and is, at one point, asked to leave. Before leaving, she tries at the first assignment one more time, and through her own perseverance and improvised way of using the weights, she accomplishes the task no one else could do. "Ping" quickly arises as a top trainee, eventually earning the respect and friendship of fellow soldiers, who follow her example and become excellent soldiers themselves. Soon, she also starts to feel affection toward Shang.
As a result of Mushu's mischiefs, Mulan's division is sent into battle to assist General Li, Shang's father, in a surprise attack against the Huns in a village in a northern mountain passage. However, the troops discover to their horror that the village and General Li's entire army has been destroyed and that they are now the only ones who can protect Shan Yu's goal: the emperor of China. While travelling to the Imperial City to warn the emperor, a stray firework (caused by Mushu) gives away the platoon's position, resulting in a highly outnumbered battle against Shan Yu and his Hun army. Knowing that a single cannon aimed for Shan Yu will not disable his army of thousands, Mulan steals the last cannon and blasts it into a nearby mountain, resulting in an avalanche that engulfs most of the Hun army. After saving Shang from the avalanche, Shang tells "Ping" that he is "the craziest man he's ever met, and for that he owes him his life" and is given Shang's trust.
As the army celebrate the victory over the Huns through the avalanche, Mulan feels pain and it turns out to be an injury caused by Shan Yu's hitting her side with his sword during the avalanche. Mulan's treatments result in her secret to be revealed before the entire platoon. Though her life is spared by Shang for saving him, the platoon abandons her. Wondering if she had really done the right thing or if her actions just disgraced herself and her family, it leads to Mushu confessing that he was never supposed to go with her on her journey and that he was merely a demoted guardian spirit that went for his own cause. He cheers her up, promising that he'll be her friend during the hard times when they return home.
However, they later witness Shan Yu and some of his men emerge from the snow debris and rush off to the Imperial City to warn Shang. Mulan's attempts to warn anyone are unsuccessful, but Shan Yu eventually reveals himself before a huge crowd and the soldiers, capturing the emperor before their eyes. Mulan, along with her closest friends within her platoon and Shang, plan to rescue him. By distracting the Hun guards with some of them disguising as concubines, her group manages to safely bring the emperor outside, but Mulan hesitates on leaving after Shang is injured by Shan Yu. She then leads the Hun leader away from Shang after Shan Yu recognizes her as the soldier who had caused the avalanche. She leads him to the rooftop, where she manages to steal his sword while Mushu launches a huge firework on him, obliterating the Hun threat and saving China.
The emperor, though peeved that Mulan had risked so much carelessly to join the army, is more grateful than he is insulted to her as she has saved China. Mulan leaves for home, but not after receiving the crest of the emperor and Shan Yu's sword as gifts of remembrance and honor. At home, she is welcomed with open arms from her father and to her surprise, meets Shang, who had come to visit her.
Role Playing Sample:"You shouldn't have to go!" Mulan shouted, slamming her tea cup back down onto the table top that she and her other family members were sitting at. She was understandably upset, considering that her father had been injured in a previous war and now he was being called back into duty for a new war that was coming under way with the Huns that were invading China.
"It is both my duty and an honor to be fighting for the Imperial army," Fa Zhou replied to his daughter, calmy. This only angered Mulan more and she shouted out, "so you will die for--"
"I will fight for China! I know my place! It's time you learned yours..." Fa Zhou cut Mulan off, giving her a stern look. Mulan furrowed her brows in shocked sadness and ran out of the dining area to the outside, ignoring the look on her mother's face and ignoring the fact that it was raining heavily outside. Lunging for one of the red pillars that was part of the structure of her home, Mulan wrapped her arms around it, crying and looking to the sky as she did so.
Why...? Why did her father have to be this way about fighting in the army? Staying there for a few minutes, the girl pondered about that before getting up and going to the large dragon guardian statue that was in the courtyard of her estate. Somehow, sitting there on the pedestal, in between the statue's legs made her feel more at ease.
She stayed there for the rest of the time that her family decided to have their dinner, and then waited till her family all went to bed before looking back up with a determined look on her face. If there was a way to prevent her father from fighting in the war that was coming up, she might as well disguise herself to be a 'son' rather than a 'daughter'. She walked back into her home, snuck into her parents' room and took the scroll from her father's side of the bed and replaced it with her flower hair comb. Hopefully, her family would understand. It was Mulan's desire to keep her father out of harm's way that drove her... and she was going t go out on this plan. That included going back into the room where her father kept all his armor and his Chinese sword.
Opening the double doors of the wardrobe, Mulan's gaze rested upon the green trimmed armor that was on display and then took the sword from it's mantle. Unsheathing the blade and kneeing down on the floor, Mulan took a handful of hair and just cut it with the blade of the sword. Locks of long black hair fell into a pile on the wooden floor surface, and when the Chinese girl was finished with what she was doing, her hair was straight cut and was now at the base of her neck as opposed to her previous having it down to her mid-back. Tying it into a bun of sorts, Mulan turned her attention back to the armor and put it all on. Her appearance now was different than it had been ever. She now looked like an Imperial sodier rather than a girl that was supposed to be a bride to be.
Exiting the house once again and into the rain, Mulan made her way to the stalls to retrieve her horse, Khan. Not recognizing his owner's appearance, Khan immediately panicked, rearing up and whinnying loudly. Raising her hands, Mulan talked to the horse, calming the creature down with her voice and reassuring him that it was, indeed, her. Saddling up the black and white horse, Mulan mounted him and rode him out of the estate, the clopping of cantering hooves hitting the wet trail and rain echoing through the air.
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