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Fa Mulan
The Name's Ping!
Age	18
Species	Human
Sex	Female (In Disguise as Male)
Height	5' 8"
Weight	130 lbs
Background
Series	Mulan
Combat Styles	Field Scout
Hometown	Shangqiu City, China
Group	Imperial Chinese Army
Occupation/Job	Lieutenant in the Imperial Chinese Army
Force:	Forces of Restoration
Quote
Hey! You hold him. I'll punch.
Recent Events
After discovering the collaboration between the Hun Army and the Heartless, Mulan as Lieutenant Ping, has tracked the enemy through a dark portal and washed up on the shores of Traverse Town.

Profile

In order to save her father, Mulan has disguised herself as a young, male soldier, Ping. Strong, clever, and resourceful, Mulan has proven herself to be an invaluable member of the Imperial Chinese Army. She struggles daily to maintain her disguise lest the people she loves are hurt and dishonored by her deception. Still, her devotion to her family and to her nation drives her and she embraces her new identity in order to serve the Land of Dragons faithfully.

Tin Pin Slammer

Mulan is an avid player of Tin Pin Slammer and owns several rare pins. She collects mostly pins from the "Dragon Couture" brand and prizes her "One Grain, Infinite Promise" pin. She wears this pin openly and other Tin Pin Slammer players are sure to notice it.

Disguises

Mulan has discovered a talent in disguising herself for undercover work. In addition to her alter-ego Ping, she may also be seen in a number of other disguises.

Background

"Gallopping hooves trample
through the breach between the worlds.
I Wish You Were Here."

Drawn by the darkness in Shan Yu’s heart, the Heartless have bolstered the Huns’ already enormous army. Emboldened by their new allies, the Huns have invaded Imperial China and the call has gone out to every house that each provide an able bodied man to take up arms to face the Hun army. Unwilling to allow her father, who has already fought and suffered for his nation, to be conscripted, Mulan steals his armor and his sword and runs away into the night to join the Imperial Chinese Army.

No woman may become a soldier, due to Imperial China’s culture of strict gender roles and so Mulan must disguise herself as Fa Ping, the son her father never had. Though her fellow soldiers are brave, Mulan is able to distinguish herself through her cleverness and her quick comprehension of swordsmanship.

After a decisive battle against the Hun and the Heartless, where her quick thinking resulted in the entire Hun/Heartless army to be buried under an avalanche, Mulan becomes an invaluable member of Captain Li Shang’s company and becomes an accomplished Lieutenant in command of her own small squad of field scouts.

It is during a reconnaissance mission that Mulan discoveres Heartless retreating through a portal. Following them through the void between worlds, Mulan lost her way and ended up in Traverse Town. It is there that she learned the nature of the universe and that her world was but one amongst many threatened by the Heartless.

Personality

The core of Mulan’s virtue is in her selflessness. She gives her life in exchange for her father’s. Even after being cast aside, she risks her life to save her friends and the Emperor. Upon returning home, she has no concern for herself, but only for her father’s and her family’s honor. She even faces down the whole of the Hun army with no hesitation.

Her courageous selflessness endears her to her friends and her family and touches every relationship she makes. It is demonstrated in her modesty, the way she eschews the painted face that her peers would wear, and in her devotion to her loving father. Her father is her most important relationship. She loves him even more than she loves her own life. It is only because she loves him that she endures the trials of the Match-Maker, not out of any interest of her own in finding a husband.

She is also a girl born in the wrong era. She is brave, clever, outspoken, and decisive where the women of her time were to be demure, silent, and obedient. This reveals her more progressive, mature world-view, one that prizes compassion and values the individual while paying little heed to social class or gender role. This dichotomy, however, frustrates her and she struggles to find her place in the world. It is ironic that it is only when she disguises herself that her true self is allowed to flourish.

She is also a determined woman, willing to take control of her own fate. When she is told that she will never make it as a soldier, she stays up all night, fighting against an obstacle none of her comrades were able to overcome, just to prove her worth. When the Huns are shown to have survived the avalanche, she does not go home, though she was abandoned by those she would save.

It is a metaphor for the nation and its social values that reject her. Despite this, her selfless devotion to her family, her comrades, and her nation is unconditional. She risks her life to save each of them in turn, even after being shunned by each, and it only stands to reason that she would lay down her life to save all the worlds similarly threatened by the Heartless.

The Heartless, to her, are much like the Huns, violent, pitiless invaders. Shan Yu had little reason for his invasion, beyond the challenge that the Great Wall posed. Similarly, the violence of the Heartless seems just as senseless. Even if she knew their motivations, she wouldn’t understand them. Someone with such selfless compassion in her could never sympathize with such darkness. She only knows that the Heartless seems determined to snuff out the light wherever it finds it and no world should suffer such a fate.

Even in the darkness of this war, she is still able to find light. Li Shang’s pride and confidence in her is a comfort, one that she could see blossoming into romance. Her comrades, too, have become her first true friends, those people who first embraced her true, inner self.

With such danger still threatening her family, her friends, and her whole world, there is no question in her mind as to what she must do. The world, all the worlds, are bigger than one woman. If she can give herself to save them all, that is a sacrifice she is willing to make.

Relationships

Friends