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the new emperor.... spoilers

posted 18 years ago by air2
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i don't know if this has been brought up before but...

i just realized that, assuming the princesses went ahead and married the 3 soldiers, ting ting and ling would be the successors to the emperor's throne! so when the emperor decides to give up his "emperorship" (or passes away), that would make ting ting the new empress and ling the new emperor.

making ling... general shang's new boss!!??

the beginning of mulan 3?

ps. i'm assuming ting ting is the eldest of the 3 sisters.

[–] atomicseasoning 18 years ago

I'm just wondering now though if the 3 princesses were really the Emperor's only children? I mean the emperor could've had a son too, who'd obviously inherit the kingdom despite how old those three sisters are.

(Did Chinese emperors have multiple wives like kings in middle eastern countries and so forth in the era?)

[–] ckat13 18 years ago

Well, I think they did, but my mom and I got into a nice little debate about wheter or not the princesses were going to marry 3 princes, or just one, since at the end Mulan is about to marry the oldest.

I pointed out to my mom that it was 3 princes, because at the begining the Emporer says "Lord Chin's (sp?) SONS" then near the end, Lord___ Wants Mulan to marry the OLDEST son. but my mom still dosn't believe me. (She didn't believe Timon was a Meerkat when Lion King first came out either, she thought I'd made up the animal!)

But if your talking about the emporer (our emporer.......crap, I'm spelling emporer wrong aren't I?) :-(

Yeah I don't think the princesses father, (so I don't have to misspel it again) had multiple wives.

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[–] OliveBranch88 18 years ago

Maybe the princesses were his only LEGITIMATE children...because Chinese emperors certainly did have multiple wives.

[–] Freija 18 years ago

All children by the Emperor and his wife and concubines are considered legimate. Only the first son is considered important, however.

[–] The-Real-Prudence 18 years ago

THAT IS CORRECT!

Unless the emperor has sons, of course.

But if all those sons are tragically killed in battle or something...

...then yep! But by the time all that tragic stuff would've happened, Ting-Ting and Ling could have an adult son of their own who was more like his mom.

Unless his goofy older brother was, you know, older.

Ok, now I have a million plot bunnies.

[–] flavia18 17 years ago

There is no way the Emperor would have sent his heirs to be married to some warlord's children, and no way a woman would have inherited. Chinese Emperors either had their own sons (and they more than one woman in order to accomplish this, or had concubines, with no thought of "illegitimacy" coming into play) , or adopted an heir from another princely family.

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[–] Yoshie_S 17 years ago

The emporor had concubines. (I'm a huge Mulan Geek) In the first one Mulan and the men dressed as concubines. So there had to be girls walking around the palace. Right?

[–] snichols1973 15 years ago

Since the princesses married commoners, and the "Golden Dragon of Unity" declared them exempt from their vows and free to choose whom they could marry, the princesses most likely gave up their royal status by marrying Yao, Ling and Chien-Po, since the husband was usually the head of the household and the 3 warriors had no titles of nobility serving as common soldiers in the Imperial Army.

Interestingly enough, according to the first Mulan film, Mulan started out (apparently) as a commoner and (as far as I know), never held the title of Princess.