Talk:Descendants/@comment-24756150-20140624220004/@comment-4889892-20140627023554

From the beginning moment I heard this movie was in the making, I have feared the high school stereotypes. I want developed characters with real personalities and stories, not predicatable "high school archatypes" like nerd and jock. And if the princes and the princesses were born in this modern AU, I'd be nervous to see how Disney might recreate them. For example, Mulan really wouldn't have gone through what she did in the movie because culture is different now. I have translated her to the modern world myself, along with Li Shang, but it takes a lot of difficult chareacterization I'm not sure the producers will put in, especially not id they are not the main characters. (Though they are the originals we all know and love.) In a modern world, if she was not born in China but America or some fantasyland, I could see Mulan choosing a western name actually, but not something corny like Lonnie. However, I always liked the sound of Mi-Lang for her daughter. (It means "honey wolf" and a wolf in China is known for having great ambitions. Plus the name could be a more subtle pun of Mulan and Shang, if they want to go that route.)