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Such a beautiful tower!

this is where I live btw 💜✨

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Inside Look into the Disney Princess Castles

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The covers of each of the books in the twelve-book Little Mermaid novel series that was released in 1994. Here is a link to a site with summaries for each book summary

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Mulan Family Tree

Pictured below is the family tree for Fa Mulan a long while before 434 AD to 980 AD.

495 AD

Fa Mulan is born to two loving parents. A mother named Fa Li and a father named Fa Zhou. The family (including Grandmother Fa) resides on a beautiful farm in a small village in The Empire of Cathay.

511 AD

Now 16, Fa Mulan goes to see the Matchmaker in hopes of being titled a "perfect bride". Unfortunately it goes horribly wrong and she is cast out by the Matchmaker. She swiftly returns home distraught where her father comforts her. Doubly unfortunately, the Emperor's Counselor has arrived to conscript one man from every household to fight a rising Rouran invasion. Unwilling to let her injured father go to war, Mulan takes his place.

On the way to the war camp Mulan is startled by her guardian Mushu. He is going to help her become a war hero (unbeknownst to her), and help keep her alive. At the war camp Mulan comes up with the masculine name, Fa Ping and immediately makes enemies of her fellow conscripts. General Li leaves with all the experienced soldiers to fight Shan Yu. It is now up to Captain Li Shang to train all the inexperienced soldiers for battle. Li Shang shoots an arrow on top of a pole and tells the soldiers that they will need discipline and strength (represented by two weights) to reach the arrow. Over the next couple of months Mulan and her fellow soldiers become friends and get quite proficient during training. All of this culminates when Mulan retrieves the arrow and the army is summoned to the front lines by "General Li".

512 AD

The army passes through many villages on the way to meet General Li. Their carefree attitude is dashed upon seeing the burnt village and the massacre where Li Shang's father is found dead. The army then heads for the Tung Shao Pass in hopes of meeting Shan Yu and his Rouran army before they reach the Imperial City. Unfortunately Mushu sets off a cannon exposing their position to Shan Yu and his army. In a move both brilliant and idiotic, Mulan buries the entire Rouran army under an avalanche by shooting a cannon at a nearby mountain. Unfortunately Mulan is injured and it is revealed that she is actually a woman pretending to be a male soldier. Instead of being executed for high treason, Li Shang spares her life and leaves her in the mountain pass.

Mulan decides to go home but spots a small group of Rouran (including Shan Yu) that survived the avalanche making their way to the Imperial City. She races to intercept Li Shang to warn him but is met with indifference and coldness. She is ultimately proven right when the surviving Rourans kidnap the Emperor and lock themselves in the Palace. Mulan quickly devises a plan and is joined by Li Shang and her three friends to rescue the Emperor. The group manage to knock out the Rouran guards and free the Emperor. Unfortunately Mulan is chased by Shan Yu onto the roof. Mulan uses her ingenuity to instead trap him on the roof and Mushu uses a firework to finally kill Shan Yu.

Mulan is offered a position on the Emperors Council but declines. So instead the Emperor gives Mulan his medallion so her family will know what she has done for him and Shan Yu's sword so the world will know what she has done for the Empire of Cathay. She returns home and is met by her father who immediately embraces her. Li Shang arrives not long after in hopes of starting a relationship with Mulan.

520 AD

After many years of seeing the Empire, discovering what makes her happy, and being employed as the Emperor's Councilmember, Mulan and Shang marry and start a family.

980 AD

Another prominent figure is born in the Li family, descended from Fa Mulan and Li Shang named Li Chen.

The Empire of Cathay (~2070 BC – 1911 AD) to China (1911 AD – Present)

Pictured below is the approximate geographical map for the Empire of Cathay in 511 AD.

This Empire was founded in ~2070 BC and has gone through many different names and changes from that time. The most recent of which takes place in 1911 AD with the dissolution of the Empire and the formation of the country; China (pictured below; the red with yellow dots and the yellow with red dots).

Additional Information

I have spent almost two years on this massive project now and I'm so glad I can finally share it! Mulan was quite difficult to add to the tree as she is Chinese and most Disney characters are white. I eventually found a loophole after adding non-Disney characters after running out of Disney characters to add and getting bored. Mulan was picked to go first via the poll that was done so I'll do the rest of the Princess's on the poll in their popularity order. I'm also new to Tumblr so let me know if the formatting is weird and needs improving. Thanks for reading!

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So, I love Disney, and have this big family tree of hundreds of Disney (mostly... maybe) characters that I have been working on for years. I feel like I have finally sunk enough of my life into it that I can finally share it with a wider audience. This poll will decide the first character I share! And I'm sorry if your princess didn't show up! I only got 12 spots so I had to cut some.