In a new Once Upon a Time sneak peek for the season 2 premiere “Broken,” Mulan and Aurora are camping in the forest when something unexpected happens.
We learn so many things from this short scene snippet! First of all, it is clear that Mulan (Jamie Chung) and Aurora (Sarah Bolger)’s fairytale stories are tightly intertwined, which is interesting in itself: Mulan is one of the strongest, most independent female fairytale/Disney characters, while Sleeping Beauty is literally a beautiful girl who slept for 100 years before a prince came to her rescue. So seeing them join forces and try to work together despite these differences will be very interesting.
And speaking of this prince, it looks like Phillip (played by Julian Morris) is part of the reason why they’re together in the first place. In the sneak peek we learn that Phillip has been “marked,” which is why he’s left the two girls behind; we can maybe assume that this mark is either harmful to others, or a way for someone to track them down.
Mulan also reveals that Phillip is leaving to sacrifice himself for Aurora, to which she argues, “No, for both of us.” It sounds like, although Aurora and Phillip are supposedly the true love pairing, that there is some kind of love triangle going on here! Or at least a tension between Aurora and Mulan about the prince’s affections.
At the end of the clip Mulan takes off to get Phillip back, and Aurora makes to follow her, only to be left alone. What will happen to Aurora? We don’t yet know what kind of character she is, but considering Once Upon a Time‘s track record for powerful female characters, we’re guessing that Aurora isn’t just going to lie down and wait to be rescued (err… this time)!
Once Upon a Time returns this Sunday at 8/7c on ABC!
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