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It might be something interesting to explore! And agreed on more female regulars being needed. As I said at the end of that liveblog, I think it would have been great if they’d just written Eden and Dandi into the story a little more, maybe in the form I suggested. Adopted dad!Genie would be fun, I think.

I think that Eden would have a better chance if she were not bound to do as he commands. Mozenrath does not like being told what to do and I think he’d use that leash as often as possible. 

And that’s only if he isn’t the sort who has his wishes planned well in advance. He’s smart; at least with a genie, whose magic and limitations are well-documented, he might think to plan out his wishes to be foolproof, so he doesn’t get someone who will not grant wishes in the spirit that they were made (ie, Jafar). So his time with a bound genie might be very short, or very long if his wishes are indepth enough that he can ride out each one’s usefulness for a long time before making the next one.

If I remember, Khartoum was pretty smart and knew how to play against Mozenrath’s ego (and his complete lack of understanding of what he was dealing with). The Mukhtar, I would almost chalk that up to him treating the character like a mercenary who is to be paid and then forgotten and nothing more. He’s kind of the worst judge of character when his base for connecting with people or beings is how useful they can be to him. 

(On the note of Emma Stone in Aloha, I’m glad that she learned something about the experience through the criticisms she got and she’s using it to start a dialogue about whitewashing. We need more actors and actresses who do this.) Disney’s under a massive amount of pressure NOT to fuck up Mulan already. I want to believe they’re listening. 

I will need to reserve judgment until the Live Action Mulan comes out, honestly, because I don’t presently trust Disney not to whitewash the Hell out of it. My ideal would be for human, non-CG’d characters, at the very least, to be played by African and Arab actors and actresses. Sadly, I don’t think Disney has the guts to do it. 

I haven’t written a full story, but I have written summaries before! When I have a little more time on my hands, I may push through to some more episodes before finishing Some Enchanted Genie.  

I think because they’re background characters, the animators didn’t expect people to notice, but when you’re watching closely, it sticks out. It’s possible that some of the people in the Forty are longer-remaining, veteran members – the ones they didn’t arrest in the raid, and others come and go. It’s even possible that Abis Mal tried to strike out on his own and somehow managed to convince a few people to come with him. Maybe he didn’t much care for Cassim’s all-noble tactics and there were a few that agreed. Given Cassim and Abis Mal’s shared interest in treasures with a magical bent, the idea that they collaborated and parted on less-than-positive terms actually makes a lot of sense. 

In fairness, the Moze storyline was what they were going with long before they even created Cassim as a character. But you can still play around with it. In my RP headcanon, where I do establish them as siblings, I write it that Cassim only mentions one son because Mozenrath was assumed to have died shortly before Cassim left to seek his fortune and may have been what catalyzed that decision in the first place. 

Oh absolutely! I’d do them all in a row if that didn’t feel a bit unfair. We’re coming up on some episodes that I loathe, though (Vocal Hero and Black Sand – thankfully with the Lost City of the Sun in between, I think), so it’s going to be interesting to see how these mix in, given how heavy the previous episodes I’ve done have been.