OUaT Mulan stories

[brightknightie]

lightbird reminded me how much I adored Once Upon a Time fanfiction in which Mulan had been in Storybrooke all along, and her implanted/parallel past was as a US Afghanistan or Iraq veteran. I especially loved reading stories set early in OUaT with those versions of Mulan, before the first curse broke, or shortly after, or from one era into the next, where her modern parallel life -- in our world -- was still powerfully with her.

A few of these stories may actually have been written before Mulan turned up in canon, free to imagine her only from the animated movie, myth, and history. More were written after, of course, and went strongly Mulan/Aurora from then on.

I can remember more of those stories than I can find again. I wish I'd bookmarked them. Or that the AO3 had different tagging categories for primary, secondary, and cameo characters, because Mulan is tagged as in thousands of OUaT fics, but she stars in so very few... You've likely heard me sigh over that before.

Anyway, if you happen to be a fellow Mulan OUaT fan, share recs? Self-recs are fine! :-D Thank you!